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Performance Tax Elimination

Meaning

Performance Tax Elimination is a conceptual term referring to the clinical and physiological strategy of mitigating the unnecessary metabolic and energetic costs associated with chronic physiological stress, suboptimal hormonal status, or systemic inefficiency. This “tax” represents the constant drain on resources, such as elevated allostatic load from chronic cortisol, or the energy wasted due to mitochondrial inefficiency, which reduces the net energy available for peak physical and cognitive performance. The goal of elimination is to free up vital physiological capital by optimizing underlying homeostatic systems, thereby maximizing resilience and functional output. It is a pursuit of biological efficiency for longevity.