From Five-Day Hangovers To Lasting Sobriety

He was a Versace model living at the Clevelander on Ocean Drive, drinking fifty drinks a day for free because his friends tended bar, and getting handed cocaine because the dealers knew he knew everybody. He worked five times a year. The rest of the time was idle.Then the hangovers started lasting five days.Troy Casey — The Certified Health Nut — grew up a ward of the state, started drinking and smoking weed at thirteen, and spent four and a half years cycling in and out of sobriety before it finally held in 1999. What made it hold was not a program. It was an hour on a cushion the morning after a fight, and then, two weeks later, ten days of silence at a Vipassana retreat.Thirty-five years into holistic health, his position in the wellness industry is not what you would expect from someone who looks like he does: the things that actually move the needle are mostly free. Sleep. Sunlight. Walking. Water. Breathing through your nose. He is blunt about the rest of it — peptides, Ozempic, TRT, the twenty-supplement stack — and blunt about why a person in recovery in particular should be careful with all of it.Recorded live in front of our clients and staff at Camelback Recovery in Phoenix. The room does a breathing exercise together at 42:30 that is worth doing along with them.What we get into:the fashion industry’s open bar and what it did to a young man with no supervisionwhy he calls the friends who told him he was wasting his potential “love incarnate”the four and a half years of relapse before it stuckwhat ten days of silence actually doesthe nine pillars, and how to shrink them to three when you are thirty days soberwhy he thinks biohacking can become the same disease in a lab coatthe seven factors of stresshow to breathe like your nervous system depends on it, because it does.