Redefining Peak Health with Boomer Anderson

0:00Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of McUnplugged. And today we're joined by a transformative force in leadership and personal development. He is a true pioneer in blending peak performance with a holistic well-being approach. I am truly honored to join a guy whose parents live just 45, 50 minutes away. So please join me in welcoming the insightful, the groundbreaking, the incomparable by Guy, Mr. Boomer Anderson. you're listening to mick unplugged hosted by the one and only mick hunt this is where purpose meets power and stories spark transformation mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning helping you discover your because and becoming unstoppable i'm rudy rush and trust me you're in the right place let's get unplugged boomer how you doing today brother mick i i'm doing so great But like that introduction was fantastic.

0:57I thank you for putting a smile on my face ear to ear. It's going to really, really bring out my chipmunk cheeks today. That's what I am here for. I promise you. And ladies and gentlemen, I also have to let everyone know Boomer is going to be an expecting father like literally any moment now. So if this episode is only three minutes, it is because I am making him get off the episode and go tend to his wife, who might be screaming in the background. But I hope that doesn't happen. But if if it does and I sprint around, I sprint out, you'll know why. So, again, thank you so much for having me here.

1:36It's going to be a lovely conversation, bro. I'm the honored one. And Boomer, you know, on this show, I always start by asking my guest about their because, that thing that's deeper than your why. I call your because, your true passion, your true purpose. And it changes from time to time, right? We all have different seasons. And so if I were to say, Boomer, right now, you know, early 2026, what is your because, brother? The through line for everything that I do is challenging the process. and if it's okay I want to elaborate on that for a second. Absolutely. So if you read into my background you'll see that I grew up the son of both a yoga teacher and a person who worked in operations and finance.

2:23Went into investment banking and then had one of these hockey stick type careers in investment banking. I decided at the age of 30 looking around and seeing everybody doing my job was 60 years old that I wanted to do something else. Left, and ironically, as soon as I resigned, was serving out my resignation period and went in for a series of health tests. And at that moment, which was sort of the pivotal moment in the transition into this health world, I found out that I had cardiovascular disease at the age of 30, which is actually the leading preventable cause of death in the world and what the doctors at that time asked of me was to take a statin which again I have nothing wrong there's nothing wrong with the current health care system I think it does some things well I think health as its core is something that like true health is not something that does well but they asked me to take a statin and come back in 10 years.

3:25And that just didn't sit well with me. And it actually set me off on this exploration for what is health. And so that is really how the whole through line of challenging the process is kind of carried over from finance into health. My first question after your because was going to be what was the catalyst of everything? And, you know, because I do know your story, I'd love for you to go a little bit deeper, man, Take us to that moment of you sitting at the doctor and hearing that, because I personally have tried to put myself in those shoes. Right. Because when you talk about hearing it and then taking a moment to understand the weight of what you really were just told, I don't think you gave that enough enough impact, man.

4:15So I'd love for you to take a moment and just go to that impact. So the doctor, I was living in Singapore at the time, and I've had the great fortune of living overseas for 14 years, have been to over 65 countries at this point, and done business in many of them. And I remember going into the doctor's office and nobody expected this to happen. It was one of those things where I was doing CrossFit six times a week. at that point my goal was to really look good naked right and so I had sub 10 % body fat I wasn't really the archetype of what people think of when they think of cardiovascular disease and so you can imagine I'm sitting there at the doctor's office and the doctor's opening up these files doctor clearly hasn't looked at it because I'm usually the patient that like a doctor can skip over because they know everything is fine right and so he opens it up and he starts going through the test results okay okay okay and then that that page comes up and uh i'll i'll bleep myself here but his reaction his name's dr stephen tucker he's a still good friend and he runs a great clinic in singapore opens it up flipping through okay okay okay looks at he's like grabs his hair and looks at him and goes holy you know expletive you have calcium.

5:41And so for those people who aren't aware of this test, it's a coronary CT scan for calcium or cardiac CT scan for calcium. Basically what it is, is a picture, it's a picture of your heart and you're looking for the presence of calcium in your heart, which means that you have basically pierced the artery and caused an inflammatory reaction that has hardened over time and has narrowed your artery. Right. And so the technical term for this is atherosclerosis. And so when he grabs his hair like this, and at that time I had hair, Mick, so it was like, I did one of these things where I was like, Oh no, you followed what he's doing.

6:24Right. Yeah. And so I don't know if people have ever experienced this feeling. I hopefully, if you've experienced this feeling, it's been in a good way, like going skydiving, But when the floor drops out and like everything kind of goes black in your peripheral vision and you're like, whoa, oh my God, what just happened here? And my initial reaction was like, how is this possible? Right? Because I was doing everything that society told me to do. Right? I was exercising. I'll get into why that might have been a problem. I was following whatever the diet of the day was. And if you follow men's health magazine, which don't get me wrong, like it keeps people interested in health and I'm grateful that they publish it.

7:14But if you follow the diet and exercise, that's health right there. And how did this happen? Floor drops out. Peripheral blinders go on. And for the next almost six months, I want to say, I just went into anything and everything that I could find, starting with cholesterol and then kind of winding my way around health. It actually led me to actually start a podcast because I started a podcast at that time. It was called Decoding Superhuman. And in all fairness, Mick, I started that podcast because I didn't want to pay for consults, but I wanted to ask people all these questions, these experts around the world who are doing this cutting-edge research to try and figure out what went wrong.

7:59because to me, nothing made sense. And that was really that moment for me. It was just like floor drops out, tunnel vision for at least the next six months. And ultimately it kind of led me to where I am today. I love it. And so you hit on something. I'm just going to keep going deeper with my guy, Boomer. It's almost like we're teeing all of this up. So I can't wait to hear this, Boomer. You're telling me I don't have to exercise anymore, bro. You said exercise was part of the problem. So I need this to be tuned in because you brought up men's health and my best friend, celebrity chef Robert Irvine is graced to cover men's health.

8:39He's told me I got to start exercising more. Boomer, go ahead and tell me I don't need to exercise anymore, brother. No, I can't tell you that. That's unfortunately like that would be the single worst health advice that anybody could give you is to like not exercise anymore. because exercise itself has so many benefits, especially for mental health. It's one of those things that for, for depression and for particularly like I sit in the entrepreneurial

9:05Boomer Anderson:world. A lot of my friends are entrepreneurs. Uh, entrepreneur level mental health is a very, uh, big discussion that needs to see the, the light of day more. And, uh, that would be the worst recommendation in the world is to say, don't exercise, but I was exercising too much. so let's let's let's uh everybody who's listening to this you can picture a bucket right and the bucket uh you can pick your size of bucket and the size of the bucket is ultimately determined by your resilience right but your butt it's the stress bucket and you put in some stress right stress can come from job hopefully it doesn't come from a relationship but it can can come from the types of foods you eat the environment that you live in that boss you have etc and your job is to manage that bucket so that it doesn't overflow.

9:55Exercise is also a stressor. And so it creates an inflammatory reaction in the body, generally speaking, a good one. But if your bucket is already full, and at this time, Mick, I was having panic attacks and issues that really showed that my stress bucket was more than full. It was actually broken. And if your stress bucket's overflowing, then things like exercise become a different discussion. So ultimately one of my good friends, Marcus Philly, um, he talks to people about, you know, actually the recovery equals the stimulus. And so one of the things that I wasn't doing well, then diet exercise was fine.

10:40Wasn't sleeping well. I was out drinking five nights a week. I was traveling all around the world switching time zones is certainly a stressor to the system yeah and so when i add on to that crossfit high intensity interval training six times a week you can see how very quickly my adrenals my poor adrenals yeah we're like throwing the white flag way before this cardiovascular disease came up yeah crazy brother crazy but everything is okay now right everything's fine yeah so the interesting thing about cardiovascular disease is that i now have a marker that i can point to and with cardiovascular disease if you get calcium it generally progresses at 15 to 20 per year if you do nothing.

11:32And that's a good progression. I'm stable at the levels where I was on that day. And so what that means is, is that I've sort of halted it. Cardiovascular disease is very, very hard to reverse. And so I'm working with some of the cutting edge scientists, researchers in the world to do that, but I've halted it. And I've now kind of rebuilt my life around the idea that the recovery equals the stimulus. That's great, brother. Well, again, learning a lot from you. And now I want to talk about Boomer Anderson, the leader, the change maker, all the great and amazing cool things that you're doing out here in the world.

12:21So Boomer, you're known for dissecting, and this is why I love you so much, dissecting complex ideas into actionable insights, right? I think today a lot of people look to be a thought leader and it stays in thought, but you are a person who can take thought leadership, take ideas and then give them out to people as actionable insights. Could you take a moment and just share a few things about the work that you do, the work that you're doing and why it's important for everybody that's watching or listening? Real talk. I'm always on the move. Always jumping on some airport Wi-Fi or hotel network without thinking twice.

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13:46Go check out nordvpn.com slash mickunplugged. Sure. So it goes back to that question that we talked about earlier. that sort of cruise that I've been on since of what is health. And that podcast that I mentioned that I started, it led me to meet a couple of doctors, Dr. Ted Ococoso, Dr. Scott Schur. And around that time, they were putting together some things and it looked all really interesting. And ultimately became our nonprofit. So our nonprofit is Health Optimization Medicine and practice. There we teach doctors and healthcare practitioners how to optimize for health rather than treat disease.

14:30One thing I said earlier was that healthcare itself right now is pretty good, but it's really good at disease management. If you are a type of person who's sitting there listening to this and saying, I have brain fog, my energy levels aren't great, I can't sleep very well, you need another role. You need another coach, if you will. And so what we do is we train those people. And so this has been both from my learnings, but also Dr. Ted has been practicing health optimization medicine for 20 years with some of the leading political figures, both in the United States and the Philippines, as well as some political figures in Europe, as well as, you know, business owners, Titans, those types of people.

15:16Right. And so that framework, um, answers the question, what is health? And so when people now ask me, what is health? I say, it's a simple algebraic equation, a plus B equals C. Uh, if I were to pull the sort of 8 billion people in this world, wherever we are right now, most people would answer a, which a in this equation is absence of disease. That's great. B is balance of anabolic and catabolic processes in the body. You both grow and break down, but we want to make sure that those bodies' processes are in balance. And then C, we say it's through the life cycle of the organism, but what that means is really for the age you are right now.

16:04And then how do we get you, Mick, into optimal health or anybody listening to this. We take the age you are now, and then we bring you back to what was the evolutionary optimized human, ages 21 to 30. And so we look at things like biomarkers, and so hormone replacement therapy is a huge thing right now. But we take your hormones, and we look at the entire hormone pathway rather than something like testosterone. And we take those levels, and we try and bring you back to those optimal levels between the ages of 21 to 30. We do the same thing for other processes in the body and nutrients. So your vitamin B, C, D, all of that.

16:46And so what that does is it allows for your cell, and we're just made up of trillions of cells, to be optimized and balanced. And so then what actually happens is if you get the basic cell right, everything else that we call symptoms tend to fall away. And so that's really where health starts is by getting that basic cell right. But, you know, in order to do that and to work with a home hope practitioner, health optimization medicine and practices, home hope, we usually say it takes about six to nine months to reach that level in the most diligent of patients. But Mick, if I tell you it takes six to nine months to reach those optimal levels, and then you say like, hey, boomer, I'm stressed today.

17:34What do I do? Or I can't sleep today. What can I do? We needed a solution for that too. And so that's how we started Troscriptions. And so what Troscriptions does, aside from being the number one donor to our nonprofit, you know, nonprofits need a support, right? Troscriptions actually builds products that solve common issues that come through healthcare practitioners door stress, sleep, focus, who doesn't need help with focus these days, immune system function. And so what we're doing at Trescriptions is providing you that point in time solution so that you can work with your practitioner over those six to nine months to make the behavior changes and some of those nutrient changes that are needed so that you can live that more healthy, more health optimized life.

18:21So that's really the sum of what I do. I also see clients on the side because over this journey, I've had a lot of friends. I call them the three F's, right? Friends, family, and freaks that have asked me like, hey, you've done this to yourself. Can you help me too? And, you know, I love taking a really complex topic like biochemistry or even my previous life, finance, and saying, all right, you want to talk about the DVO one of a swap, which is just an esoteric term that finance traders like to use. Well, here, let me break that down for you into something that's a little bit more digestible.

18:59And so that's really become my life's work. Amazing, brother. And so proud of the work that you're doing, but more importantly, the impact that you're making. I don't want to gloss over that. I love giving people their kudos and their flowers when they're deserved and when they're earned. And you definitely have earned that, man, because you're a trailblazer in this. There's a lot of people that talk about, you know, what I'll call business wealth and business health. But you're someone that's making sure that it's there. And so I've wanted to ask you this question and I was going to send it to you on social media, but I knew that we were going to have a conversation soon.

19:41And it's for me, but it's also for entrepreneurs and CEOs like me. You know, we all have blind spots in the things that we do because we want to run hard and we've got problems to solve or revenue to go generate. And we always have the intent to have that slowdown moment. But if you're like me, it rarely happens, right? Because the moment there's space on my calendar, it gets eaten up by something. And then I'm continuous in this loop. What are some blind spots that me as a CEO, as an entrepreneur have? And what's one thing that I can do to make sure that I'm paying attention to my personal well-being, which then affects my business health as well?

20:29Such a good question. And I'm really glad you asked this. And I'm actually going to demonstrate this through ROI because, you know, business leaders, entrepreneurs can all sort of hone in on that topic, right? Yeah. So within the business community, when we're talking entrepreneurs, executives, anybody who's aspiring, ambitious individual, there are two common issues that are usually the biggest blind spots. number one is sleep and number two is stress number two usually fees number one and so stress is ubiquitous now if i could get everybody to reframe stress as a good thing in an instant like this would solve all the problems but a lot of us don't see stress as a good thing.

21:31And it's very hard to, if I tell you to reframe something, it's very hard to make that instant change. Most people can't do that. So there needs to be one, an acknowledgement of stress, but also some practical steps to dealing with it. And so you asked me to give you one, I'm going to give you two because I have to answer the sleep question. Number one is actually ending the day. And I talk about ending the day in particular, because it's going to tie into our sleep recommendation. Ending the day with a gratitude practice. This is actually a mental reframe, right? Because you as a business owner, an entrepreneur, you are a professional problem solver.

22:14And every day you're getting hit with new events, new things that cause cortisol spikes in your body. Yes, cortisol gets demoned as the stress hormone, has a lot of very practical aspects too. but you need to kind of reframe that mindset, especially going in the evening. So last hour before you go to bed, writing down five things that you're grateful for. This is actually something that Dan Sullivan teaches, right? We talk a lot about trends on this show and AI is the one that just won't quit. But here's the thing, talking about AI doesn't make you more productive. Actually putting it to work does.

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23:35It just runs in the background while we focus on leading. Join the 3.4 million companies already automating with Zapier and transform how you work with Zapier and AI. Get started for free by visiting zapier.com slash mick. That's Z-A-P-I-E-R dot com slash M-I-C-K. That actually happened throughout the day. Five good events. And you may say to yourself like, hey, I can't think of five good events. Sure you can. Right? You're still breathing. That's one. Number two, there's probably, look around your house. There's probably an object there that you worked your tail off for and was a reward. You know, you have this beautiful background, Nick.

24:22Like that is something that you worked your tail off for. That room that you're sitting in, right? You're grateful for that room. We can go through another, like another three pretty easily. The place that you live in, the fact that you might have good relationships, the meeting that you had that day, something that you checked off your to-do list that day. And there you have five. Because why do I start with stress? Because you start with stress an hour before time and all of a sudden I'm in a positive mindset going into sleep. now here's the roi component of this they did a study a couple of years ago about the benefits of sleep and cognitive performance you know an entrepreneur is essentially a cognitive ninja or a cognitive athlete right and they looked at the cost of sleep deprivation versus somebody drinking beer.

25:13And so they looked at the brainwaves of these two people and it wasn't two people. It was actually done across a number of people, but they looked at the effects of sleep deprivation versus drinking beer. Getting six hours of sleep a night versus eight is the cognitive impact of drinking two to three 12 ounce beers. Imagine what that does to you. For certain people, it actually unleashes a little bit of creativity. But if I take that all the way down to an all nighter, I didn't get to sleep last night, just as an example. That's the equivalent of drinking 10 to 12, 12 ounce beers. Now there might've been a time in college where I could have done that, but I certainly wasn't functional and I certainly wouldn't want to run a business in that manner.

26:04So why do we as entrepreneurs sacrifice our sleep so easily? So if you can see the two recommendations that I'm making, it's actually this positive mindset going into sleep. And then the recommendation on the back of the science. So you now see the ROI from a cognitive standpoint of getting sleep. If I want to have my best brain, I need to dedicate those eight hours. So the actual recommendation around sleep is let's flip your schedule around in the sense that your day doesn't start with when you wake up in your morning routine. It actually starts with your evening routine. It's actually called the sleep anchoring technique.

26:42And so putting into your schedule, this is my hour wind down time. It starts with this gratitude. I perhaps mix in some chamomile tea. Maybe I take some Trozi with this. Maybe I'm reading a book that is not super cognitive load. Like you're not studying quantum physics at night. You're reading something that's more fiction. And you're using that to anchor your day. And then your day really starts with sleep. You get those eight hours. And then you as the entrepreneur go out and just absolutely rock the world because your brain is at its best performing state. Boomer, man. I feel like we've only been talking for a couple of minutes.

27:23And I know we got to wrap up. And we should probably, when the newborn is arrived and settled, we should probably do part two. Because I have several more questions and you're giving us a master class in our personal health and our business health as well, too. And it's definitely needed, bro. Like, I want to thank you for the time that you've given us. If you're open to it, I would love to do part two. Always. I would love it. I think we can go places for sure. Those insights were amazing. So I want to open up the floor for you really quick. Where can people find, follow, connect with you? What do you want people to do with you from here?

28:07So the companies that I mentioned, Troscriptions as well as HomeHope, Troscriptions.com, it's also Troscriptions on every single social media channel. The reason why I point people there is not just because of our products, but we strive to provide the best health optimization education on the planet, and it's for free. So especially go and check out Troscription's YouTube channel. Dr. Scott, myself, Hope, host an episode of something called Don't Look Up on YouTube every week where we dive into topics like sleep, stress, and certain more esoteric parts of health. And we're really trying to give you those science-backed tips and tactics so that you can go out and implement them in the world.

28:50Home Hope is the nonprofit health optimization, medicine and practice. Mick, if you're around in October and want to come up to Chicago and join us, we have our annual conference. I'd love to have you there. Anybody who wants to join, please feel free to reach out homehope.org. You know, tickets are available. Again, a lot of education there that can be directly applicable to you and generating ROI for you and your business. for me you can reach out to me on linkedin or at boomer snh on any social media channel i will personally make sure that we have links to everything in the show notes in the descriptions i'm also going to make sure that i am resharing some of the content that you have because it's amazing um for sure everyone check out the socials check out youtube there's a lot of really cool valuable information that Boomer is sharing with his doctor, with Dr.

29:47Scott. Like it's an amazing, it's an amazing channel. You're going to take notes, I promise you, but more importantly, you're going to put things into your life immediately because it's all about action. Boomer, brother, more than you know, I thank you. I'm honored and I will definitely see you in October and hopefully I see you before that in the Carolinas. Thank you, Mick. I really appreciate all the work that you're doing in the world and really bringing these points, these thought leaders and people who are really just on the cutting edge doing great things and sharing it with your audience because it means a lot.

30:26Thank you. I appreciate you, brother. And to all the viewers and listeners, remember your because is your superpower. Go Unleashed. That's another powerful conversation on Mick Unplugged. If this episode moved you, and I'm sure it did, follow the show wherever you listen. Share it with someone who needs that spark and leave a review so more people can find their because. I'm Rudy Rush, and until next time, stay driven, stay focused, and stay unplugged.