Welcome to the Doctors' Pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimner and that's pharmacy FARMACY, a place for conversations that matter and we have a great conversation today.

Sean Stevenson, that really matters about a number of things, including sleep we're going to get into that.

Sean is the author of the International Best Selling Book Sleep Smarter, which is important for all of us because sleep is underrated and very important.

He's the creator of the Model Health Show, featured as the number one health podcast on iTunes with millions of listeners down those each year.

He's a graduate of the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He studied business, biology, kinesiology and went on to be the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organizations worldwide.

He has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company Forbes, Men's Health Magazine, the Dr. Oz Show, ESPN, CNN, many other media outlets.

You can go find more about Sean at themodelhealthshow.com. So Sean, welcome to the Doctors' Pharmacy.

It's such a pleasure to be here.

I've done your podcast a bunch of times and you always know way more than I think most physicians and experts than someone who's actually come from a background is really around sports and fitness.

It's just kind of amazing. Your expertise goes so deep. I wish most doctors knew what you knew.

You got into this. You grew up in a rough neighborhood.

I did, yeah.

You were trying to get out of it through athletics and you were in track and killing it. You were probably going to the Olympics, who knows?

Then one day you had this horrible accident.

You could talk, tell us about that and how that led to a disruption in your health and how that led to the discovery of a whole new focus on health and well-being.

It was definitely a life-changing event for me. For me, at that point, I didn't realize that food mattered at all.

I didn't know the difference between gummy bears and wild caught salmon.

It's just for me, food is just food. I didn't realize that it was literally making up what I was made of.

For me, everything was looking great. I ran a 4,540 when I was 15 years old. This is NFL Combine numbers.

Things were looking good.

4.540 yards or 40...

40 yard dash. What they do with the NFL Combine.

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