Dr. Betty Murray argues for improving 20 skills by 1% instead of fixing one by 20%. She works multiple levers simultaneously: hormonal balance (testosterone matters as much as estrogen), mitochondrial function, and other health domains. Small changes across many areas compound faster than one big fix.
One of my coaches kind of mentioned something that stuck with me as an athlete, which is you can try to work on what— try to fixing one thing or improving one skill by 20%, or you can try to improve 20 skills by 1%. Which one's easier? And I always take that same approach with my patients, right? Which is I'm always telling them I'm working on a couple different levers to optimize their health, right? We may be kind of pulling this hormonal lever over here because it's sitting us, like staring us out in the face. And it may not just be estrogen in females, right? That brain fog and that fatigue and that kind of fluffy midsection may not just be estrogen, right? It can be the testosterone that unfortunately gets overlooked too often in the conventional world, right? And so, the testosterone, there's a lever I'm having to pull alongside the same lever for mitochondria as well.
