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Here's your host, doctor Eldred Tables.
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Hello everybody, Good morning. This is a cold Wednesday in Atlanta.
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We're actually expecting some snow this weekend. And you may
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notice that I don't have my usual white coat on
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with my spiritual MD and I'm the harmone doctor because
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this was going to be a little bit different. You know,
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I've been doing Aceless Blueprint here for about a year now,
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and I came up with that name, and I really
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didn't know why or what, but it just felt right
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at the time. So I've been doing podcast and doing
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the school and doing all kinds of things, and I
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finally realized what I was trying to do is I
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was trying to show how people could be ageless at
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any age and the ageless Blueprint. And I'll just give
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you what I figured out as a key to life
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is are you able to adapt to the ever changing environment? Okay?
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That is is what longevity is all about. Can you adapt?
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So the dinosaurs, did they become extinct because they were
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lazy or because they weren't powerful enough, they weren't big enough. No,
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they just couldn't adapt to the changing environment. And that's
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the thing that all animals have to do, and we're
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animals or mammals or whatever. You have to be able
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to adapt to the environment. And your body, if it
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is allowed, can adapt to almost any situation. But it
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has to be a stress and then it has to
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be a recovery because whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Okay,
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So stress is not the enemy, it's just the prolonged
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stress is the problem. So let's go to the slide.
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So we're going to talk about the biology of high performance.
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So you know, I feel like I been Can can
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we make these bigger? Yeah? All right? Sology of high performance?
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So you know, I feel like I've been a high performer.
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You know, I've tried to be you know, my parents,
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you know, hey, you can do anything and others. So
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you know, I wanted to be a doctor. That's high performance.
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I have to do well in school, I have to
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do all this stuff, all right. So then also I
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you know, be at my residence. I'm gonna do a objuyn.
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I had to be a high performer. So then I
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had to be in my practice. I had to be
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higher performance, high performance, high performance. And then what you
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realize is that I couldn't do obgyn anymore. I couldn't
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do it anymore. It took me too long to recover.
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So I had to adapt. So I did functional medicine.
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Then I became a speaker, and then I had to
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adapt because traveling was too much. And then I had
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to adapt to see how can I still be a
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high performer at sixty five? And so I'm just going
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to take you through all of those steps and how
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you have to be aware that you if you want
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to maintain your high performance, you have to understand and
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the biology of high performance. So I wanted you to
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understand why resilience fails and why standard labs miss it,
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because people are going to the doctor trying to figure out,
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why can't I perform like I used to, Why can't
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I lose weight like I used to? Why can't I
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handle my job like I used to? And so they
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get all these tests and it gets missed. And so
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I want to show you how you can restore your
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adaptive capacity. And at sixty five, I'm trying to learn
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it and I'm trying to live it. I'm trying to
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maintain my high performance at sixty five and past because
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I've seen patients who have been high performance all their
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life and they can't wait till they're sixty or sixty
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five they're going to retire, and then they find out
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they don't have the energy that they thought they were
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going to have to enjoy their retirement. Right. So that's
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what ages's blueprint is all about. Okay, And I'm gonna
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tell you now. I'm gonna tell you at the end,
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the key to longevity is your ability to adapt to
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an ever changing environment. And with AI and all of
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this stuff, everything is changing so fast. Can you adapt?
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And I'm going to show you the biology that will
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help you adapt? Right, So let's go to the next one.
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So a lot of people, you know, they get to
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this point and it's like, is this just how I'm
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going to feel for the rest of my life? You know,
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maybe I'm successful, but I'm less resilient. That's what happened
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to me when I was doing ob It is that
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if I got up at two or three o'clock in
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the morning and did a surgery, Oh wow, I did
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a C section. Oh it was so exhilarating. But after
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a while, after I got into my forties, I could
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still do it, but I couldn't recover, okay, And even
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when I started speaking, as that started to wear on me.
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I was responsible, I would go, but I was less sharp.
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I couldn't come up with the with the interesting you know,
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little stories and stuff. And then I was still performing,
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but I was totally exhausted. I'm going to show you
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this whole life cycle here, and it all started in
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my forties or fifty fifties. My output remained high, but
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the effort required to sustain. It has doubled. Recovery takes longer,
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and the emotional fuse is shorter. That's why I saying,
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when you haven't recovered, now everything irritates you. Your job
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that used to you enjoy, now you hate it, okay,
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because you have not been able to adapt and your
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biology hasn't kept up with the environment yet. So let's
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go to the next labe. So you know, I've been
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to Africa and you see these animals and the first
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book I read about stress was why Zebras don't get ulcers?
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to try and survive, to try and have experiences and survive.
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So here's what zebras do. Okay, So they sit around
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and all these animals do. All they do is is
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eat and they sleep. They eat and they sleep, they
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go get water, they eat and sleep until a predator
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shows up. All right now, So they're doing parasympathetic is
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rest and digest, and I'll talk about that later. But anyway,
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so what they do is they sit around and if
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they see a predator, what happens They have to go
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into the sympathetic mode. They either have to fight or flight.
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So here's what happens. So they see a predator, they
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make a decision. Am I going to run and try
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and avoid the predator or am I going to fight it?
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So what happens is is a five or ten minute race.
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two things will happen. Either the zebra will win the
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race and they will win the fight, and either way,
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the sympathetic driver is over with. They go back to
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eating and sleeping. All right, r it will lose the
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fight or lose the race. And now that sympathetic tone
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or that stress has killed the zebra and the stress
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response is over. So either way, the stress response is
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short lived. All right. The problem in humans, see we
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initiate that stress response twenty four to seven, we don't
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have a stress, and then recover and then we adapt.
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You know what those zebras do. They get sharper, they
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get stronger because they've avoided or they went through a fight. Now,
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so whatever kills you will make you stronger. Okay, whatever
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doesn't kill you, you will make you stronger. But it can't
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also kill you. So the stress can kill you if
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it's a prolonged stress. Right, So humans act like the
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predators around twenty four to seven. Because your body sees stress,
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whether it's emotional, environmental, any type of disruption in homeostasis,
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your body sees it as a stress. So if you're
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worried about something, if you had an injury that you
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hadn't recovered from, if you are in a toxic environment
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that's mold in your house or whatever, your body sees
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that as a stress. And if you don't identify that,
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and if you don't try to adapt to it and
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recover from it, it will kill you. Stress will kill you,
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all right. So now what I want you to understand
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is burnout is not a weakness. Okay, burnout is. So
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the myth is that burnout is a failure of manset.
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It is a lack of discipline or mental toughness. And see,
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and that's what happens. You become depressed and you become
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down on yourself because you can't do what you used
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to do. You can't lose weight like you used to,
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you can't perform your job like you used to. You
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can't you don't feel like you can be a parent
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like you used to. But the reality is that burnout
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is a broken adaptive switch. It is a physiological recovery debt.
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So I'm going to show you this in more detail.
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But cordis all should look like this. So remember this
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rhythm right here. So this is a daily quarter as
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our rhythm. This is you go to sleep, you recover,
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you build up your energy supply. Now you wake up
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in the morning, you have all of this energy. You
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go through your day, you work, you do what you
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need to do. Around lunchtime, you eat, you get a
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little bit more energy. Now you're tired, you go to sleep,
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you recover. You all of the energy from what you
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aid and what you did, it's all incorporated. And now
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it's a new day, and here you go. You're ready
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to go again. That's what's supposed to happen. And this
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is a cortisol curve. Your cortisol is your stress hormone.
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So every day there are some stressors, so you should
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have this flow of energy, all right, But when you
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run twenty four to seven, when you think there's a predator,
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when there's stressed all the time, initially cortosol goes up here.
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starts to flatten out. And now this is your energy
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supply for the day. You cannot be a high performer
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when your cortisol is like this. So I want to
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show you this is how it works. Now, this is
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probably how I was as an when I was going
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through medical school. You go, you know, this is what
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happens when you're young. You can go to school, you
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can work, you can party, you can do drug you
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can do all these things. Misuse your body because you've
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got all of this quarters on, you're pushing yourself. But
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I want to show you. This is a fifty four
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year old woman. She doesn't want to be like this,
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all right, but this is how it starts. And this
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is corporate America. Hey, push, push, push. You need to work,
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you need to stay late, you need to work hard,
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and you can do this for a certain amount of time,
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all right, But then this is what happens. And I
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want to show you. These are all These are patients
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that I've seen in the last month. This is this year.
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So most of the time people come to my office
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after they've had all of these tests, all of these
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different tests to see where their gut doesn't work while
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their brain doesn't work. They've been to all of these specialists.
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Then they finally come to me and I look at
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what's up the stream? What caused it? That stress connection
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that I told you. We wrote that book because seventy
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five to ninety percent of all visits to primary care
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physicians are for stress related complaints or disorders. So this
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is ninety five percent of my patients. More or less,
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they all have these disrupted curves. Now, all I want
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you to see is that green is normal, and you
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see what's going on here. All of these curves are disrupted.
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They're low, they're irregular. So you don't have this normal
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supply of energy during the day to get up, get
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your kids ready, you know, go to work, per format work,
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come home, make dinner. You just don't have it. And
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you fill in this gap with eating with carbohydrates because
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you're trying to fill up this energy gap. So you
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have all these cravings to get through the day. Coffee, chocolate, donuts,
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Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks. Starbucks is a billion dollar company, I
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believe because of this. So this is not rare. And
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if you don't intervene somewhere during this, this is the
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end result. This is a flatland, this is burnout. She
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has no quarters off, she has no ability to adapt
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to anything in her life. All right, So this is
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and the key is you need to be aware. You
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need to be aware that this is not something for
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you to get depressed about, for you to get anxious about.
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This is something for you to intervene into so that
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you can continue to be a high performer and you
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don't have to do all the I'm not talking about
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being a high performer going to medical school and do
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all this stuff. I'm just saying to be able to
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perform the things that you want to do, your personal desires,
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what you want in your life. That's high performance. That's