Mandatory Fitness and Mental Health For First Responders

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

Substance Use, Mental Health, Psychology, Education, Counseling, Social Sciences, Honest, Science, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 21 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail If you think police wellness is mostly about eating better and “handling stress,” this conversation will challenge you fast. Kevin Gilmartin returns and gets blunt about what the job does to the body and brain over years of hypervigilance, and why the usual scapegoat (donuts) misses the real drivers: cortisol, adrenaline, sleep debt, and a culture that treats prevention like an optional perk. We talk through the metabolic health side of first responder mental health, includi...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Resilience Development in Action with Steve Bisson.
0:06.1	This is the podcast dedicated to first responder mental health, helping police, fire,
0:11.4	EMS, dispatchers, and paramedics create better growth environments for themselves and their teams.
0:17.5	Let's get started.
0:34.6	Okay. teams. Let's get started. Hi guys and welcome to, like our second part of our interview. Kevin Gilmartin is here.
0:36.6	We've been talking a lot about, like, wellness.
0:39.5	We've talked about leadership.
0:41.1	We talked about diabetes.
0:43.2	One thing I want to finish off from our last conversation
0:46.7	is that one of the misconceptions that I hear from many people,
0:50.5	including police, oh, I can only get diabetes if it's because I'm having, you know, bad food. And if I eat right, I'll be fine. And I'm like, yeah, no, that's not how that works. And most people get up my ass about it, but maybe you could help. Like, you know, you're a former cop, so maybe you'll have more valued than what I fucking say. You know, let me tell you, donuts have taken a bad rap.
1:14.3	Exactly.
1:15.0	They have just, you know, it's always been built in, you know, the old power rings,
1:19.8	you know, the donuts.
1:20.7	That's why cops gained 50 pounds.
1:22.8	No, it's not.
1:24.0	Don't get me wrong.
1:25.2	The nutritional issues of cops suck.
1:28.1	They're terrible.
1:28.8	You're eating fast food.
1:29.9	You're eating at odd hours.
1:31.6	But what happens is the cop loses.
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