Physiology First

27/12/2025

What happens when the foundation for health becomes negotiable?

When exercise becomes too inconvenient...

When nutrition is managed with drugs instead of discipline...

When exhaustion is a badge of honor...

When screens are the only companions many kids will ever know...

Anxiety, depression, and isolation become the default state.

This isn't a "disorder." It's an inevitability.

At Physiology First we teach teens how to operate their body with agency in a supportive environment with mentors who inspire them.

Miraculously, their mental health improves significantly.

It isn't because they were broken and we "fixed them."

It's because we refuse to stand back while the normalization of illness and the rejection of personal accountability breaks a generation.

🌎This January join a team of educators, coaches, and health professionals who are standing together to teach the building blocks of health to a generation.

👉🏽2026 Certification: January 10th. DM to RSVP!

The revolution in education won't happen in classrooms where kids are kept sedentary for 7 hours a day...

It will happen in our backyards as we band together to teach the next generation about their physiology, first🧠🔥

26/12/2025

If the physical foundation for mental health is not in place the most we can hope for is to prepare kids for a successful battle against their own body.

The suppression of every human intuition to move when forced to be sedentary...

The instruction to function optimally on a diet of sugar, caffeine, and fumes...

The expectation of psychological stability with the foundation of their physiology shattered by a society that's normalized illness and radicalized health.

When less than 1/4 of kids meet the minimum physical activity requirements...

When 7 in 10 get insufficient sleep on a regular basis...

When the majority spend 7 hours per day glued to a dopamine draining machine....

When the skills of mental focus, stress management, and real time resilience have never been taught...

When the ability to design an exercise program, create a nutritious meal plan, or exist peacefully without a screen for a pacifier is nonexistent...

When the foundation of health and the development of life skills are absent, depression, anxiety, and exhaustion are the inevitable and natural response.

We can't keep labeling kids who have no foundation for "order" with disorders.

We'll have an entire generation believing they were born broken, instead of building the skills to thrive in challenging times and unlock their innate potential.

🌎This January we're training educators, coaches, and health professionals to lead a health revolution for the next generation.

👉🏽DM to RSVP and join our 2026 Certification Program on January 10th.

Life is challenging. The world is changing.

It's time to give the next generation the skills, tools, and support to thrive in the 21st century🧠🔥

26/12/2025

Wanted: Parents who aren't "too busy" to put their kids health first.

Seriously.

If there's one thing the teens we've worked with who experience the most anxious had in common it's a parent who is "too busy."

Holiday pricing on our new program for parents ends today.

No "too busy" parents allowed. You'll just freak everyone out😉

DM to join The Code of Potential today if you're not too busy to prioritize your child's health in 2026.

25/12/2025

They say we learn through story...

Sometimes I'm not so sure😉

Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer had a very shiny nose.

All of the reindeer judged him, but it glowed in crunch time, and Christmas was saved🦌🎅🏼🙌🏽

The next time someone tells a child they move too much, or too little...

That they're too talkative, or too quiet...

That they're too "them" and not enough of the pack...

Just remind them that Matt the Regular Nosed Reindeer did not go down in history...

More than any time in history individuality is the ultimate value proposition.

🧬This January we are organizing parents across the globe for the ultimate health education program🧠🔥 The Code of Potential is a roadmap to helping your child shine their light on the world. DM to RSVP and join the movement!

Never dim the light of the child because it's too bright.

It takes true radiance to guide us through the darkness of night.

25/12/2025

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you." ~ Carl Jung

One quarter of teens report feeling lonely frequently.

For college students the number increases to 60%.

In a hyperconnected world how have we managed to create Generation Isolation?

Simple: Many adults stopped learning the moment they graduated from school, in an age where lifelong learning is the survival skill of the century.

Instead of guiding the child through the complexity of the technological revolution, they let the technological revolution guide the child.

Our youth are living in the future as it develops.

They have no other choice.

The solution?

A rebellion in reconnection. An education in physiology and technology.

An attempt to close the reality gap between generations.

This post is a call to arms in the battle for attention.

When political division, the exhausting pace of modern life, and the unseen challenges that each of us faces threaten to divert our attention from the greatest problem of the future, the declining mental health of our future problem solvers, let's remember how it felt to unbox presents and learn whether who we were was truly understood.

And to show the next generation that they're not alone as they navigate the path to their own potential.

Wishing everyone a holiday of presence, connection, and the fearless resurrection of childlike awareness.

24/12/2025

Our new program for parents, The Code of Potential, is a great last minute gift🎁 A complete health and fitness plan for the whole family💪

24/12/2025

The holidays are a great opportunity to teach our next generation the skills of the future.

Presence...

Preparation...

Stress management..

Self leadership...

As the shopping malls create a frenzy that only the annoyance at our own abundance can bring about, breathe deliberately.

Your calming energy will remind the child that we can control our internal state in any external situation.

As the extra plate at dinner sedates everyone in the room, suggest a winter walk. The rise in glucose levels that leads to the cranky, mentally cloudy, irritable energy that inevitably combusts when the wine comes out can be easily averted by operating our body with agency.

In Dostoyevsky's masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, the devil makes an appearance.

He casually mentions that gratitude is not one of his greatest strengths...

“I don’t like enthusiasm, and I don’t like gratitude either; it’s not one of my virtues.”

The Grinch is on the same energy.

There's a theme here...

The compression of free time, financial pressure, and the disruption of routine, leading people who've been passing ships in the night to collide, can lead to the irony of ingratitude in a season of giving and receiving.

Reject the temptation to give gratitude over to busyness and miss the magic of the moment in the process.

The greatest gifts we give are not in the boxes we unwrap, but in the lessons that we teach in the process.

Wishing everyone an inspired holiday season from Physiology First!~ David

23/12/2025

As we approach the holiday let's envision a gift that every generation can benefit from.

A critical pivot in education that prepares kids for the world they are entering.

When the jobs of tomorrow are a complete unknown, teach a generation about themselves.

When the age of isolation makes human connection the anomaly, and digital connection the norm, teach a generation about themselves.

When the robotic tasks belong to robots, and memorization tasks to chatbots, teach a generation the lost art of being human.

When the world of tomorrow looks nothing like today, teach a generation to build a foundation for mental health that remains stable during periods of great transformation.

When the future is more unpredictable than ever, teach those preparing to lead it the principles of mental and physical health.

When memorization is no longer a vocation, and obedience is no longer a value proposition, teach critical thinking, courage, and innovation to a generation.

We aren't talking about rearranging the desks...

We're talking about a revolution in education that teaches the next generation about their physiology, first🧠🔥

🌎2026 Certification: January 10th. DM to RSVP and get trained to bring the Physiology First Approach to your community in the new year!

23/12/2025

What if you fed a generation to the busyness machine? And that generation grew up to have children of their own....

What if every second of every day was planned and scheduled so that silence was a stranger?

So that presence created an invitation to introspection, best avoided by running in circles until exhaustion?

What if kids grew up with parents who could never relax, take a breath, and model self-regulation?

They may never know co-regulation....

They may self-soothe by becoming addicts to busyness themselves.

When the child asks about the purpose of school in the age of automation the parent will have no answer.

They're too busy, of course, to think about the future, as they place the child on a conveyer belt speeding towards it.

When the child can't stop their mind from whirling they'll be diagnosed and medicated, instead of taught the skill of recognizing the space between two thoughts.

Or operating their own nervous system with agency...

Busyness is a disease, and it's extremely contagious.

If a child is anxious watch the breathing of their parent.

They're modeling their number one role model....

In a world that can't stop chasing its tail presence is the ultimate act of rebellion.

The parent of the future isn't too busy to lead the health revolution from the front🧠🔥

🧬The Code of Potential, our new program for parents begins January 3rd. 99% of parents will be "too busy." Be the 1% who isn't. DM to RSVP.

22/12/2025

Have you ever watched someone who isn't especially bright appraise the mind of an intelligent person?

That is the embodiment of the educational system.

As Stephen Hawking said: The problem with smart people is that they look like crazy people to dumb people.

Kids are smart people.

Lucid, creative, bursting with energy and enthusiasm. Possessed of a physical intelligence that should earn an earnest investment in their talents, but earns them a label, and potentially an amphetamine addiction, instead.

Parents-if you suspect that the two industries that have not only failed to adapt to the current century, but thrive on anti-innovation (the school system and the mental health industry) are somehow conspiring to eliminate intelligence from the gene pool, I can assure you this isn't the case.

A conspiracy of this nature requires great intelligence.

These people truly believe that not sitting still in a comatose state and competing with Chat GPT to be a lifeless memorization machine is a "mental disorder."

What should you do as a parent?

A.) Sedate your kid and derail their only shot at the manifestation of their true potential.

B.) Organize. Educate yourself. Build a Physiology First campus in your community where health is at the foundation of education for a generation🧠🔥

🧬The Code of Potential is a new program for parents who want to learn the latest science of health and human potential. DM to join the January 3rd cohort 🧬

Individuality is the most valuable currency of the 21st century.

The parent of the future puts their child's physiology first.

20/12/2025

When we leave the myths of the late 1800’s behind, we open up the doors of potential for kids in the 21st century.

New article on the origins of the ADHD diagnosis, and the latest science of movement, attention, and behavioral genetics🧬

Pay attention...

20/12/2025

Roughly 1/3 of all people possess the genetic traits that would earn them an ADHD diagnosis.

This is a common genetic phenotype related to dopamine metabolism.

The scientifically literate parent recognizes that variations in individual physiology are not "disorders" - despite what dust covered manuals from the Industrial Age would have you believe.

The scientifically ignorant parent marches their child to the pharmacy after filling out a questionnaire designed a half-century ago.

They promptly medicate their child out of their individuality with amphetamines.

This will shape the future of our society profoundly.

A class of children unacquainted with their strengths, divorced from their intuition, and addicted to Aderall will not fare well in the age of AI.

When historian Yuval Noah Harari warned of the emergence of a useless class, economically obsolete in a post-automation world, this is the archetype that he foresaw.

Parents in the 21st century are standing at the intersection of the old world and the new.

Of science and sorcery.

Of dogma and data-driven health.

Parents-if someone is making a recommendation about your child's behavior without understanding their genetic code of potential, keep them far away from your kids.

They don't respect you or your family enough to understand their physiology. And they are likely walking your child off of an economic and social cliff for their own convenience.

🧬 We are bringing parents across the globe together in January to learn about the role of genes in behavior. DM to join The Code of Potential - the ultimate health education program for parents.

Your child was built to move...

To tap their feet...

To think uniquely...

To talk excitedly about big picture ideas...

To be themselves.

Silence the expression of their individuality if you choose, but be prepared to pay their bills for the remainder of lives.

Individuality is the only path towards economic viability in the 21st. Not to mention personal fulfillment, the most valuable currency of all.

The parent of the future understands their child's physiology, first.

Full article on Substack✍️ Link in bio 🔗