Welcome to the Bostics, starring Lauren Bostic and Michael Bostick.

Together, they are the Bostics.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of the Bostics.

Today we have Josh and Katie Whalen, who are the founders of Joy and Bloaks.

And Lauren and I fell in love with this couple.

We loved this episode.

They were so honest. They were so open. They were so raw and vulnerable. And they had a ton of great information to share. So who are Josh and Katie? Josh and Katie are the founders of Joy and Blocks. They're obviously a married couple as well. And they have created a platform that helps people optimize their health, figure out hormones, figure out what's going on with their blood work. And this was right up Lauren and I's Alley. There's, you know, a ton of things in health and wellness here. Some of the topics that we discuss on this show are how to manage hormones to save your marriage, talking about your sex drive and your sex life, which is very important, the dynamics of business partners as a married couple or or just a couple in general. Self-funding, the future of the health care system, breaking down peptides and TRT. And again, like I said, they were so honest, open, raw, and real on this episode. Josh specifically was talking all about his hormone levels and testosterone. It was one of the first times a man has come on the show and been this raw and vulnerable about it. And I think it's going to help a lot of people, especially men out there or couples in general. Together, they're committed to creating a system where people feel heard, supported, and empowered across every stage of their health journey. With that, Josh and Katie, welcome to the Bostics. Welcome to the show, you guys. This is so fun to do this with another couple. Yeah. excited to be here. Thanks for having us. Thank you so much. Let's get the lay of the land. How did you guys even get in to what you're doing now? Like, where did this even start?

It's pretty simple. I was about 60 pounds heavier, and I lost my sex drive drive and she was going to divorce me.

So it was, that was the initial birth of it. And I had always been in health care,

majority of my, I mean, the last 17 years of my life have been in health care.

And we were peaking with one of the businesses that we had. There were stem cell businesses, regenerative medicine. And as soon as those were starting to peak, COVID hit. So for the first time, and if you remember, there was like this really lull point of not doing anything. She's like, hey, dude, you're fat. You don't have a sex drive. And I'm going to divorce you. And she had been telling me that for a while telling me that for a while forever like it was so I couldn't get any I tried all the things we went to sex therapy

everything it was like right after we got married and when we got married I was 35 so all I wanted was like a

family right and that was the exact time when he had no interest in sex. So I tried to write out a note, like,

let's make out once a week. I mean, we... There was a lot of notes. A lot of notes. We went to a sex therapist and it was just like nothing was working. And I also thought it was my fault. I'm like, am I too fat now? Like what, what, you know what I mean? Like what's... Yeah, it was a very tough time in our life. And it was a thing that I...

I mean, I always had a sex drive and then I just didn't have it. But to kind of wrap it up,

I was like, okay, she's serious. I got to take some action here. And I went and saw a bunch of

primary care docs and internal med docs and it was my

definition of being gaslit like I knew I wasn't feeling good and they just told me dude you're

normal like lose a couple pounds and go back to your wife and katie's like dude I'm not playing

we're going to get a divorce and then just by sheer luck I threw up a hell marry with my brother and law and my sister and said hey here's the situation at playing, we're going to get a divorce. And then just by sheer luck, I threw up a Helmarry with my brother and along, my sister, and I said, hey, here's the situation. At that time we were living in Denver, and they said, go see Paul Battle. He's a PhD and a PA, and he was this optimization guru, like a longevity doc six years ago when nobody was talking about this stuff. Now everybody's a peptide expert, right and so i went to him and i'm like holy shit this is interesting i sat down with them for an hour we didn't talk about any medications we didn't talk about blood work we didn't talk about anything and he just quizzed me he just went through my life i mean even asked me a question like when was the last time you had a morning wood dude i'm like shit I don't even remember and then he's like okay we're gonna go get your blood

drawn I go get my blood draw to come back and I see him he's like dude you're a hot

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