Health is Wealth: Never Forget This

I’ve always been blessed with having great health ever since I’ve been a child. I rarely get sick and if I do, it’s because I wore myself down from too much work and travel combined with crazy extreme weather. Add my regular biohacking and supplements, it’s very rare that I get sick. And naturally I tend to take this for granted until I get badly ill.

This happened to me in Q4, 2022, during a trip to Uzbekistan. I’d been on a whirlwind of travel the prior 5 months and also stressed from having made too many commitments of various projects, deals and initiatives. So when I got to Tashkent, with an overly packed schedule and an unusual drop in temperature I subsequently became incredibly ill, even losing my voice. My hosts there were incredibly gracious and kind, trying different home brews to try to heal me but what was needed was just plain rest and sleep which my schedule there did not allow for. This sickness dragged on when I returned to San Francisco, losing a whole week in bed. An awful Hacking cough, foggy brain and plain weakness throughout the body. Last time I felt this bad was when I got Covid earlier in 2022. 

Now why do I raise this beyond just bitching and moaning? It’s a clear reminder of the importance of taking care of yourself physically. You can have money, you can have time but if you don’t have decent health, you can’t enjoy anything. I was so excited to visit Uzbekistan for the first time. I got to see the amazing Silk Road splendors of Bukhara and Samarkand, but I was in tremendous pain and in brain fog the entire time. It was pretty much the same as not being there frankly. I just did not get to enjoy the place as much as I would have liked. 

Health is wealth. That is Rule 1. Never forget it or you will regret it. Take care of yourself and make sure you understand your limits. You will never get that time back.