Performance Intelligence

Morning sunlight. Coffee habits. Sleep that actually fuels you. Dr Tom Buckley and Andrew May take us inside the body’s internal clock—how circadian rhythms shape energy, hormones, mood, and productivity.

From jet lag to social jetlag, teaching kids and teams about energy, and why today’s lifestyle may shorten lives, to aligning tasks with your chronotype for peak performance—this is about practical science you can use every day.
Health, energy, memory, performance—it all starts with syncing your clock.

1:00 – Reflections on the podcast journey
13:00 – What is circadian rhythm?
20:20 – Jet lag vs social jet lag
24:50 – Free-running cycles on holidays
29:00 – How light influences your body
38:00 – Teaching energy management & coffee habits
45:00 – Long-term caffeine effects & alternatives
51:00 – Lifestyle choices impacting children’s lifespan
58:50 – Mood disorders & resetting the circadian clock
1:08:00 – Physical activity, homeostasis & memory
1:16:00 – Chronotypes & aligning tasks for productivity
1:22:10 – Sunlight, circadian reset & daily habits
1:27:30 – Building the basics for 80% effectiveness

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What is Performance Intelligence?

There's IQ. There's EQ. Introducing PQ. All things human performance with PQ founder, Andrew May, exploring the latest in human performance with an all-star cast of subject matter experts covering physical and psychological wellbeing, performance psychology, sport, business, entertainment, the performing arts, leadership, and science.

Learn valuable lessons that can be applied to optimising performance in your personal and professional life. Performance Intelligence applies to the way we turn up in relationships and the way we turn up at work, it applies to the way we perform in front of 10,000 people and the way we perform in front of one.