Field Notes:
Performance Medicine Physician Coach’s notes on the evidence of human optimization.
Field Notes is the clinical record of what actually works in human performance optimization…And what the wellness industry gets wrong about it.
Every post here is written by Will King-Lewis MD FAAFP, a board-certified Family Medicine Physician, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and US Navy Senior Medical Officer responsible for the health and performance of 3,500 sailors.
I am a Sustainable Performance Coach creating a new fiduciary standard in personal performance coaching to ensure that your performance is grounded in evidence and designed to help you for the life. The standard applied to every recommendation here is the same one applied in his clinical practice, the Fiduciary Standard.
I read the study, check the sample size, find the conflict of interest, and ask who funded it. If the evidence is strong, you will hear that. If it is limited, you will hear that too. If something is overhyped, you will hear exactly why. Even if that means going against the grain and not recommending the newest hotness, or other popular, profitable, and aggressively marketed wellness junk.
That is what the MD means. That is what Field Notes is.
Finally, Executive & Leadership Coaching with Real Medical Credibility and Rigor
Leadership Coaching With Medical Credibility and Rigor. Medical credibility in coaching is not a credential to display. It is a standard of practice that changes how recommendations are made, evaluated, and revised.
Spent: The Performance DRAINS That Makes Refills Longer and Longer
Spent is the performance DRAINS that makes refills take longer and longer. The tank empties. You recover. It empties again faster. That is not tired. That is spent.
Performance Coaching That Doesn't Push Supplements
Most performance coaching comes with something to sell you. A physician explains why the supplement on the back end is a conflict of interest, and what coaching held to a fiduciary standard looks like instead.
Avalanche: The Performance DRAIN That Buries You in Your Own Backlog
Field Notes header image for the Avalanche post by Will King-Lewis MD FAAFP. White bold title text on deep navy background reads: Avalanche: The Performance DRAIN That Buries You in Your Own Backlog. Subheadline reads: This is not one hard thing. This is everything, compounded past the point your system can manage it. Field Notes, SustainablePerformanceMD.com.
The Hawthorne Effect
A Field Notes, the SPMD Blog, post title slide on a blog post about The Hawthorne Effect which is how anything measured is aleady subject to change by the act of measuring it. A physician explains why this matters for every fitness tracker, sleep score, and performance metric you are using.
The U.S. supplement industry generated $69 billion last year.
Blog post image of the post title the full $69,000,000,000 in serif so the zeros do the work, the calibrated rule with the one displaced node, and "120 federal cases. Not one fiduciary duty." beneath it.
Why I Built Sustainable Performance MD
Blog post title slide Why I Built SustainablePerformanceMD on Field Notes the SustainablePerformanceMD Blog made by Will King-Lewis MD FAAFP