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Will Instagram’s Weirdest Energy Advice Actually Work?

Tiny cultural translation (for non-UK / under-25 listeners) • Bargain Hunt: British daytime TV where people buy antiques and act like it’s a pension strategy. • Wordle: a daily five-letter word game we all got hooked on during lockdown. ⸻ New listener segment starting next week: Ask Guru & Granny From next week, we’ll be answering listener questions — anything you’re stuck on, spiralling about, or quietly panicking over. You’ll get: • a chronically online take (me) • and a chronically offline take (Old Ma) Send your questions to: rosefieldnotespod@gmail.com Or DM me on Instagram: @rosehoneymorgan Tell us if you’d like to be anonymous or named. Neither of us are licensed psychologists or counsellors. My mum’s main credential is “a life well lived” and several decades of being deeply unimpressed by nonsense. ⸻ We are all exhausted. Properly frazzled. Running on caffeine, routine, and whatever scraps of motivation are left after bedtime. And then you open Instagram or TikTok and get hit with the most infuriating contradiction imaginable: • Drink coffee for energy • No — coffee is ruining your nervous system • Try mushroom coffee • No — you need to microdose psychedelics • Actually, you just need perfect sleep, perfect routines, and zero stimulants (good luck with that) So today, I’m trying to work out what we’re actually supposed to do when we’re tired, overwhelmed, and drowning in wellness advice that can’t agree with itself for more than eleven seconds. ⸻ What this episode looks at • Why so many of us feel permanently tired and mentally scattered • Coffee on an empty stomach: cortisol, hormones, gut health — fear-mongering or fair warning? • Mushroom coffee explained (what it is — and what it definitely isn’t) • Common functional mushrooms and adaptogens you’ll hear about online, including: Lion’s Mane, Cordyceps, Chaga, Reishi, Maca and other so-called “brain-boosting” blends • Nootropics vs stimulants: focus without the crash? • Brian Johnson, extreme optimisation, and the fantasy of total nervous-system stability • Psychedelics and microdosing: potential benefits, real risks, and why this conversation has gone so strange online • The Stoned Ape Theory (and why archaeologists absolutely love an unprovable idea) ⸻ This episode also introduces my mum — Old Ma — an archaeologist, lifelong observer of human behaviour, and proudly chronically offline control group. She brings a very different perspective on psychedelics, energy, and the idea that modern life can be “fixed” with powders, protocols, and optimisation culture. This is not medical advice. It’s an honest attempt to translate modern wellness culture for tired people who don’t have the bandwidth to fact-check every reel. ⸻ We are exhausted. Brain-fogged. Running on caffeine, habit, and wildly conflicting advice. One reel says coffee is saving us. The next says it’s destroying our nervous system. Then comes mushroom coffee. Then microdosing. Then “perfect sleep or else.” So… what are we actually supposed to do? ⸻ In this episode of Field Notes, I react to the most common wellness reels doing the rounds right now — doctors, nutritionists, biohackers, and optimisation influencers all offering completely contradictory advice on energy, focus, and brain fog. Coffee or no coffee? Mushroom coffee or adaptogens? Microdosing psychedelics? Or just accepting that we’re all permanently knackered? I’m trying to slow the whole thing down enough to make sense of it — without becoming insufferable, extreme, or pretending we all have perfect sleep and unlimited time. ⸻ Follow for clips, extras & deleted scenes • Podcast Instagram: @field.notes.pod (deleted scenes, extra bits, behind-the-scenes chaos) Next up: I’ll actually test some of this advice in real life and report back.