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Welcome to Wong Notes podcast.

I'm your host, Corey Wong.

Today is a different kind of episode because I have one of the doctors on my team here.

Sounds like, you know, like I got him on staff or something.

That's not really the case.

He's just this cat that I see all the time to keep my wellness and my body in check

because I got a philosophy.

You're going to hear me talk about it here.

I think that a lot of musicians don't treat themselves like athletes do.

Yet at a certain point, what we do is very physical, especially if we're

working on our chops a lot, if we're working on technique things, if we're working on the

efficiency of motion, and if we're just doing things a lot, a lot of repetitive use, and

touring, that's hard on the body. Sometimes, it can be. I think just inherently it is hard on the body a lot of times, but there's ways that we can combat it messing us up. And that's what I want to talk a little bit about today. That's what Dr. Charlie and I get into. Now, this episode's kind of, the interview is kind of long, okay?

We get into some stuff, you might not be as interested.

So I'm just going to give you the quick T-L-D-R right now.

Basically for me, I feel like that a big part of what helps me as a musician not to get injured, not to have so much fatigue,

and to really get the maximum out of my body, and many other people on my team have had the

same sort of success following these sort of things. Here's the principles. Now, this first one's

going to sound really simple. Eat healthy and get enough

sleep. Wow. I bet you never heard that before. Now, we all have our own version of what

eating healthy means. So to start with that, it's like for me, I think mostly fresh, whole foods.

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