EVERY JOB COMES with occupational hazards. And while EDM star Diplo isn’t worried about the flat butt office workers can get from sitting too long, working a set in Vegas at 3 a.m. and constant travel between gigs can take a toll on his health.
It’s why Diplo, who goes by Wes offstage, tells MH he’s recently shifted his priorities. Ten years ago, he was all about making money and living in the moment. Now it’s all about staying in peak shape. “What matters most is my health, my well-being,” he said in the cover interview for the Men’s Health summer issue. “I want to be here for as long as possible, making music for as long as possible.”
What does that look like for someone with as jam-packed a schedule as Diplo’s? He doesn’t drink when he’s on the job. He’s super into running, launching his own run club (he famously ran the Los Angeles Marathon high on LSD in under four hours) along with squeezing in a mix of fitness activities between travel. And…he goes to Bryan Johnson for health advice. Yes, that Bryan Johnson—the longevity figurehead on an infamous quest to live forever.
Turns out, Diplo and Bryan Johnson are good friends who talk all the time. Johnson recently left a 40-minute voice note recommending Diplo drink olive oil for better digestion and reminding him to sleep more. Because despite going all in on fitness, when it comes to sleep, the EDM artist only manages four hours a night. The abysmal data from his sleep tracker even led his team to question if he was dying.
“Bryan Johnson swears by this…Everything else he says is like whatever,” Diplo told MH during the interview. “It’s really the sleep [that’s] the most important thing. He does everything in his day to make sure the sleep happens.”
To Diplo’s credit, he is working on it. He drinks straight olive oil, the habit now built into his daily routine. As for sleep, he doesn’t like to talk about it much. But when he’s ready, Johnson is just a phone call away.
Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, MS is the associate health & fitness for Men’s Health and has previously written for CNN, Scientific American, Popular Science, and National Geographic before joining the brand. When she’s not working, she’s doing circus arts or working towards the perfect pull-up.
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