The Health Interventions Actually Worth Your Time | Justin Mares

There's no shortage of advice about how to optimize your health. Justin Maers thinks most people would be better off focusing on a much shorter list. In this episode, a 16 z's Daisy Wolf sits down with Justin, co founder and CEO of TruMed, to unpack what he actually does for his own health. We get into food, exercise, supplements, blood testing, sleep, sauna, and which changes he thinks offer the highest return without turning health into a full time job. And we discussed the idea behind TruMed. If so much health care spending goes toward managing chronic disease, why don't we make it easier for people to spend their own health care dollars on prevention? So I'm Justin. I'm the CEO and founder of TruMed. TruMed basically makes it possible for individuals to spend tax free HSA and FSA dollars on medical interventions that are more lifestyle in nature. So things like exercise, food, supplements, sleep aids, things like that. Then so the high level is if you qualify, if you're working to treat, reverse, or prevent a specific disease, you can invest in a gym membership or an Eight Sleep or a Peloton or something like that using tax free HSA, FSA fund. I would love to just understand a day in the life of Club Jatz Day. And I wanna understand everything about how you eat, sleep, exercise, supplement. So maybe we can just start with a very typical day in the life. Let's start in the morning. We'll end with the nighttime routine. How do you wake up in the morning? Great. So first thing I would say is at a very high level, I think that a dynamic that you see often on the Internet is basically, like, every health influencer is incentivized to say, like, the craziest shit because that's what gets a lot of attention. And so people like Brian Johnson, who, bless him, I think doing amazing things, he is like almost incentivized to talk about, oh, I injected my son's stem cells into my body and, you know, did this crazy therapy with my grandpa. He does all that stuff that I think is very interesting. I'm glad people are doing it. I, like, don't do almost any of that. So, like, my routines are pretty boring or consistent, but I think that there's a couple areas that I've gone deep that I really care about, which I'll kinda talk about. So I basically think from a a normal day, like, we'll wake up, call around, like, seven, 07:30, Wake up. Go outside. I try and spend, like, the first thirty to sixty minutes of every single day outside. Often, I'll go for a walk, like, first thing and either listen to a podcast or call somebody that I just have to have to call and chat with. So I definitely will say I think that circadian rhythm and circadian biology is pretty... It's pretty under invested in or underutilized. People …