If you’ve ever followed a plan perfectly and felt worse, you’re not “too sensitive”—you’re cyclical. Most health advice ignores the female rhythm and the way hormones shape metabolism, stress tolerance, recovery, and sleep across the month. In this episode, Brandon shows how to work with your cycle instead of fighting it: why some trends (aggressive fasting, late-luteal HIIT, constant low-carb) backfire, how each phase changes what your body needs, and how the Compass (Nurture → Energize → St...
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If you’ve ever followed a plan perfectly and felt worse, you’re not “too sensitive”—you’re cyclical. Most health advice ignores the female rhythm and the way hormones shape metabolism, stress tolerance, recovery, and sleep across the month. In this episode, Brandon shows how to work with your cycle instead of fighting it: why some trends (aggressive fasting, late-luteal HIIT, constant low-carb) backfire, how each phase changes what your body needs, and how the Compass (Nurture → Energize → St...
Episode 027 - The Strengthen Reset: Rebuild Repair, Defense, and Resilience
The Metabolic Compass™ Podcast
32 minutes
1 month ago
Episode 027 - The Strengthen Reset: Rebuild Repair, Defense, and Resilience
Feeling slower to heal, more fragile, or less responsive to training—even with ‘normal’ labs? You might be in **Strength Drift**. In this episode, Brandon lays out **The Strengthen Reset**—how to rebuild repair, defense, and resilience systems so your body can adapt again. We cover the three hallmarks that quietly erode strength (telomere attrition, cellular senescence, stem cell exhaustion), the nutrients that restore signal and structure (omega-3s, collagen+glycine, creatine, Urolithin A, s...
The Metabolic Compass™ Podcast
If you’ve ever followed a plan perfectly and felt worse, you’re not “too sensitive”—you’re cyclical. Most health advice ignores the female rhythm and the way hormones shape metabolism, stress tolerance, recovery, and sleep across the month. In this episode, Brandon shows how to work with your cycle instead of fighting it: why some trends (aggressive fasting, late-luteal HIIT, constant low-carb) backfire, how each phase changes what your body needs, and how the Compass (Nurture → Energize → St...