Aaron Rodgers says 'applied medicine' has allowed him to see more clearly in his life, NFL career - Yahoo Sports

Over the past fewer years, the satellite has gotten to cognize much of Green Bay Packers backmost Aaron Rodgers than astatine the opening of his NFL career.

Love it oregon hatred it, Rodgers has go much of an unfastened publication – and we don't mean conscionable with his recommendations done the "Aaron Rodgers Book Club" during his appearances connected "The Pat McAfee Show."

A batch of his freeness and caller mindset, helium says, comes down to a question the 39-year-old pondered much lately.

"Who americium I extracurricular of the fig 12 you spot connected the field?" Rodgers said from his California location Tuesday connected McAfee's show, his go-to outlet each week during the NFL play the past 3 years.

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And what has helped him successful getting an answer?

"Applied medicine has allowed maine to spot clearly," Rodgers said arsenic helium chatted with McAfee for a last clip pursuing the 2022 season, portion mostly discussing his NFL aboriginal passim the hour.

Rodgers could partake successful ayahuasca ritual again aft deciding whether he'll play successful 2023

Rodgers, of course, is referring to ayahuasca, a plant-based psychedelic, that helium turned to for helping his intelligence state. Before this past play portion making the podcast rounds, he credited ayahuasca for his MVP seasons successful 2020 and 2021. He failed to conscionable those standards successful 2022, though helium told McAfee connected Tuesday he feels similar helium tin beryllium an MVP subordinate successful the close situation. Hallucinogens person nary accepted aesculapian uses successful the U.S.

Rodgers, who called himself a "hippie" connected Tuesday, has said successful the past that helium volition apt beryllium called again to usage ayahuasca, which helium does successful Peru, since the cause is banned successful the U.S. But Packers fans should person an reply astir the 2023 play earlier helium takes portion successful different ayahuasca ritual, helium said.

"There won’t beryllium different sitting and ceremonial earlier the decision, I tin archer you that," Rodgers said, laughing. "Perhaps after."

Personal and nonrecreational experiences led to Aaron Rodgers' caller outlook connected life

He said a fig of idiosyncratic and nonrecreational experiences "triggered" this response. It started successful 2017 aft Rodgers broke his collarbone aboriginal successful the season, wherever for the archetypal time, helium "felt the separation from the team."

"There was immoderate heavy contemplation," Rodgers said, starring him to inquire himself "who americium I without football, who americium I without the game?" Another wounded followed during a tumultuous 2018 season. Rodgers said his calling toward "applied medicine," arsenic helium called it, has led him to look astatine the satellite otherwise to find "balance and contentment without shot being the identity" of his life.

"I've done a batch of enactment to marque that modulation (after football) easier," said Rodgers, who conscionable finished his 18th NFL season. "Thankful for those lessons, learning much astir myself astir who I americium extracurricular of fig 12 for the Green Bay Packers."

Aaron Rodgers successful pondering status and his post-NFL interests: 'a batch of different things' instrumentality his time

Rodgers added his caller attack to beingness and vocation has allowed him to bash "things my ain way," and amusement "different sides of my property highlighting that I'm not conscionable a robotic, repeating 1 way single-minded, zero-balanced athlete."

Rodgers said helium inactive finds "a batch of joyousness and contentment" successful shot but helium believes he's acceptable himself up for his post-NFL life.

"I'm besides funny successful a batch of different things," Rodgers said. "A batch of different things instrumentality my time. Although you mightiness not ever capable that large competitory spread completely. Like I said, astatine immoderate constituent the carousel stops and it's clip to get off. ... you person to beryllium acceptable for that."

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Aaron Rodgers says 'it pays to beryllium immunized' erstwhile discussing COVID again with Pat McAfee

A week aft his play ended abbreviated of the playoffs, Rodgers said helium mostly avoided immoderate large issues successful 2022, though helium fought done a breached digit helium suffered against the New York Giants successful London.

Then Rodgers sarcastically went backmost to 1 of his go-to topics successful caller years: COVID-19.

"I avoided immoderate of the large issues similar COVID toed and immoderate different stuff," Rodgers said with a grin. "After I went done the wintertime of decease and survived, everything since past has been easy. I'm truly thankful. Who tin accidental they person won MVP of COVID? We had 2 years of COVID, and that's the years I was MVP and I dealt with COVID toe and I’m a COVID survivor. I conjecture it pays to beryllium immunized."

Rodgers made waves for implying helium was vaccinated against COVID-19 during the 2021 play by saying helium was "immunized." Rodgers, of course, was not vaccinated against COVID, later contracted the microorganism during the play and had to miss a game, portion losing a sponsor on the way for promoting the unproven attraction of ivermectin.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Aaron Rodgers talks applied medicine, caller mindset connected Pat McAfee Show