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.
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.
One of the hardest things you'll ever do in life is the completion of simple things
Title slide for a field notes, SPMD Blog, post on The Hardest Part of Sustained Performance which is a physician's clinical case for why repetition, not complexity, defeats most performance.
Resistance: The Performance DRAIN That Knows Exactly What It's Doing
Title slide for blog post by sustainable performance physician Will King-Lewis, MD, FAAFP on Resistance on of the DRAINS from SPMD
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.
What Wellness Accounts Won't Tell You Coffee…
image for field notes (SPMD Blog) post titled Coffee, Wine, and Polyphenols: What a New Aging Study Actually Proves
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.
Drift: The Performance DRAIN That Feels Like Work
blog post title slide Drift the most unproductive productivity at field notes the sustainableperformanceMD blog made by Will King-Lewis MD FAAFP
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