#52 Good to Go Part II - Book Summary

Book Summaries by Wise Words

Hello Wise Wordians,

Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.

This week we are summarising ‘Good to Go’ by Christie Aschwanden which explores the science of recovery and performance, removing popular myths that have become so prevalent in today's society.

In this episode, we cover topics such as:

• The impact of sleep on recovery
• The sssue with fixating on sleep metrics
• Sports nutrition and the problem with the supplement industry
• The magic of metrics, objective measures
• The importance of listening to your body
• The placebo effect

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The next book we will be summarising is ‘Metabolical’ by Robert Lustig, so stay tuned for that.
We hope you enjoy it.
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00:00:00-Intro
00:00:16-Overview
00:00:45-The Rest Cure-Time to Sleep
00:09:37-Don't over-fixate on the metrics of sleep:
00:24:26-Selling Snake Oil (The FOMO of Nutrition)
00:35:19-The International Society of Sports Nutrition
00:42:08-The problems of the supplement industry (Incentivised by marketing not truth)
00:48:34-Predatory journals:
00:52:05-Who's regulating supplements?
00:54:05-Proprietary blends
00:58:34-The Magic of Supplements
01:01:03-Overtraining
01:01:46-The Magic Metric (Signs of Recovery)
01:04:46-Blood Tests
01:09:09-Be Careful of "Objective Measures" when recovering
01:12:57-Listening to your body
01:15:15-Hurt So Good
01:16:30-The Placebo Effect
01:18:37-How the placebos may work in the recovery context:
01:22:57-The four Categories of Placebos
01:29:46-Conclusion
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