Be Well: Styles P Talks Healthier Living and Wellness Businesses

<div class="block">Rapper and wellness entrepreneur Styles P joined &#39;beWell&#39; to talk about his second career in promoting healthier living. He owns a string of wellness businesses ranging from juice bars to supplement shops and focuses on improving health in minority communities. </div>

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Styles. B you went from singing. It's all about the Meins baby to now you're making Benjamin's with Pharmacy for Life. Talk to me about why you decided to transition into health and wellness. Uh being in being in music business for a long time. And um I was fortunate enough to move to a more affluent neighborhood and seeing that I kind of understood what neighborhood is like where I originally came from LA. So that, that kind of forced me to go into the juice business. We have five locations of juices for life. So once we see people gravitating to juicing, juicing up fruits and veggies, um I have a beautiful smart wife, thank God for her. She was like, we need to take it to the next level and introduce people to what we use and what we have in our medicine cabinet and a lot of poor people. Um People from misfortunate places, poverty places don't have health insurance. Uh They don't go to the doctor enough, so we just try to influence them to practice is um preventative measures. Now, how would you say that your supplement shop differs from some of the other ones that are on the market. Well, our, our supplement shop differs because everything's plant based, everything's organic and we, we focus on people understanding. Um, we don't not question medicine. We don't, we're not, we're not against it, but we try to tell people this works along with a healthy diet. Uh, instead of waiting until you feel bad, attack it before you feel bad, uh, bring balance to your lifestyle. Ok. Well, for some people who may not know about some of the supplements that are good for us, what would you say are uh a good place to start an injury supplement for? I would say black seed oil you see is takes, takes out excess mucus exit is good for your brain function. Good for your bones, good for acne, good for diabetes, good for high blood pressure, anti cancer properties, good for skin issues. So that's if there was one supplement that I always would have to take that, that would be that. How, how often should you take something like I take it? I take it 34 times out of the week. Really. Um Besides our supplements, not just our supplements. Um I tell people with even what other supplements they take, whether it's vitamin C BT zinc. Uh You wanna trick your body, you don't wanna get used to the same routine. So I'll take black seed oil, oil or oregano, sea moss for one week. Next week. I'm on the elder and zinc. So, what? Vitamin C, something different. It's like a workout. You have, you have to switch it up or your body will get too used to it. And some people don't know when to switch up, they say, oh, oh, well, you know, the natural fruits and stuff are a way to get some of these and then some people have pills and then some people have the liquid. That's the best form to get some of these. I, I think it's the best form for one person in particular. I think it's about a person learning their own body, learning how they feel what works for them. Um, going through trials and tribulations. What I feel is a great thing to do is try to keep a little, um, whether you go on your phone and your notes or you at home, keeping a, keep a personal journal of what you took and how you felt when you was taking it. Like what works better for you. It's like, it's, it's the same thing as foods. You know what your favorite foods are, you know, when you wanna eat them, when you wanna have them, you have to apply the same thing with, with, with supplements, herbs, oils, fruits and veggies. Just figure out what works for you and what's the best and, um, go about it that way. Everybody is different. Yeah. Well, I know a lot of people will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip hop. So they may definitely need to some of these to recover. But as a, a legend in the industry, as a member of the locks, what would you say was the most memorable time from hip hop for you? Um That's hard to say my, my, I've been fortunate enough to have a uh a long, long career, the Locks. We had a long career. Uh I would say the Grammys though the Grammy doing this year with the Grammys with so many um greats that came before me and just seeing all the greats in the building at one time was definitely a high point in my career, right? Styles Pete, appreciate you bringing us to your pharmacy for life. Thank you.