Show Notes
Thirty minutes after the biggest relief of his life, Dylan Gemelli found out his apartment was being ransacked, with half a kilo of cocaine in the safe.
A leading voice in fitness and biohacking, Dylan has over 1.5 million Instagram followers and a podcast that hit #1 in Health and Fitness in October 2025.
He shares how he got caught, what prison did to his character, and the moment his Mom asked him a question on a collect call that broke him open.
Then the conversation turns to hormones. Anabolic steroids versus TRT, why free testosterone can matter more than total, the sperm count issue many men on testosterone don't see coming, and the oral testosterone option that changes the math.
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You'll learn:
[0:00] Introduction [0:52] Dylan’s apartment ransacked 30 minutes after the biggest relief ever [9:13] What prison is actually like versus what the movies sell [21:05] Prison as the biggest investment Dylan ever made [32:54] Verbal abuse in prison fuels the revolving door [36:02] Teaching safer steroid use to a million YouTube subscribers [46:06] COVID in bed and the lightbulb moment that birthed Dylan’s podcast [49:50] SARMs were built to fight muscle wasting before bodybuilders found them [54:27] Bringing testosterone to normal levels is not cheating [1:05:56] My emasculating sperm count and the testosterone connection [1:17:04] How much credence your blood work actually deserves [1:23:29] Mind and spirit come before diet and training [1:36:17] Environmental orthorexia and feeling the world is trying to kill you [1:42:46] The peptide Wild West and the Ozempic skeleton aesthetic [1:54:44] Building the biggest wellness conglomerate ever
Resources mentioned:
NASM | Website STEMREGEN | Website Boundless Life | Podcast CAROL Bike | Website EWOT | Website Dr. Daniel Amen | Website Dave Asprey | Website Kevin Trudeau | Website Ben Azadi | Website ZYN | Website
Full show notes at lukestorey.com/gemelli
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