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Introduction to Dr. Ravi Iyer

Jeffrey Feldberg: Dr. Ravi Iyer is one of those rare individuals who has lived on both sides of the modern success equation, elite performance, and deep personal reckoning. Trained as a physician and shaped by years inside high pressure medical systems, Dr. Iyer saw up close what relentless ambition can do to the human body and mind. The exhaustion. The quiet erosion of purpose, the cost of winning on paper, while losing something harder to name. 

Questioning the Definition of Success

Jeffrey Feldberg: Rather than walking away from medicine, he asked a more uncomfortable question.

What if the way we define success is broken?

 That question, let him down an unexpected path. A path that blends science, longevity, entrepreneurship, and inner work. Today, Dr. Iyer helps high performing leaders, founders and professionals, redesign their lives from the inside out, optimizing health energy, and clarity without burning down everything they've built.

His work sits at the intersection of physiology and psychology where peak [00:01:00] performance meets sustainable living. Not hacks. Not hype. Just honest conversations about what it actually takes to build a meaningful life while carrying big responsibility.

Dr. Iyer brings credibility forged in real world pressure and wisdom earned through personal reinvention.

If you've ever wondered whether success has to feel this heavy, his perspective just might change how you think about ambition itself.

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Deep Wealth Mastery Program Testimonials

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Welcome to the Deep Wealth Podcast

Jeffrey Feldberg: Deep Wealth Nation welcome to another episode of the Deep Wealth Podcast. Well, deport Nation, let me ask, how are you mentally, physically, how's your energy on the physical side? Also on the emotional side, is it okay? [00:05:00] Is it not so great? Could it be better? Do you have some questions? Terrific news. You heard the official introduction.

We have a very special guest in the House of Deep Wealth, Dr. Iyer, welcome to the Deep Wealth Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have you with us offline. We are sharing some of the things that you're doing, which you're gonna get into, but you're not only a. Doctor, you're also an entrepreneur, a founder.

But before we get into all of that, there is always a story behind the story. So Dr. Iyer, what's your story? What got you from where you were to where you are today?

Dr. Iyer's Journey and Background

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Oh, my story began. In a small town in eastern India called ur, and I grew up there. And my entire life has been the pursuit of childhood fascination with what makes life work. I always was curious about what made fishes and frogs work? What made, birds and bees and everything? How did they work?

How do their bodies work? And that pulled me into biology and medicine. And as I went through that, I found, kept to the point where [00:06:00] I started asking the question, okay, I know how it works now, how do you make it work when life doesn't work? How do you make life work when it doesn't? And the answers to those questions.

That pulled me deeper into the field of medicine and from there into basic research, went into molecular biology, got a doctoral degree, biochemistry and molecular biology, moved from all Indian in India to Harvard as a scientist and a physician. And then from there. I came full circle back to how does life work for human beings at the bedside.

Got my residency physician's license in the US and then started applying the research clinical trials as well as community medicine in Reston, Virginia. And as I started working and going higher [00:07:00] in the hierarchy of the hospital, I a rose to becoming the chairman of the Department of Medicine in the hospital there and then became a director of a hospice organization for nine years.

And then the question then shifted to when you can no longer make the body work, when it doesn't, how do you enable a human being? Face the ultimate test of life, which is the dissolution of his being without fear. So how do you allow his existence to work when his body is actually going to inevitably meet go back into the elements of the universe so that brought me full circle into the entire gamut, but also while I was in the leadership roles in the hospital. The questions also shifted. It was no longer, how does life work and how do you make life work when it doesn't? It became how does the department work and how do you make it work when it doesn't?[00:08:00]

Or how do people work? And what drives that decisions? Why do people decide the way they do sometimes, even when they know that they could do better decisions? They don't, they're stuck in a particular pattern. What drives them in that direction? So all of that. Blended into one large body of knowledge and training that drove me to do everything I did from my speaking to my physician work, to my creation of medicines that I supplements that I got DA approval company. To leadership and coaching that I do. So all of that blends together in one thing, but it's all encapsulated between the of answers to these two questions. How does life work and how do you make it work when it doesn't?

Jeffrey Feldberg: Wow. My goodness, Dr. Iyer, there is so much to unpack there, and it'll just be the tip of the iceberg in this [00:09:00] episode with the time that we have together.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Yeah, so 40 years that I just encapsulated.

Jeffrey Feldberg: I absolutely love that. That's what I love on the side, by the way, about biographies. It's a person's lifetime of insights and wisdom and missteps and what they learn from that, that we can glean in a relatively short period of time that we can then apply to our life. So let me ask you an unfair question, because everyone is different.

Everyone's journey has them in their own unique space. But that said, from the books that you've written to the coaching that you've done to these incredible supplements that you've been creating from the medical science that you've been doing. Where are we as entrepreneurs, founders, business owners specifically?

Where are we just not getting it when it comes to our health? Is it the Fritos principle here, the 80 20 principle where Yes, Jeffrey, 80% of the challenges or the ailments or the problems, otherwise no ones opportunities that I see with people are really coming from 20% of [00:10:00] these actions or inactions or these behaviors.

What would you say to that?

The Misalignment of High Performers

Dr. Ravi Iyer: The problem of. Comes from allocation of resources and alignment of resources. Most high performance individuals do not align their resources consistently across all aspects of their life. In the area where they are actually performing at a high level, they're super aligned. But they do that alignment usually at the expense of some other area in their life.

And because at the root cause of this misalignment is the concept that they all live under. They live under the idea that. I call this a not enough or an us versus them kind of life. it's always a zero sub game, and I'll explain that. They believe that resources for performance are external entities [00:11:00] and their fixed in availability in time and space, and you have to take that and apply it to various areas.

They do not see themselves as the source of the resources that they employ. And the reason they don't see that is they don't live consistently as creators. They live consistently as consumers of their life. I'll expand that. I just throw out a a very loaded tub. Most entrepreneurs will think that they're creators that would find offense to that.

The thing is the way a creator believe works, he speaks his reality into existence. Most people use language to describe events as it happens. Very few people use language to. Some of the few best entrepreneurs in the world use language creatively, like Steve Jobs. They [00:12:00] literally speak out something that never existed before the Wright brothers spoke out, flight They then went and built it, but they actually spoke that this is out and this concept of language as a.

Speech act that can actually create is not really comprehended by the vast majority of entrepreneurs. So as a result, the vast majority of entrepreneurs are working on a resource scavenging and a resource utilization. And as long as you are only scavenging and utilization, you are only mining it from the ground and using it, and someday the ground is going to go empty. You are only borrowing it from one area of your life and putting it in another area, you're really not creating it out of nothing. See, for me, I'm 67 years old and I can give a 30 5-year-old entrepreneur a run for the money in terms of output per day. I work [00:13:00] 16 hours a day and I don't feel tired. And the reason for that is fatigue. Does not exist. When you know how to manage your resources and when you are actually creating resources,

like people get up in the morning, they'll immediately go grinding, but they won't spend time to take a little bit of time to actually husband their thoughts, get a moment of inner silence, get a moment of, clear clarity and focus. When they go through their day, they are bouncing from task to task, but there's a lot of internal mental chatter. There is absolutely zero chatter in my head when I work.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay. My goodness. Again, so much to unpack there. I love the way that you're sharing, and I've heard this said in different ways, but not quite this way. It's very novel, very unique with what you're sharing. Most entrepreneurs in particular, and we're gonna separate out entrepreneurs from the general population.

Entrepreneurs, business owners, [00:14:00] founders, they view themselves as creators, but they're really consumers, especially when it comes to their health. And I couldn't agree to you more. And what I'm hearing you say is that really these entrepreneurs we're taking things for granted. It starts mentally with the words that were.

Perhaps speaking to ourselves or what we're verbalizing out loud. It's interesting as we're talking about this, again, no judgment here. I was on a flight yesterday and there was another passenger, just a few rows up who said, excuse me, do you think you could help me lift my bag up on the overhead compartment here?

And the passenger said, I'm so old now. It's hard for me to do this. And I'm thinking, wow, I would never use those words because our words to your point. Become our reality, Napoleon Hill thinking we're real rich. Our thoughts become things. And so for the entrepreneur out there who's thinking, yeah, okay, I hear you, but I've got so much to do, so much to build.

I don't have a lot of time. And they buy into, it's completely wrong. But they buy into the notion that [00:15:00] those sleep when they're dead, and right now they're gonna burn the candle at both ends. Use another common terminology.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Yeah.

Jeffrey Feldberg: What should we be doing in terms of ensuring we're actually around long enough to be able to see things through and to have that vitality, that energy, that insight, as opposed to the negative of that brain fog, lack of energy, pain, not being able to get outta bed.

The Importance of Functional Longevity

Dr. Ravi Iyer: I'm gonna share my screen a little bit because I just pulled up a figure here and now you can see that. But that allows me to talk about it.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Sure.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Alright, if you take the Y axis as functionality, zero to a hundred percent,

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: and the x axis as age zero to a hundred, the biblical age is supposed to be 1 25, but you know, we'll take it at a hundred.

Then most people will reach about a hundred percent functionality by the time they're.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: They start declining to the end point. So the thing about life is that the beginning and the [00:16:00] end, the birth and death are fixed. They're not modifiable,

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: but everything in between is modifiable. So if you take this and then you say, okay, look at the current course, the normal course is you reach your a hundred percent functionality at around 40, and then you have decline.

Let's say your death point at a hundred. So that's 60 years of decline. People don't realize that. People don't realize that we are looking at, for a hundred year old man, we are actually looking at 60 years of progressive decline in functionality. So until now, all my life, I have never, ever seen anyone actually ask. have said, I wanna be functional till my last breath,

And I want that last breath to be as long as possible. But then that last breath, I want to have a exit like that is. With the least amount of [00:17:00] trouble for myself and my loved ones. So they wanna remain functional and then they want to have this cliff where they just drop off. Right now, that kind of exit where people just go to bed and then book. That's it. is that guaranteed for most people? And until now, that was not a possibility. Advancement in regenerative and metabolic medicine and metabolic optimization has allowed us to push this curve up. So this 60 year decline, we can push it up such that we keep people after the age of, in their sixties, seventies, and eighties at above 75% functionality. Into their, well, into their nineties, we were able to keep them above 75% functionality. And at that point so the other thing about the whole functionality aspect is that there are three things that a person needs to have when you want to call functionality, [00:18:00] what is called dynamic aging. One, your heart and skeletal muscle that your motor of your car and the chassis of your vehicle needs to be strong. So you need to have a good heart and you need to have good bones and muscular structure. Second, you need to have a good brain that is cognitively in track because it doesn't matter that you can run up a pair of run upstairs in a jiffy, but your brain is out to lunch. Alright? And third, your digestive and ex extremely organs should be in good, normal function. It's no use that at every cough you are suddenly soiling your pants. So these three things need to be held in place. And if you do these three things in place, you can give them that 75% functionality and then they can use that functionality for whatever they want to do with their life, whatever they're good at, whatever they want, whatever means [00:19:00] of self-expression that they want to do. That's not my job. My job is to give them a body. So we have this thing called a Body for Life program, and that program basically says, I will give you a body that will keep, will not fail on you into your nineties. And what you do with it is up to you. You can go and sit at a behind a on a rocker. At the foot of a tree and, meditate yourself out into some nirvana bliss or you can go party till, kick them, come in, Daytona Beach.

I don't care.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Yeah. My goodness. And Deep Nation, I want you to take a step back and think for a moment of what was just shared with you because it's so true, Dr. Iyer. What I'm hearing you say is from about the age of 40 until someone passes away, if we go with. Conventional programming, the social programming, as people get older, as functionality starts to decrease, they tell themselves that it's normal when it's really not.

And don't get me on my soapbox about big [00:20:00] pharma and how sick care is really their business model, not healthcare, and why it's in their best interest.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: I agree.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Why it's in Big Pharma's best interest that people aren't healthy. And so deputation, I want you to visualize what Dr. Iyer was sharing and he shared with me, you can't see it, but he shared with me it's a graph of a person's age and deputation.

I completely agree with Dr. Iyer saying it is not quote-unquote normal for people to be passing away at 70 years of age, 80 years of age. And you're right. If you go back to Biblical times, 120 years. And beyond was a typical age, and what I'm hearing you say is, Hey, if you don't do certain things, then from the age of around 40 onwards, you're gonna go into a decline.

And that our role, imagine that our bodies like our company, there's certain KPIs in our company that we're aiming for. The same thing with our body that we don't wanna have from the age of 40 onwards, you don't wanna have a decline. It's like you're going downhill. Really what you wanna have is from when we're born, you want to [00:21:00] have up and to the right, and then you wanna maintain that until your last days, where there's then a sharp drop.

So you have a full, vital, healthy life. You're mobile, you can think you can move, you have bodily functions. You're out with your grandchildren, God willing, your great-grandchildren running around, playing, going places with them because you've taken care of your body. I suppose a much simpler analogy, if we're driving a car.

We never stop for gas and we never stop to change the oil and for tuneups at one point the car is simply gonna give up where the car is. The metaphor for our body and the gas and the tuneups are things that proactively we can be doing to fill ourselves up health-wise. How am doing with that?

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Yeah it's absolutely tragic to see somebody who has amassed. You know, A hundred million dollars worth of company Wealth, a billion dollars of company Wealth. And I see them all the time as executives, but they finish all that and then they look, and they are unable to [00:22:00] be a participant in whatever they created. they just are existing beyond that point. Their progeny enjoy it and all of that, but it is so sad to see these elderly people just wither away because they were unable to be supported. Now the key to supporting them is actually ridiculously simple. The. 

Combating Inflammation for Longevity

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Neutralize the single biggest cause of aging, which is inflammation. See, inflammation is the meta. See, life is a metabolic fire. And when you have a fire burning to drive the engine of life in you, the byproduct of the burning fire is inflammation. And inflammation is the price that all creatures pay for the opportunity to be alive. And this inflammation is what causes early blockages in the heart. Early loss of [00:23:00] neural function in the brain, early loss of kidney function, early loss of sexual potency, early loss of skeletal muscle function. Weakening bones and loss of sphincter, muscle control. All of these things can be traced down to an inflammatory pathway that got activated.

Wrecking that cannot be replaced. Now the problem is when you have youth at a 16-year-old, you have an inflammation in 16-year-old also. But in a 16-year-old, the regenerative pathways are operating at three times faster than inflammation. So when a 16-year-old jumps and lands on the floor, he bounces. He doesn't go the 60-year-old.

Doesn't have the regenerative pathways bouncing the same way. And that is why modern technology right now has come out with various [00:24:00] peptides. You see it all over the internet. This peptide stack and that peptide stack, these peptides literally change the signaling pathway because the body never forgets its regenerative capacity.

It just goes, it goes to sleep on that. As people get older, those regenerative pathways just go to sleep. They don't disappear. They have to be woken up. And the way it gets woken up is with these peptides and by judicious, and it's not much the cost of well run regenerative program for an executive that would.

Carry them well into the next 40, 50 years is no more than about 15 to $20,000 a year for them. And if you look at somebody who has got a million dollars in revenue or, $10 million in revenue, giving [00:25:00] him opportunity of you. Accomplish his functionality that he can run his business for the next 20 years beyond. Establish his legacy. Make sure that the vision that he started off with doesn't have to be prematurely handed over because of his inability to carry it forward. All of that is incalculable. I cannot even put a dollar value to that.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Absolutely. And so what I'm hearing you say, Dr. Ayer is from a very high level, if we get beyond the headlines of somebody passed away from this condition or that condition, what I'm really hearing you say, the root cause, it's inflammation. 

The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Health

Jeffrey Feldberg: And I've heard this described as it is literally rusting from the inside out that we don't see it. And the challenge is what we're doing today is not something that we're seeing tomorrow. It can take years or decades to show up, but by the time it shows up because it's been so long, it's quite the challenge to be able to deal with. And [00:26:00] to your point, I'll never forget, and I've talked about it on the podcast a number of times, speaking with a billionaire.

The billionaire was near the very end, pulled me aside and said, Jeffrey, what I wouldn't give in terms of all the zeros in my bank to have my health back so I can be with my family. My loved ones, I would trade it all. I don't remember most of the business meetings that I had. I do remember the times with my family and knowing that I won't be here much longer is a pain both for myself and the family.

That just doesn't go away, and I just can only imagine what could have been, and to hear that it's so tragic. Someone so successful on the one hand, yet failed on the other hand from the health side. So that said, you've given us fair warning. 

Simple Steps to Improve Your Health

Jeffrey Feldberg: What can someone begin to do, and I know Dr. Ier, you can say, well, Jeffrey, look, everyone is different.

And depending on where they are and what's going on, what works for one person may not work for another person. I completely agree with all that. Generally speaking though, what would be some low hanging fruits where [00:27:00] somebody could do one, two, possibly three things that could begin the process where they can turn things around or, wow, hey, I forgot what it felt.

To feel like this, what would that be? What would you suggest?

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Low hanging food that is available to everyone without restriction, you don't need to be rich to get it.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Wake up at Sunrise.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Go to sleep Three hours after sunset. And every day eat a bowl full of what I call the traffic light vegetables, red, green, yellow, orange vegetables.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay, so waking up at Sunrise, going to bed three hours after sunset, and eating the traffic light of vegetables of red,

Dr. Ravi Iyer: vegetables that are red in color, yellow, orange or green in color.

Jeffrey Feldberg: I love that. And so someone in Deep Nation who's hearing this, they're probably saying

Dr. Ravi Iyer: [00:28:00] Eat a bowl full of it.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay. But they're saying it. Dr. Ier, I hear you. It can't be that easy. How can it be so easy? Those three things you're telling me those three things are gonna make such a difference. What would you say to that

Dr. Ravi Iyer: those three things will secure about 60% of the distance,

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: the remaining 40%. You will need my help. But you will be like, it is like saying let's talk about this like an Olympics. Living a functional life till your nineties is the Olympics of longevity. Alright, now you wanna go to the Olympics, but before you go to the Olympics, you need to do your basic gym work.

You need to do your stretching. You need to have your basic fitness. Before an Olympic level coach will actually take you on and train you. These three things are the basic groundwork that you have to do.

The Power of Circadian Rhythm

Jeffrey Feldberg: Okay, and let me ask you this, because the waking up at Sunrise and going to sleep three hours after sunset, [00:29:00] it to me is in a very loud voice. It's saying. Circadian rhythm. So what's going on with circadian rhythm? What do you want the Deep health Nation to know of? Why The circadian rhythm, the natural circadian rhythm.

Not talking being under blue lights in your house or in your office, or the bright lights when it's 11 o'clock at night. What's going on with a natural circadian rhythm that you want us to know about?

Dr. Ravi Iyer: so nothing beats the natural solar cycle. Our entire hormonal system, our entire metabolic system rises and sets along the solar system along the solar cycle. The circadian cycle just by getting up at that time. You activate metabolic pathways at sunrise, at the right time for Mac optimal function, and then by going to bed so the effects don't manifest immediately.

They manifest by the 90th day. So the first three months you are getting up and and most people will fall off the curve at this [00:30:00] point because they don't see anything. But at the 90th day or so, you'll start noticing that you are going through the day with more energy, finishing up with less fatigue, and you are more available and more, present to the opportunities, how life shows up. Insulin pathways, your growth hormone, your cortisol, your testosterone or your estrogen. All of that cycles and everything is linked to the sunrise, sunset cycle. By staying up late like sunset is most of the time, in wintertime, you know it's as early as 5:00 PM or 4:00 PM In summer, it can be as late as 8:00 PM so you also stretch your day out according to that.

So this natural e and flow of your body's rhythm allows your body to not be rigid and ossified in a one particular pattern. It changes with the season. So during summer season, you do [00:31:00] stretch out and you work more and and enjoy more, and then you contract during winter. There's nothing wrong with contraction, but it is inappropriate contraction and inappropriate expansion that fractures people.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Absolutely. 

Meal Timing and Its Impact on Health

Jeffrey Feldberg: And so Dr. Ayer, I wanna go at the intersection of circadian rhythm as well as sleep, which is probably one of the biggest underrated superpowers that people don't realize and tie that in to our last meal. And unfortunately here, at least in the US and I'll say North America and certainly parts of Europe, people are eating and then going to bed right away, or they're not walking off that last meal.

So when it comes to going to bed three hours after sunset, seasonality, of course, depending on the time with that. When it comes to our last meal, when would be the last meal? What are you suggesting in terms of, okay, if I'm going to bed at this time, how many hours before should I be having my last meal?

Dr. Ravi Iyer: so you actually brought that up when you told me to give me only three, I gave you the top three. [00:32:00] These three rules that I gave are actually part of a larger platform. And so let's say, so you have the sunrise sunset, right? So the time you wake up is at sunrise. Your breakfast has to be within one hour of waking up, and the breakfast cannot be more than 250 calories. Your lunch has to be five hours after breakfast. So let's say you woke up at five 30, your breakfast is at six 30, your lunch is at 1130. Your lunch is your real big meal.

The next meal is six hours or six to seven hours after lunch. So your dinner is around six 30 in the evening and your sleep is three hours after dinner, 9:00 PM usually sunset has occurred at that time.

From 9:00 PM till morning, 5:00 AM that's a solid eight hours that you have sleep. That's [00:33:00] your cycle.

so now you have a complete pattern where you have a sleep wake cycle that is linked to your sunrise. You are have a fasting and feeding cycle that is. Link to the way your gut empties because your breakfast empties out of your stomach in five hours. Most people eat their breakfast late and they eat their lunch before the breakfast meal has left their stomach.

So the lunch meal is layered on top of their breakfast in their stomach, and over time their stomach stretches and becomes bigger and bigger capacity and they find that they have to eat more and more to feel full. So they stretch themselves. It's and that's the cause of obesity. you eat your breakfast one hour after waking up, the minute you wake up, you switch on your metabolic engine and within one hour you are giving it nourishment.

If you don't give it nourishment, the metabolic engine is going to send an alarm signal to your liver saying. Give me nourishment, give me, save me. I'm, burning [00:34:00] fuel. I don't have any fuel. So what the liver's going to do is going to turn on stress hormones and churn out glucose and dump glucose into your bloodstream, and your sugar level's gonna go high.

But if you ate your breakfast, the liver won't get that signal because your breakfast will be providing fuel.

Jeffrey Feldberg: And so Deep Wealth nation. Firstly, this is the opinions of myself, Dr. I think of it two friends. We're just exchanging ideas here. This is not medical advice. Deep Wealth Nation, before you do anything, check with your own doctor or your own medical professional before you do anything. And like with anything else, these are just general guidelines in terms of what's there.

But Deep Wealth Nation, did you notice as Dr. Iyer is describing these things, you're not hearing about snacking, you're not hearing about eating all day, have one meal, you're waiting a specific period of time before you go to your next meal, giving the body time to digest, to rest, and then you're moving onwards.

How are you comparing with that? Do you find yourself no judgment here? Do you find yourself eating [00:35:00] throughout the day? You're having mini meals throughout the day instead of very defined meals, and you're eating right up until bed and then going to sleep, and that goes to inflammation and some of the other health areas that we've been speaking about.

So you've clearly defined a set number of meals, the approximate timing for that. Every person will respond differently, so find what works best for you. Generally speaking though, what I'm hearing you say, Dr. Iyer is doing this kind of approach. It's reducing or possibly eliminating the inflammation.

There's more energy, more focus for me that I can extend my life, have a healthier life.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: extend your productivity too because your waking hours become very productive, so your need to stay on late at night and do things becomes less. A lot of people work late. Simply because they haven't been as productive during the waking hours and they work late at that time. Then the other thing is your ability to say no to certain things becomes more powerful. I have seen a lot of [00:36:00] executors having a difficulty actually saying, no, 

when you can't say no, you can't say yes either, because whenever you say no, you're saying yes to something else. so that is the other important lesson here. 

Portion Control and Mindful Eating

Dr. Ravi Iyer: The last thing is something that everyone struggles with that I educate is portion control.

People wonder how do you do portion control? something that I tell them. It's called the three tablespoon formula, and that is. Keep the food on a serving table that is separate from your dining table and it's at least 20 feet away from your dining table. And then take your plate to the serving table and put three tablespoons of every item on the serving table onto your plate.

No more than three tablespoons. Come to the dining table, sit down and calmly eat your three tablespoons of food each one. Each item when you finish, get up, go back to the serving table, take the next round of three tablespoons again and again and again. What will happen is by the time you get up [00:37:00] for the second or the third time, you'll feel that the need to get up and refill your plate has disappeared, and you wouldn't have eaten more than just two or two and a half tablespoons of every item.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Interesting because I agree with you, willpower is not a strategy. You'll get tired, you'll go through your reserves and I know for myself, Dr. Ier, as an example, my kryptonite is ice cream. And so if I have ice cream in the freezer, my willpower will only take me so far. Next thing I know, the whole container is gone.

And so for me, ice cream is banned in the house now. Sure. Every now and again I'll splurge and that's all fine and good. Generally speaking though, because I know myself, it's a not happening, having the ice cream in the freezer for me and deportation, what is it for you? What's your kryptonite? Dr. Ier, what you didn't mention.

I presume it is implied, and this could be a whole other episode. In addition to how we're not snacking and how we're having our meals apart, I would imagine the food quality plays a huge role and it would be not processed foods, more whole foods [00:38:00] that we're gonna be having avoiding some of the known toxins that are out there.

How am I doing with that?

Dr. Ravi Iyer: recently I, had a piece of genuine chocolate and I could not believe it that I had a tiny, small piece the size of a postage stamp, and it kept me satisfied for six hours. The taste never left the back of my tongue. that brought me to another thing that I teach executives is the reason people eat the fourth. Mouthful is because they were not present to the first three.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Sure.

Dr. Ravi Iyer: So if you actually taste your food from the tip of your tongue to the back of your tongue before you swallow it, you will slow your pace of eating down. You will feel full and you will stay full for much longer.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Dr. Iyer, I would love your thoughts on this. I would even take that one step further. When we stop eating the processed foods, which are chemically engineered. To trick our taste buds, to [00:39:00] have us be hungrier When we get that out of our system and we now have natural whole foods, the power of a blueberry or a strawberry, how incredible it tastes, how sweet it really is.

It gets muted or dulled when we're having the processed foods, but when that's out of our system, we begin to really enjoy and taste. To your point, hey, I had this one small piece of pure chocolate. Wow, Jeffrey. It had me going the entire time for hours afterwards. When we get back to nature, when we get back to center, we really enjoy food the way it was meant to be enjoyed.

Thoughts about that?

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Absolutely. recently, my wife and I, we went on a trip to Europe and in Europe we suddenly noticed that we were eating and enjoying our food so much better. And it took barely four days for our bodies to reset

In four days, I suddenly was tasting fruit in a different way. The vegetables tasted differently, so much better.

And I was telling my wife the other day that this is [00:40:00] what we are missing in America. We really need that. And it takes only about a week to two weeks to completely reset your body. Once you switch to Whole Foods, it's very easy. I would say basic. You know how you go to a college course and they say, required reading and required before, take this one.

Oh. Like that. If you come to buy Clinic for the Body for Life program, the required prerequisites is implementing some of these steps in advance before I ask you to even, plot down any money towards getting any peptide stack that will start resetting your metabolic.

Jeffrey Feldberg: And so Dr. Iyer, you offer so many programs you're mentoring, your coaching, the books that you've authored, the services, the products that you've created. It could be so overwhelming in a good way, so someone in Deep Nation, if they're only gonna pick. One of your programs or one of your strategies to take their life to the next level, [00:41:00] what program would that be and what's your secret sauce, pun intended, in terms of what that program is and what that's gonna do for me?

The Body for Life Program

Dr. Ravi Iyer: It's the Body for Life Program. The Body for Life program has two components. One is a longevity and a nutritional counseling program

so the first part of it is. It resets your body and gives you a body that you can carry with you forward into your life. That what I call that is alive and able for the purpose it was built for.

Now it may be anything a musician may use it to have a longer concert life. A CEO may use it to, open up another whole industry realm, whatever. But you know, you'll have a body that won't fail on that's.

Cognitive alignment, the coaching that goes to enabling that body to function in decision making processes that allow [00:42:00] you to be powerfully unleashed in any field that you are doing.

 that is a system that I do call neuro alignment, where we actually show you how your thought processes are, what are the predetermined assumptions that are driving the choices you make in life, why you make them.

And when you see them, you suddenly realize that you. Trying to go into the future with a playbook of the past, and you figure out that which part of that playbook you need to keep and which part of the playbook you need to let go and craft a completely new playbook. So that's the second part. So these two components are what makes the Body for Life program so powerful and complete.

Jeffrey Feldberg: In nation. What is so powerful about this is Dr. Iyer has spent his lifetime of figuring this out. He's done the heavy lifting, and as I've said so many times on the podcast before. When it comes time to file your taxes, are you saying, I'm gonna learn the tax code? Or are [00:43:00] you going to your accountants?

Because they've been there, they've done that. They do this all day long. It's the same thing here where our health, that's our sovereign Wealth, that's our first Wealth, and we've been hearing from Dr. Iers, some go-to strategies, some KPIs, some programs that can help you get the most out of your health so that you can then take that, apply that to your business, your personal life, your legacy and beyond.

Final Thoughts and Wrap Up

Jeffrey Feldberg: So all that said, Dr. Iyer, my goodness, we've only scratched the surface. This is the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more. That said, we're bumping up again some time. We're gonna go into wrap up mode here and for the wrap up mode. It's a tradition here on the Deep Wealth Podcast. It's my privilege and my honor, where every guest I ask the same question.

The question, it's a fun one. It's a powerful one. Let me set it up for you. When you think of the movie Back to the Future, you have that magical DeLorean car that will take you to any point in time. So imagine now, Dr. Ier, it's tomorrow morning. You look outside your window. Not only is the DeLorean car curbside, the door is open, it is waiting for you to hop on in what you [00:44:00] do, and you're now gonna go to any point in your life.

Dr. Ayer as a young child, a teenager, whatever point in time it would be. What would you tell your younger self in terms of life wisdom or life lessons, or, Hey, do this, but don't do that. What would it sound like?

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Sound like my younger self. don't sweat the small stuff.

Life tends to work out very well over time. Focus on building onto your passion, whatever you, and focus on developing abilities that you can use to contribute to the world. That's up.

Jeffrey Feldberg: I absolutely love that. Don't sweat the small stuff. Life's gonna work out over time. Focus on your passion. Take your God-given gifts, take it to the world, make a difference, which is exactly what you've been doing. And Dr. Iyer, someone in Deep Wealth Nation, they have a question for you. They want to begin to work with you.

They want to speak with you. Where would be the best place online to find you?

Dr. Ravi Iyer: Just go to my website. It's www, D as in David, R as in Robert. In India, Y as yellow r com, [00:45:00] and my email is right on the top. Can use it. You can click the link to book, a 30 minute, talk with me and explore what you wanna accomplish for yourself. Everything is handled by me. I don't have any filter between me and you.

Jeffrey Feldberg: Nation the great news, the terrific news. This is all in the show notes. It's a point and click. Go to the show notes. All the links are there for you, including all of Dr. Ayer's books. And you can go to his website, book that call with him. You'll come out of it a whole lot better than when you came in with some insights and some strategies.

Well, that's that. Dr. Iyer, it's official. This is a wrap. Congratulations, and as we love to say here at Deep Wealth, may you continue to thrive and prosper while you remain healthy and safe. Thank you so much.

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