15 Years After Body By Science — How Does Dr. Doug McGuff Do His HIT Workouts in 2026?

just fascinated because, you know, I'm a chiropractor and I have a lot of friends who are MDs, nurse practitioners, and they're very focused on allopathy as opposed to holistic ways of kind of treating the body where, you know, giving the body what it needs so it does not go into this sort of disrepair or chronic disrepair.

bad state and i know that you know like dr jason fung with fasting is kind of the same way he started um very medical and then so wait a minute there's another way to go about this to really help uh people's health what was your kind of moment where you went from you know here i am an md i'm dealing with these crises to saying wait a minute building muscle can change everything from that point going down because it just affects your health.

I just love that.

It's probably not like other doctors because those two, you know, the training people and working out and the medical career were just two different pathways.

And the working out one, I just kind of built up organically as a hobby gone wild.

So it wasn't like I had this aha moment in medicine that made me like... jump onto this working out kind of where that pathway existed long before I went to medical school.

So that was just always there.

But the thing is, is the nature of my practice is I sit on the extreme dichotomy of health and wellness.

Emergency medicine is nothing but the wheels falling off in the 11th hour.

And you got to, I don't know how much of a family podcast this is, but I'm going to say it, excuse the profanity, in the 11th hour, you're having to unfuck 30 years of fuck-uppage.

That's emergency medicine.

Right.

And I was getting very burned out with that whole scenario.

So when I opened ultimate acreside all the way back in 1997, just out of hobby ball wild, uh, Within a year, year and a half, I was starting to see like, whoa, this is the utter antithesis of the emergency meds.

It's like, you couldn't just stumble through the door at 3 a.m. because you picked a bloody booger.

You had to have an appointment.

You couldn't come in for free because of Impala and take my services without paying for them.

You know, you had to make an appointment, you had to pay, you had to come with intention.

You had to endure deliberately applied pain and suffering in order to generate a positive outcome.

You had to have ownership of your own life and health.

It was the antithesis of medicine.

So that's where I kind of made the aha moment of this is where you save lives.

This is what really matters.

You know, you can unfuck 30 years of funnel cakes and Mountain Dew, but you're only pulling that back two to four weeks and they're going to bounce back over and over again.

This, to quote Thoreau, strikes the reed.