# The Unhealthy Pursuit Of Optimal Health

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Podcast: [The Midlife Mentors](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-midlife-mentors-1171889)
Published: 2026-06-06T14:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Midlife Mentors we’re talking about health optimisation. Today we find ourselves living in a obsessive health optimisation culture where we're tracking our sleep, monitoring our HRV, counting steps, taking supplements, cold plunging, fasting and trying to optimise every aspect of our lives. Twenty years ago most people just wanted to lose a bit of weight and feel healthier. Today, health has become a performance metric. And yet despite having mo...

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