Twice a week my alarm goes off at 5.45am so I can get to the gym for HYROX training, although in reality my five and seven year olds are often my alarm clock.
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olds → go → reality
My routine happens around the things I am doing for the children: breakfast time, packing lunches and getting everyone moving.
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everyone → happen → lunches
Once that is under control, I shower, have coffee, take Advanced ID with my breakfast and start the day.
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I → shower → day
As a dermatologist, my routine is less elaborate than people expect.
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people → expect → dermatologist
In the morning I use an antioxidant serum and a tinted zinc SPF.
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I → use → serum
If I don’t have an event in the evening, I cycle to and from work.
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I → have → work
It’s 10 minutes away, but my patients laugh, as I typically cycle in a dress and bring my four-inch heels in my bag.
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I → ’ → bag
I have never fasted and I don’t follow a restrictive diet.
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I → fast → diet
Breakfast is oranges, eggs, toast with jam and lots of coffee, after taking Advanced ID.
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Breakfast → take → ID
I try to get plenty of protein and whole foods, but love food and eating out.
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I → try → food
I have no desire to make nutrition joyless.
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nutrition → have → desire
When possible, I fit in a couple of five- to eight-kilometre runs at the weekend.
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I → fit → weekend
My main goal is maintaining strength, cardiovascular fitness and to keep doing the things I want to do as I get older.
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I → maintain → things
I hate the cold and have mild Raynaud’s, so cold plunges were never for me.
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plunges → hate → me
My slightly unusual indulgence is a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which I have at home.
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I → have → home
I also have an Eight Sleep bed, which I love.
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I → have → which
I am fascinated by new technology, but I am pragmatic about it.
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I → fascinate → it
None of it compensates for not exercising, eating badly or getting too little sleep.
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None → compensate → sleep
I wear WHOOP continuously, looking most at heart rate variability, recovery and sleep performance.
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I → wear → variability
Since taking Advanced ID my WHOOP age is seven years younger than my original age, my HRV considerably higher and my sleep performance improved.
“You cannot optimise six hours’ sleep into eight, however sophisticated your technology is”
A wearable cannot prove that one intervention caused every change, but seeing objective biometric changes alongside how I am actually feeling is important to me.
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I → take → me
Attitude is underestimated.
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Attitude → underestimate → ?
Difficult things happen to us all.
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things → happen → us
I try not to catastrophise or allow a bad day to become the story of the week.
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day → try → week
Optimism, humour and being near those you love are important parts of ageing well.
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you → love → those
Between medicine, media, emails and running businesses, my phone and laptop are almost always beside me.
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phone → run → me
I see 35 to 40 patients a day and get home at about 6.30pm.
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I → see → 6.30pm
Once there, I want to see the children, hear about their day and get them to bed at about 8pm.
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I → want → pm
After that, I am often back on my laptop while eating, because there is work from my businesses that I cannot touch during clinic hours.
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I → eat → hours
If I have time, I get into the hyperbaric chamber.
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I → have → chamber
To me, the biggest factor in consistently good sleep is allowing enough time for it.
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factor → allow → it
You cannot optimise six hours into eight, however sophisticated the technology beside your bed is.
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technology → optimise → bed
I have no interest in chasing immortality.
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I → have → immortality
I want to live for a long time, obviously, but more importantly I want to remain strong, sharp, independent, useful and able to enjoy my family and friends for as many of those years as possible.
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I → want → years
The Aporia
