Certain prescription medications, if used appropriately and tailored to a patient’s unique physiology psychology, can play an important role in a holistic health plan.

Having a methodical, yet minimalist strategy to gauge your physical recovery from training can teach you to bring the careful balance between stress and rest into all aspects of your life.

“Eat more fruits and vegetables” is perhaps the safest maxim in a complex dietary landscape. But fruits and vegetables are not the same. Lumping them together is a crude public health messaging strategy.

A holistic combination of performance, physiological, biochemical, and psychological variables would seem to be the ideal strategy.

I remain wondrous but wary of wearables. Certain metrics provide marvelous insights. Yet over-quantifying your physiology risks messing with your psychology.

Part 1 of 3—Recovery status is function of multiple inputs, influenced by both your physiology and your psychology. Let’s consider the mountain of metrics that could be potential inputs in a recovery assessment.

Movement is medicine. And what most people really need is a fitness prescription with a lifetime of refills.

The keys to health and longevity are not complicated. What we now call a “healthy lifestyle” was once part in parcel of our survival as a species. And this healthy lifestyle demands self-discipline.

Is technology polluting fitness? Are we losing touch with the amazing dialogue we innately have with our bodies?

You need to experience stress to improve in any domain of life. The challenge is how to proactively devise, apply, and increase adaptive stimuli and balance the ensuing stress with efficient recovery to make incremental and sustainable progress towards your life vision and goals. Welcome to Performance Medicine!

Given its power to help minimize the deleterious effects of the virus, ameliorate our symptoms, and expedite recovery times, regular exercise must be a central tenant of a comprehensive risk reduction strategy in the COVID era.