
Your Allostatic Load Score: HIGH
What Your Score Means:
Your responses indicate that your body may be under a high level of allostatic load. This suggests that the cumulative impact of stress on your body and mind is likely affecting your ability to perform. Over time, elevated allostatic load can lead to various symptoms, including:
Persistent fatigue and low energy
Difficulty sleeping or restless nights
Feelings of overwhelm and heightened stress
Trouble concentrating and memory lapses
Physical symptoms like headaches, muscle tension, or digestive issues
Chronic Conditions and an increased risk of morbidity
Experiencing high allostatic load makes it challenging to recover, maintain energy, and manage stress leaving you feeling run down and burnt out.
It’s likely that you’re out of balance – exerting too much and recovering too little.
The Two parts of your autonomic nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic) require balance. Your sympathetic nervous system is what primes you for action. Based on what you’ve said, this is overactive. To reduce your allostatic load, you need to stabilise yourself by triggering your parasympathetic system more, promoting recovery.
You have two solutions: remove daily stress from your routine (easier said than done) or introduce regular recovery practices. Given your responses suggest a high allostatic load, we’d recommend you try to do both.
Without a deep dive into your routine, we can’t specify how best to remove daily stress. That one’s up to you – but know that the amount you’ve got on your plate is probably hindering your performance.
Sleep is the foundation. Sleeping less than seven hours means you’re running on fumes. If that number’s below six…the data paints a grim picture. Don’t forget the importance of a consistent wake time too.
Next is nutrition. The body performs trillions of biological processes every day – these require countless different resources to complete properly. Your lifestyle answers suggest you’re burning the candle at both ends. This is unmanageable in the long term. As a grown adult, you know what you should be eating. If your diet isn’t providing you with what you need to thrive, supplementation can provide a noticeable uplift in your physical and cognitive ability.
Tom Lowe – back to back green days of recovery during his most stressful time of year.
Lottie Lamb – 68% improvement in HRV.
Joel – Hyrox AG winner – powering him to smash PBs amongst a gruelling work schedule.
ZAAG is the supplement of choice for dozens of Olympians, CEOs and high performers around the world. The reason they choose us over our competition is because our user data is extraordinary. Double-digit improvements in health metrics that are scientifically linked with reduced stress, lower allostatic load and higher performance like Heart Rate Variability, Resting Heart Rate and Sleep Quality. They see and feel the difference within days of beginning our Starter Pack.
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Outside of these remedies, adequate hydration, nature exposure, low-intensity movement (like yoga, stretching, hiking), breathwork, massage and heat/cold treatments are all tried and tested measures that can be introduced into daily routines to deliver balance and reduce allostatic load.

