Dr. Vonda Wright

Top of brain thinking, every little bit counts. And so in the 30 years of my medical career, it's gone from just learning more about performance science of how to train to how to feed people to how to recover people. So instead of doing, for instance, I think Dara Torres was talking about her Olympic runs in her 40s, right? She trained much differently when she was 24.

Top of brain thinking, every little bit counts. And so in the 30 years of my medical career, it's gone from just learning more about performance science of how to train to how to feed people to how to recover people. So instead of doing, for instance, I think Dara Torres was talking about her Olympic runs in her 40s, right? She trained much differently when she was 24.

And in her 40s, after she had had a child, it was much more about recovery, not as much hours in a pool. So I take all those things that we've learned over the course of my career and now apply them not only to athletes, but to people like you and me who were in high performance jobs. I need to be tip top in every sphere of my life as you do.

And in her 40s, after she had had a child, it was much more about recovery, not as much hours in a pool. So I take all those things that we've learned over the course of my career and now apply them not only to athletes, but to people like you and me who were in high performance jobs. I need to be tip top in every sphere of my life as you do.

And how do we eat better, recover better, take the principles of performance that we've learned from athletes into high performers and even mere mortal athletes like me?

And how do we eat better, recover better, take the principles of performance that we've learned from athletes into high performers and even mere mortal athletes like me?

You know, I am not a brain scientist myself, but I am fortunate to be surrounded by people who are expert in that. So from my own perspective, I've come to appreciate at a much deeper level personally, as well as professionally, the role of sleep. In fact, We've talked about my previous books from the early 2000s before. And when I wrote those books, mobility was king. I wrote only about mobility.

You know, I am not a brain scientist myself, but I am fortunate to be surrounded by people who are expert in that. So from my own perspective, I've come to appreciate at a much deeper level personally, as well as professionally, the role of sleep. In fact, We've talked about my previous books from the early 2000s before. And when I wrote those books, mobility was king. I wrote only about mobility.

And then as I progressed in my career, I got deeper, deeper, deeper into nutrition. And then I would say, okay, nutrition is number one and mobility is second. But at this phase of evolution of sleep science and knowing how restoring the brain and providing adequate time and nutrients

And then as I progressed in my career, I got deeper, deeper, deeper into nutrition. And then I would say, okay, nutrition is number one and mobility is second. But at this phase of evolution of sleep science and knowing how restoring the brain and providing adequate time and nutrients

I put sleep first, sleep and recovery first, because you can't do any of these other things without a well-recovered brain. In fact, somebody asked me the other day, about timing of working out and is it always necessary to do it in the morning? Like that's the mantra, get up, go do your workout. And my answer to that was, you have to know how your brain works.

I put sleep first, sleep and recovery first, because you can't do any of these other things without a well-recovered brain. In fact, somebody asked me the other day, about timing of working out and is it always necessary to do it in the morning? Like that's the mantra, get up, go do your workout. And my answer to that was, you have to know how your brain works.

For instance, my brain is best between 5 a.m. and 2 p.m. That is when I'm going to get all my deep work done. I'm going to be creative. I'm going to think. After 2 p.m., I could build you a house. I can continue operating. But if I'm going to write a book, it's going to be early. So I do not work out in the morning because I'm not going to waste that brain energy.

For instance, my brain is best between 5 a.m. and 2 p.m. That is when I'm going to get all my deep work done. I'm going to be creative. I'm going to think. After 2 p.m., I could build you a house. I can continue operating. But if I'm going to write a book, it's going to be early. So I do not work out in the morning because I'm not going to waste that brain energy.

on physical activity when I need it for this deep work. So that's the way I apply brain science. But I'm so lucky to be surrounded in the place I am now with people who put EEGs on your head and map your brain and tell you which brain pathways you're too stressful on and which brain pathways we can train. And you can train the physical brain like a muscle.

on physical activity when I need it for this deep work. So that's the way I apply brain science. But I'm so lucky to be surrounded in the place I am now with people who put EEGs on your head and map your brain and tell you which brain pathways you're too stressful on and which brain pathways we can train. And you can train the physical brain like a muscle.

Yeah, so there's this company called Nestri that I just happen to have access to and they put EEG helmets on my precision longevity clients and we map their brains and look at For instance, here's an example. Things that are habitual take very little brain energy.

Yeah, so there's this company called Nestri that I just happen to have access to and they put EEG helmets on my precision longevity clients and we map their brains and look at For instance, here's an example. Things that are habitual take very little brain energy.

Even if we need a lot of brain energy, they become so habitual, our brain turns away energy from them versus things we're learning or things we're stressed about. We devote so much energy to that. So once this company maps our brains, then they have this

Even if we need a lot of brain energy, they become so habitual, our brain turns away energy from them versus things we're learning or things we're stressed about. We devote so much energy to that. So once this company maps our brains, then they have this