Thanks to a prompt from @Joel Thulin we've made the Physiology First 5 app available in both Swedish and Spanish! As Joel brings the program into schools in Sweden and @Alessandra Farach brings it to families in Guatemala - and of course @Sue Murphy in New Jersey we thought this would be a helpful upgrade to our global push to put health at the foundation of education for a generation🌎🧠🔥 More updates on the new dashboard for personal record keeping and progress on all metrics coming soon💪 Hope everyone is having a GREAT weekend! https://codeofpotential.replit.app/

Good morning, team. I hope you’re all having an inspired start to the weekend. I was unexpectedly offline yesterday for an early birthday celebration. (Officially on Friday of this week.) I had the chance to see one of my favorite performers of all time here in London for the fourth time. The tickets had sold out, but I managed to get one at the last minute. Watching that level of artistry, creativity, and singular expression of talent only reinforced for me the depth and importance of the work we’re doing together. Every generation produces extraordinary creative minds. Our responsibility is to help young people understand and develop their unique biology so that their creativity and potential can flourish - not be overlooked or misunderstood. In an age of AI, authentic human creativity, curiosity, and individual expression become even more valuable. Thank you for being part of that mission. To quickly answer one of Cindy’s questions before I put together a more comprehensive response: when it comes to women’s health optimization-and health and fitness businesses more broadly-the standard across much of the industry is disgustingly low. Much of the advice circulating on social media is something far more than "wrong" - it lives in a category of incompetence all its own. Businesses built on IG trends or "one size fits all fast food fitness" rather than systems, science, and physiology eventually go bankrupt. If they don't go bankrupt on their own due to their inability to get people anything other than tired, we are directly competing with them as we scale. As mentioned we are starting an aggressive outreach campaign, looking for the best performance coaches, trainers, gym, owners clinic owners in the world as of this week. Our philosophy is simple: collaborate or compete. And we're playing to win. Meanwhile, larger organizations backed by private equity and venture capital are building highly structured operating systems that allow them to scale rapidly.

I've been concerned for a while now about overprotective parenting. However, for a long time, I saw it primarily through the lens of social skills (or the lack thereof). More recently, I've been reflecting on how deeply it connects to our physiology-first commitment to students and parents. In conversations with a team member who is a psychopedagogue and psychomotricist, I learned about a student whose poor handwriting skills stemmed from a lack of core strength. I've also seen more and more students whose parents are so apprehensive that they prevent them from engaging in natural childhood behaviors, like swinging high on the swings or doing tricks on the monkey bars. They don't realize that humans are antifragile and that children's strength and physical development literally depend on letting them explore the world with their hands and feet, occasionally get hurt, and learn to measure risk. I'm excited about creating a space at YSchool where children are encouraged to move, explore, and discover all that they're capable of.

I've been really focusing on nasal breathing for the past couple of weeks. What I've loved most is feeling fully present and connected to my body as I feel my breath moving through it. Whether I'm out for a walk with my baby and toddler, working at my desk, or actually working out, I feel much more in tune with my senses and my body's movements, which brings me to the present moment. Essentially as I've become more aware of my breathing, I've also been able to focus more intently on what I'm doing and the people I'm with.

So I’ve been quiet 🤫 - very quiet on here recently. There’s been a lot going on behind the scenes. Big lightbulb moments about who I support and why… including my own daughter. Watching her struggle on her harder days has been heartbreaking 💔 I wanted to help, to support her, to hold her hand but I’ve realised that what I thought was help often felt like pressure to her. The result? She shut down even more, hid in her room 24/7, and tried to control the few things she could, because she felt so out of control everywhere else. And then it really landed. When stress is sustained, a young person’s nervous system which is still developing, can struggle to regulate itself. The body adapts by staying in a constant stress response. Over time, this affects sleep, appetite, energy, motivation, and emotional regulation. It can show up as anxiety, emotional outbursts, shutdown, withdrawal, disordered eating, controlling behaviours, or self-neglect. These are not signs that something is “wrong” with our girls. They are signs that the body is trying to cope and protect itself. What we’re seeing now is nervous system exhaustion in teenagers, patterns that historically didn’t appear until much later in life. Add constant screen use, social media comparison, less movement, less time outdoors, and less play and laughter, and our girls are left depleted and dysregulated. Girls in particular are often discouraged, subtly or explicitly, from moving stress out of their bodies. Instead, it stays trapped in the system. Eventually, the body says: Enough. I’ve watched the joy, excitement, and confidence drain from my daughter right in front of me and for a long time, I didn’t know how to reach her. Now I understand this: Many of the struggles we’re seeing in girls today aren’t signs of failure or weakness. They’re signs of overwhelmed nervous systems under chronic stress. Her behaviours weren’t problems to fix. They were messages from her body asking for support. This is the foundation of my work.