About this episode

Shawn Stevenson discusses how the quality of relationships impacts health more than traditional wellness trends.

The most powerful longevity tool you have is not in a bottle or a needle. It’s in the quality of your relationships. There’s a body of data that’s been saying this for decades. Yet, the wellness industry kept focusing on the other direction of wellness. Shawn knows this not only because he read it in a study but because he lived the opposite of what healthy relationships look like first and paid for it with his health. Shawn Stevenson is the host of The Model Health Show, the no.1 nutrition and fitness podcast in the United States, and the bestselling author of Sleep Smarter and Eat Smarter. He grew up in poverty in St. Louis, was told at 20 he had the spine of an 80-year-old, and rebuilt his health from scratch with no money, no access, and no roadmap for any of it. In this episode of Habits and Hustle, Shawn makes the case that we have been optimizing the wrong thing all along. Your culture, your community, and the quality of your relationships are what the largest longevity studies keep pointing to, and almost nobody in wellness is talking about it. He also gets into why GLP-1s and peptides are a shortcut to the wrong destination, what circadian medicine is about to change…

People in this episode

Host: Jen Cohen

Guest: Shawn Stevenson

Topics covered

• relationships and health
• longevity
• wellness trends
• circadian medicine
• nutrition
• fitness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Model Health Show

Books & works: Sleep Smarter, Eat Smarter

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