Can AI Help Close the Hormone Education Gap?

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0:46 Eldred Taylor. Hello, good morning. Okay, there you go. Hello, good morning. This is Dr. Taylor. It's Wednesday, and this is actually Veterans Day. So I want to thank all of those veterans for their service. And my father, my late father, he was a World War II veteran. So I want to acknowledge his service also. Well, anyway, so today we're going to talk about AI because I think, at least in my office, I have all of these people coming in and they actually try to fact check you on your advice right there in the office because they've done all this research. research on AI and they come in with these preconceived notions and somehow we have to try and filter through that. So I want to help you to try and use AI to help you understand how your body works. So when you go to the doctor, you can, I won't say fact check him or her, but you at least have some basic understanding of what's going on. And the other thing is, is that a lot of times I will talk to a patient And I will have another point of view. Then they will go back and check AI. And because they gave a simple question, it gives them a simple answer. Last week, I talked about progesterone and how if you just ask if I don't have a uterus, do I need progesterone?

2:12 It's going to say no, because that is the party line. That's what the doctor tells you. because that is how they look at it. But if you really ask, I said, hey, ask, what does progesterone do outside of the uterus? And it had this long list. And so that's what I'm trying to help you to ask better questions. And then the other thing I want to go over is this ageless blueprint. And I think I've finally kind of been able to convey what the ageless blueprint is, and it's all about cycles, balance, and transitions. And I talked about that when I'm talking about the menstrual cycle, but then when you really broaden out your perspective, you see how that same blueprint seems to permeate through all parts of culture and society and in other parts of your health. And so anyway, let's get started. Let's go to the slides and then we'll try and work through this, okay? All right. Slide number one, can AI help you understand why you still feel awful?

3:15 So I want you to start asking better questions just like we did last week. And if you didn't hear that one, I want you to go back and listen to that because I just had a patient come in this week and she's been a patient for a long time. We've been following her with her progesterone and saliva testing. And she went to the doctor and she was really trying to explain to the doc, hey, this is what I was doing. This is what this test means. And she wanted progesterone because she didn't have her uterus. What happened is, is that she kept trying to explain why she needed progesterone. And the doctor kept telling her why she doesn't need it. And that causes a lot of conflict. It makes it where patients feel like we're not listening to them. And it causes a lot of distrust with doctors.

3:57 So I'm trying to, even if I could get doctors to go to AI and ask the right question and not accept the first answer, that would be a big breakthrough. All right. Now, let's go to the next slide. So why are people going to AI? Well, you know, recently a lot of people lost their insurance. Insurance is astronomical now. And a lot of people just can't even afford to go to the doctor. So what they do is they ask the question and they get an answer. Also, it's hard to find a doctor who might accept their insurance. Even if they do have insurance, people have high deductibles, $ 5, 000, $ 6, 000 deductibles. Some people can't afford that. What's the least expensive way to go? Ask AI. Go to Facebook. And I see all kinds of things on these Facebook groups. I've talked to you about that. I wish I could tell the Facebook groups, hey, ask this question to AI and don't ask it to someone else who doesn't know what's going on either. And the problem is that you have this...

5:01 conversation with the doctor and he feels confident that he has checked everything and you're fine and you're confident that you still feel awful. So that really causes a conflict between the patient and the physician, at least in my viewpoint, because you've walked in and you said, look, I'm tired all the time. I have brain fog, poor sleep, anxiety. And I will tell you in my office, all of this always gets checked off. I think I said before is that, yeah, perimenopausal and menopausal women is not just the hot flashes and the mood swings. It's all of this other stuff. And so the number two symptom that they have is usually exhaustion. And we're going to kind of hone in on that.

5:48 All right. Here's what usually happens. And this is what I hear. my patients will say, why am I tired all the time? And that question is going to get you the routine answers because most of the people who come in, they will have had all of these tests and they have been told, hey, you may have an iron deficiency anemia. And I have a lot of people coming in now, they don't really have anemia, but they have a low ferritin, which means they need iron. But The problem is that most of the time the problem is upstream. It's either a menstrual cycle problem or it's some other type of problem.

6:30 So anyway, what you're going to get is these standard tests and you're going to still leave with the same answers because these are the standard answers that the doctor is going to give you. So if you don't have iron deficiency or thyroid problems or diabetes, you're going to be sent out with your lab results and being told, That's your normal, all right? So what I want you to remember is if you ask AI the same question you ask your doctor, you will often get the same kind of answer, okay? So you have to ask a broader question. Now, if you ask something like this, ask how does my body work? And then you can ask it to explain it in simple language. And you can also, you know, you can go a little bit deeper. If you don't understand something, you can ask it to explain it to you in another way. So ask something like, how does my body regulate energy, sleep, and stress? Okay.

7:22 Or how does, and I'm going to talk to you about cortisol, or how does the circadian rhythm affect me? All right. So that's what we're going to talk about is how does your body regulate energy, sleep, and stress? So ask it to explain the physiology in simple language, and you're going to get a much better answer, a much better understanding. And when you can understand things better, you are going to make better decisions. And that is how you end hormone confusion. That's my other pet peeve, is that the more you understand, the less confused you will be. Because the more confused you are, the more options and the more straws you're going to try and grab.

8:05 So you need to understand what's going on, and that will allow you to make decisions better. that are particular to you because most of these standard guidelines, they are built for a general population. They're not necessarily built for you, but this is what I will tell you. Physiology really almost goes across cultures and people. So physiology is one thing that can remain stable even if there's a lot of instability around. And so here, how does my body work? Now, instead of just getting that list of of tests and diagnoses, you get an explant. And that's what functional medicine is about.

8:46 How does my body function? What do I need to do to make it function better? That is what functional medicine is about. Disease medicine or conventional medicine is to rule out or rule in a disease. And there's a big gap between being healthy and having it. So that's the difference. Okay. The answer explains the physiological system. That's what you want to know. And I also want to tell you that, hey, look, physiology is not hard. It makes a lot of sense. It's very logical. I believe that nature and life is very logical. How nature works is very logical. And we're going to talk about how you and nature are really, you are a part of nature.

9:27 And so you have to understand how nature works. And then that's going to help you to understand how you work. What did we do? We had the same AI, and I don't really care what AI you have. It's Gemini, Claude, and I tried it on all of these, is that if you ask the simple question, you will get the standard answer. And usually the standard answer is what your doctor is telling you. And look, I'm not saying that the guidelines aren't good. They are good to protect you. But if you want specific answers about what's going on with you, you may have to ask another question, okay? Because when you ask what's wrong, you get a possible diagnosis. When you ask how your body works, you begin to learn physiology. I will tell you in my office, I probably spend 10 to 15 minutes to try and help the patient understand what's going on with them. Because once they understand, their stress level goes down. Because they're stressed out because the doctor keeps telling them what they don't have.

10:28 And the doctor is absolutely correct. You don't have that disease. But it's really not the answer of why do I still feel awful even though I don't have all of those diseases. It's usually a functional problem. Now, I believe that this is the ageless blueprint, okay? I've been talking about how the menstrual cycle... is, is a transition, how the transitions go. So all of, I think all of nature is bound by cycles, balance, and transition. And when we talk about that, just think about we're in the fall season right now. So what, what happened? Okay. We went through winter and then the winter, everything is pretty dormant. You can say everything is dead. And then the spring comes and there's a transition from cold air to warm air. Okay. It's starting to grow. So you grow But in that transition, there's usually some type of turbulence.

11:22 There's always, when you transition from one thing to another, there's always turbulence. And in the southeast, when you change cold air to warm air, that's springtime. And in the springtime, because of that transition, you can get a lot of turbulence. In the southeast, we get tornadoes. So there's always going to be turbulence when you have a transition. And that's what I talked about in the menstrual cycle. you get turbulence in the transition from being non-reproductive to reproduction, reproductive, which is called, uh, puberty. And then you also have a transition from being non-reproductive to mean, uh, reproductive to non-reproductive. So all of those are transitions. So in, in weather you get cycles, balance and transitions, because now that we are going out of spring now in summer, that is when you're at the height, you are, uh, You know, that's the summertime is when everything is blooming and growing.

12:20 And now it's fall. And now we have a transition from the growth and the development cycle. And then we're going we're diminishing our ability to do these things. And that is what we call the fall of our life. So I see best best viewers with Twitch move space. OK, so balance doesn't mean everything stays the same. It means that the changes are coordinated. And when you talk about cycles balancing and transitions, everything goes through cycles. You know, right now we're going through a transition from having information that is not available to now we have all kinds of information available. So we have to be able to manage those transitions. So nature has always followed rhythms and sunlight, Dark cycle helps to synchronize life on Earth. So it is very important. We talk about when I talk about cortisol and circadian rhythm is all governed by the sun.

13:22 It's all governed by these day night cycles and all of your body has a clock. So I think I'm going to go to this. Hey, Rebel. Is your mic working? I guess not. Anyway, so you have to understand how the trees know when to change. Why are we going through fall right now? It changes due to daylight and the environmental conditions that signal the seasonal transition. See, a tree doesn't need a calendar to know when to change. It's biology responds to the environment. And we do the same thing. We respond to sunlight. Right now, that the that we're getting decreased daylight, it changes how we react.

14:08 It changes how we feel. It changes, you know, so we are starting to change into a new type of system. So that's what's going on. Hey, can we go to break right now? Can we go to break real quick? Yeah, so let's do a commercial. We are going to a quick break, so stay with us as we explore the ageless blueprint right here on W4HC Radio and Talk4TV. An ancient secret with a modern twist for better health and vitality. Dr. Taylor will be right back. Taking care of your health shouldn't mean taking a handful of pills every day. At TaylorMDFormulations.com. They create doctor-developed supplements that combine the best natural ingredients so you get the results you need with fewer pills. TaylorMD Formulations is backed by science designed for real life.

15:07 With real results. Less pills, better health, doctor approved. Shop now at TaylorMDFormulations.com and discover smarter supplements for smarter health. That's TaylorMDFormulations.com. We are back for more of Ageless Blueprint. Once again, let's join Dr. Taylor for more insights and research on the ancient secret to better health and a better life in modern times. Here's your host, Dr. Eldred Taylor. Hey, I'm sorry I got interrupted. I had to go do something that was throwing me off. But here's what I want to talk about. Nature has always followed rhythm. And we are governed by day-night cycles. I've been talking about cortisol and stress for a long time. And what I want to get you to understand is that your body runs on a biological clock and is primarily governed by the sun. And that biological clock not only governs, you know, when you wake up and when you go to sleep. But every cell in your body actually has a biological clock that is set by the sun. And that is why I tell patients and especially nurses who work the night shift is that when you work the night shift and you're throwing off this rhythm, it can cause all kinds of problems. And so there's a discipline in medicine called chronobiology. What it looks at is the timing,

16:39 how your biology is timed, how different cells and different organs are at their peak performance at different times in the daily cycle. So how do trees know when to change? It's by the sunlight. When there's less sunlight and it's colder, then the leaves change in its fall. When there's more sunlight, the trees grow. They don't have a calendar. They don't know it's Veterans Day. They don't know anything. They go by the cycle of the sun, that daily cycle. And there's daily cycles. There's monthly cycles, the menstrual cycle. There's yearly cycles. The weather is a yearly cycle. The menstrual cycle is a monthly cycle. And cortisol is a daily cycle.

17:22 And so that's what we're going to talk about is that daily cycle may be why you still feel awful. Because this brain, your brain has a master clock. How does it determine? how to organize your body and its body systems. Light comes into the eye. The eye, the light goes into this place called the suprachiasmic nucleus. It's in this little bitty area in your brain. And that is what tells your body and every cell in your body what time it is and when to turn on and when to turn off. This is why we wrote the book, The Stress Connection, okay? Because we understood about 20 years ago that stress is connected to everything. And every organ has a clock. Stress can disrupt the timing of all of them. So we've talked about how stress can disrupt your menstrual timing, because what we're disrupting is usually a transition. When you look at the menstrual cycle, you have the beginning of the cycle where The tissue is growing and then you have a transition and that transition is governed by ovulation. And if you don't ovulate, you don't transition properly into the second part of the cycle.

18:38 And that's when you can get estrogen dominance and you get PMS, you get fibroids, you get all of these things because stress has disrupted that transition. And now you have this turbulence. So your brain has a master clock, but every organ keeps time too. Stress can disrupt the timing of all of them. So if you eat at the wrong time, if you sleep at the wrong time, if you are out in the temperature that is a stress for a long time, if you are exposed to pathogens or viruses, then it's going to disrupt the timing of how your body works. So we want to try and work with nature and not try and work against it because we go against nature all the time. We work too hard, we don't sleep enough, we don't eat right, and we're all disrupting our natural cycles, balance, and transitions. Now, I talk about cortisol a lot, and cortisol isn't just a stress hormone. It also helps your body coordinate activity with the time of day. Morning cortisol generally rises. You have to think of cortisol not as a stress hormone, but as a hormone that governs your energy level over the course of the day. I'd like to say cortisol mobilizes energy so you have this natural source of energy that rises in the morning and it slowly goes down at night. Now, Stress can disrupt this. And if it

20:11 disrupts it, it's going to disrupt how your body works. And the problem is, is that I don't think enough doctors or healthcare are just patients. Understand cortisol. Everybody thinks that cortisol being too high is a problem and it is. But a lot of times the reason why you feel awful is because you have disrupted this normal energy source. And so now the only energy source you really have is adrenaline. And that's what we call you're in the survival mode. You're not in this natural flow of energy. You're supposed to live in the natural flow of energy. Before there was artificial lighting, that is how people understood what time to wake up and what time to go to sleep. And they worked with nature. Now that the artificial lighting, we have blue light, everybody knows about that.

21:06 And that is disrupting this this cortisol rhythm, and then that ends up causing problems in all areas. It causes a problem with your immune system. It causes a problem with how you digest food. It causes a problem with how you metabolize food and how you detoxify yourself. All of it is, not all of it, but a lot of it can be thought of to be initiated by, am I disrupting this natural cycle? Am I in a transition that I don't understand? And if I understood it, I think you could actually get through it a lot better. What happens when your body gets out of balance? Okay, out of rhythm. Disrupted timing can influence sleep, energy, mood, and metabolism. When your daily rhythms are disrupted, sleep, energy, mood, and metabolism can be affected. That's what I was just saying.

21:58 And you go back to this, the shift work, the stress, irregular activity, and meal timing, all of that can disrupt that cycle. And when that happens, We can get, again, your menstrual cycles thrown off. And men, men, it's not just women. I see a lot of men who are on testosterone, and they keep adjusting to testosterone, and their real problem is that they may have a cortisol disorder, because men, they overwork, they stay out late, they drink, they do all kinds of things, and they may actually have some actual you know, disease or, you know, liver problems or whatever. But a lot of times it's cortisol.

22:39 And I've seen plenty of men who come in who say they're tired or they just don't feel like themselves anymore. And they will, I will do a saliva cortisol test. And we'll talk about that in a minute. And I can show them that this is what stress is doing to you. And we've got to change this or it's going to cause a problem. Stress is more than a feeling. Stress involves the brain, the nervous system, and endocrine system. Cortisol is one measurable hormone involved in the stress response. And salivary testing can measure free cortisol at different times of day. And I will tell you, I want to get across to people is that I've been using saliva testing to test for cortisol for probably 20 years. And that's what gave me the information to do this book. Now, if you look, and do I have a slide about that? Yeah.

23:29 If you ask AI the question about saliva testing, it will, well, let's ask it about how do you measure cortisol? What it will say is that cortisol is great to be measured in saliva or to rule out Cushing's syndrome. What that means is when you have Cushing's syndrome, you have this overabundance of cortisol. And they specifically say it's good for nighttime cortisol. But they say it's okay to look at cortisol at night. But if you can look at it at four times during the day, you get a much better picture of what their cortisol curve looks like. And I've shown that in some other of my podcasts and some of the other videos that I have on YouTube.

24:12 is that it really shows you what your cortisol disruption is, and there's ways to fix it. A lot of our supplements primarily focus on trying to get your cortisol rhythm back, because once that gets back in rhythm, it brings all of your cells back in rhythm. So we have what we probably call adrenocare glandular And we have a problem called Serencom. Serencom has phosphatidylserine in it, so it can lower nighttime cortisols, what they talk about in Cushing syndrome, having a high nighttime cortisol. And you can also, the Adrenacare is an adrenal supplement that has adaptogens in it to help you better adapt to stress. And that was the PaleoMD formulation that you saw in the commercial. So stress is a whole body response. Cortisol gives us one measurable piece of that physiology. So with cortisol, timing matters.

25:06 And that's what I was saying is don't just need to look at it at night. Morning cortisol normally rises around awakening. So it's often suggested that you should get morning sunlight within like 10 minutes of waking up because that sets your clock for that day. And believe it or not, 14 hours after your body sees sunlight, if you don't expose it to a lot of artificial light in the meantime at night, 14 hours later, you should get sleepy. And a lot of times we push past that point and we're unable to sleep. And I'm not telling you things that I'm perfect at, because let me tell you, I overwork. I push myself. I do all of these things, but I try my best to understand what's going on. and try to pull myself back when I see that I'm going too far. And a lot of times you want to, if I can show you what the cortisol or what your rhythm is doing, then you will have the motivation to try and change it.

26:03 So when a hormone follows a daily rhythm and when you measure, it matters. And even with saliva testing with women and trying to understand their hormonal fluctuations, you have to do it at a certain time. And we can talk about that at some other time. So are we looking at the whole picture? And that's what I'm trying to get across to you. So you can try and get it across to your doctor. If you have a doctor who wants to learn this, send it to them, show them some of the things that you may be dealing with and how understanding this has helped you. Because the only reason why I'm doing this is because a patient asked me a question that I could not answer and I started to research it. And I just believe that there's physicians out there who want to help you more.

26:48 They want to give you the answer and they just are bound by what they have been indoctrinated in, what they've been taught. And they don't want to, I won't say they don't want to, but they find it hard to go against the grain. And it's hard for me to go against the grain. It is. But I feel like I'm giving you some information that you might not get anywhere else. So if you do the conventional evaluation, you're going to get iron, ferritin, thyroid, glucose, and they may send you to a sleep study or whatever. But I will tell you that a lot of it and most of it, and I think almost all of it, it starts out with stress. And so saliva testing and a four-point cortisol is one way you can do it.

27:33 And I'm not telling you that this is a conventional way to do it, but it's something that you should investigate. Ask it, how does saliva testing differ from blood testing? Just ask that question and tell me the physiology of it and not the party line about testing, right? Now, Most of you have a phone or a watch that probably does heart rate variability. Now, heart rate variability is another way to be able to understand your sympathetic and your parasympathetic system. So what that is, is how well are you able to adapt second by second to the changes in the environment internally and externally? So that is a rough estimate. And the The lower your heart rate variability, that is the lower amount of adaptability that you have.

28:23 You're having a hard time adapting to all of the changes that are going on. And what I'm talking about is these minute changes that when your potassium gets 1.2 low, your body sees that as a stress and it has to come in and correct it. So all of those little changes, if you're stressed, your body doesn't have the energy to take care of it. So you get a flat HRV, there's not much variability. That means that you can be under chronic stress. So if you have information on your phone, I want you to understand what it can tell you. And then also, if you have these issues, I want to broaden your horizons on how you can find out more information and how, if you understand it, you'll know what tests to do, what transition you're in, what you should be expecting. And that's why I have a course called Why Don't I Feel Like Myself Anymore?

29:23 It has seven modules. It goes through all of this information I'm telling you and more. And I think I'm going to start adding some AI prompts because a lot of people don't understand thyroid and how that works and how stress affects thyroid function and how stress affects GI function. And I may start sending out some prompts for you to put in your AI so you can help yourself understand this. And I'm going through a transition, okay? I started out being an OB. Then I started going out publicly speaking where I had to travel And then I said, well, we're just going to stay in office now. I'm transitioning into how do I use social media and how do I use these platforms to continue my message? So I'm transitioning.

30:11 How do I do this? And so I've been trying to do this. I've been doing this for two years and I want to keep doing it and educating you in the best way I can. All right. So if you can ask better questions and understand your body, you're going to be better off. So don't just ask AI what's wrong. Ask how your body works. And I want you to understand that cycles, and I want you to understand your natural biological rhythms, balance, how important it is to understand how your body systems coordinate to maintain balance, and how you transition from one part of a cycle to another. So I know we're 30 minutes in. Let's do the commercial again. We'll come back and see if there's any questions, or if you have any questions, Rebel.

30:54 We are going to a quick break, so stay with us as we explore the ageless blueprint right here on W4HC Radio and Talk4TV. An ancient secret with a modern twist for better health and vitality. Dr. Taylor will be right back. Taking care of your health shouldn't mean taking a handful of pills every day. At TaylorMD Formulations, they create doctor-developed supplements that combine them Best natural ingredients so you get the results you need with fewer pills. TaylorMD Formulations is backed by science designed for real life with real results.

31:36 Less pills, better health, doctor approved. Shop now at TaylorMDFormulations.com and discover smarter supplements for smarter health. That's TaylorMDFormulations.com. We are back for more of Ageless Blueprints. Once again, let's join Dr. Taylor for more insights and research on the ancient secret to better health and a better life in modern times. Here's your host, Dr. Eldred Taylor. All right. You know, Rebel, I don't know if you have any questions, but I really just want to. Yeah. Okay. I really want to just to say one thing is that, you know, this is more than just physiology. When we talk about cycles and transitions, you know, we went from agricultural farming society. And then there's the industrial revolution where we started having machines and everything. And then through all of that, there was turbulence. People lost farms and money and all this stuff. And then we went from an industrial society to a digital society. And then all the factories closed and we had globalization. That was a transition where we could send things out. And now we're into this AI, this informational age where All the information that's ever been known is at your fingertips. And the problem is, how can I connect those dots? And so this is a transition. And so we're going to have turbulence. And hopefully this turbulence will lead to something better.

33:05 And that's the goal. So anyway, we have any questions? And I'll tell you, the stock market has cycles. The politicians, politics has cycles. We were democracy, and now they're talking about socialism. And so this is going to be a transition. And this is why everybody's stressed. Everybody is stressed because we're going through a transition and all transitions cause turbulence. So let's see if we have any questions. Yes. First, everybody who is not watching, they're listening and they had some questions about. Is Dr. Taylor a real person? Yes. Dr. Taylor is not AI. He is a real person. Wow.

33:46 There are people that listen on radio and don't see. So they got a little bit confused. So yes, Dr. Taylor is a real person. He is in Georgia. Yeah, I'm in Nashville. This is my study. You know, I had a fake background and I said, no, I want to be more authentic. So I came to my study so I didn't have to use a fake background. Absolutely. He is real, folks, and you can make an appointment with Dr. Taylor. Oh, yeah. Another question is, does everybody run on the same clock? It's according to, you set your own clock, okay? If you, whenever you see the sun, that's your clock, okay? So you can set it. So the later you see the sun, if your body doesn't get that signal, or if it gets a signal from any type of light, it is going to get the clock running, okay? So I wouldn't say that everybody runs on the same clock, but the sun governs almost all life. You don't have the sun, you don't have anything. So that's why it's so important.

34:45 Nothing in nature really grows and it doesn't grow on time unless it is following the cycle of the sun, the day-night cycle of the sun. And even when the sun is not out, I went on safari and you see that predators, they function at night. that's their clock. That's how they run. That's when they can hunt. But the animals, they're in the day because they want to see the predators and they know that the predators hide out in the daytime. So no, not every thing, every person or every animal actually has the same biological clock.

35:25 Next question. Okay, the next question is, they're concerned about the talk of blocking the sunlight to the earth, how would that affect? It's going to affect everything. It's going to affect everything. This is one of the major issues, is that when you try to control nature, it always backfires. Even how we're building dams and trying to block water flow, the natural flow of water or the natural flow of sun, whenever you try to control nature, nature always wins. When If the Starlink or whatever, that's going to block sunlight, it's going to cause a problem for all of nature.

36:06 And remember, we are part of nature. Only way we get our energy is coming from what grows from the influence of the sun. All energy really comes from the sun. Those plants that you eat, they are there because of the sun and they have the energy of the sun. And that is how you get energy. And when we talk about spirituality, we're talking about us being energetic beings. that's all connected to a divine source. And that's the spirituality part of this. So go ahead. How are we, if we are running on the correct? There's a whole part of medicine, it's called chronobiology. And I will tell you, I look at a lot of stuff on YouTube. There's a guy named Feynman, F-E-Y-N-M-A-N, who is great at talking about, and I want to start telling you things about how things work based on time.

37:01 And even he talks a lot about what happens as people transition in and out of different stages of their life. What happens at age 60 or 65 that really is just a part of nature. These are things that happen. So even when you're talking about longevity, you have to work with nature. You have to say, okay, how am I out of time? How is my biology not functioning in the right daily cycle? To me, that is how you increase your longevity and your happiness in life, is that how do I get in the natural flow? And that's why so many people are moving and going out in nature. All of these people, they're trying to reconnect with nature. Because the further we get from nature, the sicker we get. And that's just how it is, because we are trying to control things that we cannot control.

37:58 All right, next question. Does the body give clues of what timing we should be on for best results? Yeah, it's always giving you clues. When something, when a symptom is a clue, it's not a necessarily disease, it is a clue. So when you are not feeling like you should, it is a clue that something is going wrong. And I would tell everyone is to first look at stress. I ask patients in the office, when was the last time you felt normal? And they'll give me a date. And then they'll say, ever since then, something's happened. So what happened the year or two before that? They'll come in with all of these stressors. And so always look at what are the stressors in my life that may be disrupting my cortisol rhythm? And I'll tell you my four-step stress response is, one, you try your best to get rid of the stress. It's a job, a relationship, or whatever. Two, change how you respond to the stress. Three, repair the damage caused by the stress. And that's how we do IV therapy and supplements or those type of things.

39:04 And then you have to prepare yourself for future stress. How am I going to change my lifestyle? What am I going to do to make sure I don't get back into this hole again where I don't feel like myself? So we try to take you through that whole process. Get rid of the stress. Change how you respond to it. Meditate. Learn more. Go to AI. Learn more about it so you can understand it so you're not stressed about it. Repair the damage caused by the stress. And now let's get prepared for future stress because life is still going to give you more stress. Seems people need to adjust their coping mechanisms, realize changes. Yeah. And once you understand, oh, this is just a regular transition. I know what's going on. My estrogen rejection was out of balance. Let me do the right test for what I want to do. Oh, I know what's going on. I'm waking up tired. And then I can't go to sleep at night. I'm wired but tired. Oh, that's a cortisol disruption. I know what tests to do.

39:57 I know the things I need to do. Let me look at my stress. So yeah, the more you understand it, the more you can self-help because that's what people are having to do now. It's tough out there, okay? Everybody. Everybody is trying to stretch a dollar. So I'm trying to help you to get the information you need, make the right decisions. Also, you know, look at my YouTube channel, look at all my links, go to Taylor MD formulations. There's a lot of information there. My website is taylormedicalgroup.net. We do a lot of interesting things there. And again, I'm not going to necessarily do what your regular doctor is going to do. I'm going to try and look at it from a different lens. And I want you to see that lens and be able to look at it also. All right, so we can wrap it up if there's no more questions, Rebel. Do we have more, Rebel? Okay, great, great.

40:51 What do people need to do to get their bodies on a proper running time for best performance? Oh, that's a big question. We'd have to see where you are now. And what do you consider peak performance? Okay, are you talking about Tom Brady, LeBron James peak performance, or are you just trying to feel normal again? Because those are two questions. When you're trying to push yourself to the limit, that'd be something you'd need a real trainer or whatever to do. But when you're talking about just daily life cycles, then that's where knowing your medical history, what kind of symptoms are you having? Can I tie those symptoms? If you haven't connected the dots of those symptoms with conventional medicine, how can I get a better understanding to know what I should do or what avenue I should go down? And so I don't know if I answered that question, but.

41:47 Can I add something? Yeah, go ahead. One thing you can start with is contact Dr. Taylor and see if the saliva test would give you a start in knowing these things, okay? Contact Dr. Taylor, see what Talk to him. He is available. Yeah. And you can talk to me on social media. I try to answer those questions and leave, leave a comment on my videos and I'll get a notification and I'll try and answer you. All right. So yeah, you can, you know, I'm here to try and help educate you. I have some, you know, some educational materials that you might be interested in. I really would encourage you to take my, Why don't I feel like myself anymore? I think that would really help. So you can contact me. The links are in my bio.

42:40 And I'll see you next week, I think. Thanks for joining Dr. Taylor today. If you missed any part of this show, just check out the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Ageless Blueprint is every Wednesday at 9 a.m. Eastern Time on. W4HC Radio at W4HC. com. Together, we discover the ancient secrets to better health through science and spirituality made for modern times. Until then, feel free to check out agelessblueprintpodcast.com and taylormdformulations.com for more information.