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How my response to stress has changed through the years.

Even after I fixed my diet, ditched the chronic cardio, and cleaned up my overall lifestyle

to be more in line with our evolutionary upbringing, one big problem remained, my response to stress.

This had always been an issue for me. Part of it was that I kept a full plate at all times.

Whether it was my training load, my business, my overall type A personality, stress was simply

unavoidable. How did I approach the situation? First, I agonized over the

existence of stress. My entire modus operandi throughout life had been to handle problems when they

arose. I didn't let things fester. I didn't accept bad situations and learn to deal. I took care of things.

If a problem didn't resolve quickly, I assumed I was doing something wrong. Applied to stress, though,

man, what a disaster. I quickly realized that it was impossible to avoid stress or eliminate it altogether. I needed a new

approach. So the first major step was admitting that stress is a fact of life, that stressors would

arise, and what mattered was how I responded to them. My response could make the stress worse,

or it could make it more manageable.

The first way I figured out how to improve my stress response was with smart supplementation.

When I was still competing and doing the chronic cardio training required to succeed,

I developed a supplement you might recognize by its old primal calm label, now called

Adoptogenic Calm, designed to mitigate the negative effects of all that training stress.

Both Brad Kearns and I used it, and it actually became an underground hit in the endurance scene.

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