"DJ LIFE" How to keep healthy…

eat often and well, and more importantly the right stuff. drink a lot of water, and accept you cant party every night!

The biggest way people tend to abuse their body is sleep deprivation. There is a little flexibility our bodies can accept if we short it a few hours but the sleep debt still needs to be paid. In the mean time the interest of fatigue takes its toll on everything we do.

One of my weekly lighting gigs on Wednesdays doesn’t get me out of the bar until 2 AM and I have school the next day at 7:30AM, I usually only get 4 hours or less on those nights. I try to catch naps in the van before I setup for the gig and short 20 min naps before I tear down at the end of the night.

As for food, you should make it as easy as possible to eat healthier alternatives. Keep some fruit and vegetable sticks in your refrigerator, most people are shorting themselves on fiber. Remember, healthy food are not magic pills that make the effects of an excess of less healthy foods go away. Healthy foods provide the nutrients that you’re probably not getting enough of and when eaten INSTEAD of unhealthy foods let you eliminate excess calories which cause weight gain, excess sugar which causes tooth decay, and saturated fats and cholesterol from your diet that contribute to heart disease. In short, it isn’t a plus/minus system where healthy foods cancel out unhealthy foods, all food adds up towards ranges where you shouldn’t exceed or fall short and unhealthy food tends to lead to excesses in some areas and shortages in others.

Sleep A LOT when you can.
Eat healthy and organic food.
Drink loads of water.
Find tricks to stay away from too much alcohol (for example I have a bottle of Tequila that is actually light apple juice the same color as the tequila …)