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Welcome to the Self-Healthful Podcast. I'm Kevin Miller.

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This is our Functional Friday episode.

We're talking about how to increase your capacity for daily output.

I'm with my co-host Randy James, medical doctor and functional medicine expert.

Your daily output, it's in essence your work, all of it.

Your daily tasks and duties in which you exert yourself to fulfill.

Personal maintenance, parenting, your job, or schooling,

relationships, home, and life maintenance, again, everything.

Your capacity for daily output is finite, even though we like to think

of ourselves as needing to be limitless. And how often do you feel spent

and you're only halfway through the day, or maybe you make it strong through the day,

but by evening you've got nothing left for your family and relationships,

or a new venture that you desire to put effort to, or a hobby, or anything.

Everyone wants more energy. We've created billion-dollar companies around

energy drinks to give us more energy. But you can kind of imagine your car.

What if it's overheated and bogging down on the side of the road,

and you just keep shoving more gas on the thing? Give it more gas. Give it more gas.

And the question is, what is zapping its energy? It seems like it should have plenty of gas,

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