Wellbeing for everyone in the clinic

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Happy Valentine's Day! In celebration of the holiday, Mike Natale, LVT, sat down with The Vet Blast Podcast host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, to share some of the ways that he takes care of his wellbeing to hopefully help other veterinary professionals begin doing the same.

Below is a partial transcript.

Mike Natale, LVT: Every day I go to the gym, I wake up at 4:30 AM every morning, I go to a good ol' CrossFit workout for an hour and then start my day right after that. I start one of the jobs that I have and it keeps rolling throughout my day. In the middle of my day, though, I do try to take at least like a 30-minute break, get some fresh air, go outside, go for a walk. If not a walk, read a book. If not reading a book just sitting outside enjoying the fresh air.

So I just started, it's a challenge called '75 Hard' and it's a challenge for your physical and mental health. There's a list of things that you had to follow for 75 days. Those things [include] following some sort of diet. So ideally, you want to follow a healthy diet of some sort, or even if you want to cut something out like soda, maybe decrease your caffeine intake. Other things are reading books, you have to read a 10 pages a day of a self help book. And then you have to do 2 workouts a day; 1 indoor, 1 outdoor. And then the hardest part is no alcohol for 75 days.