Break Free From the System & Choose Your Own Adventure
Welcome to the community for the mavericks, the misfits, and the visionaries who refuse to settle for the ordinary. If you're tired of fitting into a mold and ready to carve your own path, this is your tribe.
Join us as we explore unconventional stories and the fearless pursuit of living life on your own terms.
It's time to break free and choose your own adventure!
Dr. David Heitmann DC, MS
30 years of experience in health and wellness
Personally treated over 10,000 patients
Medical director of 12 sports teams
Directed policy for hospitals and corporations
AI and Digital Health Architect since 2019
I refused to keep living trapped by the same broken health system that nearly burned me out, so I rebuilt myself—body, mind, and business—from the inside out. Along the way, I ran a 100-mile ultra, reversed a rare metabolic condition, and uncovered frameworks to extend not just lifespan but healthspan. With 30+ years in functional medicine and a track record guiding high-performers, I cut through noise with data, evidence, and lived proof. This isn’t influencer hype—it’s an invitation to join someone who’s walked the fire and knows the way forward.
Books by Dr. Dave Heitmann – Energy, Longevity & Human Potential
Dr. Dave Heitmann’s books explore the future of energy, healthspan, and human evolution
Combining science, storytelling, and lived experience, each work offers a practical framework for thriving longer, performing better, and understanding where humanity is headed.
Cybersapien: The Last Days of Homo Sapiens
How AI, Genetics, and Quantum Science Will Rewrite the Human Story
What happens when DNA stops being biology and starts becoming code?
In the next 50 years, AI, genetic engineering, and quantum science will split humanity in two—erasing Homo sapiens and giving rise to a new species: the Cybersapiens.
Energy Buckets: The Longevity Code
A Practical System for Flow, Focus, and Thriving Longer
Time isn’t the limiter—your energy is.
The Energy Bucket Method shows you how to refill what drains you, stack simple habits in 30/90-day cycles, and turn sustainable flow into longer healthspan—without fads, guilt, or influencer noise.
Catalyst Journal
Your 90-Day Playbook for Energy and Impact
Designed for busy entrepreneurs, this journal fuses science and structure to help you unlock energy, sharpen focus, and finally feel in control of your days. With the Energy Bucket Method, personalized 90-day planning, and daily accountability tools, you’ll transform burnout into unstoppable momentum.
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If health is a journey, here are your roadmaps.
You don’t need more noise; you need maps.
These episodes trace the intersections of AI, genetics, and longevity—where human potential meets the code of life.
Each conversation is a breadcrumb, pointing the way toward a longer, sharper, more intentional healthspan.
Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI: Dr. Dave on Longevity, Aging & AI
From reversing aging to personal AI health coaches, Dr. Dave shares how technology and mindset are reshaping the future of healthspan.
Most people accept aging as inevitable — but what if it isn’t? Dr. Dave reveals how AI, genetics, and digital health tools are converging to extend not just lifespan, but healthspan, giving us a future where staying young, strong, and sovereign is within reach.
Will Your Bathroom Replace Your Primary Care Doctor?
Dr. Dave Heitmann on AI, personalized relevance, and the bathroom technologies reshaping the future of healthcare.
Your toilet, your mirror, your scale — in the near future, they’ll know more about your health than your doctor does. In this podcast, Dr. Dave Heitmann explains how AI, wearables, and bathroom sensors are transforming healthcare from annual snapshots to real-time relevance. What happens when your bathroom becomes the front line of preventative medicine?
From Burnout to Breakthrough: Human Performance, AI, and the Future of Health
Dr. Dave Heitmann on Irreverent Health: Energy Buckets, Epigenetics, and Why Healthcare is Broken
What happens when a former semi-pro football player, sports medicine director, and burned-out doctor rebuilds his life with AI, genetics, and a school bus? Dr. Dave Heitmann shares his raw story of collapse and comeback, revealing how the Energy Bucket Method, epigenetics, and data-driven health can add 20 years of productive healthspan. This isn’t influencer hype — it’s a roadmap for entrepreneurs and high-performers who refuse to settle for the broken healthcare system.
More roadmaps on Habit Hacks, Energy, and Vitality
A day-to-day guide to preventing and surviving injury
Dr. Dave Heitmann on Injury, resilience, and reprogramming your body for performance and longevity.
Most people treat injuries like setbacks—but what if they were the doorway to becoming anti-fragile? In this episode, Dr. Dave unpacks how stress, recovery, and micro-programming in 90-day cycles can not only heal pain but unlock higher performance. From Patagonia trail tweaks to pro-athlete injuries, you’ll hear why embracing damage is the real secret to longevity and strength.
Health Hacks: Cold-plunges, Sauna, Creatine
Health hacks with substance: epigenetics explained, AI-powered personalization, and the daily rituals—cold plunges, sleep tuning, movement, light, and smart supplementation—that actually extend your healthspan.
Step inside a conversation where health hacks meet hard science. In this Headspace Live episode, Dr. Dave Heitmann unpacks the real power of epigenetics—how your daily choices reprogram gene expression—and why AI, wearables, and connected data streams are rewriting the future of health. From cold plunges, sleep optimization, and habit frameworks to personalized medicine that could replace your annual check-up, this dialogue explores what entrepreneurs and high-performers can do now to extend their healthspan, sharpen focus, and thrive longer. It’s not hype or influencer noise—it’s science, story, and lived experience reshaping how we think about human potential.
Fill Your Bucket, Find Your Edge: Dr. Dave’s Six Keys to Energy & Longevity
Dr. Dave Heitmann on six small levers, one big life: habits that quietly turn exhaustion into momentum.
Dr. Dave Heitmann shares his raw journey from fourth-grade dreams of football to professional burnout, bankruptcy, and rebuilding health with science, stoicism, and wearables. In this podcast, you’ll learn why energy is the true currency, how to fill your “six buckets” (sleep, fuel, movement, environment, nerves, mindset), and why data plus self-awareness beats any fad. Discover practical health hacks—blue-light limits, food timing, journaling, nose breathing—and the future of personalized wellness with devices like the Oura Ring and biometric apps. This is not another quick-fix diet chat; it’s a roadmap to reclaim energy, extend healthspan, and build resilience for entrepreneurs, athletes, and anyone tired of scraping the dust from an empty bucket.
From Broken Couch Potato to 100-mile Ultra Athlete
We tell ourselves we’ll start when life calms down—then life never does.
Here’s a different story:
A broken couch-potato declares a 100-mile desert run and uses the fear as a lever to rebuild sleep, strength, metabolism, and mindset.
It isn’t about medals or finish lines; it’s about healthspan—systems that compound, habits that outlast hype, and an identity sturdy enough to carry you at 85.
The race is just the proof of concept: setbacks become training data, data becomes confidence, and confidence becomes a life lived without regret.
If you’re ready to stop outsourcing your limits and start rewriting them, click in—this is where your next chapter starts.