176: Is Constant Snacking Secretly Slowing Your Performance?

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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