The Unhealthy Pursuit Of Optimal Health

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This episode discusses the obsession with health optimisation in modern culture and its implications.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Midlife Mentors we’re talking about health optimisation. Today we find ourselves living in a obsessive health optimisation culture where we're tracking our sleep, monitoring our HRV, counting steps, taking supplements, cold plunging, fasting and trying to optimise every aspect of our lives. Twenty years ago most people just wanted to lose a bit of weight and feel healthier. Today, health has become a performance metric. And yet despite having mo...

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Host: The Midlife Mentors

Topics covered

• health optimisation
• obsessive culture
• performance metrics
• wellness
• self improvement

Keywords

• health optimisation
• sleep tracking
• HRV
• supplements
• fasting

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