Tom Bilyeu
8 things in health & fitness Tom uses or recommends, from 9 episodes.
Tom's top picks in health & fitness
What Tom uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I made a promise to myself that I was going to do 30 days of cold showers, and by the end I ended up doing 13 months of cold showers... But I said I was going to do it, and I did it. It teaches you something about yourself. It really does wire your brain in a unique way."
Recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"You need to introduce something from cognitive behavioral therapy called a pattern interrupt. A pattern interrupt is where they start feeling anxiety and they say, 'Nope, stop. I'm not going to do that.' It works. It doesn't work some of the time. It works all of the time, every single time."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"This is hard, this sucks — the gym, this is hard, this sucks — cold plunging, it's hard, it sucks. But I said I was going to do it, and I did it. It teaches you something about yourself."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I just like a physical book. It's the same thing, like I have a Kindle. I love my Kindle. I read a ton of books on Kindle. But if I can get a physical book and go to a bookstore, I'll do that."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"Taking control of your breath is one of the most life-changing things that you can do. Learning to breathe from your diaphragm is utterly fascinating. What you're doing is a mechanical process that has stimulatory effects in the body — it allows us to reduce our excited state, to move out of the sympathetic nervous system fight and flight to the parasympathetic nervous system where it's rest and digest. You can mechanically move yourself from one to the other simply by breathing from your diaphragm."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"I eat a whole food diet whenever humanly possible. I find when I'm taking in artificial ingredients, highly processed food, artificial sweeteners — over time that begins to build up. The more I just eat religiously whole foods, meaning you would recognize it from what it looked like out in the wild, that's the kind of stuff I eat and that's going to account for probably 90% of my calories."
Health & fitness Tom warns against
Things Tom says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"Ozempic just dials down desire. And so now good luck getting anything you want. Learn to point your desires at things that uplift your life. Do not try to numb out and not want anything. That is not how the human animal is wired."
All 8 of Tom's health & fitness picks
- Cold showers Uses and recommends it "I made a promise to myself that I was going to do 30 days of cold showers, and by the end I ended up doing 13 months of cold showers... But I said I was going to do it, and I did it. It teaches you something about yourself. It really does wire your brain in a unique way." +1 other
- Cognitive behavioral therapy Recommends it 3 episodes "You need to introduce something from cognitive behavioral therapy called a pattern interrupt. A pattern interrupt is where they start feeling anxiety and they say, 'Nope, stop. I'm not going to do that.' It works. It doesn't work some of the time. It works all of the time, every single time." +4 others
- Cold plunge Uses and recommends it "This is hard, this sucks — the gym, this is hard, this sucks — cold plunging, it's hard, it sucks. But I said I was going to do it, and I did it. It teaches you something about yourself." +11 others
- Kindle Uses and recommends it "I just like a physical book. It's the same thing, like I have a Kindle. I love my Kindle. I read a ton of books on Kindle. But if I can get a physical book and go to a bookstore, I'll do that." +10 others
- Sugar-free diet Uses it "I eat eggs a lot, chicken a lot, beef a lot. I eat vegetables, so like jicama. I don't eat carrots because carrots spike my blood sugar massively... I do it for my own sake because I have a high inflammation response so it makes my joints hurt." Only Tom
- Diaphragmatic Breathing Recommends it "Taking control of your breath is one of the most life-changing things that you can do. Learning to breathe from your diaphragm is utterly fascinating. What you're doing is a mechanical process that has stimulatory effects in the body — it allows us to reduce our excited state, to move out of the sympathetic nervous system fight and flight to the parasympathetic nervous system where it's rest and digest. You can mechanically move yourself from one to the other simply by breathing from your diaphragm." +2 others
- Whole food diet Recommends it "I eat a whole food diet whenever humanly possible. I find when I'm taking in artificial ingredients, highly processed food, artificial sweeteners — over time that begins to build up. The more I just eat religiously whole foods, meaning you would recognize it from what it looked like out in the wild, that's the kind of stuff I eat and that's going to account for probably 90% of my calories." +1 other
- Intermittent Fasting Recommends it "Skipping breakfast is amazing. I encourage you guys to do it very frequently. To give you an idea, I haven't eaten since yesterday at 2 p.m. and it's now 8:15 a.m. So by the time I eat, I'll have gone 17-18 hours without eating. Intermittent fasting will change your relationship to hunger. It is absolutely amazing. Do more of it." +9 others