Josh Duhamel revealed that he experiences a sense of physical relief immediately after leaving Hollywood behind for his remote heartland cabin.The 53-year-old actor maintains a home in Los Angeles but has shifted most of his life to the Midwest in recent years.Duhamel's primary residence is now in Fargo, North Dakota, but he often escapes an hour and a half away to his 50-acre off-grid cabin retreat in the woods of Minnesota.During a recent appearance on Dana Carvey and David Spade's "Fly on the Wall" podcast, the "Transformers" star opened up about how cabin life has impacted his health and spirit.JOSH DUHAMEL SAYS HE'S 70% READY TO SURVIVE AN APOCALYPSE AT HIS MINNESOTA 'DOOMSDAY CABIN'"What I think I love the most about it is I just get out there and my heart rate drops about 25%," Duhamel shared.Josh Duhamel opened up about the physical relief he feels at his off-grid Minnesota cabin after leaving Hollywood.
(Tiffany Rose/Getty Images; Josh Duhamel Instagram)"My priorities change too," he continued."I feel like I have purpose.""I'm always working on something where I don't even mow my own lawn here," Duhamel added."It's just absolute freedom out there."AMANDA SEYFRIED BAILS ON 'TRICKY' HOLLYWOOD FOR QUIET FARM LIFEDuhamel said his "heart rate drops about 25%" when he arrives at his rustic retreat. (Jason Howard/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)Duhamel went on to detail how he built the property from the ground up after first purchasing the land almost 17 years ago."I bought like a little half a parcel for 12 acres for like nothing," he recalled.
"And then the other half of that parcel went up for sale.""Then I had then 26 acres with a little shack of a cabin with no electricity, no water, but it was a cabin," Duhamel continued."It was a structure.
I got a cabin.I'm not going to sleep there with the rats or the mice or the raccoons.
And then the one next to that went up for sale."COUNTRY SINGER CHRIS JANSON 'FINDS GOD' HUNTING AND FISHING IN THE GREAT OUTDOORSThe "L...