As I’ve often joked, I traveled more in the prior 9 months than I had in the prior 9 YEARS.
So…
After I got back from a recent Top Secret trip to Europe to work with some of the most elite athletes in the world, I was FIRED UP to take a breath and catch up on some reading while the team continues to forge an antifragile business.
So…
I read about 15 books in around 20 days.
😲 🤯 !!!!
Yes. That’s like me.
It was AWESOME.
I binged on two separate domains: mental toughness/peak performance books and nutrition/energy/longevity books.
The mental toughness/peak performance feast included: Uncommon by Mark Divine, Changing Your Story by Bill Beswick, Pressure by Geir Jordet, The Captain Class by Sam Walker, The Pressure Principle by Dave Alred, Failing Forward by John Maxwell, Belonging by Owen Eastwood, and The Gouge by Admiral Bob Harward.
😲 🤯 !!!
The nutrition/energy/longevity wisdom feast included: Change Your Diet Change Your Mind by Georgia Ede (my NEW all-time favorite nutrition book, btw!), Forever Young by Gabrielle Lyon, Metabolical by Robert Lustig, Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter, Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, Good Energy by Casey Means, and Outlive by Peter Attia.
😲 🤯 !!!
Notes on all of those coming soon. Can’t wait to share.
But that’s not quite the point of this +1.
This is…
As part of my 90-day sabbatical from travel, I decided to go NEXT level in all things Energy.
I got a continuous glucose monitor, a blood panel, a DEXA scan, and a VO2 max test.
And…
I’ve been having a LOT of fun experimenting with a LOT of variables as I set some (very) Big Goals to go next, next, next level with my Energy as I do my best to help YOU do the same so we can make 2025 THE greatest year of our lives.
🥼 🧪!!!
So…
As part of that experimentation, last weekend I went out to dinner with the family and I deliberately ate stuff I wouldn’t usually eat. And.. I made SURE I had a “normal” dessert to see what it did to my glucose and HRV, etc.
And…
Check this out…
As I shared via Heroic social…
My RHR went up almost 20% (!) (from 42 to 50!) from the night before and my HRV went down over 60% (!!!) (from 62 to 28!) from the prior night.
FROM ONE MEAL. 😳
To be clear…
THAT’S CRAZY.
My continuous glucose monitor data was even more crazy. Will share that soon.
Now…
It’s fascinating to see this data.
It’s exciting for me to see so I can continue to optimize AND it’s heartbreaking to imagine how many people are unknowingly DESTROYING their metabolic functioning and putting themselves at risk for chronic diseases.
We’ll be talking about this a LOT more in all the Notes coming soon but we’ve gotta know that these little things matter.
The chronic diseases that are currently plaguing our society don’t show up all of a sudden.
They show up on the other side of DECADES of little meals like the one I had.
And…
That’s Today’s +1…
And choose wisely.
TODAY.
P.S. The morning after I had that crazy “normal” meal, I might have hammered a sunrise workout to get all that extra glucose out of my body followed by the sauna and a little cold plunge.
P.P.S. Pro tip: If you DO happen to go a bit off the rails and eat a lot of excess refined carbs, a post-meal workout is a great way to vacuum up that extra glucose circulating in your bloodstream!
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