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Why High Performers Burn Out: The DIG Method for Foundational Health | Dani Alger

Episode Summary

What if getting back to the BASICS is the most powerful thing you can do for your health, your performance, and your life? In this incredible episode, I sit down with foundational health consultant, speaker, and creator of the DIG Method — Dani Alger — for an honest, eye-opening conversation about what it truly means to be human in a world that never slows down. Dani shares her deeply personal story — losing her dad to a sudden heart attack at just 41 years old, her own battle with disordered eating, overtraining, cortisol addiction, and years of infertility — and how hitting rock bottom led her to crack the code on foundational health through her DIG Method (Deep Internal Growth). Meet our incredible guest: 💛 Dani Alger — Foundational Health Consultant | Speaker | Creator of the DIG Method | Champion of helping high performers, entrepreneurs, and leadership teams align with how humans are actually designed to operate — through the four pillars of Think, Eat, Move & Sleep. In this episode we talk about: ✨ How Dani lost her dad at 13 — and how that moment shaped her entire health journey ✨ The dangerous "eat less, work out more" cycle that nearly broke her body ✨ Cortisol addiction — why driven people are most at risk (and what to do about it) ✨ The DIG Method: Think, Eat, Move, Sleep — the 4 pillars of the human operating system ✨ Why 90%+ of Americans have a broken metabolism — and it's NOT a healthcare problem ✨ Circadian rhythm, nervous system regulation & blood sugar — made simple! ✨ The 3am anxiety spiral trick that will change how you sleep TONIGHT ✨ Why 80% of your thoughts are negative — and why that's actually GOOD news ✨ How most corporate wellness programs fail — and what actually moves the needle This one had me fired up because SO much of what Dani shares mirrors my own journey coming out of elite sport — and I know it will resonate with so many of you too! 🙌

Episode Notes

What if getting back to the BASICS is the most powerful thing you can do for your health, your performance, and your life?

 

In this incredible episode, I sit down with foundational health consultant, speaker, and creator of the DIG Method — Dani Alger — for an honest, eye-opening conversation about what it truly means to be human in a world that never slows down.

 

Dani shares her deeply personal story — losing her dad to a sudden heart attack at just 41 years old, her own battle with disordered eating, overtraining, cortisol addiction, and years of infertility — and how hitting rock bottom led her to crack the code on foundational health through her DIG Method (Deep Internal Growth).

 

Meet our incredible guest:

 

💛 Dani Alger — Foundational Health Consultant | Speaker | Creator of the DIG Method | Champion of helping high performers, entrepreneurs, and leadership teams align with how humans are actually designed to operate — through the four pillars of Think, Eat, Move & Sleep.

 

In this episode we talk about:

 

✨ How Dani lost her dad at 13 — and how that moment shaped her entire health journey

✨ The dangerous "eat less, work out more" cycle that nearly broke her body

✨ Cortisol addiction — why driven people are most at risk (and what to do about it)

✨ The DIG Method: Think, Eat, Move, Sleep — the 4 pillars of the human operating system

✨ Why 90%+ of Americans have a broken metabolism — and it's NOT a healthcare problem

✨ Circadian rhythm, nervous system regulation & blood sugar — made simple!

✨ The 3am anxiety spiral trick that will change how you sleep TONIGHT

✨ Why 80% of your thoughts are negative — and why that's actually GOOD news

✨ How most corporate wellness programs fail — and what actually moves the needle

 

This one had me fired up because SO much of what Dani shares mirrors my own journey coming out of elite sport — and I know it will resonate with so many of you too! 🙌

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