APEX Health With Simon Johnson
Jun 8, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
Mike served five years in the Marines. He was deployed to Afghanistan. He got hit by an IED. When he got out, his body fell apart. Within six months he'd gained 60 pounds. Old injuries caught up with…
Simon JohnsonHostFear of sticking with it, the meal prep, right? Like I, I could, I could eat the same thing for, for weeks and weeks and weeks on end.
Like I don't care.
Like it just, you know, food is fuel.
I like it to taste good, but food, food is fuel.
So I had no problem with that and everything.
It was just when I was single, when I was in the military, that was so easy, 'cause all I had to do was worry about me.
But I have to worry about the kids and my wife and my job and all this stuff.
Just, yeah, overall, overcoming the fear of, of things working out the way I wanted them to was the biggest challenge for me.
I see genuinely, particularly with a- anyone, not just men and women, maybe men a little bit more, I think so.
It's the fear of failure that stops people not just taking action, but actually getting to their end result.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's like, it's like, "Fuck you." It's, it, it's quite dirty and it's dark, kind of like motivation, and you can't go on this journey of change.
And for people who aren't watching, I'm kinda imagining this line of left to right.
It doesn't even feel realistic at that point because you're so in the dumps with it, where you don't wanna be, that you know roughly where, but it doesn't feel real.
Fear of sticking with it, the meal prep, right? Like I, I could, I could eat the same thing for, for weeks and weeks and weeks on end.
Like I don't care.
Like it just, you know, food is fuel.
I like it to taste good, but food, food is fuel.
So I had no problem with that and everything.
It was just when I was single, when I was in the military, that was so easy, 'cause all I had to do was worry about me.
But I have to worry about the kids and my wife and my job and all this stuff.
Just, yeah, overall, overcoming the fear of, of things working out the way I wanted them to was the biggest challenge for me.
I see genuinely, particularly with a- anyone, not just men and women, maybe men a little bit more, I think so.
It's the fear of failure that stops people not just taking action, but actually getting to their end result.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's like, it's like, "Fuck you." It's, it, it's quite dirty and it's dark, kind of like motivation, and you can't go on this journey of change.
And for people who aren't watching, I'm kinda imagining this line of left to right.
It doesn't even feel realistic at that point because you're so in the dumps with it, where you don't wanna be, that you know roughly where, but it doesn't feel real.
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