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In short, REM sleep enhances our emotional intelligence, a key piece of the puzzle in the evolution of humans.

load, making it a highly useful tool for coaches.17 Using a daily wellness score, athletes are asked to rate their subjective feelings on a scale of 1–5 for the following five factors: fatigue, sleep quality, general muscle soreness, stress levels, and mood.

More mitochondria, means more oxygen—a big win for endurance athletes! Research is still in the early days—all the studies being done in mice, not humans—but this could be the next wave of supplements.

The human genome, by contrast, only has approximately 24,000 genes. Interestingly, you share about 99.5 percent of the same DNA as the person sitting next to you, but only about 10 percent of the same gut microbiota species.

If your confidence isn’t delusional, it’s likely contingent on something. This is when your sense of self-assurance is dependent on something in particular. In elite athletes, it’s typically the fact that they are the “all-star” and everyone around them recognizes them as such. Eric Barker warns about the perils of having your happiness so tightly

by simply adding more relaxing activities into their lives: breath work, light stretching, meditation, float tanks, and the like. Anything to increase parasympathetic activity can help address the root cause of sympathetic dominance and yield impressive results for a dysfunctional gut.

“The Expert-Generalist: A Contradiction Whose Time Has Come” and concluded, “The expert-generalist would benefit both the quality of the patient experience and the bottom line.”2 The prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ)

genome (which takes generations to adapt). Like the operating system on your laptop, your microbiome plays a fundamental role in your body’s own operating system. Without it, your health and performance will crash when faced with the challenges of new environments and stressors.

Pressure is a privilege.