Episode 246: Winter Health - Building Resilience & Minimizing Risk of Sickness
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Tis the season to be jolly, but unfortunately tis also the season of sickness. Be it flu, cold, Covid, or RSV, everywhere you look you can see the signs of illness. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, the days are getting shorter, darker, and colder and all of the elements needed for a winter bug to spread are perfectly aligned.
So what can you do this holiday or postseason to avoid getting sidelined with the sniffles?
In this episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, Matt provides a game plan to help you build your resilience and bolster your immune system to avoid sickness or at least minimize the impact if you end up under the weather.
Matt offers insight into illness prevention through a coach's lens, using peer-reviewed research, and the expertise of medical and sporting professionals in his orbit.
He discusses supporting habits and best practices you can use to build up your defense, considerations in how to approach your training, and other tips and tricks to apply should you start to feel symptoms.
The three main topics of this discussion are:
Timing: Components and Conditions of the Season
(10:31) "It is a time of the year where there is a lot of high sickness frequency...We come into the holidays and we're having greater travel, typically...A lot of times we're switching environments going from cold to hot or hot to cold, and that's always an additional stress on the body. And also, it's a time that we get together with friends and family and so we tend to congregate inside...And so it's a relatively high-risk environment."
Habits and Approaches: Building a Platform of Resilience
(18:35) Many of us always feel like we must be on. But we can really, really thrive if we allow ourselves a little bit of luxury, a little bit of pampering, a little bit of Spa. And so over these next couple of months, I think that is a very simple but really important component to actually help promote health."
Addressing Symptoms: Reducing Longevity and Severity
(46:45) "We must realize that whether it's viral, or bacterial, infection is a huge additional stressor that now you must handle and it is often the thing that tips the applecart. Your very best chance to meet and beat viruses and bacterial infections is to reduce your overall stressors as you go through these winter months."
The aim of this episode is to provide you with tools and techniques to develop systemic resilience and health, and to help prevent sickness from derailing your performance journey.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 05:56 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
06:04 - 49:21 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 246: Winter Health - Building Resilience & Minimizing Risk of Sickness
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and |
| 0:05.8 | educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, |
| 0:11.2 | you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:17.2 | integrate sport into life. All right guys, today's show is all about winter health, building your platform of |
| 0:25.3 | resilience so that you can navigate any sickness that you might get with, maybe minimal |
| 0:30.0 | interruptions to your performance journey. |
| 0:32.6 | But one of the tools that we use to help build resilience for our athletes is a little bit of focus that |
| 0:38.5 | comes with Inside Tracker. By taking a look inside and assessing your biometrics along with the |
| 0:44.1 | recommendations of the team of experts and scientists at Inside Tracker, we get to get the right focus |
| 0:50.3 | for you, whether it's around your nutrition, your stress levels, your training, or |
| 0:54.7 | potentially any supplements that might help bolster your immune system and your performance |
| 0:59.4 | in the long term. And now is a great time to do it. Before we launch into the new year, with all |
| 1:05.3 | of those aspirations and inspirational quests that we look on for the next year of performance, |
| 1:12.9 | take stock, assess where you're at, and get precise focus on what you should be thinking about to help you yield great |
| 1:18.4 | performance. And it's easy. You don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete to get involved. |
| 1:22.6 | All you need to do is head toinsidracker.com slash Purple Patch, and we even give you a code purple patch pro 20. |
| 1:30.1 | That's purple patch pro 20 and that gives you 20% of everything at the store. |
| 1:35.5 | All right. |
| 1:36.0 | Now let's get on with the meat and potatoes. |
| 1:38.0 | It is the podcast. Enjoy. |
| 1:43.7 | And what? And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 1:52.8 | And this week, well, let me tell you, in Bight class this morning, it was a rather muted |
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