Josh Duhamel On Fame, Hormones, Fatherhood, Longevity, & Finding His Way Back

15:12Josh Duhamel:outside and run around right you can trust that yeah exactly that's the that's it's a perfect way to put it because my son my 12 year old son is it he's never we never let him out to go play in the street because we don't trust what might happen you know that might be my own you know neuroses but in north dakota there's no fear of that the kids are all on their bikes racing up and down the street jumping from house to house and so nice you know and i think that that's really what And now Axel has that too. He loves going back there. He's got a bunch of friends there too.

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20:17Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:I think too, it seems to some people that we've interviewed that are celebrities, and I wonder what you think about this. When you get to a place in acting or celebrity where you feel like you've reached a really high peak, I think sometimes you look around and there still feels like there's something missing. and I noticed that those are the people like a Demi Moore and a Bruce Willis who move out of Hollywood to sort of like figure out what that is I kind of felt that when I was living in LA it's like I was we were we're podcasting we're doing all the things and then you kind of look around and you're you sort of you want more than just that mountain does that make sense I think that

21:00Josh Duhamel:yeah you crave it because it's it's it's it is a it's a hard thing to to it's it's almost like that siren out in the ocean that you know you hear it calling but you don't know it until you actually see it and feel it and then and then but then it's the same thing here it's like it's like your mistress that you want to suck and fuck you need to go get that you need to go get that too it's like

21:30Josh Duhamel:That'll be the opening of the trailer with you. But you know, it's nice to have the balance. I love coming back to LA. I love the restaurants. I love the weather. You know, I have a lot of friends here. It's there's, I'm not going to dog on LA, but yesterday as a perfect example, I was here. I went to a pig, I was driving my boy to basketball and soccer and I was like, and, and the weather was perfect. It was great yesterday. And we just got back from Fargo, which is not perfect right now. but I also sat in an hour and a half of traffic to get from one or the other. I'm like, this is why it's such a trade-off.

22:02Michael Bosstick:Yeah. When we first moved to Austin, everyone's like, listen, traffic here is pretty bad. You could get stuck for like 20 minutes sometimes, like 20 minutes.

22:10Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:How did you meet your wife, Audra?

22:13Josh Duhamel:We had a, I had a barbecue at my house. It was some of my friends from Hollywood. It was some of my old friends from back home. They were kids. They were old. It was just like a good old fashioned barbecue. And she and I had been in contact because I knew that she was from North Dakota. She'd done really, really well in some, was it Miss USA? And I wasn't even inviting her because I wanted to date her because she was too young for me, to be honest. I wasn't looking for a girl like, no, no, I'm not going to be that dude. So I invite her and she comes to the door. I'm like, holy shit. She's so beautiful and tall.

22:55Josh Duhamel:and but i was still like no no and i was entertaining people we hardly even talked at the barbecue where she was like this dude has no interest in me she left and and you know i was with her friend at the thing it's like whatever and but i remember the little bit of interaction i did have with we talked and we did whatever but i was like entertaining as a barbecue i was taking care of everybody and i remember her taking care of these kids that were at the party like making sure that they had enough goldfish or whatever it was she was giving them. And I was like, huh, that reminds me of home and the kind of girl that I want to really be with.

23:37Josh Duhamel:And I'd gone through a couple relationships with girls here in LA and it just wasn't the same. There's something really sort of wholesome about it. And I think that that's when I was like, hmm, maybe she's not too young.

23:55like let me run the math again well you know i guess i am that dude i don't know

24:02Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:yeah but now you guys are married you're a two-year-old right yeah we have two-year-olds and how long have you been married for three years what is we've been together for like seven seven years what is the difference between being because you were married to fergie before which is a famous public marriage to being married how you are now which seems very grounded and wholesome

24:20Josh Duhamel:what is the major differences and by the way fergie is also very wholesome believe it or not she's very much uh uh you know especially since she sort of stepped away from it all she's very she's a great mom very kind very non-confrontational thank god so we have you know we have a good relationship she and audra have a great relationship we were just very different you know fergie and i just you know we just have different views the world and that's okay you know she but but i have no regrets about that we have a beautiful son but they're just very different a lot of ways but also also both very really really great women they really are what a nice way to talk about an ex

25:04Michael Bosstick:that's how you should talk about me in the future when i'm on my third wedding what do they say

25:09Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:first you marry for what do they say first you marry for love then you marry for money then you Mary for companionship.

25:16Josh Duhamel:Looks like you got all three here.

25:17Michael Bosstick:Yeah. Listen, she had me at suck it and fuck it. So I was like, there we go.

25:25Michael Bosstick:That's when I knew I was, it was a similar story. She wasn't playing with the children. She said that to me and I said, you know what? That reminds me of home. That's dark.

25:34Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:I mean, what is your day to day look like when you are not working and you

25:41Josh Duhamel:are being a dad in north dakota i mean like anybody really is it like are you like out on the land what is so okay so i've got we've we've got a smaller place in fargo we're gonna build there eventually so cool but we have a property in minnesota which is about an hour hour and a half from fargo we spent a lot of time at our cabin in the woods on the lake i've had this for like 17 years now and you know over the last 10 i've really i've really put a lot of work into developing it and so i've got started with one little cabin it was just a little shit box up on the hill with no electricity no water it was an old hunting cabin infested with mice the whole

26:24Michael Bosstick:it was it was i heard you use an outhouse for a long time there's an outhouse it was a whole thing and then and and and then i bought the property next to that for 189 000 26 acres beautiful little

26:36Josh Duhamel:cabin on the water it's amazing and it's like my it's my happy place man i just love it there so much and so i did two little cabins and i've since put electricity and water in both of them and now they're these really cute little guest cabins but we needed something big you know something to hold my tractor and my four wheelers and just that you just get you just accumulate things over the years and so we built i was just going to build a place that had a huge garage but i decided to make it a double things to make a big, we just turned it into a big cabin. So now I've got that and the two little cabins and it's like my own little compound out in the woods.

27:10Josh Duhamel:It's amazing. That's rad. Built a beach out there. Just, it's just, yeah. And you know what it is? It's great because to answer your question, Lauren, is that I think for me, a normal day out there is just, I just work all day, just fixing things, taking care of kids. Okay. We need, something needs to be fixed over here okay i gotta i gotta go run up and grab fire whatever it is i'm just going so the kids it's a great way for them to see me and teach them things outside of the amenities that we're used to because it's really just about being in the moment figuring out what we got to do because we're 40 miles from anything there's not even a store within 40 miles we are out there and so there's a lot i've had to learn how to fix things and and take care of things and i was gonna ask

27:58Michael Bosstick:how you how did you learn does your dad just had to you just had to you know thankfully my my father in law is very handy my dad is pretty handy but i wasn't you know i grew up in the city of north

28:09Josh Duhamel:in minor north dakota playing hoops and batting football and all that stuff and i never really did much but now i've become pretty adept at fixing the basic things you know what they say

28:21Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:the hottest thing is and i think we should all make this a thing in 2026 they say the hottest thing for a guy to do to boost their testosterone is to chop wood. Have you heard this? Yeah. Or

28:32Josh Duhamel:go to Gatlin and get a shot and just put it in your butt.

28:35Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Get a shot from Gatlin and then go chop wood. And that's a panty dropper.

28:42Josh Duhamel:No, there is a lot of wood chopping out there. There really is.

28:46Michael Bosstick:I want to talk about what you're doing with Gatlin and just longevity in particular. When did you get so interested in this space?

28:51Josh Duhamel:I've always had a real curiosity about it, you know, just because maybe out of vanity in the beginning, just because I wanted to stay as youthful and athletic and virile as I could for as long as I could. But then it became more about being there, you know, it's about being there for my wife, for my kids who are much, who are very young and to, and I, but I kept this thing a secret for so long because I didn't want to tell people that I was taking testosterone or peptides and these things, because it was my, kind of my dirty little secret that I had some shame around. And then I was like, and so my friend Fabian came to me and says, Hey, we have this company that we're starting and they'd been doing a lot of blocking and all the, all the FDA compliance.

29:36Josh Duhamel:It's just a ton of stuff to build a company like this. And so at first I was like, no way, I'm not going to be the face of that. But then I thought, why not because it's only massively improved my life it's kept me feeling great as i've gotten older as into my mid-40s 50 and i'm 53 i feel better than i did in my 20s and 30s i was like why don't i shine a light on this thing why don't i teach people or show guys that it's okay to first of all talk about it get your levels tested and that was kind of the beginning of it and that's and i had and now i just have this full-on curiosity about all the latest and greatest stuff that's coming out how do we build this company and help as many people as we can yeah

30:19Michael Bosstick:there's like a i think for a lot of guys there's a taboo around like oh i might need these things because my natural function is but the fact of the matter is like it's going to change what is it what do they say is like after 30 or 35 it starts to just yeah drop out of like there's

30:31Josh Duhamel:yeah naturally younger and younger weirdly i'm not sure what the reason for that is maybe it's because we have less i mean my knee jerk is that you know we have everything at our fingertips we don't have to go chop wood like we did before which improves our tussle we're not killing tigers we don't have we don't have the fear of you know bears coming to eat it you know we've gotten pretty comfortable and then you you add in like the the apps and the swipe lefts or rights or whatever that is too much soy milk you know there's a lot of factors i think maybe go milk a cow yeah yeah exactly so i think that you know there might be a lot of i don't know what the reason is but i feel like there are ways to to

31:15Michael Bosstick:combat that now and why not i had a buddy of of mine who's my age young like a young not young but youngish guy like not like under 40 still and he his levels like really dropped and we talk a lot about these things on the show and he was using all these like crazy cleaning supplies in his house consistently he had like a bachelor pad so it was like a lot in there and he was getting parabens, all those, like switched them out for more natural things.

31:42Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:He switched to glass water bottles. He was drinking.

31:44Michael Bosstick:And just a lot of those practices. Like microplastics and all that stuff. But he was just like in his, his whole environment was with all of these like fragrances and toxins and he switched all that and that did change. And then I think he also like went in after that, went back to the specialist. But I think that like just our modern environment and a lot of things we're introducing ourselves are not doing things to further and protect our, our, our levels. Right. I think for women too.

32:08Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:What is the Josh stack from Gatlin? Like what is your stack of peptides that you like?

32:13Josh Duhamel:So I do, I do NAD.

32:17Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Okay.

32:17Josh Duhamel:Do you do the IV or the shot? I do the, I do the, I inject it with an insulin needle.

32:22Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Okay.

32:23Josh Duhamel:I'm being, I'm telling you guys everything. Yeah, we love it. This is the full skinny content. NAD. I do ipamoralin and tesamoralin compound, which is like a synthetic HGH. it promotes your own production of of human growth hormone i do this thing called the wolverines the wolverine stack and i'll tell you exactly what's in it i can never remember because there's like i've heard about this dude it's so good because you know i've always been into exercise and fitness and stuff in your joints especially when you get to be 50 and so athletes these you You'll see these athletes that are getting Achilles or knees in their back in like half the time that they were 10 years ago.

33:09Josh Duhamel:It's because of a lot of it is because of this particular.

33:12Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Can we get Michael signed up for Gatlin for his back? Michael has a bad lower back pain.

33:16Michael Bosstick:My back are pretty bad. And I've used peptides just for everyone to know. I've used peptides before. I've done it for Merlin. I did one for sleep one time, which honestly, I can't remember what it was called, but it

33:23Josh Duhamel:was one of the best ones I've done. What's in the Wolverine? stack is bpc 157 tb 500 kpv and ghku and it's in one shot it's in one shot you take every day and it's in my niece for example is just had a knee surgery and one of my friends michael chambers is about to have a surgery on his pec this we have an amazing group of doctors that they live for this kind of stuff this is all they do and so all the most cutting edge stuff is what we have in our 503b pharmacy and our wholesale api but we have a army of a group of like 15 doctors and nurse practitioners that that only deal with this stuff and so um this particular shot has been great because it's not only great for your joints and healing of of injuries but your skin regeneration hair aren't they saying this is the

34:19Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:most beautiful head of hair by the way thank you can you believe this hair so good it's so good

34:23Michael Bosstick:but you know it is good isn't it but i can tell as i get older i call him eddie munster but you know like i could see you know i'm almost 40 now and i can tell the things that i used to be able to do like it's just not the same like it's just right you know because i've i've trained my whole life and lifted but i you know like you could just you could start to feel like if you so i'm thinking about this stuff a lot because i want to be ahead of it and i want to like i want to be able to pick up my kids and run around.

34:50Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Are those the three ones that you do? Do you do anything else?

34:53Josh Duhamel:And then I do testosterone replacement therapy, but I do it in Kysetrex, which is the pill form, which bypasses the liver. You take it twice a day and it keeps your levels. It doesn't dip and then dip through the week and come back. You always kind of stay up here.

35:06Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Do you like that better than the pellet? I'm trying to convince my dad.

35:09Josh Duhamel:So the pellet, that's another thing. I don't know if you guys just saw it. Oprah just talked about getting her levels checked and found out she was low on testosterone and started taking the pellet. And boom, she's back. She felt like she's finally feeling better than she has in years. I'm telling you, man, this stuff works. But the pellet, I don't know enough to know, but I do know that there are other, it's such a slow release, right? Over time.

35:35Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Okay. I've heard people having. I've never done it, but I want my dad to get on testosterone.

35:41Josh Duhamel:I would suggest not from, I mean, for the women, I think because it's such a lower dose, but I'm not, listen, anybody out there listening, I'm not a doctor. Don't listen to me, talk to your doctor. But my opinion is that for men, if you don't like the shot, this Kaiser Trex really works. You know, and even the shots are great, but it just, it depends on whether you're okay with like spiking during the week and then coming back down slowly during the week. Whereas the Kaiser Trex are always kind of.

36:12Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:are there any downfalls of all the things that you just mentioned that you've seen or have you

36:16Josh Duhamel:seen nothing i have not i mean some people talk about you know their hair thin but i don't know if that's true if that's just a wife's tale your natural production of sperm goes up or down down but you can you there's things you can take to counter that too which are all perfectly healthy i've had enough sperm yeah spermed out especially when she goes to uh new york or la No, but you know, I, I, I'd be curious to know, like the version of you before you started these

36:48Michael Bosstick:therapies, like what, like what was the instant changes you noticed?

36:52Josh Duhamel:Well, mostly energy. Okay. Mojo. Okay. Feeling like I still got my fat. I feel like I still got my fastball. I really do. But also it's not just this stuff. It's also, you know, we don't want to just push this stuff. We also want to push like, you know, if you're going to take a GLP one, you also need to, to make sure that you're exercising lifting weights staying strong not just getting skinny so there's a we want people to be like fully healthy because it's yes we want them to look great but they also we also want them to feel great because if you're feeling great you're suddenly more engaged as a husband as a father as a brother as a friend you're better at work yeah you know it's just like it's just all this stuff is interconnected

37:34Michael Bosstick:yeah whenever we talk about it on the show because people will sometimes say like oh you're taking this thing you're on this i'm like no not yet but i i promise i will be at some point and i need to figure out like when that starting point is because i think i also think a lot of young guys that get into you know like sometimes in your 20s like maybe it's maybe that's not the right time but as i'm starting to get more middle-aged i'm okay it's coming up you know we're

37:55Josh Duhamel:finding that a lot of the young men and women are taking are starting this stuff earlier maybe not full-on but just to just as like a precautionary a preventative because they don't want they're you know this generation is much more conscious of aging and you know overall wellness all the time exactly i think that's probably it when someone drink less they don't drink

38:20Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:yeah there's less drinking much less they're like big pussies i'm just kidding when someone signs up for gatlin does one does it have to be a boy

38:31Josh Duhamel:or a guy no well no because we have nad we have gop ones this this is for you know we've marketed this mostly for men in the beginning but we're moving into and we should talk about this maybe you guys would be great partners in this but we definitely want to move into the female space too because it's just as it's just as important for women as it is men didn't they open or just change

38:53Michael Bosstick:some legislation and open up some things around hormone therapy for women or wasn't i'm again i'm reading something like or don't know or replacement there something was going on so if someone wants

39:04Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:to to come get a wolverine peptide stack do they come to you guys get their blood done and

39:10Josh Duhamel:everything it's all included what's the process so the process is you come to you you go to the site it's very easy you just you click there's a few questions you have to answer depending on what you're looking for if you're looking for something more medical grade like a trt like a testosterone replacement, we can send you our blood test kit. You do your thing, send it back, and then we set you up with one of our doctors. And it's all telemedicine. It's all quick. GLP-1s will have you talk to one of our doctors if you want the peptides. Most of this, I think the most important thing is you have to get your blood tested, get your levels checked first so that we know where you're at.

39:48Josh Duhamel:Because from there, we can really sort of optimize where you want to be and where you are now and where you want to go. So that's really the beginning is get your levels tested, find out where you're at. Our doctors will then help you figure out what's the best option. It's very, very simple.

40:11Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:What are the other things that you do on a day-to-day basis that are wellness-y? I know it seems like you're outside a lot, which is so good for your nervous system.

40:20Josh Duhamel:Yeah. I try to be outside a lot, especially when I'm back at the cabin, I'm not outside all day but in southern california it's not a bad place to be outside right so i do a green smoothie thing every day that's one of the things i do you got to tell us what's in the josh smoothie it's kale spinach apple banana pear and water and just blend it up in one of the all your nutrients yeah okay i learned this years ago from kim snyder she's a nutritionist i don't know if you guys know her she's doing the show oh yeah she's great it's actually her recipe she started this because she was helping a couple of guys in a different movie.

40:55Josh Duhamel:We were in Chicago and she made them for me. I was like, Oh my God, what is this? And for literally the last 10 years, I've been doing that. Not every day, but mostly we got a cold plunge at the house. Oh, nice. I try to do that a lot. Um, you know, but I, I, I don't, I'm not like a super health man. Everything in moderation, including moderation.

41:14Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Is your workout lifting?

41:16Josh Duhamel:Hot yoga.

41:17Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Hot yoga.

41:18Josh Duhamel:And a lot of weights, a lot of weight training and some cardio stuff.

41:21Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Okay. we just talked to my our trainer on the podcast and she was saying and this is her opinion but she was saying that to tone your body as you age you have to lift weight yes it's non-negotiable

41:35Josh Duhamel:for everyone yep it's true because it's bone density the whole thing you just have to stay strong that's why listen we have we have the best products out there but if you don't have a good if you don't have good habits if you don't really have a good regimen to to follow it you're not ever going to fully optimize it. And, you know, if you want to lose weight, great. You know, I think it's been great for a lot of people, but my thing is, is you don't want to be like skinny fat, you know, stay strong, put, keep that muscle on because not just for the, you know, the aesthetic of it, but for your overall wellness.

42:10Josh Duhamel:And as you get older, you need that, that, that muscle.

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44:05Michael Bosstick:Quick break to talk about Paleo Valley. We recently had Dr. Autumn Smith on this podcast a couple weeks ago talking about the incredible company that she's built over there at Paleo Valley. We are constantly on the hunt for finding great companies that don't compromise ingredients, that use the right sources of food and actually taste good. What we love about Paleo Valley is they do all of those things. They make this incredible bone broth protein that Lauren and I take every single day. When we make our smoothies, we give it to our kids. We call it chocolate water. When you're looking for that little protein, pick me up.

44:34Michael Bosstick:And you want to curb those maybe late night cravings, or you just want to get an extra bit of protein after a long day. Their bone broth protein is incredible. The chocolate flavor tastes good in everything. They also have these beef sticks that we take on the go. We give them to our kids. We take them ourselves. Again, if you're looking for that snack and you don't want to crash and have something gross or have something with poor ingredients, their beef sticks are some of the best beef sticks on the market. They also ferment them, which is going to be different. There's no citric acid. There's no artificial flavors.

45:00Michael Bosstick:It's all just natural, great beef sticks. So you're going to be able to get a high quality meat and protein in a quick snack instead of eating something that you're going to later regret. So instead of packing the pantry with a bunch of junk food. You can pack it with these. Like I said, we take them when we travel on airplanes. We take them when we're at the office. We take them on the go. We give them to our kids and their snacks at lunch, and they absolutely love them. We also on that episode talked about the essential nutrients that you can get from their organ complex. Many of us are not getting this in our regular diet anymore.

45:27Michael Bosstick:We have strayed away from these foods, but these essential nutrients and vitamins are still essential. The organ complex from Paleo Valley is going to help you get all of these essential nutrients and vitamins all in one place, but without having to bite into a giant liver or heart like Lauren likes to do. This is just going to help you get straight to the nutrients and the vitamins all in one place. Easy, efficient. This is how I like to do it. So check them out. You really can't go wrong with anything Paleo Valley offers. Head to paleovalley.com slash skinny or use code skinny at checkout for 20 % off your first purchase.

45:54Michael Bosstick:That's paleovalley.com slash skinny or use code skinny at checkout.

45:59Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Sandy Brockman, my trainer, has got me on a chicken kick. We're toning up. I have a shoot that I am doing and she wants me to switch it up and add some chicken. So I've got to make a bowl out of this. I'm a big bowl person. I put chicken in. I add a little bit of Taylor Farms avocado ranch. It gives a little crunch on top, a little veg. And then I add some raw cheese, some sliced tomatoes. I put raw onion in there, some jalapeno. Sometimes I add some habanero sauce on top. It's delicious. What I like about Taylor Farms Chopped Salad Kits, everything is efficient. No chopping, slicing, or leaving half a cabbage in your fridge.

46:40Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:It's just fresh greens that you can add to anything. It comes with yummy dressing and toppings, everything. Just mix it up and you are good to go. You could make a meat bowl. You could make a fiesta bowl. You could just make yourself a salad. They have 28 chopped kits, 10 salad kits, six organic chopped kits, and nine mini chopped kits. So there's truly something for every appetite and occasion. If you are looking to just add some veg to anything that you're doing, you have to check out Taylor Farms. I really feel like I'm a responsible adult when I add their avocado ranch to any of my bowls. If I can do it, you can too.

47:18Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Grab a Taylor Farms chopped salad kit and get your salad together.

47:22Michael Bosstick:Quick break to talk about branch basics. What if I told you that when you're cleaning your house, you're likely causing harm to yourself and your loved ones. Well, that's only if you're using these toxic chemical cleaning supplies that many of us have grown up using that our parents used. We have learned over the years, especially on this show, that all these synthetic fragrances and hormone disruptors are terrible for our body. They're terrible for our systems. They make us age more poorly, sleep more poorly, and cause real health concerns and compromises in everyday life. This is why when Lauren and I learned about Branch Basics after having their founder, Allison on this podcast, we have not looked back.

47:54Michael Bosstick:Branch Basics is made from plant and mineral-based ingredients, and Branch Basics is human-safe, making it perfect for families, especially those with babies, kids, or pets, the ones that are close to the floor. And Branch Basics was founded by three women, each with transformative personal experiences. I highly suggest the episodes we did with the founders. Just search Branch Basics, Skinny Confidential, and they'll pop up. They have incredible stories. It sounds small, but the products in your environment play a huge role in your overall well-being, especially if you're resetting routines, building healthier habits or starting 2026 with more intention.

48:21Michael Bosstick:Their premium starter kit comes with one powerful concentrate that makes everything, laundry detergent, bathroom cleaner, glass cleaner, even pet wash and vegetable rinse. This is all done with natural clean ingredients that are going to do the same job, but in a healthier way than typical cleaning supplies. So again, get that toxic stuff out of your house, live in a better way. I know that we have not looked back since we've made the change and we feel better for it. And here's the good news. Branch Basics is now available everywhere you shop at Target, Target.com, Amazon and BranchBasics.com.

48:48Michael Bosstick:Tossing the toxins has never been more convenient. If you want to try the premium starter kit today and get 15 % off, head to branchbasics.com and use our code SKINNY15 for 15 % off your first order. Again, that's SKINNY15 for 15 % off your starter kit at branchbasics.com. Yeah, my dad's in his 80s now, early 80s. He's going to be mad at saying that. But four or five years ago, he kind of like stopped lifting weights. and you could see like at that age if you don't keep it up like it's it's a decline you get that frail kind of small look and i got him back into it and now he's you know he's like pushing sleds and doing kettlebells and doing all the thing and running around and working and driving but there was like a there was a window of time that i saw with him like if you don't catch that stuff quick and stay on it like it can go downhill quick yeah and that's that's the truth my dad

49:34Josh Duhamel:the same way you know he didn't do enough and he can see it for sure i think yoga is also a really good one i'm just getting into stretching because i can tell now like i said like i'm locked up your knees and your back and everything because if i'm not doing that i suddenly get back and knee problems so i have to do that in order to you know i go on instagram and get sold on all

49:53Michael Bosstick:the stretching tools i got a hole in my office it's just like all the like open my psoas i got the thing you got the other thing you put your leg in it just sort of take up space in the house

50:00Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:yeah actually yeah how do you think i'm so curious to know especially because of your living situation How do you think about the phone and social media and all of this for children? Because it seems like you've done a really good job of getting your kids outside.

50:16Josh Duhamel:Well, I'm not, I could do better. Thankfully, my wife and my ex-wife are very conscious of it. He doesn't have a phone yet. He wants, desperately wants one. He loves his iPad. You know, that YouTube, YouTube is, these kids will just sit. It's like a vortex. so you gotta be very conscious of of at least monitor you don't want to take i don't think you want to take it away completely because then you're just going to want it that much more it's like you repress something too much it manifests in some way later so like i said everything in moderation including moderation let them have it but you really got to monitor it because it is it's it will it really affects them emotionally in the way that in just the way they they think and see the world.

51:01Josh Duhamel:That's why it's important to get them off that and find other stuff for them to do.

51:06Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Before you go, if our audience is listening and they are curious about peptides, what are the signs where you would point someone to peptides? Like low energy? What are the things?

51:16Josh Duhamel:Well, it just depends on what you're looking for. The NAD is great because it's great for longevity, but it's also great for your skin. It really improves your skin and your hair and your cell regeneration if you're looking to heal or you know you know for me for me healing is that wolverine stack the bpc 157 h were they trying to in the previous administration get rid of the bpc 157 did that go away i don't remember for sure but it's but now it's like you can start taking it again yes it's in the stars i know i'm gonna get some of that again because i i love that stuff and also the the the ipamoral and tessamoral and for muscle you know for me i because like your dad as you get older, it's harder to keep that muscle on.

52:01Josh Duhamel:So that and the testosterone is what really helps me stay strong, keep the muscle on.

52:05Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:So if someone feels tired or they want to lose weight, there's all different kinds of peptides for different things.

52:10Josh Duhamel:Yeah. And we got the doctors to help them and point them in the right direction.

52:14Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:To be honest with you, it sounds like it's what Gatlin's done is made it a really seamless process for people to just get on the right stack of peptides without all like confusion.

52:23Josh Duhamel:Yeah. And I think that's really what we want to do is we want this to feel like like a fully white glove concierge experience where you're not just pushing buttons and something comes and you're kind of just wondering things and in the

52:32Michael Bosstick:dark.

52:32Josh Duhamel:Yeah. So, you know, it's about, it's about, we really care about the overall wellness.

52:37Michael Bosstick:What's going on with transformers coming back.

52:39Josh Duhamel:I don't know. You know, I posted a picture the other day and I have somebody help me with my, with my, my social media cause I'm terrible at it. And I posted something, my, my friend, Etchy, former Navy SEAL, now uh Santa Monica Fire Department sent me a photo of us back in the day just me Megan uh Shia John Voight and John Turturro and I posted it and it was like one of my biggest posts it was going

53:09Michael Bosstick:nuts people are like speculating is it going to happen again do you know what we're talking about

53:12Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Transformers are you excited I know that Josh was in Transformers but I have not Transformers

53:17Michael Bosstick:don't worry we'll go back and watch all of the movies together Do you have boys or girls?

53:23Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:I have two boys and a girl. I'm going to have to watch Transformers. Yeah, they're going to want to watch it probably.

53:27Josh Duhamel:Little boys love that stuff.

53:28Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Are your kids obsessed that you did that?

53:31Josh Duhamel:No, my kid doesn't care. He's more interested in basketball and soccer players. He doesn't... I try to generally watch this. I'm slowly introducing my three and a half year old son.

53:42Michael Bosstick:I got him going into the Ninja Turtles. I'm going to get him into the Transformers. Is there going to be another Transformers?

53:47Josh Duhamel:I don't know. I haven't heard.

53:49Michael Bosstick:i just i just posted the photo would you be excited about it if the band got back together

53:52Josh Duhamel:i love working with michael bay and that whole team it's just it was so much fun i mean talk about a massive production i mean i remember just sitting there going holy crap that was by far the

54:03Michael Bosstick:biggest thing i'd ever been on so many of them are there now six but like the original was three we did five five geez yeah i did all of them except the fourth one and now they've done other

54:14Josh Duhamel:versions of it i don't really yeah and i got confused because it's gone it's gone tangents

54:17Michael Bosstick:there's like prequel movies but don't worry Lauren Michael's a big Transformer fan I'll go through yeah I mean kids grow up boys Transformers they used to have the toys it was crazy when once once technology got to a point where you could actually like do it the way you guys did it

54:33Josh Duhamel:without looking weird it was cool you know can I tell a story really quick about that yes please first when I was actually meeting at Michael Bay's uh was it Bay Films or Platinum Dunes or something with brad fuller and andrew form or his or his producers and they were having me over for a meeting to talk about this movie called the hitcher this is back in like 2005 or six or earlier four maybe and michael pops his head in he says hey michael bay i was like i know who you are and he goes nice to meet you michael you should come over and check out what we're doing over here we're i was like what is he goes we're we're doing the remake of transformers i was like oh ooh, that sounds like a terrible idea.

55:17Josh Duhamel:I didn't say that to him, but I was thinking, I was like, oosh, that's like the cheesy cartoon from the 80s, which is cool again. But back when I told him about that, I was like, that's going to be a terrible idea. So I go over there after the meeting and he shows me the artwork and how they'd re-imagined this whole thing. And I was like, okay, now I get it. If you look at the cartoon from the 80s, which is pretty cool, but then what they did with it was just a testament to the huge imagination that some of these creatives have in this town.

55:47Michael Bosstick:Yeah, you'll see.

55:49Josh Duhamel:We'll get you into it. It is. You might like the first one. I might like it? Yeah. I think you'll like it. It's not about the robots as much as it is about a boy in his first love in his first car.

56:00Michael Bosstick:And it's a pretty iconic cast if you think about it. It's you, it's Shia LaBeouf, it's Megan Fox. It was like, and it was a lot of like -

56:05Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Is Megan Fox and Shia the love? Shia. Yes.

56:08Josh Duhamel:Yeah.

56:09Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:They're in love.

56:10Josh Duhamel:Well, he's like the kid who would never get her.

56:13Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:Okay.

56:14Josh Duhamel:and then he yeah but he gets her yeah and it's really about a boy in his first car too it's

56:19Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:really it's it's it's i will watch it with my boys yes you said he's six the oldest no no that's my

56:26Josh Duhamel:daughter oh three and a half yeah okay give it a couple years okay okay all right it's uh that's

56:32Michael Bosstick:my biggest frustration as a father of a young guy i'm like i gotta show you a lot of shit buddy there's a lot of things i gotta i'm like we're gonna turn on heat tonight but that's me it's

56:40Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:like jeez i walk in there watching like what are you guys watching the other day no they were getting a kick i have to be showing him golem from the rings do you guys like the shining yeah

56:49Josh Duhamel:exactly i'm like i'm a big jack nicholson fan what are you showing him the other day my daughter

56:54Michael Bosstick:and miss they they were watching the lord of the rings we have to be careful what i show them because like that's kind of scary too some of the for that age yeah but they like die laughing about smiegel and golem oh really because they're like they don't get that he's like a schizophrenic bipolar like gone crazy but they just see him in like two person they're like oh my god he doesn't like the elf bread i'm like oh he's got a lot of problems he's a full junkie you gave us a code

57:17Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:which is so nice you can go to gatlin.com and use code tsc15 and you guys get 15 off your first purchase i'm gonna sign my dad up to get these testosterone pills daddy if you're listening i'm calling in we're not gonna do the cream you're not responsible enough for the wolverine stuck and where can everyone find you and say hello and follow what you're doing well i'm on

57:40Josh Duhamel:instagram at josh demel i'm on twitter or not twitter x uh facebook i don't even know the handles for those i should probably we'll link them out i did miss something i didn't see this

57:53Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:line you were an extra and christina aguilera is a genie in a bottle i was i really was that's

58:01Josh Duhamel:actually amazing yeah i auditioned for the lead but i ended up getting i was like one of the lead's friends it was like this group of guys who crash her slumber party and i was one of the guys who you know crashed the slumber party but i got to meet christina i remember i was auditioning one of my early days in los angeles auditioning and i went to audition for the christina just before she was christina she was like this new hot young thing and i had no idea and there we go that was

58:28Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:that was one of my first jobs actually in los angeles you might have to post a tbt to that

58:32Josh Duhamel:moment i should but you know what the problem is you can barely see me it's like there i was

58:39Michael Bosstick:and that's it no you could say it and ransom canyon season two yeah we just finished uh two days ago people love that show it's been good you know it's one of those shows that's just it's it's like comfort food it's easy to watch it's it's uh beautiful great actors really well written

59:00Josh Duhamel:april blair does a great job you know running that show it's it's it's it's been a really fun

59:06Michael Bosstick:job i gotta say and it looks like you get to spend some time in some great places too filming it

59:10Lauryn Evarts Bosstick:you're busy yep chopping wood ransom canyon gatlin you're busy josh it was so nice to meet Nice to meet you guys. Thank you for coming on the show.

59:20Josh Duhamel:Yeah. Thank you for having me. Come back anytime. Anytime.