YOUR EGO GETS IN THE WAY OF YOUR HEALTH

Welcome to another inspiring episode of The Resilient Dad Show. Today we speak with Juris Skribans, a proven sports nutritionist and performance specialist. Growing up in the Soviet Union, physical sciences come naturally to Juris as this was a matter of survival that had become ingrained in him.

He talks about the need to be physically active and how modern life is reducing testosterone levels in men. The pressures to survive caused men of previous generations to have a level of aggressiveness that is seen less and less today.

Pat then shares his struggles with depression and they discuss how men’s mental health, along with our testosterone levels, have taken a further nosedive. Juris emphasizes that mental and physical health are interlinked and that movement, not ego, is what keeps us healthy all the way until old age.

WORDS OF RESILIENCE

Feeling good starts with seeing what is good - Juris: "So understanding that you need to train your brain to see what is good. There is always some kind of pattern how you get triggered to feel bad, and then how you like I was talking about stuck, everything else on top of it to feel even worse just to get that significance. Hey, look how bad I am."

"You can do completely opposite by feeling good. Just recognize something that happened good in your life and then stack it up. Well, hey, I'm still alive. I have these great memories about this thing. This led me to this kind of situation that led me to hooking up with this person or going on this adventure."

Take care of yourself now to have strength when you get older - Juris: "My goal is to kind of teach people that, hey, when you go to age of 50, 60, 70, 90, whatever, you won't be in a gym pushing those hard weights but you still want to pick up your grandkids, pick up your dog, or whatever, being able to do day-to-day things without anyone else's help. And if you don't look after that now you are just gonna have much harder way of life when you get older."

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