You Are Not Under-Training. You Are Under-Recovering with Dr. Steve McGough

What if the reason you are struggling to recover has less to do with your muscles and more to do with your nervous system?Today, I am joined by Dr. Steve McGough, cofounder of Women and Couples Wellness, inventor of the hi® massage system, and a researcher and educator with a background in nutritional biochemistry, neuroscience, and clinical sexology.For more than sixteen years, Steve has worked with women and couples around nervous system regulation, pelvic floor health, intimacy, fertility, and recovery. In this conversation, we explore why people can exercise, sleep, eat well, and do everything they believe they should be doing, yet still feel like their bodies never fully recover.Steve explains the connection between chronic stress and recovery, why understanding stress does not always mean the body has actually released it, and where Eastern practices such as QiGong genuinely overlap with Western neuroscience.We also get into something many people struggle to talk about: what prolonged stress can do to relationships. Steve shares lessons from more than twenty five years of marriage, building companies with his wife Wendy, and navigating profound grief and serious illness together.Behind all of this is a deeply personal story. After Wendy experienced a life threatening infection during pregnancy and faced years of difficult recovery, Steve began working on the device that would eventually become hi®. That experience ultimately changed the direction of his life and led him away from an eight figure software company toward an invention that became central to his work.This is a conversation about recovery, stress, the body, relationships, innovation, and what happens when personal experience pushes you to find an answer that does not yet exist.Learn more about Steve McGough and his work: Steve McGough and hi® Massage System⁠LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-mcgough-dhs-0480591/Follow Mind, Money & Medicine on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and subscribe on YouTube for more conversations about personal growth, health, career, relationships, money, and learning to live more intentionally.