
176: Is Constant Snacking Secretly Slowing Your Performance?
From Breaking Boundaries for Champions by Jeffrey Mort
May 19, 2026 · 17 min · Season 5 · Episode 176
About this episode
The episode challenges the belief that constant snacking is beneficial, discussing its negative effects on performance in motorsports.
Click to Send us a text! We challenge the idea that constant snacking boosts metabolism and explain how all-day grazing can keep insulin elevated and slowly erode energy, focus, and recovery in motorsports. We translate insulin resistance into real race-day consequences and lay out a clearer plan for meal rhythm, testing, and metabolic flexibility. • why “always fed” habits can create subtle crashes and brain fog • what insulin does and how chronic elevation leads to insulin resis...
People in this episode
Host: Jeffrey Mort
Topics covered
- snacking
- metabolism
- insulin resistance
- energy
- focus
- recovery
- meal rhythm
Keywords
- snacking
- metabolism
- insulin
- energy
- focus
- recovery
- motorsports
- meal rhythm
- insulin resistance
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