The BEST Snacks that Boost Energy and Focus

If you want to learn to maintain consistent energy and focus, you’ll need to know some of the fundamentals of managing blood sugar levels and the peak state of consciousness called a flow state.

Our Western diet is filled with simple carbohydrates such as white bread, sugary drinks marketed as good for you, baked goods, and cereals.

When we consume simple carbs, they convert to glucose, and our body burns glucose as fuel. This spikes our glycemic index, which measures the increase in our blood glucose level.

The glycemic index is often spiked by eating refined carbohydrates and added sugars, compared with eating a more adaptive amount of glucose in a more balanced diet.

The glycemic index classifies carbohydrate-containing foods according to their potential to raise blood sugar levels.

Foods with a high glycemic index value tend to raise your blood sugar faster than foods with a lower value.

A lifetime of eating foods that elevate your glycemic index can lead to diabetes. It also leads to energy loss and focuses as the temporary spike in energy from the sugar burns off.

In terms of your energy, glucose burns fast, whereas fat burn is slower, more consistent, and healthier.

The key to healthy snacking is to reduce sugar and simple carbs and increase consumption of foods that do not spike your glycemic index and provide fat as fuel.

Improving your blood sugar management will enhance energy and focus, but the way to really amp up focus is to learn how to live a high-flow lifestyle.

Flow is a peak state of consciousness where you work and feel your best. In flow, you are 500% more productive, according to a study by consulting firm McKinsey.

The core concept to learn is the management of your attention.

You improve attention by understanding your personal purpose, vision, and core values. Once that work is done, you then create a goal stack starting with a 5-year vision. This is broken down into annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly goals.

From this stack, you now create a daily plan that drives focus.

What we are interested in, we focus on. This process keeps you working on things that are most interesting to you.

From there, it’s about improving your health (poor health leads to insufficient energy and focus), optimizing your psychology, and then engineering your day so you maximize your focus around the priorities that matter most to you. This, in turn, promotes flow.

Get my book Unleash the Peak Performer Within You to learn more about flow.

Tiger Medical Institute is a specialty medical clinic focused on advanced restorative medicine.

Our focus is on the driven professional who has achieved success but feels their health has been compromised and wants to get ahead of any severe issues proactively.

Tiger employs a three-step process with each patient that has proven to work repeatedly in resolving underlying causes of poor energy and focus.

These symptoms keep you from showing up as the best version of yourself and sap personal productivity.

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In this first call, the meeting is about learning your history, struggles, and goals. This is a valuable assessment process that aids you in deciding if one of Tiger’s programs works to meet your needs.

We want to ensure that you are a good fit for our program and that our Tiger team can help you resolve your challenges.

It’s time to make yourself patient number one and embrace self-care.