Growing up as a kid, baseball was life. Watching the Toronto Blue Jays on the TV, getting the thrill once a year of making the drive into the city to watch a game live, first at Exhibition Stadium, then at SkyDome with my dad. To me, looking back, it was a dream life, getting to experience baseball with my dad in any way possible. Even doing yard work or playing catch while listening to the famous Tom Cheek and Jerry Howard announce the Jays was what summers consisted of. When I close my eyes and listen, I can still hear what it sounded like when Tom Cheek announced Joe Carter’s home run against Philly to win the World Series. My dad was so superstitious, he muted the TV and listened to the Fan Radio because Tom & Jerry were better announcers.

 

Now that I’m in my 40s, my hopes and dreams of becoming a professional baseball player have long come and gone, but my love for the game still runs through my veins. I don’t play anymore, or go to the games, or even watch games on TV, but baseball still represents a way of life.

 

As a health professional and executive consultant, I use baseball analogies when it comes to teaching my clients through their health and wellness journeys. From taking a pitch, sitting this one out, experiencing an unexpected curveball, and acknowledging base hits win ball games, everything can be attributed back to baseball for just about anyone to understand. On the rare occasion do we ever get to experience a grand slam.

 

For those who may not know what a grand slam is, it’s when all the bases are loaded (runner on first, second, & third) and the batter hits a home run, resulting in all players scoring and immediately adding 4 runs to the scoreboard in one powerful swing. Basically, we’re talking about the pinnacle in baseball, or in football it’s called a Hail Mary. Or in hockey, it’s a “sudden death” overtime winning goal, or a one-punch knockout, or a three-pointer at the sound of the buzzer to win the game. It’s the most high-impact action in a sport that results in the most dramatic outcome. Can you tell I like sports?

 

How does all of this equate to health, wellness, and biohacking? Let me explain.

 

As a health professional and enthusiast, it’s my duty not only to myself but also to my clients to walk the walk and talk the talk. Imagine taking health advice from your doctor who’s unhealthy. It just wouldn’t sit right.

 

I eat healthy, exercise 5 to 6 days a week, and avoid alcohol, smoking, and the usual suspects that age and deteriorate our health. But now that I’m in my 40s, I can see how things are just starting to slow down. I’m a little sorer in the mornings, I don’t run as fast, I don’t physically play as much, and I don’t lift weights as heavy as I did when I was in my 20s. But I still love health! It’s my identity. So how can I continue to identify as healthy all while realizing my body is beautifully expressing universal natural laws?

Answer: BIOHACKING

 

What is biohacking? According to the Godfather of Biohacking, Dave Asprey, “It’s the art and science of changing the environment around you and inside you so you have full control over your own biology."
 

It’s what we intentionally try to do in order to achieve self-optimization & mastery by manipulating external and internal variables. What does that even look like? We can choose to eat foods that fuel our body and brain. It’s practicing regular and consistent sleep hygiene, using the sunlight’s natural healing power, and avoiding as much as possible blue light from our devices. It’s using technology to help us in everyday life; it’s regulating our emotions and balancing our perceptions so we can see how challenging events and people serve us as gifts, not drawbacks. It’s using nutritional supplementation to enhance our biological output, energy, and performance. It’s using science to enhance our energy and, ultimately, doing things to help us live healthier, happier, stronger, and longer.

 

Last night, I hit a grand slam. Not at the SkyDome. Not with a bat. But right in my own home, all by myself. I used four different tools all at once, which created one of the most powerful and restorative evenings I’ve experienced in a long time. Each one, in and of itself, is powerful and is considered a base hit, but together, they brought me across home plate feeling fully reset.

First Base Hit: The Sauna.
The heat from the rocks and steam infused with essential oils was the opening pitch. Stepping into the sauna, I could feel my nervous system relax immediately. The heat forces you to remain still. When I’m in the sauna, there’s not much of anything going on, just you and the heat. You’re sweating. You’re breathing. You’re surrendering. That gentle but relentless rise in temperature pushed my body to release what it no longer needed — physically and emotionally. Sometimes, we need to sit with the heat of life. The sauna gives you that space. It’s a ritual space. Runner on first.

Second Base Hit: The Cold Plunge.
If the sauna is about surrender, the cold plunge is about resilience. That sharp, immediate inhale the moment you step in? That’s aliveness! Cold water doesn’t just shock the body — it awakens the mind. I’ve never felt more present than when submerged in that still, frigid water. My NuBreath cold tub sits quietly on my deck; it’s there when I’ve gathered enough courage to take the plunge. It’s always there for me, and each time it delivers the coldest & hardest punch of the day. Within seconds, inflammation is down, circulation is up, and your ego is checked at the door. The plunge is the curveball pitch of biohacking — you don’t always see it coming, but when you lean into it, it’s powerful. Runners on first and second.

 

Third Base: The Massage Chair.
After the storm comes the stillness. The massage chair brought it all together, a way to decompress from stress to softness. There’s a moment when the rollers hit just the right spot on your lower back, and you feel your whole spine exhale. It’s like being hugged and touched, and even being alone, its nurturing to the body as though someone were giving you a big hug. Being able to surrender and allow my body to realign itself is what I need for my recovery from the workouts, the travel, the decisions, and the constant go-go-go of leading Canada’s largest wellness expo. This massage chair isn’t your average run-of-the-mill gym or mall massage chair. This massage chair knows my body; it scans my back, it hugs my shoulders, it rolls and kneads my feet, and it lays me back and gives me permission to “let go,” all while feeling protected.  It’s kind of like rounding second, getting the wave from your coach to take third base, knowing full well he’s got your back! Runners on all three.

Home Plate & Grand Slam: The NeuroVizr.
Now here’s where the magic happened. The NeuroVizr wasn’t just the home run; it was the game-winning run. This neurotechnology delivers pulsed light and sound frequencies that guide the brain into deep states of meditation and repair. Think of it as batting practice for the brain. It recalibrates neural patterns, enhancing focus and easing mental fatigue. It’s kind of like being in a dark room, without sound, light, or distraction, and there’s only one little light in the corner. You put all your focus onto that; it quiets the noise. After my body was detoxed, challenged, and restored, the NeuroVizr brought a sense of coherence and closure to my whole system. I floated. I drifted into a state where time disappeared, and off I went to bed right afterwards.

I guess you can say I hit a grand slam!

Each of these tools — sauna, cold plunge, massage chair, and NeuroVizr—is incredible on its own. But when stacked strategically, with intention and presence, they become something more. They become synergy. They become a system. They become a new experience and way of life that only the wildest dreams can think of.

This is what modern wellness looks like. And for me...this is what it means to be 40+, still swinging, still playing, just in a new kind of ballpark.