The Metabolic Health Series
Three essays on the three capacities that make up metabolic health: the ability to regulate energy, the ability to recover from stress, and the ability to preserve functionality.
The framework underneath the series is laid out in the capstone essay, What Is Metabolic Health and Who Has It?
Food Beyond Calories
The Ability to Regulate Energy
Food is information. Macronutrient tolerance is metabolic capacity, and capacity can be trained — but it has to be measured first.
Training Beyond Power
The Ability to Recover From Stress
Intensity is a dose. Recovery is what turns that dose into adaptation. Two scoreboards, read together.
Fitness Beyond Performance
The Ability to Preserve Functionality
The functional human is the person whose body still gives them choices. That is what functionality really means: preserved options.