[1] It uses the principles of evidence-based medicine not to treat disease, but optimise function to reacher higher levels of well-being and performance.
The aims of Performance medicine are to increase the body's ability to resist, postpone or prevent disease and/or injury.
Interoception is described as the collection of processes by which physiological signals in the body are transmitted back to the brain, allowing the organism to regulate the internal state homeostatically and which may also give rise to awareness of bodily feelings (e.g. pain, touch, temperature).
The neural pathways that carry sensory information from the body to the brain facilitates the homeostatic regulation of purely physiological reflexes like breathing and blood pressure.
[12] All environmental stimuli (including training and nutrition) are processed by these systems, which will respond with adaptation, if their capacity permits.