Happy Saturday all! The Beyond the Gym movement is growing... We've been busy filming curriculum for the new program all week. And we're excited to share it with all Physiology First Fellowship members and Beyond the Gym participants soon! The future is physiology first. This short article in Fit Insider offers a glimpse into where the health, fitness, and longevity market is heading. And where Physiology First has been for close to a decade. https://insider.fitt.co/building-the-gym-as-clinic/ As we work to bring together leaders in the global health and longevity community to build the personalized health hubs of the future we are beyond honored to announce that Dr. Tiffany Keenan has joined the team! Dr. Keenan is a functional and integrative medicine physician with nearly three decades of practice across Bermuda and New Brunswick. Her work focuses on women's health, from hormonal and reproductive health through perimenopause and beyond. She brings a root-cause, whole-person approach that combines functional medicine, mind-body medicine, lifestyle medicine, and patient empowerment. She holds undergraduate training as a nutritionist, is trained in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Craniosacral therapy and enjoys hiking and Qigong. If you know any independent gym owners, leading edge practitioners, or future gym owners please extend an invite to join us for our inaugural cohort on November 8th. The introductory pricing will never be offered again. Make 2027 the year to leap ahead of the pack and revision health and education for a new generation. https://beyond-the-gym-registration.replit.app/ The program will be available to all Physiology First Fellowship members as part of your extensive professional development and practitioner training services through the Fellowship. This leaves 8 spots for new members globally. Let's reach out, recruit, and build the health hubs of the future that each of you can leverage for the inspiring work that you're doing in the world!

After the autumn break, we’re moving into a new theme with the students i work with: SLEEP. We’ll work on it for 6-8 weeks, once a week, with one clear goal: every student should leave knowing how to set themselves up for a good night’s sleep. I’m deliberately keeping the information light. Instead of lectures and theory, I want it to be hands-on and a bit game-like: - Students design their own sleep routine (or sleep schedule) - They test it for a couple of weeks - We track the effect with simple self-ratings (how rested do you feel in the morning, how alert are you during lessons) so they can see for themselves what actually works for them. I feel that sleep can easily become theory-heavy and “do this, don’t do that”. So my question to you: 1. Have you worked with sleep with teenagers? What worked and what didn’t? 2. How do you make sleep fun and practical, not just information? Any games, challenges, experiments or formats that got teens engaged? 3. Any tips on measuring with self-assessment in a way that is simple but still meaningful? All ideas, big or small, are very welcome. Thank you! /Joel

Team, We’re beyond honored and excited to welcome Emily Wallace, a perimenopause specialist and passionate health innovator to the Physiology First Fellowship. From the moment we connected, I knew Emily had the spark and drive to help shape the future of health. We couldn’t be more excited to deepen our collaboration through the Fellowship, and hopefully you’ll see her joining our Tuesday meetings very soon. Follow her incredible work on IG @perimenopausewithemily A few other exciting updates: Physiology First Fellowship Practitioner Health & Performance Portal Emily has a beautiful home gym with much of the same equipment we use at the campus. This gives us an opportunity to start doing live weekly trainings for the Fellowship, where we can take Emily and all Fellowship members who are able to attend through the Physiology First approach - workouts, strength training, conditioning, recovery, breathing, and more. We’ll archive these sessions so that all of us can train, learn, and develop the approach together. Physiology First Five App The Physiology First Five app is undergoing major development, some of it at the request of Joel, who is working to bring the app into schools in Sweden, and Sue, who is bringing it into schools in New Jersey. The app will now include a personal client dashboard that saves your data and allows you to track progress across our longevity benchmarks, strength benchmarks, conditioning tests, and overall health metrics, as well as data you input from your wearables. As always, this is a work in progress, so please continue giving input and feedback as we develop it. But it’s off to a strong, strong foundation. New Physiology First E-Books Finally, our Women’s Health Optimization program is getting its own e-book! Ultimately, I’d like to do this for the Certification, Fellowship, and Affiliate models themselves—creating streamlined resources where you can easily find the curriculum, understand how to access it, and see exactly how you can benefit from and implement it.

Team, A new member to the group just pointed out that our first book Girls by Freya India needs to be ordered from the U.K currently, until it's May 5th US release date. Quick vote: Is it more convenient to start with another book until this one is accessible everyone (my apologies, I didn't realize it wasn't) or to simple order on Amazon UK? Looking forward to your thoughts and to kicking off this new chapter of monthly reading and discussion together! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girls®-Gen-Z-Commodification-Everything/dp/1800754701

Team, The new assessment program we are launching will change the course of health. It's a simple survey to help parents better understand whether the physiological foundations for mental health are in place. This will open their eyes to the need for leaders like you to help guide their child on the path to optimal health. I appreciate each of you. I'm immensely grateful for your leadership and drive. The health crisis is not due to pharmaceutical companies, tech companies, tobacco companies, and junk food distributors being too strong. It’s due to the health and fitness industry being too weak. This is our fight-and we're fighting to win. Fierce innovation, tireless effort, and a deeper fire to get communities healthy than our competitors have to make them sick... That’s what it's going to take to help kids and families take their health back. This next step is just the start of a revolution in human evolution. Let me know if you want to help beta test the new assessment and be part of a working group to get it to parents across the globe! David