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Here's your those doctor Eldred tables.
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Okay, good morning. Good morning is Wednesday, and it's a
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beautiful Wednesday. Here at Atlanta, Georgia. We have a garden
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and zelias and things in the back, and they're all
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blooming pretty. It's fifty degrees a little chilli. I always
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like to go outside and take a nice deep breath
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of fresh, clean air and look at all of the
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flowers blooming because it just makes your day start out better.
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All right. So anyway, today we are still talking about
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the cost of harmone confusion and the reason why I
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keep harping on this because I see how big of
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a problem this is. And I keep getting patients that
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come into the office and I'm like, Wow, these are
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all of these high performing women and men, and I
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see that they're at a place in their life and
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they're stuck. They want to keep performing at home and
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at work and relationships and in their leadership positions, but
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they just can't keep doing it at that pace, and
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they're wondering what is going on with them, and they're
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so confused. The doctors are confused. And I tell people
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I was confused when I finished my residency. I didn't
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understand hormones like I should. And I found that out
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when I tried to help my wife when she started
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having these issues, and I saw what I did didn't work.
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And she is a high performing women women, she's a doctor,
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we had two kids, and hey, she was losing it.
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And so that's when we discovered all of this, how
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to test for hormones, how to look at patterns, what's
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going on. It's not esrogen, it's cortisol. It's not the
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lack of estrogen, it's lack of just So that's what
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we learned all this. It was really from that. And
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so now this is twenty five, thirty years later, and
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these women are still having the same issues that my
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wife was having. And now thirty years later, it's just
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more of these women. Okay, it's more of them because
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they've been out in the workplace and been going to
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you know, college and professional schools. And I will tell
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you that the doctors who are a part who are
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coming to learn those women are dealing with the same
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issues and they're trying to help people and they can't
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help themselves. My wife was a psychiatrist and she said, hey, look,
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I'm going in trying to help these people who have
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these emotional ups and downs and I'm having them, so
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how in the world can I help them? So I
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know that these same high performing women are having to
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say And let me tell you, I'm calling it high
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performing women. If you're a woman and you are dealing
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with just life, whether you're a single mom or you
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sing whatever, and this is me and men too. So
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I just see it more women, I guess because I'm
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originally trained as at obgyn, but they are all of
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these women. And again, if you are a homemaker, I
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saw this one woman. She's a doing homeschooling. That is
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a high performing woman. Okay, So I don't want you
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to think you have to have a big time job
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if you're doing anything and it is demanding and you're
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being pulled in all different directions, and sometimes in women
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as they're volunteering too much or they're trying to help
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too many other people and they need to first help themselves.
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And that's why when you go on the flight, they say,
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put the mask on you first, then you help somebody else.
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And my wife understood that you can't help anybody else,
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you can't lead anybody else, you can't perform like you
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want to if you are not helping yourself first. So
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I want you to see what this is costing you.
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And that's why I've done three. I may do another
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one on it. I'm thinking about doing a series. What
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does it cost you in your marriage? What does it
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cost you in your performance at work? What does it
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cost you in your community? You're not able to provide
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any help in the community, so anyway, so that's what
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we're talking about the cost of harmone confusion, and I
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can't believe that thirty years after, twenty five years after
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we wrote this book, are Your Harmones Making You Sick?
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And the other book, The Stress Connection, that people are
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still confused and they're getting confusing information. That's the real problem.
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They're getting it from their physicians. And again I'm not
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anti doctor, I am a doctor. I'm just saying there's
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a lot of confusion. And since this FDA has lifted
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the black box warning, it seems like it's become the
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wild wild West and anything goes. And so that's what
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we're trying to prevent. This is a This is an
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inflection point where women need to understand women and men.
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You need to understand the effect that hormones and stress
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has on you and so you can identify it and
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now you can start doing something about it. So that's
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enough of my monologue. We're going to go to the
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slabs real quick, all right, the hidden costs of harmone
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confusion for high performing women. I'm just going to focus
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on women right now because I've had I had some
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cases over the last two three four weeks that just
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has told me, look, you got to keep talking about this.
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And again I told you that one of my problems
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is I think if I say something once that everybody
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in the world has heard it, and so I have
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to get over that. And that repetition is what changes
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behavior and transforms people. So here we go. I know
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you came back to me, but we're gonna get going,
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all right, So let's look at it. Let's look at
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the next life so we can go through this kind
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of systematically here all right, So we're gonna go to
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the next line. All right. So this is not about symptoms.
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When I do my TikTok, I list eleven symptoms chin here, fibroids,
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a hair loss, mood swings, brain fog. But it's not
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about the symptom. This is about what those symptoms cost
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you in performance. It's about the relationships that you either
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lose or you miss out on because you have these
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symptoms and you don't pursue relationships. And this is about
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your identity. I know when my wife stopped doing the
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country and she came home for five years, she felt
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like she lost her identity. But now she understands she
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can have multiple identities and she can transform. You change
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identities all the time where a student. Now you're married,
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Now you're a mother, now you're a grandmother. You know so,
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so it's always these changes. So it's if when your
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hormones are straight, you can focus in on what your
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true identity is and it's not what the labels are,
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but it's what your true identity really is. Right, high
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performing women are paying a hidden price. They keep functioning
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at home, but they know they're not providing everything they
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could at home. They feel guilty that they're not giving
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the children the attention or the husband the attention, or
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they can't keep the house clean, or they can't do
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all these things, but they keep trying, trying and trying,
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and they keep producing, they keep producing, but underneath their
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physiology is all and they know it, and they come
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in and they say it, and then they think, it's
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all these different things. We're going to talk about it.
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But they know that the symptoms are trying to tell
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them something, but they feel it, and they are desperate
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to try and find the answers because they don't want
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to let their children and their husband and their and
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their employers, or if they're entrepreneurs, they don't want to
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let their business suffer because they're suffering. So what harm
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on confusion looks like. These are these symptoms that I'm
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talking about, you know, fatigue, poor sleep all right, mood shifts,
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waking up at three o'clock in the morning, you can't
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go back to sleep, you can't. You can't manage your
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weight anymore. So it's giving you, you know, self image
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problems and you have a loss of resilience. That's the
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key is that. And I'll tell you my story as
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an obgyn. When I was delivering babies, getting up at
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three o'clock and going delivery baby, deliver babies. When I
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was in my thirties, it was exhilarating. I was excited,
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I'm doing something I'm doing, going to do the C section.
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When I got in my forties. Now, when I was
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in my thirties, I could get two hours of sleep
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and go back to the office and do it all
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over again. It wasn't a big deal. That's what we
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did internship when I was in my twenties and thirties. So,
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but then when I got in my forties, that was
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I couldn't do it anymore. It took me two weeks
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to recover. If I had to get up in the
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middle of the night, so you lose your resilience, you
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don't bounce back, and that's because you're waking up at
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three o'clock in the morning and your quarter is all
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this off, so you're fatigued. And we'll talk about that,
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But those are not the real problem. The real problem
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is what the symptoms cost over time. That's the problem.
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If you don't focus on this, if you don't try
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and identify this and correct it, it's going to cause
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you real problems over time. And it's compounding effect, the
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compounding effect of these issues. So what is the hidden
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cost strained relationships? That is a big one. I've had
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two or three podcasts and videos about strained relationships, and
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these happen at certain times, and I'm going to talk
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about that a little bit later, but I'll tell you
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there's certain times where hartmones shift. One is postpartum women
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get postprium depression because the lack of progesterone. We're going
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to talk about that in perimental Pause. I'll tell you,
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even when a woman gets pregnant, her emotions are all
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all over the place, and then as postpartum emotions are
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all over the place. In perimental polus. There's another shift.
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Emotions are all over the place, even during your reproductive age. Okay,
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if you're having PMS or PCOS, those are progesterone deficiency problems,
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and those can cause emotional upheaval, so strained relationships, and
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whenever you whenever you don't feel good, you're going to
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blame the person who's closest to you. So it's usually
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your spouse or whoever's closest to you, and it's your children.
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That's what was going on with my wife, is that
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she was fussing at the children for no reason. So
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you get reduced confidence. You're not as confident in any
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of your decisions, your health decisions, your decisions. When you're
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talking about home, what should we do for dinner, that's
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becomes a big, a big deal. You have stalled performance.
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to move forward in your employment or whatever your business
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is doing. But you're too tired, you're too moody, you
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can't you can't focus. You have all this emotional volatility,
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so you may say the wrong thing to the wrong
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person and it destroys, it destroys an opportunity for you,
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and then the unnecessary referrals. I get so many people
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who said they've been to all of these doctors. They've
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been to the gasterinurologists because they have some you know,
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gut issues. They go on to the intercrenologists because the
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ogan didn't answer their questions. They've gone to the hematologists
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trying to figure out why they're bleeding or why they're
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iron deficient. Well, it's because they are lack of progesterone.
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So now the esergen causes the indimudual lining or the
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lining of the units to grow too much. And so
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now you have heavy bleeding. You don't need to go
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to a hematologist. You need to understand your hormones. Okay,
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So all of these referrals, all of these tests is
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being done until you go to a hematologists. Sometimes it's
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three hundred bucks to walk in the door, all right,
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And all the medications you've tried and had side effects from,
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and now that's caused you to miswork. So it's so
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many costs. And that's what I'm trying to tell people
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is that the cost of confusion, of hardmone confusion is enormous,
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and the cost of clarity it is minuscule. Compared to
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the cost of confusion. I just want you to think
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about that, all right. So case example, high performing women
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came woman came in. This was two three days ago, exhausted, discouraged,
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and still looking for answers. And she's looking at this podcast.
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I'm not going to save your name, but she's she's
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from a country in North Africa, and she's lived on
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three continents. And she said that she's done so much research,
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and so she went out trying to find somebody who
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would do a saliva test on her. All right, so
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let's show this. So here's what she thought. She thought
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she may have low iron. She was told. Now, this
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is not just what she was thought. What she was
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what she thought. This this is what different doctors had
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told her. They told her, Oh, it's his stress is
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low iron. Your fare tune is low. Even though your
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humoglobin is all right, your fair tune is low. So