Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Food is medicine.

Hippocrates said it in 340 BC and I never really thought about it and I was starting to realize like,

wow, we really can impact how we feel and how our bodies function and how our minds operate

and how we interact with other people based upon the things that we're putting in our body.

It's so elementary, right? But I don't know that we really take that to heart enough.

And so that's what happened to me, but ultimately I ended up becoming an ultra endurance athlete.

And I started killing it in these crazy super multi-day

you know double Iron Man distance triathons and in 2010 I did something that no one

else had ever done which was do five Iron Man distance triathlons on five wine islands in under a week

Wow, so and that kind of it take like 24 hours.

No, I mean an iron man?. Yeah that was so a single iron man for

your listeners who might not know is a very long triathlon which in a period of one

day you do a 2.4 mile swim a a 112 mile bike, and then run a marathon.

So I did five of those in a row on five different islands, like traveling.

You did five Iron Man's?

Five Iron Man's on five wine islands in a week. The goal was to do it in five days. We ran into a bunch of problems and logistical challenges and sleep deprivation and all kinds of craziness.

But we got it done and I did it with my buddy Jason Lester and no one had ever tried it before

So it was it was sort of a cool kind of thing and to do that at age I was 44 at the time when I did that Was a really cool thing and that's kind of like what my first book was about.

Kind of going from Couch Potato, Shovey lawyer guy to you know middle-aged ultra endurance.

Right.

Why do you think eating a plant-based diet is so intimidating for a lot of people?

...