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You Can't Out-Supplement Burnout | Katie Hardie
<p>If you've ever powered through exhaustion because you're "tough" and "don't need the nap," this episode on strategic recovery for high performers might be the wake-up call you didn't know you needed.</p><p>Katie Hardie is the founder of My Peak (<a href="http://mypeak365.com"><u>mypeak365.com</u></a>) - PEAK standing for Performance, Energy, Awareness, and Knowledge - and a former endurance athlete who completed multiple Iron Man triathlons before understanding the toll a lack of recovery was taking on her body. In this episode, she sits down with John to break down why strategic recovery for high performers isn't a luxury or a break from the work; it's part of the work itself, and skipping it quietly sets you up for burnout, injury, or worse, even while you look and feel perfectly fine on the outside.</p><p><strong>In this episode, you'll learn:</strong></p><ul><li><li>The single biggest lie the wellness industry tells busy, high-achieving people about energy and nutrition.</li></li><li><li>Katie's own wake-up call: a backcountry skiing injury that revealed her hormones were in a state of total breakdown, despite feeling "fine".</li></li><li><li>Why strategic recovery for high performers matters more the older you get, and why symptoms take years or decades to surface.</li></li><li><li>The PEAK framework: Performance, Energy, Awareness, and Knowledge, and how functional lab testing fits into it.</li></li><li><li>Why "calories in, calories out" misses the real picture, and what fasting insulin reveals that a normal blood sugar reading doesn't.</li></li><li><li>Bioindividuality: why the same banana can spike one person's blood sugar and barely affect another's.</li></li><li><li>The truth about gut health, why most of your neurotransmitters are made there, and simple ways to support it.</li></li><li><li>Why modern wheat and gluten hit differently than what earlier generations ate.</li></li><li><li>How to find your own healthy "gray zone" instead of rigid all-or-nothing rules.</li></li><li><li>What labs Katie actually recommends if you want to start investigating your own health.</li></li></ul><p><strong>Connect with Katie Hardie:</strong></p><ul><li><li>Instagram - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mypeak365/"><u>https://www.instagram.com/mypeak365/</u></a></li></li><li><li>Website - <a href="https://mypeak365.com"><u>mypeak365.com</u></a></li></li></ul><p><stro