Episode 165: Michael Michaelides – Stories from the Open Forum, What is ‘Optimal Health?’, and is the water you’re drinking making you sick?

Update: 2025-02-02

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Michael Michaelides – (IG: @mfmlides, FB: @michael.michaelides.3) is a highly accomplished golf professional, coach, entrepreneur and wellness consultant. In golf circles he is widely known as co-creator of golf’s leading coaching seminar, the ‘Open Forum’. But he is also a successful entrepreneur through his wellness consulting business, Spartan Sports & Wellness, where he overcame his own health issues and now looks to help others. He is also an expert in hydrogen water, also known as Kagen water, and the benefits it is providing people in their health and wellness journey. By providing so much value you can see why he’s identified as one of golf’s renaissance men.

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