Gary Johnson exercises, doesn’t drink, and “is an extremely physically fit and healthy 63-year-old male,” Johnson’s physician said in a letter released Friday.

“Obviously, his decades of dedication to physical fitness, diet, no drinking, and no smoking have paid dividends as far as his current extraordinarily good health at this time of his life,” wrote Dr. Lyle B. Amer of Santa Fe, New Mexico about Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee and former New Mexico governor.

Amer’s letter also contradicts a common perception of Johnson: that the ardent critic of the drug war smokes marijuana.

Amer writes Johnson “doesn’t smoke,” and the letter makes no mention of marijuana use.

In a follow-up interview, spokesman Joe Hunter clarified: “He does not smoke marijuana. And he does not use marijuana at all now. The rare and more recent use so widely reported was an ‘edible,'” Hunter said, using a term for a marijuana-infused food item.

Johnson, according to the letter, is not taking any medications, has followed a gluten-free diet for the past five years, exercises regularly, does not complain of any pain anywhere and has not drunk alcohol since 1987.

Running for president seems to have cut into one element of Johnson’s health regime. According to Amer’s letter, Johnson exercises an hour a day, down from two hours before he jumped into the 2016 presidential race.

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