No one cares about your health advice (until you look like the result)
When I was deep in the trenches of fixing my health, I became that guy.
The one constantly telling people their food was poison.
The one sending articles about seed oils.
The one standing in my parents’ kitchen pointing out that 95% of their pantry was filled with industrial lubricants disguised as food.
I wasn’t trying to be annoying. I genuinely cared. I wanted the people I loved to feel better. But I was doing it wrong and as a result no one listened.
A lot of people fall into this same trap. They’re deep into the health rabbit holes, finding a ton of information that most people don’t know about, and with good intention, they start trying to educate everybody they know on what they find.
But most people aren’t going to listen.
Why would they?
From their perspective, I was still the guy dealing with health issues, not the one who had solved them.
It’s like the guy at the gym with an extremely average physique going around correcting everyone’s form. No one cares and very few (if any) people are going to listen.
Most people don’t want to be told what to do. They’d rather observe someone who’s already achieved what they want and draw their own conclusions from that.
Needless to say, I wasn’t very successful convincing anyone to listen to what I was saying.
Fast forward a few years later… now I wasn’t the guy dealing with health issues trying to tell others why the things they were doing weren’t healthy. I was the guy who resolved his health issues and looked like a completely different person.
I didn’t need to prove to my friends and family that the things I was finding and implementing were effective. They could see it.
Instead of trying to go around and point things out and convince people, I had so many people coming to me asking me what I had done.
Why? Because now I looked like the person who had the level of health they wanted.
My hair was fuller, my skin cleared up, I put on a ton of muscle and I was noticeably a happier and more pleasant person to be around.
Given that you’re here reading this, I’m going to assume you’re somewhat deep into the health optimize realm.
And if you’re anything like me and you care about the people around you, you probably want to share the info you’re finding and help them.
Don’t make the mistake I made.
You don’t need to convince people. You need to become the proof.
People are far more likely to listen to you when you embody the result than when you send them a PubMed article to prove a point.
— Nick