This is not a flexibility video. It’s a metabolic health video. Stretching feels hard when the body is inflamed, overloaded, insulin-resistant, and carrying excess weight. Tight hips, stiff backs, sore joints, poor recovery. None of that is random. What people don’t realise is this: Stretching becomes dramatically easier when metabolism improves. When you start fasting properly, lose excess weight, reduce inflammation, and restore insulin sensitivity, the body moves differently. Joints feel lighter. Muscles recover faster. Mobility returns. In my own routine, I follow 20-hour fasts with a maximum 3 to 4-hour eating window. Not to chase aesthetics, but to restore normal physiology. As fasting progresses and weight comes down, several things happen at once: • Systemic inflammation reduces • Insulin levels fall • Joint load decreases • Muscle recovery improves • Energy and focus increase • Mobility work stops feeling like punishment What you’re seeing in this video is not the goal. It’s the by-product of fixing the system underneath. This is the Dr IR Lifestyle. A functional medicine framework focused on root-cause correction, not symptom management. If you want to understand this properly and apply it safely: 🔗 Free Dr IR Community Learn the foundations of fasting, metabolism, inflammation, and lifestyle medicine here: https://www.skool.com/dr-diet-5578/about?ref=a502e81c476c4bc8a122bae53d2c8a7d 🔗 Dr IR Diet & Lifestyle Course A structured, doctor-led approach to metabolic repair, fasting, and sustainable health: https://whop.com/functional-medicine/dr-ir-diet/ 🔗 Executive Performance & Health Check-In For professionals who want personalised, clinical-grade guidance: https://drir.forms.app/drir-executive-performance-checkin This is not about restriction. It’s about restoring normal physiology.

High performance doesn’t start with doing more — it starts with understanding how your brain actually feels on a normal day. Take 30 seconds and check in: 1️⃣ Before caffeine, most days — how sharp does your brain feel? (1 = foggy, slow, scattered | 10 = clear, focused, switched on) 2️⃣ What drains your mental energy the most right now? Workload, poor sleep, stress, inconsistent meals, screen time, decision fatigue, something else? No fixing yet. No optimizing yet. Just awareness. Because before we sharpen focus or increase output, we need to know what we’re working with. Performance starts with data — and you are the data. Drop your number + one drain below 👇