My Story
Let me tell you my story on how I came to discover Preventative Medicine and how this has profoundly changed my life. As a highly competitive sports practitioner, student and later entrepreneur in the tech space, I have been educated to live by the “work hard, play hard” philosophy. Always go the extra mile. Always push myself further beyond my limits. Sleep as little as possible, “I’ll sleep when I’ll be dead”, “sleep is for lazy people”. Just as my prefered actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said, 8 hours of sleep was unacceptable for me, I had to “sleep faster” 🙂 My diet was like anyone else’s among my fellow entrepreneurs, fast food, pizza, irregular lunch and dinner hours. Alcohol at will during parties. Sweet desserts at the end of every meal. When I was practicing physical activity, I always pushed harder, further, longer, until complete exhaustion. My mental state was a highly alert one, on a permanent basis. Phone calls, SMS, Whatsapp messages, people throwing problems at me all the time. When a milestone was reached, nomatter how major it was, there was no time for celebration, I needed to move on to the next one. Long story short, I had