Episode 434: Why Most Entrepreneurs Are Slowly Burning Out – And How to Fix It With Dr. Alka Patel
In today’s fast-paced world, we know the path to a long and healthy life is clear and achievable – yet burnout stands as the main obstacle between entrepreneurs and this vital goal.
In this conversation, Adam Stott engages with Dr. Alka Patel, an esteemed longevity doctor and international speaker, to share strategies for living a “million-hour life.” The conversation delves into the intersection between business success and health optimization, exploring the idea that a vibrant life requires more than professional accomplishments. Dr. Patel introduces listeners to a variety of health hacks leveraging technology and personalized data to transform wellness routines.
Show Highlights:
- Health optimization through data-driven and personalized approaches can significantly enhance energy and longevity.
- Prioritizing health involves adopting proactive measures, including stress management and tailored nutrition plans.
- Technology such as continuous glucose monitors can provide real-time insights into health, helping to prevent common diseases before they manifest.
- Entrepreneurs who invest in their health are likely to experience sustained energy and higher productivity.
- Embracing regular health check-ins and movement, alongside proper nutrition, contribute to achieving a “million-hour life.”
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Transcript:
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Adam Stott: How do you as a business owner, entrepreneur, live a million hour life? How do you get to 114 years old and optimize your health in a way that you can live forever? Well, not quite live forever, but live to 114 years old. That’s what we’re gonna be talking about today. On business growth secrets, I’ve got the wonderful Doctor Alker with me who is an international speaker and longevity doctor.
[00:00:31] I met Dr. Alker when I was in Scotland speaking at the Scottish Business Conference. She came on stage. She was outstanding. Her talk was amazing. The audience were, you know, really into the concepts that were being spoken about, and I think it’s something that I’ve been looking to do more is bring people on business growth secrets that really can focus on the health.
[00:00:51] I’ve often said in the past, your health is your wealth, and I’m really pleased to have you here Dr. Alka. So welcome to Business Growth Secrets. You’re doing good.
[00:00:58] Dr. Alka Patel: I am doing amazing and I love that you’ve kicked off with your health is your wealth. It so is, but do people actually believe that?
[00:01:06] Adam Stott: Well, I think they believe it.
[00:01:08] When there’s a problem. Yeah. You know, and that almost is the issue, isn’t it? When everything’s going swimmingly. Yeah. People don’t focus on it. And I’m really pleased to have you here because. You know, if you wanna have an outstanding life, it’s not just about money and success, it is also about making sure you feel fit and healthy.
[00:01:25] I saw this interesting quote recently. It said that, you know, you have all your dreams in your life that you are moving towards, that you want until you get unhealthy. And then you only have one dream. Yeah. Which is to get healthy again. Yeah. So that’s why I wanted to bring you on. I think it’s gonna be a really cool chat.
[00:01:41] So why don’t you kick off by telling us about you telling us about your journey. You are an entrepreneur, you’re an international speaker, you’re getting on stages, you’re making impact, you’ve got you know, brilliant products and programs that you help entrepreneurs with. So where did this all start from?
[00:01:55] If you would take us back to the beginning.
[00:01:57] Dr. Alka Patel: Gosh, that’s a really great question is how far back do you go? And this concept of living a million hour life, which I absolutely stand by and I know is possible at this amazing time that we all get to be alive right now. And that first started for me, I’m gonna go back to 2012.
[00:02:15] And in 2012, I am a GP in a partnership. I’ve got the family, the car, the money, the holidays, all of it. I think I am absolutely thriving. I’ve got more letters after my name than in my name.
[00:02:28] Adam Stott: Right. Well, Al’s quite short. Al’s quite
[00:02:31] Dr. Alka Patel: Al’s, quite short. Yeah, but you know what the most important letters are, the ones in front of my name, the Dr.
[00:02:35] Adam Stott: Yeah,
[00:02:36] Dr. Alka Patel: right. That’s the sort of the direct responsibility that I feel I have to really elevate people’s health and make sure that they focus on health, not sickness. But back in 2012, I wasn’t really focusing on my health. I was a. Busy GP with a busy life, and I say the word busy very specifically because what do most business owners say about themselves?
[00:02:59] I’m busy. I’m a busy business owner, and I go into my surgery on a typical day in practice, and I’m feeling pretty hot. Hot because I have a fever. Of 40 on a Friday. And if you know anything about general practice, Friday is the busiest day of the week, and I, there’s no one else in the building apart from me.
[00:03:17] So what do we do? You know, as business owners, as people running the show, as people who care about other people, we generally tend to push on. So I push through the day, but what I didn’t realize was that the next time I’d be back in that consulting room would be four months later. And the reason for that is that fever, which I should have been able to manage, it just took hold shut down my kidneys started to break down my liver, ended up hospitalized and I didn’t get out of hospital for four weeks and didn’t get back into my consulting room for four, four months.
[00:03:47] And I look back now and I recognize it as. Burnout, really.
[00:03:52] Adam Stott: It’s
[00:03:52] Dr. Alka Patel: that, you know, go. Which I see so commonly now in the sort of business owners, entrepreneurs that I look after, but back then, no one wants to talk about stress and burnout because we’ve got it all. And that was my first realization that health has to be a priority.
[00:04:07] Because no matter how successful you feel you are. When that goes exactly back to your first quote, nothing else matters. And so I had to go on a bit of a journey of discovery for myself, like actually, how do I get back to health? What does that even mean? And there’s so many people trying to give you good advice, you know, eat more, sleep more, socialize more what do you actually do?
[00:04:26] And I decided to take myself off on a solo trip, texted my husband saying I’ve just gotta go and do a bit of self discovery. And I took myself off, texted him. I did, I texted him. I know. Great way of to communicate. No, but he did text back and he said you do whatever you decide you want to do.
[00:04:43] That’s
[00:04:43] Adam Stott: nice. That’s nice, isn’t it? Good supportive? Yeah.
[00:04:45] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. Thank you very much. So I went off to India and. When I was there, I met my first centenarian. So centenarian someone who’s over a hundred years old and MOTU was 106. And honestly, Adam, if you’ve ever held the hands of somebody who’s 106 years old, it is incredibly special.
[00:05:05] Like really makes you feel just so grateful and in absolute awe. So I asked him, I said, well, how did you, how do you even get to 106? How is that even possible? And he said this one thing to me. And he said,
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[00:05:52] Dr. Alka Patel: And he said, I have been kind to my body, and my body has been kind to me.
[00:05:58] Now just think about that, like how do you. Be kind to your body. What does that even mean? And so when I came back to England, that was it, you know, that is what I knew I had to bring back the ability for us to all live this centenarian life and this million hour life that that I came up with by understanding what our body needs and how to give it that.
[00:06:18] Adam Stott: Would you. Which is awesome. And the bit that, to dig into a little bit here. Because I see this all the time, you know, we have thousands of business owners coming in and, you know, people that we’re seeing and training and burnout is quite a common word, right? People say, I’m burnt out, I’m tired, I’m burnt out.
[00:06:34] What you are talking about is when your kidneys and your liver fails. I mean, that’s a pretty. Dramatic version of burnout, and I don’t think people realize that it actually can get that bad. Yeah. I mean, yeah. When you’re in that place and you said, you know, you said you burnt out and you started to go through that, how did you feel?
[00:06:51] What were you saying to yourself?
[00:06:53] Dr. Alka Patel: So that’s a really important point to raise, Adam, because most people think of burnout as emotional, right?
[00:06:59] And really there is a huge physical component to it that most people don’t realize. Like when you think about your body, it’s constantly sending you signals to pay attention to.
[00:07:10] Adam Stott: Yeah.
[00:07:10] Dr. Alka Patel: But what happens is that most of the time, especially business owners, ignore those soft signals. And until they become that really loud shout that you cannot ignore, that you have to pay attention on. And that usually shows up as that. Horrible diagnosis that I’ve been so used to giving people previously, which is the cancer and the diabetes, the heart disease, and the high blood pressure, and all the disease that you don’t want.
[00:07:32] So that’s really important to recognize. What are those soft signals that you need to pay? Were there some soft
[00:07:38] Adam Stott: signals that you ignored? Oh, plenty. What does that look like for somebody that’s listening? You know, what is a soft signal that someone should be aware of?
[00:07:46] Dr. Alka Patel: So, so in terms of the sorts of entrepreneurs, business owners, I’ve seen think about this, right?
[00:07:53] Are you an ostrich, a roadrunner, or a parrot?
[00:07:58] Adam Stott: Am I a, am I answering
[00:08:00] that
[00:08:00] Dr. Alka Patel: well? Well, let me explain what that I can, what that really means. So the ostrich, which one don’t
[00:08:04] Adam Stott: wanna be an ostrich, a road rather, or a para. Probably a road rather. Right? I would imagine. But
[00:08:09] Dr. Alka Patel: so the ostrich has got their head buried in the sand.
[00:08:12] Adam Stott: Okay. The
[00:08:12] Dr. Alka Patel: entrepreneur who just would rather not know who just I’m fire an O, he’s all right. Like you said at the beginning, I don’t need to know unless there’s a problem. I’ll wait. I’m good. And then there’s the road runner who is the busy entrepreneur. Too busy, you know, people to see, places to be, no time for me.
[00:08:29] And you don’t actually pay attention to the signals until you turn up. Six is a parrot to a and e or to my consulting room, which is not where you wanna be. So ideally you don’t wanna be any of those. What you really want to be is. The eagle, right? Flying high,
[00:08:46] Adam Stott: the
[00:08:46] Dr. Alka Patel: high flyer type of business owner, because you’ve got that eagle eye that focus on your health, and more importantly, you are seeing what you can’t see.
[00:08:56] Right, because like, you know, eagles have got that eye, that visibility, that vision. And why I raise this is because the way that I approach health now is to make the invisible visible. So I do a lot of testing at an incredible level of depth at right at the level of your cells. That sort of microscopic level, which is where all those soft signals are sitting.
[00:09:19] And then the earlier you pick all of that up, guess what? You get to be in control of your health. You get to have ownership. You get to have responsibility. You get to have empowerment about what goes on right at the core of your health.
[00:09:30] Adam Stott: And I think, which brings me to which I love that. So essentially what we’re saying is we want a bird’s eye view.
[00:09:35] We wanna be looking down right, and actually understanding the depth of our health. What’s really interesting is a lot of people don’t make any changes in their life. I. Until they’re a point of pain. So this is where they make changes. Especially I think in this subject actually, you know, in business people tend to go and get a coach when they’re at breaking point.
[00:09:55] Right. They’re like I can’t cope anymore. I don’t know what, when really they got one. At the point they’re like, actually I’m doing well. I wanna do even better. They’re being a better place to build. Right. And especially in health, I think health even more that people wait for something to go wrong.
[00:10:09] Right. Then give it their focus. Yeah. So those signals. Like, what should we be looking out for as a tap on the shoulder? You know, is it bad sleep, for example? Is it, you know, not e like, low energy in the morning. Or low energy. Is there anything that you think this would be Adam, that is a tap on the shoulder?
[00:10:27] You’re just ignoring it. Yeah. You know, for people that listening, right?
[00:10:30] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. No, great one. So the most common things that I see amongst entrepreneurs and I look after hundreds and hundreds of them is sugar, sleep, and stress. So let’s go there. Yeah. Sugar, sleep, and stress. So when we talk about something like sugar, what we’re really talking about is fuel.
[00:10:45] And we’re talking about energy because, you know, think about it as a business owner, what is the key, fundamental thing that you need? Energy, right? Levels of energy that allow you to have clarity of decision. That allow you to think better, that allow you to be creative, that allow you to be innovative, all of that, and energy’s an incredible thing.
[00:11:02] It’s beautiful. We, you know, the sauna is our source, of course. But when you look at how your body makes energy, there’s this complex system that needs you to fuel, right? That needs you to eat right, that needs you to move, right? That needs you to sleep, right? So sugar, sleep, most business owners I meet. I don’t need much sleep.
[00:11:22] I can burn the candle at both ends. But actually what you’re doing by doing that is burning yourself out. ’cause we’re not designed physiologically. We’ve got natural rhythms, circadian rhythms, all traian rhythms, overlying that productivity rhythms. And the minute you can tap into that. Watch how your success levels change really make a difference.
[00:11:41] So if we go back to sugar, for example most people say, oh, you know, I crave sugar, or I feel that two o’clock in the afternoon dip in energy. And that might be related to how your, how you are fueling. But the question is, how do you know, how do you know what your energy levels really are like from a sort of more biochemical.
[00:11:58] Perspective. So one thing that I love doing is I’ve got a new code of practice that I use in my practice which is called the Health Hacking Code. And the reason I love it is, one, it gives you back control of your health because you are the most important person, but it very specifically uses data and devices to make decisions.
[00:12:16] So data is what you know about how you’re made. Devices are. Look at the incredible time that we are living in right now. What is that health tech that you can use then to make decisions with precision? ’cause so many people just guess, oh, I’ll, I’ll have celery juice in the morning. Oh. Or I’ll fast for, and not eat for six hours in a day.
[00:12:34] Oh, I’ll do something else that’s I’ve found on Instagram that my friend told me to do. But you are so unique, you’ve gotta know for yourself.
[00:12:41] Adam Stott: So that is the approach is the approach, is understand you. Yeah. Build around your. Optimization rather than just try to follow a a different method, right?
[00:12:51] Yeah, exactly.
[00:12:51] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. What are your energy levels like, would you say?
[00:12:53] Adam Stott: I would say in the morning.
[00:12:55] I get up and it takes me a long time to wake up. I. So I’m actually not Great morning person. Never have been. Right? Look, this is like a therapy session, right? Right. But in the morning I’m like, oh, you know, like I went to the gym this morning.
[00:13:08] So I got up this morning and I think get up this morning and going to the gym. I was in the gym for seven o’clock. I got personal trainer, right? And literally, I went in there and I’m like, oh my God. You know, he’s like, right girl, let’s get you on that cross train. Let’s get you going. I’m like, oh, the first 10 minutes is horrible.
[00:13:23] Yeah, 50. After 15, 20 minutes. I’m like, bang. Right, let’s go. I feel good. I’m doing weights and I’m, I’ve got energy and I’m great. Right? Yeah. So that helps me. And then that lifts me. So obviously come to work feeling energized now. Then I will. I think I’ve got, I mean, you know, we’ve got Dan recording now.
[00:13:40] I could probably tell you I’m very high energy during the, yeah, the very high energy actually. Yeah. All the way through the day. And then sometimes I’ll, when I get home, I’m a bit like, okay, yeah. Yeah. So it’s like, boom,
[00:13:51] Dr. Alka Patel: boom. Oh God, okay. From honestly, what you think me, Adam, like, seriously, my like red radars are like on high alert at the moment.
[00:13:58] So think about your car. When you turn that ignition on. Yeah. And you get that you need turn that ignition on in the morning and boom, you are ready to go. You are not experiencing that. So when I say car, there’s a specific response called the cortisol activating response. So most people will know of cortisol as your stress hormone, right?
[00:14:15] Yeah. But I like to think of as your activation molecule. ’cause we. All need a level of stress of activation to get us going in the morning. Yeah, so I mean what I would love for you to do is actually to measure your cortisol through the day, so it’s your cortisol. I know you’s smiling when I’m around certain people that my shoot up, but I do this, it’s a very simple spit in a tube test, which you do sort of periodically through the day, and I can capture your cortisol graph.
[00:14:41] To see if you’re following that right rhythm or not. Because what’s really interesting, again, most people will say, you know, be part of the 5:00 AM Club or Get up at 7:00 AM and go to the gym like you’re doing. But if your cortisol is not really where it needs to be in order for you to do that, the 5:00 AM Club might not be the right place for you to be.
[00:14:59] Oh, I definitely don’t
[00:14:59] Adam Stott: wanna be in the 5:00 AM Club. I much prefer the 9:00 AM club. Right. But I’m sort of, trying to make sure I work out three times. Yeah. You know, trying to put a bit of focus on my health, but I like, like if I were to you know, flip it back, right? Because I certainly, when I built my first business I think I neglected my health a lot.
[00:15:15] I think I really, I was so, so busy, so under pressure, you know? And obviously I didn’t know, like when I built my first one, I didn’t necessarily know what I was doing all the time. So a lot of the time, I’m guessing, putting the piece of the puzzle together. Well, I actually think within my sphere of influence now, I’ve got a lot of experience.
[00:15:32] You know, business doesn’t stress me out, certainly in the way it used to. So I think I’m much more chilled with that, but I think that will be interesting Yeah. To understand. And I think that actually a business owner that is trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together, that doesn’t get it, that doesn’t know the answers.
[00:15:47] Constant variety and challenge can lead them to bit feeling exhausted, right? Yeah. Yeah,
[00:15:52] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. No, super, super interesting. Just something else about you saying I’m not a morning person. So a friend of mine also said he’s a business owner as well. I said, oh, I’m not a morning person. And he went out and he got himself a wearable ring like the one that I’m wearing, which captures sort of data.
[00:16:05] Yeah. And. The thing is he didn’t really know what he was looking at. Yeah. So I find this with a lot of people, you know, got the gear, no idea. And you go out and buy this tech, but you don’t have that expert by your side to help you interpret it. Anyway, we were together once and I said, oh, show me your all your readings and things.
[00:16:19] And when I looked at it, his oxygen levels at night were super low, less than 93%. Now, that normally is like. Get in an ambulance and go to hospital.
[00:16:30] Adam Stott: That’s a bit worrying, isn’t it? Right. Which is not
[00:16:31] Dr. Alka Patel: great. But he just said, well, I’m always tired. I’m not a get morning person. I don’t really kick up my day like he said, to like, you know, after nine, 10 o’clock.
[00:16:39] And what we discovered is I, ’cause I use a lot of home diagnostic tools as well. In fact, I’ll show you one that I used with him which I’ve got here,
[00:16:46] Adam Stott: ah,
[00:16:46] Dr. Alka Patel: which which you might not have seen before. But this. Is a monitor to see how you breathe at night. And you put this on your finger. Yeah.
[00:16:56] Put this on your wrist. This other part goes on your chest. Would you sleep with that on? And you sleep with that on? Yeah. Now this is to measure and to find out if you’ve got something called sleep apnea.
[00:17:03] Adam Stott: Oh God.
[00:17:04] Dr. Alka Patel: I know. So this is the problem is you get all,
[00:17:06] Adam Stott: like, when you start bringing out these terms and things, right, you get all, it gets scary, doesn’t it?
[00:17:11] And I think a lot of people feel that, right? Well, I know I’m feeling it right now,
[00:17:14] Dr. Alka Patel: and Well, that’s why you then wanna be the o the ostrich, right? Yeah. It’s like a safer place. I just bear myself I’ll not know, but sleep apnea actually
[00:17:20] Adam Stott: know someone that died from that, right? Really? So, yeah. It’s pretty serious, isn’t it?
[00:17:24] Have you ever that yeah.
[00:17:25] Dr. Alka Patel: In essence, you stop breathing periodically through the night. Yeah. And you might be somebody who snores a lot. Your partner sort always nudging you. You might have noticed your weight’s increasing and that you are just tired and fuzzy and particularly in the morning.
[00:17:37] So that’s ’cause your brain hasn’t been getting enough oxygen through the night. But the minute you do that, and normally you have to go to a big lab and stay in hospital overnight. I do these things in people’s homes now. It’s so much easier. You can get a diagnosis like literally overnight and then you are in back in control.
[00:17:51] You’re back in charge of knowing what to do. ’cause the other thing people don’t realize as well is sleep apnea is linked to high blood pressure. And when’s the last time you had your blood pressure checked?
[00:18:00] Adam Stott: Not too long ago, actually. Yeah. Good, good for not too long ago. And actually my blood pressure’s okay.
[00:18:06] I think, yeah, I think my blood pressure’s actually. All right.
[00:18:07] Dr. Alka Patel: No for, but I think it’s interesting and these things are, you know, you just don’t realize a synergy in your body. Gut. There’s nothing in the body that hurts alone, heal alone, or works alone. We’ve gotta look at how it all pieces together. So again, I have a little blood pressure bracelets that I send to people’s homes, and you can track yourself, which is.
[00:18:23] So much more useful than every now and again, reminding yourself to go and put your arm in some big machine in, in, in some clinics. So the more you can do for yourself, the better, but with the right level of understanding and interpretation alongside you. So looks
[00:18:35] Adam Stott: like, looks like I’m getting a sleep happening machine.
[00:18:38] A ring and a thing, but we’ll talk about that after spit spinning in a chair, but yeah, in a chair. But before we get there which we’ll do, but before we get there, like on, on that journey, when you found that you were in that position where you just. And you go to India. How did you start to put the pieces of this all together?
[00:18:56] What was your discovery? ’cause you obviously went through all this. Yeah. You yourself personally. How did that work for you? Was there certain things that you did to, you know, because you said you had liver failure, kidney, you had all these things, you’re really worried about your health.
[00:19:07] How do you start to rebuild then? First of all, we took a break, which is interesting.
[00:19:11] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. Yeah, it is. And again, recognizing that your body needs that, you know, we’re not designed to go. And needing a four month break is not ideal for any business owner.
[00:19:19] Adam Stott: Right? Yeah, no, of course. But
[00:19:20] Dr. Alka Patel: really, you know, map out your day, like every hour, every day, every week, every month, every quarter, every year.
[00:19:26] Where is your timeout in terms of that recovery And timeouts not a passive thing. It’s a very. Active activity to be able to allow yourself that, that recovery. But you’re right. I really didn’t know how to recover because in my clinical practice, I’d become what I can now call. A drug pusher,
[00:19:46] Adam Stott: right?
[00:19:46] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. In the sense that I was so used to giving people pills for their ills, you know? Yeah, you’ve got a headache, have a pill, got high blood pressure, have a pill, got heartburn, have a pill. But I needed to move from that ’cause that wasn’t the answer, and I wasn’t going to be the one who was on the receiving end of pills.
[00:20:01] Thank you very much on what actually needed to change. And ultimately what we know is that your lifestyle determines your lifespan. Right. And I wanted to live a long life because the other thing I didn’t share is you know how people talk about those sort of end of life experiences? And seeing the light and running towards it.
[00:20:19] Well, guess what? It’s real.
[00:20:22] And I did have that and there was a light and I was running towards it. And it was my three children’s shadows that I saw. That stopped that. And when you’ve had that near death experience, boy does it make you, it
[00:20:37] Adam Stott: makes you reevaluate things. Yeah. Yeah. A
[00:20:39] Dr. Alka Patel: hundred, a hundred percent.
[00:20:40] And so what I went on and did, Adam is, and I think a lot of business owners do this, that entrepreneurial mindset, right? If you can’t find what you want, guess what? Create it.
[00:20:49] Right. Yeah. So I created a decision making tool that I needed to use myself, first of all is which area of my lifestyle do I start with?
[00:20:55] Is it sleep? Is it food? Is it exercise? Is it connection? Like, what is it? And so I created something called the lq, which is on my website now, and got featured in Forbes. Forbes picked it up which was great, which is a really a decision making tool to go, which area to start with. ’cause what I’ve found, especially with business owners, is they want to get the finesse.
[00:21:12] Sorted. They wanna do all the, you know, the red light and the saunas and the ice bombs. All. You said there was four hours,
[00:21:17] Adam Stott: right? Is that what you said? What’s that? You said there’s four in this lq, you’ve got four hours. Oh no.
[00:21:21] Dr. Alka Patel: The LQ is nine areas. Oh,
[00:21:23] Adam Stott: you’ve got nine areas. Yeah. So
[00:21:24] Dr. Alka Patel: it’s the whole of your lifestyle.
[00:21:25] L-I-F-E-S-T-Y-L-E. So life’s purpose, identity, food, exercise, sleep, timeout and the rest of it. So, it’s piecing together that holistic approach Yeah. To your health and your lifestyle, which will then determine your lifespan to get you to that million hour life as. Well, because, you know, the longer you live, especially as a business owner, I mean, what’s the point?
[00:21:45] The point is so that you can share all your skills and all your talent. Yeah, absolutely. For as long as possible and genuinely anything that you do now in your business. And tell me if you’ve got an experience a different way, but you reap it. Decades later, like the full potential of it, the depth of that richness and that fulfillment isn’t immediate.
[00:22:03] You get that later on. And what a shame if you’re not here. Well, no,
[00:22:06] Adam Stott: I, I do agree with you, but I think that 99% of business owners are well. Or maybe not. 90 nine’s a bit strong. I think 95% at least, of business owners are so focused on survival. Yeah. And short term. Yeah. Right. That very few are focused on decade long value, which is what you are talking about, which is super important.
[00:22:26] Yeah. If people started focused on, what am I gonna do over the next decade, like in terms of, obviously we can control year by year. They’ve gotta get outta survival mode first. Yeah. In order to have a, you know, wealth over a decade, then I think that’s absolutely right. And there’s the same
[00:22:38] Dr. Alka Patel: parallels with health.
[00:22:39] Yeah. Again, think about the immediate benefit, right? I’m going to the gym today, you know, what’s that gonna look like? But actually what you’re doing is building up yourself for the next decade so that you don’t get something called sarcopenia where your muscles start to, to waste as you get older anyway.
[00:22:51] So you are protecting yourself for the next decade. So what you do right now in your business and your health. Is standing you up for that ne next decade. And I think that’s the most important way to sort of, approach things. Except we live in this sort of instant gratification society of don’t we? Of course.
[00:23:04] Yeah. You know, that is, that’s where we’re at the moment. So you’ve gotta think now and beyond as well,
[00:23:10] Adam Stott: abs. Absolutely. So in terms of a business owner listening, someone’s listening, let’s imagine, you know, I’ve described a scenario of getting up fuzzy and different things like that. Yeah. Let’s imagine that somebody.
[00:23:20] Maybe hasn’t been to the gym in a long time and they are tired and they’re working hard and. And they’re sort of saying to themselves, this is tough. And they’re going through it, right? And they’re they can’t focus, they can’t break the cycle. Maybe they’re addicted to their work.
[00:23:37] So working long days, getting up early, staying late, not focused, they’re seeing their health deteriorate. These different things. Someone like that in, in order to stop them from getting to the point where they burn out and have a crisis. What are the sort of things that they should be doing step by step to sort of rebuild and get themselves on the right trajectory?
[00:23:55] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. So first of all, I’d say look at the lq, like, know what area of your lifestyle needs, attention, and prioritize that. But before that or even alongside that I use a lot of what I call time-based biohacks in my in my work. Recognizing that the biggest issue that I hear from business owners is I don’t have time.
[00:24:13] I don’t have time to spend an hour meditating. I don’t time to go and spend three hours at the gym and then the sauna, et cetera. Yeah, so I use time-based biohack. So try these. I’ll give you three. One is the one 10, so that means that for one minute, first in the morning, go outside, into the morning light and just allow yourselves 10 seconds of gratitude.
[00:24:33] The reason for that is light back to sort of stimulating your energy levels, et cetera, is the most important thing that you can do. And most people spend time in their offices all day long sitting in front of their computers. And this artificial light, what is it? 500 lux a thousand luxe. You go outside, even on a cloudy day, you are already hitting several thousand locks on a beautiful sunny day, a hundred thousand locks, and that’s resetting your brain in terms of then getting that.
[00:25:00] Better night’s sleep. So do the one 10 then in terms of movement, do the two 20. So what does that mean? That means 20 seconds of sprinting. Two minutes of rest, 20 seconds of sprinting, two minutes of rest. And what this is also doing is it’s activating very specific longevity genes, pathways in your body as well.
[00:25:23] So you are putting your body through some stress with the activation and then slowing that down and that makes it difference. So you mean on a treadmill,
[00:25:29] Adam Stott: for example?
[00:25:30] Dr. Alka Patel: Even in a lunch break, like, you know, go out as a team. So I do, I go into corporates and work as well and work with business owners and their teams as well.
[00:25:36] Like, Hey, let’s go and do the two 20 and you’re off in a break, and off you go and do that. And it makes a big difference. You’ll see that performance level in your team elevating and if you are the owner, the leader. Do this for yourself and see the difference that makes for yourself. And the third one, I’ve got a whole long list.
[00:25:52] I go all the way. Yeah, but we’ll do one more, which is the three 30. So the three 30 is having 30 grams of protein with three of your meals. Because again, when you’re looking at that strength that’s what you need is protein. But more importantly, protein gets broken down into amino acids. And all those amino acids are used to make things like your hormones and your enzymes.
[00:26:13] So back to creating. Energy. You need all your enzymes in place to be able to do that. You’re gonna need protein in your life. So, and most people that I meet just are not getting enough. So do the one 10, do the two 20, do the three 30. You know, that’s a really good place to start. ’cause what that will do, and I’m all about making health fun, is you’ll start to enjoy your health.
[00:26:33] Adam Stott: I think you, I think that’s one of the really important point and concepts. Yeah. That the things that you enjoy, you can do the things you don’t enjoy. You just, yeah. I was we were doing a treat last week and I. We, it’s called Adam’s House. It’s we do it in different places, but there’s an indoor pool there.
[00:26:48] I was just getting in there, you know, just doing laps and Yeah, enjoying it and that kind of really enjoy doing that, right? Yeah. Yeah. So it’s like quite an enjoyable thing to do. So it’s easy for me to do. But if you don’t enjoy it, it’s difficult, isn’t it? Yeah. And that’s, that, that’s the thing that a lot of people do, so.
[00:27:03] Business owners, entrepreneurs, there’s some good strategies for them to start changing. But you know what’s gonna happen is people gonna be listening and they’ll be like, oh yeah, I’ll do that. They’ll do it once, or yeah they’ll think about doing it, but they don’t actually do it. So what is the upside?
[00:27:17] Why should someone I. Like prioritize this in their life. Somebody that’s prioritizing money right now, or prioritizing some other area of their life, why should they move their priority? And how do you get someone to prioritize this yourself, like
[00:27:32] Do you feel like the people have gotta come to you with it as a priority in their life for you to work with them?
[00:27:38] Or do you have some methodologies for really getting them to actually understand the power of this?
[00:27:43] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. A mixture of both. So the people that I see, some of them have got that readiness. Already. Yeah. And want that level of,
[00:27:49] Adam Stott: and why have they got that? Where does that come from?
[00:27:51] Dr. Alka Patel: That comes from sort of recognizing that a lot of it is, I feel like I’ve got what I want.
[00:27:57] I’ve got the wealth, I’ve got the money, I’ve got the family. But one thing that business owners want is time. Right. Time to enjoy that as well. And you get that realization that if this gets taken away from me tomorrow. Yeah. What happens, like, I’ll give you an example. There’s a study that showed that business owners who work more than 55 hours a week.
[00:28:16] So remember that 55 hours a week. Now is that easy to do? Yes. Because with a lot of entrepreneurs, you’re just working all the time. ’cause it’s your business and it’s go 55 hours a week, you’ve got a 35% higher chance of having a stroke.
[00:28:28] Adam Stott: Really?
[00:28:28] Dr. Alka Patel: So let’s just go there. Right. If you are that business owner and you can’t use your right arm.
[00:28:33] Adam Stott: Yeah. Terrible. What happens? Yeah, it’s terrible.
[00:28:36] Dr. Alka Patel: What happens if you cannot communicate what you want to happen in your business?
[00:28:41] Like it’s terrifying, but no one wants to think that. But there’s a reality, there’s a realism to do that. You’ve also got an almost 20% increased chance of dying from heart disease, so.
[00:28:52] What happens then to your business if you disappear? That’s gonna a little bit
[00:28:54] Adam Stott: now,
[00:28:56] and I imagine there are some people that there probably are as they’re listening, but they need to hear it, don’t they? Which is why I’m willing to go there, right? Yeah. To try and if it helps someone. And I
[00:29:04] Dr. Alka Patel: don’t want people to do things and be motivated by fear.
[00:29:08] I think that’s the wrong motivation is being afraid of something might give you the little kick. Right.
[00:29:13] Adam Stott: But I think that the, obviously people are motivated by fear. Yeah. Or they’re motivated by what they gain.
[00:29:17] Dr. Alka Patel: Right. But
[00:29:18] Adam Stott: the problem is sometimes in health you can’t see what you gain.
[00:29:20] Dr. Alka Patel: Exactly. And this is it.
[00:29:22] It’s not
[00:29:22] Adam Stott: visible. Right. Yes.
[00:29:23] Dr. Alka Patel: Precisely. So you can’t champion that you didn’t get a stroke because actually
[00:29:27] Adam Stott: you go, oh yeah, brilliant. You know, well, because you’ve
[00:29:29] Dr. Alka Patel: gotta think, well, it’s never gonna happen to me. Yeah. Anyway. But that’s why I move away from even using words like prevention. I’m doing this to prevent diabetes or prevent heart disease, or prevent cancer, but move into being proactive.
[00:29:41] Listen, you know, I’m proactive about my health. I’m proactive about my business. I’m proactive about success. I’m proactive about what I wanna do. You are the activator of your health. And if you can come at it from that approach. You are much more likely to continue. But there is a big thing here because knowing doesn’t result in doing.
[00:29:58] Yeah. So if I say to you, you know, what do you know to do for your health? Oh, I know you know, I should eat more greens. I should sleep better. I should move more. You know, to do this, you don’t need a doctor to tell you that, but you don’t do it. And that’s why I like to use devices and data. I. In my practice, because this will be the same in business.
[00:30:16] The minute you see your numbers, you’re gonna do something about it. Right? The minute you see, like say as a business owner, you notice that your KPIs were dropping by Of course. Yeah. 20% you are on it now. You’re not gonna ignore it. ’cause you can see those numbers.
[00:30:28] Adam Stott: Visibility. Yeah,
[00:30:29] Dr. Alka Patel: exactly. Back to visibility and make the invisible visible.
[00:30:32] And that’s why, for example, I like putting. Sugar senses, glucose monitors on people because you’ll see the energy levels, you’ll see the numbers and how they correlate with what you’ve just eaten or how you slept, or the stress that you are under or how you mood, and then you’ll be nudged to do something about it.
[00:30:46] So therefore you’re gonna have fun with it, but you are also gonna get the numbers that nudge you into action.
[00:30:52] Adam Stott: And you’ve got one of these, have you,
[00:30:54] Dr. Alka Patel: just for you, Adam? Yeah. Yeah. I have this
[00:30:56] Adam Stott: was should we have a look at this then? So if you are listening to this on the podcast, Dr. Alka said to me before, Adam, I would like to to put a glucose sensor on you.
[00:31:05] I said, well, I dunno what that is, but that sounds fine. So we’re gonna have a look at that and we’re gonna see how that works and we’re gonna see what we, what comes out of this. If you’re obviously watching on YouTube, you can celebrate in the comments, right?
[00:31:16] Dr. Alka Patel: What we’ve got, so what we’ve got here is a glucose sensor.
[00:31:19] This is called a CGM Continuous Glucose Monitor. So it’s doing exactly what it says on the tin. There’s a sensor. I’m going to Prime and it’s gonna go on your arm and as soon as it’s on, it’s going to be monitoring your glucose levels continuously for the next 14 days. Oh wow. So, oh wow. So that means that we can see.
[00:31:39] Adam Stott: So for 14 days. Yeah. Yeah. So,
[00:31:41] Dr. Alka Patel: so let’s click that on.
[00:31:43] Adam Stott: Where do we go? Left arm. Right arm.
[00:31:44] Dr. Alka Patel: We can go any arm you like. Let’s go there. Lovely.
[00:31:47] Adam Stott: On the left. Yeah,
[00:31:48] Dr. Alka Patel: we’re going left arm. There we go. And just the back of the arm. Oh, back of the arm.
[00:31:52] Adam Stott: Yeah.
[00:31:53] Dr. Alka Patel: That’s great. That’s lovely. Right? And if you are listening you might wanna just turn the volume down right now ’cause it’s gonna be a great big scream.
[00:32:02] Here we go.
[00:32:04] Adam Stott: That was alright.
[00:32:06] Dr. Alka Patel: Nothing was that completely painless. So there you are. Do wanna show that show that to the camera. Maybe you can see it
[00:32:13] Adam Stott: right? You see anything?
[00:32:14] Dr. Alka Patel: Right. Turn it around. There we go. Yay.
[00:32:17] Adam Stott: Got giant. A hole in arm now.
[00:32:19] Dr. Alka Patel: So it’s a tiny little monofilament. Yeah, that is now.
[00:32:22] Tracking your sugar level. So I’ll I’ll get you connected to all the right software so we can monitor that, but then I can see what’s going on and you can see what’s going on. So what I want you to do now, you’ve got this sensor on your arm, Adam is
[00:32:33] Adam Stott: not eat chocolate ever again.
[00:32:34] Dr. Alka Patel: No, exactly. Not that exactly the opposite.
[00:32:38] I want you to just, I’ll eat
[00:32:39] Adam Stott: lots of chocolate now.
[00:32:41] Dr. Alka Patel: We’ll get there. Yeah. I want you just to be curious. So for the next few days, just do what you would ordinarily do. Don’t change anything because you wanna be doing that. You are now in that place of self experimentation. Actually, I’ve got this thing on my arm.
[00:32:56] It’s monitoring my glucose levels. What I, what am I, it does happen when I have pasta for dinner tonight. Or if you ask somebody that has a drink, you know what happens when I have that pint of beer? I said, I don’t want you to change anything. And then after a couple of days, we will start to modify things and I’ll be watching at the same time as you, so I’ll be able to give you some lifetime feedback on something.
[00:33:18] Hang on at the moment. But you know, the highs, the lows, of course, your sugar levels are meant to go up when you eat. So I don’t want you to sort of Yeah. Worry about that. It’s more looking at what’s that insulin response. So when it comes to living that million hour life, when it comes to feeling your most energized, you want to have ebb and flow in your glucose levels that are, that you are able to respond to rather than really high spikes in really low dips as well.
[00:33:41] So we’ll keep a track of that. And really sugar is at the heart. Of this glucose is at the heart of so much ’cause it’s a fuel which is there for a function as well. And we use sugar as fun like cakes and cookies and all the rest of it. But very specifically what most people don’t recognize is that sugar speeds up aging.
[00:33:59] Adam Stott: Oh really? Yeah, so it can
[00:34:01] Dr. Alka Patel: mount a stress response. Stress speeds up aging as well. So we wanna be looking at how can we reverse that to give you that youthful vitality and that energy that we’re all craving as well.
[00:34:11] Adam Stott: So are there any tips for me? And obviously that will transcend to people watching.
[00:34:15] So how do I now make this go well? You know, how do I be a good student on the, on this and make sure that I keep my glucose in a good place. Right? What would the things be?
[00:34:26] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. Model student, Adam. So, the first thing is I’m a bit rebellious
[00:34:29] Adam Stott: and you know, but even, but eventually I’ll come round.
[00:34:32] So, you know, what would I do now?
[00:34:34] Dr. Alka Patel: Love that. Love that. So, first of all, tracking and logging so is important. So as you’re going through the next 14 days, start to log, you know, how you’re feeling, what you’re eating, how you’ve slept, what you’ve been, what you’ve been drinking. ’cause what we’re gonna do as well is look back at patterns.
[00:34:47] So that’s really important. And there are some things that can help keep. Sugar levels at that nice sort of ebb and flow. But the important thing I want you to recognize here is that what I might share with you now might not play out when we look at your actual readings and what might be right for you might not be right for the other person.
[00:35:03] Yeah, of course. Both of, we can both put one on right now, eat exactly the same thing. We have totally different response as well. But so for example, what we know is that if you, for example, have lemon juice before your meals. That can reduce that spike in glucose with your meal and keep that nice ebb and flow.
[00:35:22] So that might be something something to try. So if I
[00:35:24] Adam Stott: had readings come back, yeah. Would you be able to say add ’em? I think you should be eating different foods here in your here, so you can actually help me with that’ll do a swap in. That’s pretty cool. Yes, that’s good.
[00:35:34] Dr. Alka Patel: And make no assumptions. And now
[00:35:36] Adam Stott: that you’ve done that, I get to, you’ve lived for 114 years.
[00:35:39] Dr. Alka Patel: It’s a step in the right direction. Yeah. Hundred percent. It’s a step in the right direction. So this is where we go, right, because again, everything’s connected. ’cause you might be surprised that it’s not food, it’s stress. And although you say you’re a pretty chilled guy, your body physiologically is going to be mounting a stress response when you’re passionate about what you’re doing as well.
[00:35:56] So that might play out. Yeah. Or maybe you are someone who doesn’t sleep and has four hours sleep a night. I don’t know yet. Well, don’t I,
[00:36:04] Adam Stott: I do sleep fine, but obviously I sleep fine as. As much as I know that I sleep fine.
[00:36:09] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah.
[00:36:09] Adam Stott: So I don’t know if I’m not sleeping fine, but we’ll find out. Right. This is the point, isn’t it?
[00:36:12] We’ll, yeah. We’ll find out because again,
[00:36:14] Dr. Alka Patel: sleep activates your desire to hunt for food. And what we know is that people who don’t sleep deeply enough, the next day you’re actually eating 300 more calories and you might. Ordinarily and you are looking very specifically for that carbohydrate rich food.
[00:36:27] So again, it’s all connected, but it’ll be Yeah. Very interesting.
[00:36:30] Adam Stott: And it is interesting. There’s all these different concepts and different things you, I’ve heard you speak about on stage gut health as well. Because that is becoming a huge, you know, there’s lots of topics out there about biohack.
[00:36:41] Really your specialism is you buy, you do biohacking. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. So you actually look deeply at an individual, you figure out what they should be doing and you optimize them based off of data. Is that correct? So is that’s correct?
[00:36:53] Dr. Alka Patel: Yes. So my approach is very personalized because again, when you look at.
[00:36:58] Typical health, you are looking at a population based level. Yeah. So you know, if you had high cholesterol, have a statin, you know, don’t eat saturated fats, et cetera. But as an individual, this whole idea of n equals one, you are the most important person. You have to get really personalized about what is right for you, and that’s where biohacking comes into it.
[00:37:16] So biohacking, longevity medicine, lifestyle medicine, data-driven medicine, precision medicine. That’s what I bring all together. With you right at the center of it. Really using devices like we are tailoring the data that we’re getting from cortisol testing, metabolic testing, gut health testing, as you say is super, super important.
[00:37:35] You’d be surprised what’s in your gut, Adam.
[00:37:37] Adam Stott: You
[00:37:37] Dr. Alka Patel: really would. I’ve picked up stuff like like, like Yeah, he’s laughing. Yeah. Yeah. He’s, this is his favorite.
[00:37:43] Adam Stott: I think this is, judging by his response, he’s enjoying this one, but, you know, he is. That’s our, that’s our videographer, filmer there behind the scenes.
[00:37:52] Dan, who’s doing a great job. Right? Yeah.
[00:37:54] Dr. Alka Patel: No, amazing. And I picked up things like parasites that people didn’t even know they had. Yeah. In their gut, you know, which are important to, to get rid of things like yeast or mold. So again, if you are sugar levels with that sensor on it of very high. And I diagnosed somebody with pre-diabetes, early diabetes, recently who had a sensor on, wouldn’t have even known they were edging in that direction. But also what we discovered is that they had mold in their gut, yeast in their gut. So you are feeding your yeast with the sugar that needs them to then thrive. And how would you get rid of
[00:38:20] Adam Stott: someone like that? What do you do then?
[00:38:22] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah, there, there’s lots of ways. Again, it’s again, looking at what you are fueling yourself with as well as there are some other kind of, you know, supplement. Modalities that I’d be able to use with you as well. Yeah. But we’d need to get quite specific in terms of doing a proper gut test and knowing,
[00:38:36] Adam Stott: oh, well, you know, I’m certainly looking forward to it.
[00:38:38] I think it sounds pretty good. It’s good to be able to get to know yourself and, you know, understand how to increase your energy. So what’s the upside? Lets say that I were to go all in and. You know, we were to really focus on this, what version of Adam comes out the other side of it,
[00:38:53] Dr. Alka Patel: do we want an even more energetic Adam?
[00:38:54] Everybody
[00:38:56] Adam Stott: Is that what it is? More energy. Yeah,
[00:38:58] Dr. Alka Patel: There’s energy and there is focus. Yeah. And there is more importantly, I think is living a long. Healthy life. So what’s happens now is that we might be able to add years to your life, but for most people, those last 20 years of decline. And you don’t want that.
[00:39:14] You know, if you are living a million hour life and you’re getting to be over a hundred, you still want those years to be still wanna be on
[00:39:19] Adam Stott: stage at 114, didn’t you? You make it happen.
[00:39:21] Dr. Alka Patel: I wanna die on
[00:39:22] Adam Stott: stage. Right.
[00:39:23] Dr. Alka Patel: No, absolutely. You’ve absolutely gotta make it happen. If we look at, and I’m gonna come into a bit of sleep very quickly if I could, yeah.
[00:39:30] If you look at the Stevens of the world. So Steven Jobs. So Steve Jobs, yeah. He. Sacrificed his sleep billionaire, what, seven, 7 billion or something like that. But he sacrificed his sleep on his way to success, so he probably only slept about four or five hours a night and sadly developed pancreatic cancer and died way too early.
[00:39:51] So we have no idea what else you could have shared with us and he wasn’t around to see his success.
[00:39:56] Adam Stott: Yeah.
[00:39:57] Dr. Alka Patel: Then if you think about someone like Steven Spielberg. Yeah, right. Go back to ET days. Yeah. And you know, mogul in terms of what’s on our TV screens, he’s done the opposite. He is supporting his self.
[00:40:09] He’s been very vocal about actually not sacrificing his sleep, not sacrificing his self care. And he’s now, what, late seventies, early eighties. Going really strong. And now what I’m noticing is the entrepreneurs of today, if you take the Stephen Bartletts of the world, they are using health as their absolute bedrock to success.
[00:40:29] That foundation of success is based on health. So, you know, back to the question in terms of ostrich roadrunner or para is actually, which Steven would you rather be?
[00:40:41] Adam Stott: Yeah,
[00:40:42] very
[00:40:42] Dr. Alka Patel: well. I’d rather you
[00:40:43] Adam Stott: add that very good question. Right. You know, I think yeah, you wanna be Stephen Jobs at a hundred, not Stephen Jobs at 60.
[00:40:50] Right? Yeah. You know, which is Steve Jobs because he was a legend, right? Yeah. I love his I, you know, we’ve got a lot of respect for Stephen Spielberg and Stephen Bartlet as well. All great people. All great. Stevens found some good Stevens there, right? We’ve got great Adam there goods too, right? Yeah.
[00:41:03] Let’s some great Adams.
[00:41:09] By the sounds of it. No I think it is, you know, super, super interesting. I also want to just touch on, you know, a little bit about your journey because you were a gp. You bounced back from being a GP to, you know, going on this health journey, going to India, but now I. You’re speaking on stages, you’re speaking on podcasts, you’re sharing your message.
[00:41:28] You know, I met you in Scotland, speaking in front of 450 people. I thought you were awesome. I think you did a great job. Thank you. You’re really great on stage. How important has that been for you? Because it’s not something that. Many gps that have gone on that journey would do. So there’s a transition, I know you did some training, I know you invested in some mentoring and some coaching on that.
[00:41:48] But then what’s the upside of that been? You know, how has that allowed you to get your message out there? What’s happened on that journey? Right. It’s different, isn’t it?
[00:41:55] Dr. Alka Patel: Yeah. Gosh, that’s making me reflect, because you’re right. You know, gps, you don’t normally associate GPS with speaking on stages.
[00:42:02] So I changed my identity. So whilst I’m still a gp my methodology for practicing is not, it’s very much longevity. Yeah, of course. Yeah. And lifestyle. So it’s got a very different focus on it, but I knew very quickly when I made that transition that I needed to get that message out as quick as possible for as many people as possible.
[00:42:18] And do you know what I did, Adam? I went and I. Did a TEDx talk. I just made a decision that I was going to do a TEDx talk and I had no speaker training at all at that point before then at that point. But I knew that message was important enough to get out there. So I did a TEDx talk and I decided I was doing it and within 28 days of deciding my talk was out there.
[00:42:38] Now I look back at the talk and go, oh my God, why did he speak like that? Like, I wouldn’t talk like that now, but that was because I always had this readiness to, it’s important enough to just get on the stage. Yeah, speak and what’s the biggest stage I can find? And it’s TEDx and my talk, which is called health is a verb, not a noun, and has now had about half a million views.
[00:42:57] 500,000. That’s awesome, isn’t it? Which is done incredible. Thank you. Yeah. And that’s just the messages landed. But of course the more important thing is how do you take people on this journey with you by speaking right before you even
[00:43:08] Adam Stott: go there. I want to like go. Most people don’t do that, right?
[00:43:10] Yeah. So most people go, I want to do a TEDx talk. They think about it for 15 years. They don’t throw their hat in the ring. Go and get it done. And make it happen. Yeah. So what do you think propelled you to want to go and make that happen and make it happen within 28 days? Because of course it’s possible if you want it bad enough.
[00:43:27] So what was propelling you to make that happen?
[00:43:31] Dr. Alka Patel: Belief. You have to believe in your own message.
[00:43:36] Adam Stott: Okay, so belief in the message. Interesting you,
[00:43:38] Dr. Alka Patel: yeah. You have to believe in Do I love the fact that you put
[00:43:39] Adam Stott: the message over, obviously. ’cause a lot of people think belief in yourself. When you say belief, most people think, you think belief in yourself.
[00:43:46] But I love the fact you put the message as the. As the thing. Is that right? Yeah,
[00:43:50] Dr. Alka Patel: yeah. No, a hundred percent. Like, you know, our spoken word carries energy is a message and that has to be held by the people that are receiving it. So if you believe it, then you’ll be able to translate and other people having that trust in your message as well.
[00:44:05] So that was my first thing is, you know, did I have a strong enough message that I needed to get out into the world that I had conviction behind? Yes. But if you don’t have that. Then don’t. ’cause it will come across in, in, in what you share. So I think that’s the most important thing. But then as I said, it’s like, oh, actually there’s something in this speaking thing.
[00:44:25] Adam Stott: Yeah. You
[00:44:26] Dr. Alka Patel: know, how do I take people on this journey of not just hearing what I say? ’cause it’s great to be inspirational and motivational, but I wanna be the sort of speaker that gets people to take action. Everything happens at the end of action.
[00:44:42] Adam Stott: Yeah.
[00:44:42] Dr. Alka Patel: And so what you mentioned about sort of mentorship and coaching I think is very important.
[00:44:48] And similarly with health, that you know, these journeys don’t have to be done alone. Find your right mentor, coach expert.
[00:44:54] Adam Stott: It’s very hard for people to do it alone, right? Yeah. You need
[00:44:56] Dr. Alka Patel: that person by your side. You know you need those people, but you’ve gotta seek out the right person for you and.
[00:45:02] Don’t stop. This isn’t a journey. This is very interesting. Yeah. When you’re talking about just speaking, it’s not a journey that starts and stops. It’s continuous. So my my, I’ve got sort of lots of value words that I live by. And three of those that are really important to me are, we’ve probably touched on some of ’em already, but Fun.
[00:45:19] Adam Stott: Yeah.
[00:45:20] Dr. Alka Patel: Focus. And finesse. And so when I say finesse is, you may think, okay, I’ve got the speaking gigs now. I on the stages, people are listening to me. You are always refining. And the same with health. Have fun with it. Get focused on it. Make that commitment to what you’re gonna do, but always keep on refining it and making sure that you’re getting the best out of yourself.
[00:45:40] And the same with the speaking. Absolutely. And I love it ’cause speaking means that you get your. Message out, but more importantly, people are taking action on the back of what you say. I was speaking just recently and I tell you, kid, you not, within a millisecond of me coming off that stage, I got message after message of people who have now wanting to speak to me, booking consultations with me within a millisecond.
[00:46:01] I cannot tell you the power. Of speaking is incredible and now if you’d asked me 10 years ago GP speaker, that’s not even part of my identity being a speaker. Yeah. Now it sits front and foremost.
[00:46:14] Adam Stott: Which is awesome. And you know, which is really great because that’s what you’re hear today. You’re getting the message out.
[00:46:19] For people that have been listening along on the podcast or they’ve been watching on YouTube where can someone come and get ahold of you? There’s someone that’s been listening that, that’s like, actually, do you know what? I want that thing in my arm that Adam’s got. I wanna be money, I wanna be biohacked, you know, I want to start, I want to live to 114 years old.
[00:46:37] I want some of that. Where can somebody go and find you, get in touch with you, connect with you? What’s the best steps for them?
[00:46:44] Dr. Alka Patel: Oh no. Thank you for asking that. Yes, if you want a million hour life to match your millionaire lifestyle, then the best place is to have a look at my website, which is dr alka patel.com and you’ll find lots of resources on there.
[00:46:57] As well, I’m on all the socials as well, Dr. Alka Patel, uk. So very happy if people want to message me directly to the socials as well. So those are probably the two, two main areas and I would definitely be replying to emails and speaking about ’cause I love it, you know, if you are. I love people who are the activators.
[00:47:13] If you are ready to activate your health and you are coming forward, you will get 110% of me for sure.
[00:47:18] Adam Stott: That’s awesome. Look I’ve really enjoyed I know I’d really enjoy it. You know, when I met you, I was really impressed. You were great on stage, by the way. Really impactful and you’ve been great here today as well.
[00:47:27] So thank you for coming on the podcast and just for everyone that’s been watching, if you’ve been watching and listening along, the way that this podcast grows is through reviews. So it would be amazing and awesome if you could take your finger. Go and click on the three dots with if you’re on Spotify and actually give us a review.
[00:47:43] If you watch on YouTube, why don’t you share this with someone someone that’s been ignoring my health, this is what my dad always does to me. He literally shares anything my dad hears about health. He goes and shares him. He’s like, Adam, focus on health. He’s always saying it. You probably great. Dad saw him out the front there.
[00:47:57] ’cause he wants me to live to be 114 because he’ll probably, it’d be 140. ’cause that’s how interesting he’s healthy. So go and share this with someone that you know. Could do with a listen for sure, because you know, you could be really giving them a helping answer. Go and click the share button send it across.
[00:48:12] And I look forward. Thanks again. Dr. A, you’ve been amazing. I’ve loved it, and I look forward to seeing you all on the next episode of Business Growth.