Out of Pocket
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Out of Pocket
The Real Reason You’re Exhausted by 7 PM l Ep 66
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Many people feel productive, focused, and on top of their day, until they suddenly hit a wall around 6 or 7 p.m. The kind of exhaustion that leaves nothing left for their partner, their kids, or themselves.
In this episode of the Out of Pocket Podcast, Kat and Andrew explain why this pattern almost never starts at night. They break down what’s happening earlier in the day that quietly drains energy, why stress hormones can keep someone functioning while masking depletion, and why standard lab work often fails to explain persistent fatigue.
The conversation explores how energy is allocated across the day, why timing and patterns matter more than single data points, and how small changes earlier in the day can dramatically improve how someone feels at night. This episode reframes evening exhaustion not as a sleep or willpower issue, but as a signal that the body has been compensating for much longer than most people realize.
(00:04) The productive-all-day, exhausted-by-night pattern
(04:17) Why evening exhaustion doesn’t start at night
(15:21) Cortisol timing and the energy curve most people miss
(24:08) The most important morning habit for stable energy
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