Incredibly grateful for this woman bringing Danny and I into the world.
Grateful for the amazing things she’s instilled in us from working hard, not judging others for anything other than their character, how to budget but also how to reward ourselves appropriately, how to be strong and positive even when facing the hardest times in our lives, how to treat others we care about, and how to love life as much as we can.
Grateful for her being my number 1 fan and supporter my entire life and never allowing me to doubt myself no matter what I was going through.
My mom has always told me “go big and fly high” and has never let me not see the possibilities for my life when I give it my all and don’t give up.
To say I love and appreciate this woman is, of course, a given but doesn’t come close to expressing the true love and appreciation I have for my mom and all she’s been through in her life and all she’s done for my brother and I.
The friends, the travels, the life lessons, the opportunities, the experiences, the ups and downs, and the challenge of getting to a top professional level of competition was an amazing journey.
All I do today is with the utmost respect for what BMX has done for me and what @DaveMirra did for the sport and my life directly.
Even tho I’ve removed myself from the competition side of riding and the BMX industry for the most part, BMX is still in my heart.
All I do today is with the backend thought BMX will be positively exposed to crowds that have never seen it properly, heard of it, or maybe didn’t take a second look at the sport for what it really is.
When I share my video and experiences on stage, people are always amazed by what we can all do on our bikes along with the mindset that fuels those actions we dismiss as it’s just what we do.
Today, BMX is a vehicle that carries my voice and story around the world and contributes to my journey moving forward to serve and support others as much as I can. It’s also a valuable educational tool I use to reflect on all its taught me over the years and how to apply those lessons in my life today with my business.
I’m incredibly grateful I found something at such a young age that consumed my being because had it not been for that focus, I wouldn’t be here today on a lot of different levels.
It’s why I believe everyone MUST have something they are passionate about and can progress with. It’s a great outlet for many purposes and keeps you pushing for something.
@joerogan referred to this as “creating your own struggle” on @aubreymarcus podcast. It’s so true. Rather than wait for some struggle to come at you despite what you want, create your own struggle to overcome like working out, sobriety, a clean diet, a project, that business you always wanted to start, and so on.
It’ll make you stronger, mentally and physically, and may bring more than you ever fathomed into your life. 📸 @jciake
What started out as a dream of becoming a pro BMX athlete turned into a new purpose driven by a dream to change the way we view the world, our lives, and our 🧠 health.
A brain tumor diagnosis in 2010 started my obsession with how to optimize my brain.
Along the journey, I’ve learned a bunch about diet, mindset, injuries, toxins, meditation, and fitness and their roles on the brain.
A new tool in my arsenal is SPECT imaging, which looks at blood flow and emotional circuitry. SPECT allows us to see the damage occurring in the brain from the former mentioned above.
This allows us to incorporate lifestyle changes to help change, heal, and further protect our brains.
What’s rad is that we have just learned how exogenous ketones help support these areas of the brain along with exercise, meditation and breathing, and diet.
An important step, and some blood markers we should all know are mentioned on picture 5.
Along with lifestyle changes, knowing your blood markers from said blood tests (photo 5) is blood glucose and ketone numbers via @ketocoachx (ketones) and Any quality glucometer for blood glucose.
What steps are you taking to improve your brains health?
Josh Perry and Dr. Ryan Lowery get the results from their 3 SPECT scans at Amen Clinics to see if Prüvit exogenous ketones have an impact on their brain.
The results actually shock everyone as Josh & Ryan are the first to ever look at the brain in a ketogenic state under SPECT imaging.
Thanks, Dr. Daniel Amen and Amen Clinics for the SPECT imaging and support.
Thank’s for coming to my channel and for hopping on board my journey. Please say “hey”! 🙂
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Josh Perry is a former professional BMX athlete, motivational speaker, and certified holistic health coach who is fighting 4 brain tumors. Josh suffered a head injury in 2010 that led to an MRI, revealing an 8cm long/2cm wide/2 cm deep meningioma brain tumor. After a 6 hour brain surgery, 75 staples, and a16 stitches later, Josh returned to professional level BMX competition.
2 years later 2 tumors grew back and Josh used Gamma Knife Radiotherapy to shrink them. 5 years after that, 2 new tumors popped up, leaving him with 4 today, but after implementing a ketogenic diet, Josh’s 1 and 2 year MRI’s showed no progression of the 4 tumors in his skull.
Josh launched a health coaching business to inspire and help others to improve their brain health so they can transform into the most successful versions of themselves. Josh now travels the world to speak and is a soon to be author.
We’ve always been told that wearing a helmet is important for our brains.
After @davemirra being diagnosed with CTE, I’ve become even more obsessed with 🧠 health and sharing with the BMX community and all of you.
Although I’m an advocate for helmets 100%, they don’t do much in terms of concussions and preventing CTE. They do protect the skull from fractures, tho, which is amazing!
🤓But, when we talk about the brain in regards to concussions, we have to understand the brains development, how the brain actually sits in the skull, and how a concussion occurs.
I’ve seen many of my friends out cold while wearing a helmet.
🧠@scottycranmer was wearing a helmet when his life altering TBI occurred.
🧠I’ve seen @vincebyron out cold several times with a full face helmet on, the last gnarly one resulted in blood seeping out of his nose and ears.
🧠 @davemirra crushed his face through his full face helmet one year at a contest.
🧠I myself have had a few concussions where I had a seizure and my heart stopped, all while wearing a helmet.
🙏🏼 That said, this isn’t a post advocating for not wearing a helmet. Very much the opposite and helmets serve an amazing tool for protecting our skull and mitigating issues if a head injury were to occur.
🙏🏼 This post is to understand the implications of hitting our heads. It takes time or it can be immediately.
🙌🏼 Part 2 from my trip to @doc_amen with @ryanplowery to get SPECT scans of our brains comes out Friday at 330pm EST!
Dr. Ali will be explaining this topic much more along with our scan results with exogenous @justpruvit ketones and without, what the scans mean, why we are the way we are, and how we can change our brains with and without exogenous ketones.
🤔Comment any questions or concerns and I’ll do a LIVE to answer those questions.🤗
For those that don’t know, or didn’t see my posts about this, I took about 6 months off from BMX before my follow-up SPECT scan with @doc_amen in October.
I did this for 3 reasons:
1) for my own health.
2) to not have any issues with the research we’re doing involving exogenous ketones (@justpruvit) and how our brains are in fact able to be changed in a positive manner. Even for someone like myself with a past of many TBI’s and multiple brain tumors that came with surgery, treatments, and mental health battles.
3) to focus more on the changes I’ve been pursuing in my life to create an entirely new reality that I’m seeing manifest more and more everyday.
To be honest, I don’t miss it much.
That said, I still love BMX. I know I’ll pick it right back up. And I still think about it and envision riding all the time.
But, the itch to ride isn’t quite there. Mainly, because I don’t have any goals around BMX now that I’m not competing and don’t have any sponsor obligations.
The sponsorships and support I’ve acquired are built around me as a person, the value I’m providing, and the purpose in fulfilling.
If I want to ride, cool. If I don’t, that’s cool too.
It’ll be interesting to see how these next 5 months go and when that follow-up SPECT scan is complete.
I understand what Dave Mirra told me years ago when he retired when he said “Josh, my hearts just not in it anymore. I have nothing to prove. I have no goals within BMX. And, honestly, it’s not worth my or my family’s well being.”
I was confused thinking “but, Dave. You’re, Dave Mirra. How can you not ride”?
It’s all perspective and my perspective is one of gratitude for my past and all BMX has done for me. But, after 17 years on my bike, I’m excited to see where this new route and my efforts take me.
I’ll for sure ride again after the 6-month mark but to what degree, no clue.
It’s all love tho and I hope you’re all following exactly what you feel deep down.
I would complain about things in my life, let alone what was outside of my immediate and selfish perspective that I would then complain about.
I lived my life fueled by anger, spite, and on a mission to prove abusive people in my life wrong.
After many wake up calls (3 brain tumor diagnosis, my main bike sponsor dropping me out of the blue mid ACL recovery, multiple TBI’s, debt, etc.) I decided to stop making excuses for why I couldn’t do or have something I desired.
I then took accountability for my life and started making small shifts that led to massive changes.
I sacrificed what I had left after my sponsor giving me the boot and set myself on a path fueled by gratitude and love with a very clear reason as to WHY I was doing what I was doing.
That why was PURPOSE.
A purpose to help others reach their full potential with health, happiness, and success, without the suffering we choose upon ourselves.
The reality is, we all face some sort of shit in our lives.
Perspective is essential, tho!
It could always be worse.
Anyone reading this, especially from a smart phone, is winning.
The belief we choose about our life and limitations dictates our reality and we become a slave to external sources when we’re all incredibly capable of manifesting a life we belief we deserve.
What do YOU believe is the life YOU deserve and what are you willing to do for it?
Are you grateful for what’s not yet manifested in your life? Not just what you have now, but what you desire in the future.
A desire sets the plan but gratitude, the belief it’s possible, and non stop action is what manifests a desire into reality.
Something I’ve been more conscious to is the feeling of gratitude for moments I visualize in my future.
@the.holistic.psychologist and @drjoedispenza talk a lot about this and how if we’re able to visualize our future self where we want to be, doing what we are working for and really feeling that emotion, we can change our current state of emotion and plant that “seed” into our subconscious mind.
The power of this is truly remarkable. Try it!
1) Think of a goal you’re working on.
2) Visualize that moment in the future and how it really feels to be living that reality.
3) Write that scenario down and revisit this exercise and compare the feelings you write down, and anything else that comes to mind that can paint a vivid moment of that time.
4) Take it a step further and add some affirmations around manifesting that moment. The book “think & grow rich” chapters 1-5 have a detailed plan of how to take all of this and create a morning ritual/routine that I call my “morning manifesto” that takes you closer and closer to your goal(s) each day as you change your state of consciousness to one of gratitude.
After waking up, brushing my teeth, and going to the bathroom, I read my morning manifesto out loud to myself to start each of my days.
The subconscious programming that comes from this allows us to “prime” our minds for the day to exactly what we want to focus on rather than outside sources.
There may be a lot of resistance the first days trying this but stick to it until is just a part of your morning routine.
The difference in how you think & feel can be night and day. This leads to new and consistent actions.
Let me know what you think and if you’ve experienced gratitude for the now and what’s to come.
Not. Fat does NOT make us fat. If we’re talking the right context.
Here is an easy filling dinner consisting of a bunch of non-starchy & fibrous veggies, quality protein, and lots of delicious fats.
If you want to burn body fat, you gotta eat healthy fats while getting rid of the crap foods.
I was conditioned by mainstream media and education to think fat was bad for our heart health and would make us fat.
What I had to dig deep to learn on my own was far from what I was being told and sold.
In the pretense of whole foods, lowering carbohydrate and sugar consumption, and eliminating toxins and stress as much as we can, fat is an integral part of brain and overall health.
Fat is critical for brain health in general.
Where fat gets a bad wrap is when people confuse dietary fat with the following:
1. unhealthy body fat as a result from poor lifestyle choices.
2. the combination of excessive fat consumption along with excessive carbohydrate and sugar consumption.
3. fat combined with processed food and sugar intake, which the latter is toxic no matter what its combined with or not.
4. tom foolery marketing backed by sugar companies claiming that fat is bad.
5. false propaganda for different dietary theories claiming that fat and cholesterol destroy our health and they we need “heart healthy” whole grains.
Can you name any more reasons why people believe fat to be evil?
In the past, I would make decisions by the short term gain vs loss.
I used to be crippled to the lack of money I had and my choices would be dictated by the fear of “not having enough”. That meant I missed out on seeing a lot of my family and friends a lot of the time because although I was laser focused on my BMX career, and successful, I wasn’t making much more money than my basic needs.
I’ve learned that was a simple perspective piece based on past subconscious programming that manifested this past relationship with money.
Today, I’ve thrown out the mentality of being limited by what’s in my bank account, not being to manifest more than “average”, and have swapped it out for the belief we live based on the limits we believe in for ourselves.
I’ve taken massive risks over the years, gone all in on what I believe in today, and made choices based on what’s best for my long game and my soul.
Taking the money I have after basic living needs is usually saved up to reinvest back in my business.
This time, I wanted to use that money for the people I love, now that my belief system is one of love, health, happiness, success, and abundance.
It’s always been a dream of mine to fly in with no notice to surprise my family and best friend (Brandon) and take Brandon and my dad to a Celtics game.
I was able to do that a few weeks ago and it was a byproduct of my belief and hard work for the life I envision.
