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Sept. 2, 2026

Two Misunderstood Hormones: Cortisol and Progesterone

Two Misunderstood Hormones: Cortisol and Progesterone
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Cortisol and progesterone are two of the most misunderstood hormones. Dr. Eldred Taylor explains why cortisol isn't the enemy, how stress and recovery affect the body, and why understanding ovulation is essential to understanding progesterone. Discover how changing hormone patterns may connect with brain fog, fatigue, sleep, mood, menstrual changes, and that feeling of “I don't feel like myself anymore.”

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A better life with Ageless Blueprint starts now. Here's your host, Dr.

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Eldred Taylor.

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Hello, everybody. It is Wednesday, and it is, well, it's

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really 904, 905. We had a little bit of miscommunication

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between Rebel and myself. We weren't sure if we were

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doing this podcast this week.

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Morning.

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Last week, I will tell you, we didn't go live

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because I had a little issue in my home. We

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actually had a little bit of an electrical fire that

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caused a little bit of a problem. It didn't do

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anything serious to the house, but life happens. And, you know,

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it's just sometimes you have to take care of things.

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And so we're going to talk about how life happens.

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And we're going to talk about the two hormones that

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are most misunderstood here. And I hear this all the

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time about how you want to lower your cortisol and

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cortisol is bad and you don't need progesterone if you

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don't have a uterus and nobody even knows about progesterone.

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So we're going to talk about those two because cortisol

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is not your enemy and you don't always need to

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lower it. Cortisol is actually not always bad for you.

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It actually can be good just like anything else if

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it is in the right place and the right time.

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And that's the same thing with progesterone. Progesterone is good

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when it's there and it's balanced with estrogen and all

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those things. So that's what we're going to talk about.

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But I want you to really understand this. And when

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you understand these two, it'll help you to fill in

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the gaps. So Rebel, let's get started. I know we

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started a little bit late, but we're going to keep

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going because this is my mission in life and we're

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going to get women and men to understand this. All right.

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So the three things I want to talk about today

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is that cortisol helps you to adapt. Okay. Cortisol is

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not the problem. It's the stressors that are the problem,

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like the things that are happening in my house. I

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actually want more cortisol so I can adapt to it. Okay.

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The reason why we have survived when other organisms have

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gone extinct is our ability to adapt. Okay. So We

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want cortisol. It helps us to adapt to situations, to

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time zones. It does remarkable things for us. But again,

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we don't want it to be too much. Now, how

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these two are connected is because stress can disrupt ovulation.

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It's not necessarily the cortisol. That's a byproduct of it,

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but it's the stressors that tells your body that it's

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not safe to have a baby because And so it

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cuts off ovulation. So that's why I'm telling you that

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these two are connected. And the problem is that both

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of these are not tested correctly. So that's what causes

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the confusion. Because routine tests are not going to show

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the timing or the recovery patterns. So that's what we

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want to talk about. We want to talk about cortisol.

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We want to talk about progesterone. And we're going to

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want to talk about proper testing. And even if you

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don't test, I want you to understand the patterns so

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that you can go to the doctor or you can

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just do your own research. And also, you know, we're

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going to help you to do the research, too, because

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I need to do this. I want to make sure

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So I just want to have that commercial right here

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in the middle, all right? So now let's look at

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the patterns. So early stress symptoms, what can they be? Headaches.

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We all know that when you're stressed, you feel like

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your head is tight. You have these tension headaches. You

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have stomach problems. We know we have butterflies in the stomach.

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We have eating problems. Some people stress eat and some

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people don't stress eat. They actually, because they have the butterflies,

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they don't feel hungry. So you can have this both ways. Fatigue.

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When your body is under stress, it is getting ready

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to run or to fight. And when that's on constantly,

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it can tire you out. Okay. So fatigue, physical fatigue

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is a stressor. Skin rashes. Usually skin rashes are usually

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a manifestation of gut problems because the skin is one

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of your detoxification organs. So a lot of skin problems

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actually come from the gut and a lot of times

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the gut is disrupted because of stress. So you can

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get chronic mild illnesses because stress and the cortisol are

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really stressed. It suppresses your immune system. And then you

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can get sexual dysfunction because both men and women have

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have to be relaxed in order to have and enjoy

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sexual intercourse or sex. Men, when they're tense, they get

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performance anxiety. So they can have premature ejaculation or have

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erectile dysfunction. What is it caused by? It's caused by

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stress stimulating the sympathetic nervous system, which is the fight

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or flight. And your body is saying, this is not

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the time to have sex right now. So it suppresses that. Now,

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not only do you have physical problems, but your body

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and respond to things that haven't even happened, okay? So

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you can get psychological and behavioral stressors, anxiety, irritability, depression, accidents,

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domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, workplace violence. All of

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that has to do with stress stimulating the sympathetic nervous

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system to fight or flight and suppressing the rest and digest,

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all right? So a lot of these are problems with

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resting and digesting. And then the other problems is with

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fight or flight. And that's why we see this road

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rage and all of these things, because your sympathetic nervous

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system is turned on. It's not necessarily the cortisol. That

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is a byproduct of this dysregulation of the nervous system.

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So that's why you see all of this stuff about

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nervous system regulation, because that is really the problem that's

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causing the manifestation of it in cortisol. But that is

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even a little bit downstream. All right. So here's the problem.

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The problem is popular thinking. So the problem with popular

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thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all.

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It's easy to do what other people do and hope

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that they thought it out. That's the big problem. And

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that's what I see on Facebook groups. And I see

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these Facebook groups that have thousands of members and they're

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all talking about what's popular right now. And what's popular

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right now is pellets, estrogen, and testosterone for energy. All

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of those things are popular. But you're hoping that these

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people on Facebook, you're hoping that they have thought it out.

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But most of them have not thought it out. They're

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following someone else. They're following someone else on another Facebook group.

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So if you deal with the basics, and that's why

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I talk about ageless blueprints. There is an ageless blueprint.

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You don't have to go with popular thinking. If you

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know the basics, you can determine, you can discern what

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is true and what is not true based on what

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you know is the basics. Okay, can you elaborate on

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ED and sexual dysfunction problems? Okay, I'll be happy to.

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So save that, put that in one of the questions.

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I'll get to that, all right? So popular nine diagnoses.

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So because we're so confused, we have these diagnoses for you.

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We talk about chronic fatigue. What is chronic fatigue? Chronic

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fatigue means that you came in and you said, hey,

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I'm tired all the time because chronic means all the

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time and fatigue means tired. Fibromyalgia, what is that? That's

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aches and pains. All my muscles hurt. Well, why do

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all your muscles hurt? Because if you send energy to

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the muscles and you get ready to fight or flight,

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then all of that lactic acid builds up and it

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causes pain. You hold tension in your muscles. And I

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was just looking for, there was talk about tension relief,

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where I'll tell you, we're going to talk about this animals.

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Animals get rid of that tension out of their muscles.

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And I'll show you why. But because we don't do that,

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we end up with fibromyalgia. Well, why do we get depressed? Well,

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how do you diagnose depression? Someone says they're depressed and

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we give them an antidepressant. But a lot of times

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that depression is due to an imbalance in fight or

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flight and rest and digest. So you end up being

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depressed because serotonin is not being made because you're making

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the stress hormones. So irritable bowel, we talked about how

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when you're under stress, you have butterflies in your stomach

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or you may have diarrhea because you have this GI upset.

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And then you have these changes in emotions and we

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call it bipolar. But really, it can be an imbalance

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in either sympathetic and parasympathetic, or it can be an

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imbalance in sex hormones. estrogen and progesterone. All right, so

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let's go to this. So why don't zebras get ulcers?

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I talked about how animals, they get rid of their tension.

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And you have to understand, genetically, we are not far

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apart from actual animals, all right? So we have a

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lot of these natural instincts. So why don't zebras get ulcers?

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You know why zebras don't get ulcers? Because they rest

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and digest all day long. You just sit around, they graze.

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But when a predator comes, when they see that they're

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not safe, fight or flight comes on, all right? So

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the reason why zebras don't get ulcers is because they

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know how to use the stress response because cortisol gives

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them the energy to survive. Your body is always trying

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to see, am I safe? Or am I in danger?

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All right. So the cortisol gives them the energy to

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remove themselves from danger and get to safety. Now, once

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they get to safety, they rest and relax again. They recover.

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They get rid of the tension. And you know how

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they get rid of the tension? They shake it off. Okay.

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They shake it off. So we say shake it off.

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That's getting that tension. And that's why exercise works. Okay.

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Because it relieves that tension that's in your muscles. A

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lot of people go after work and they go work out.

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That helps them to relieve the tension that built up

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because all day their body was thinking they were in

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fight or flight if they were in a stressful situation

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in the office. So zebras don't get ulcers because they

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know the stress response is for acute situations. Hey, I

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have a predator. Now let me tell you the other thing.

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Zebras are unable to have a long-term stress response. The

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reason why hunters and gatherers could get animals because we

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are built for long-term stress, okay? So while the animals

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can only run at full speed for maybe five or

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10 minutes and they have to recover, they are forced

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to recover. Well, people, they could keep chasing the animals

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until they tired them out. So that's why zebras don't

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get ulcers, because they cannot maintain a prolonged stress response.

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Because let's see, if they don't get away from the predator,

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what's going to happen? They're going to get eaten, and

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the stress response is over. So whether they get away

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or they don't get away, they don't have prolonged stress responses.

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All right, so here's how, this is cortisol. Cortisol is

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what wakes you up in the morning and cortisol is

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what tells you to go to sleep at night. So

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cortisol gives you the energy to wake up. So if

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you don't have enough cortisol, you're going to have difficulty

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getting out of bed. All right, now, if you have

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too much cortisol at night, you're going to have trouble

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going to sleep because the natural circadian rhythm is action, recovery, action, recovery.

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That's what the zebra is doing. Action, recovery. Our problem

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is we have all action and no recovery. That's the problem.

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So cortisol is not the problem. It's because we push

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ourselves and we never have proper recovery. We don't sleep.

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We're taught to grind it through and all of these things.

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But cortisol is not the enemy. Cortisol tells you when

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to wake up. It tells you when to go to sleep.

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And so remember how I told you it wakes you

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up in the morning? Well, when you go out into California,

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the first few days or maybe weeks, I'm going to

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wake up at seven o'clock Eastern time, even though it's

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four o'clock there. Okay. But if you stay out there

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long enough, what happens? You will adapt to that time zone.

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So it's all about adaptation. All right. So cortisol helps

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you to adapt to your environment. And when cortisol is low,

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you have a decreased ability to adapt. And even to

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adapt to normal situations that you used to could handle easily,

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you can't adapt back to that. You can't get back

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up to that level. And I'll show you that. And

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it's easy to see if you test. So let me

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see what my time is here. Okay. So we're good. Okay. Okay.

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So how much time do we have? It's 1444 over there.

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So I'm not seeing that, but anyway, let's keep going.

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All right. So this is the problem right here. This

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is the problem. Okay. Stress or cortisol is not your enemy.

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If you don't have enough, you're going to be inactive

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and bored. You need to have a reason to wake

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up in the morning. And that's why I'm seeing this

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information on YouTube. I look at YouTube all the time

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and they were talking about how when men retire, they,

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end up deteriorating. They don't last very long. Why? Because

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men especially, and women too, women, I think their drive

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is taking care of their family, taking care of their home.

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That's their reason to get up. And I don't mean

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to be sexist. I'm just saying generalities. But if you

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don't have anything to stress you, you won't necessarily get

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out of bed. That's why I say the worst thing

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you can do is to be comfortable. You need to

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be challenged, okay? So you get a healthy little tension.

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And then when you get really into your purpose, you

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really get motivated and focused. But here's our problem. We

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don't recover. We keep pushing. We keep pushing, okay? We

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got stress at home. We got stress at the job.

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We got stress with family members. We got kids trying

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to get them through college. We've got parents we're trying

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to take care of as they get older. So we

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have all of these things. So we're pushing, we're here,

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but then all these other things take us over here

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to fatigue because we don't have enough cortisol or energy

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to get through that. We get exhaustion because we keep pushing.

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Then you get panic, anxiety, anger, burnout, and then breakdown.

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So this is the problem. Stress is not the issue.

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We overexert ourselves. We push ourselves too hard. That's the

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American way. Work grand through. Don't, don't, resting is called laziness.

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That is our problem. So stop talking about you want

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to lower cortisol, okay? Because this is what low cortisol

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looks like, okay? When you have a chronic stress like this,

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a threat, you get biological response, continuing threat. But this

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is what I want to show you is that when

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you have this continued stress, Everything is disrupted, okay? Because

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at the time, just think of a zebra. If you've

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got 15 minutes to get away from a predator, you

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are not worried about reproduction. You don't care what your

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hormones are doing because you know it's a life or

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death situation. You definitely don't want to store energy, okay?

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You want all of that glucose into the bloodstream. So

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that's why it can cause insulin resistance. Because it's thinking

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that you need this glucose right now. All right. It

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slows down thyroid function because the body wants to be

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controlled by adrenaline. It doesn't want thyroid to be using energy.

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All right. When you digest food, it takes a lot

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of energy. Okay. So you get decreased GI absorption. That's

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why you can get diarrhea. You get heartburn. You get

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all of these because your absorption, your GI tract is

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slowed down. Because it takes too much energy, you're worried

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about fight or flight, okay? You don't want to waste water.

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You can get high blood pressure because you want to

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keep all the fluid in your bloodstream because in case

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you get injured, you don't want to bleed to death

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too easily, all right? Your immune system, your immune system

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takes a lot of energy. It's trying to protect you

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against your environment, against the, it's trying to protect you

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against things that could kill you in a year or two.

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Your body doesn't care about that. It's like, I've got

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to live right now. So forget the immune system. And

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then the last thing you'd want to do if you

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were running from a predator is to go to sleep, right?

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So now you can't go to sleep because you sleep

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with one eye open. What I'm saying with one eye open,

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you don't get any deep sleep because your body wants

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to make sure it can hear anything that might cause danger.

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I will tell you one thing. Mothers who have babies

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at night, Their nighttime cortisol does not go down all

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the way because they need to hear the baby if

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it is in trouble. Men don't have that instinct. And

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I hear it all the time when women have children.

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My husband, he doesn't hear the baby at night. I

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think he just is too lazy and doesn't want to

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get up and feed the baby. No, he just doesn't

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hear it because he has not adapted. He has not

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adapted to hear that sound. you are adapting to hear

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that sound, all right? Hey, Rebel, do we have, I

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know that ED one we wanted to talk about. Do

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we have any other questions?

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Yes, I'll pop them up on the screen for you.

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And the next one is this one.

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Okay, all right. So let's talk about ED, all right?

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All right, so in order to have an erection, the

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arteries have to relax to let enough blood come in there,

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all right? So when you are in fight or flight,

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your body is saying, I can't waste blood and energy

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going there. It has to go to the muscles. So

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what happens is you don't get that blood going there

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because it's being diverted. Your body is saying, we don't

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need to have this right now. So what you have

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to do is you have to somehow turn off energy.

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that response. Okay. So I don't know how you do

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it with meditation or you just need to understand it.

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And that's why men will wake up in the morning

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with an erection because they are in that parasympathetic rest

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and digest state. And in the middle of the night,

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they may have erections, but then when they're up and

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they're anxious and thinking that it might not work, that's

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the anxiety that shuts the whole system down. So that's

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what you have to understand is that you have to

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be relaxed. And women especially have to be relaxed in

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order to have sex because when they're tight or tense,

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everything tightens up, if you know what I mean. And

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so it can make it uncomfortable for them. They can't relax,

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so they can't enjoy everything. So that's what screwed up,

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screws up your sex life. And now the other person

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was talking about chronic fatigue. What was that one? Okay,

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can anyone get the chronic fatigue or is it after

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a certain age? No, you can wear out this system

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at any age. I see these kids who are in

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school And they're trying to get the best grades so

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they can get into the best college and do all

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these activities so it looks good on their application. And

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those kids can be burnt out too. All right. So

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it's not after a certain age. I've seen 13, 14,

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15-year-olds have to drop out of school because they have

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chronic fatigue because there's so much pressure on them or

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they put so much pressure on themselves. because they're worried

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about something that might happen in the future. They might

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not get into the right college. They might not be

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able to have the right career. So that is the problem.

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They're anxious about things that might happen, and they may

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never happen. They may get into Harvard, but they spent two, three,

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four years worrying about it. So that's what we've got

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to understand, is that it's not what's happening. It's what

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we imagine will happen. And just like you can imagine

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the worst, you can imagine the best. Let me tell you,

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we had this miscommunication rebel and I was worried. I said, no,

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I'm not going to imagine the worst. I'm going to

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imagine the best. And what happened? We were three minutes late,

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but we're on because I did not let my imagination

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run away with me and caused me a lot of

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stress where I couldn't be able to put on the podcast,

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all right? So chronic fatigue at any age, okay? What

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can we do to restore the balance and energy? Well,

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that's what we're going to talk about. At the end

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of this, I'm going to talk about, we have a

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whole course on why don't I feel like myself again?

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I mean, why don't I feel like myself anymore? And

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how can I feel like myself again? And so to

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restore the energy, we have to try and build up

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that adrenal gland. This is the adrenal gland. So let

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me show you this. So the adrenal gland is what

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makes cortisol, all right? Now, you have two diseases that

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are attached to this. You have something called Cushing syndrome,

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where you have way too much cortisol, and it causes

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the breast, the back hump. It causes overwhelming elevated glucose

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and hemoglobin A1C, so it's just pouring out all this glucose.

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Then you have Addison's disease. Where Addison's disease is when

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you don't have any cortisol because cortisol also regulates your

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electrolytes like aldosterone. And even President Kennedy had Addison's disease.

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But you see that big gap between those two? There's

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a lot of gap between having these two diseases. And

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that's where I coined the phrase is that people keep

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telling you, doctors keep telling you you're not sick. They're

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telling you you don't have Cushing syndrome and you don't

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have Addison's disease. But you know you're not well because

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if you used to have this much cortisol and this

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much energy and you have this much, you know there's

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a problem. Or if you have this much and you

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used to have this much, you know that there's something

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going on. OK, so if you test correctly, you can

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see that in between because those two tests are done

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by blood. But when you want to see functionality of

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hormones that are fat soluble, you have to look in

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the saliva. And this is what it looks like in

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saliva when you don't have enough cortisol. This is normal.

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There's a green line. Remember that circadian rhythm? Well, this

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is looking at cortisol, and this is where it should be.

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When you wake up in the morning, you have a

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lot of energy. It goes down at lunch. You eat,

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you get more energy, then you go to sleep, and

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then you recover, and you come back again. But you

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see how this cortisol is going up at night? I'm sorry,

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let me go back. See how it's going up at night?

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That means you're probably not going to get deep sleep.

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You're probably going to wake up at two or three

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o'clock in the morning, or you'll wake up at three

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or four and you can't go back to sleep. And

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therefore you'd never recover. So this keeps going down further

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and further. So cortisol is not the enemy. The lack

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of cortisol, now too much cortisol can be a problem,

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but the lack of cortisol can also be a problem

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because you cannot adapt. You can't recover. So you never

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get that morning surge. So this is usually how it starts.

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You have too much cortisol. You have all these stressors.

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You're pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing. But eventually you can't keep

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that up. Can't keep it up. Just like athletes. They

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can't keep up that ability after a certain age. So

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the lack of cortisol or too much cortisol, both of

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those can be a problem. But If you test it,

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it gets very clear. It's very clear once you test it.

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You can see, oh, wow, I don't want to get

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rid of my cortisol. The reason why I'm anxious and

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all this is not because of the cortisol. It is

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because you can't adapt to those stressors or you didn't

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adapt to these stressors. And this is another one. It

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can be severely disrupted. So this person does need less cortisol.

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And we have a supplement called Serine Comb. It has

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phosphatidylserine in it. And phosphatidylserine can help reorganize this cortisol

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curve so that it can be more normal. Also, adaptogens

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like ginseng, rhodiola, cordyceps, all of those things can help

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to normalize that curve. Now, also, what helps you better

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adapt to stress is when you intentionally put yourself in

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stressful situations. And they say, if you go to the

449
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stress before the stress comes to you, you'll be able

450
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to better handle it. Remember talking about adaptability. That's why

451
00:25:55.940 --> 00:25:59.640
people get into these cold tubs. That's why they will

452
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go and hike. We actually hiked up this mountain because

453
00:26:04.309 --> 00:26:07.829
you want a little bit of stress. Taking cold showers,

454
00:26:08.410 --> 00:26:10.769
that gives you a little bit of stress every morning

455
00:26:10.809 --> 00:26:16.319
to exhilarate you. It's not all bad. You want to

456
00:26:16.359 --> 00:26:19.529
have some good stressors to stimulate you but you don't

457
00:26:19.589 --> 00:26:22.769
want too many stressors that's going to deplete you. This

458
00:26:22.829 --> 00:26:24.849
is what I was talking about. It's not the cortisol,

459
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it's the stressors. So I want you to see, I

460
00:26:26.789 --> 00:26:28.750
had to put my glasses on to see this, but see,

461
00:26:28.769 --> 00:26:32.359
these are all of these stressors, toxic exposure, life cycle disruption,

462
00:26:32.500 --> 00:26:38.839
food intolerance, temperature extremes, trauma, glucose dysregulation, chronic infections, pain,

463
00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:43.819
lack of sleep, dietary imbalances, excessive exercise can be a stress,

464
00:26:44.299 --> 00:26:48.990
chronic inflammation, serotonin and GABA, so neurotransmitter problems, And then

465
00:26:49.170 --> 00:26:55.140
mental or emotional strain, anxiety, depression, alpha-adrenergic stimuli. All of

466
00:26:55.200 --> 00:27:00.200
these stressors are stimulating this. And cortisol is trying to

467
00:27:00.259 --> 00:27:03.579
come around and help. But you can exhaust this system.

468
00:27:03.740 --> 00:27:06.819
So now all you have is epinephrine and norepinephrine. That

469
00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:11.079
is adrenaline. And that's what you're feeling, okay? It's not

470
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:15.109
the cortisol that's the problem. It's the epinephrine and norepinephrine.

471
00:27:15.150 --> 00:27:18.380
Now you're just running off of adrenaline. You don't have

472
00:27:18.470 --> 00:27:22.660
cortisol to help you better adapt. And so now everything

473
00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:27.200
is stressful. Everything is stressful because you don't have cortisol

474
00:27:27.259 --> 00:27:31.740
to help calm that fire. All right. So that is

475
00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:33.480
the problem. So we have to get rid of the stressors.

476
00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:36.299
So if you haven't heard this before, here are my

477
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:43.029
four stress relief steps. One, try to remove the stressors. Okay.

478
00:27:43.569 --> 00:27:46.630
do the testing. We do GI testing. We do food

479
00:27:46.690 --> 00:27:49.359
sensitivity testing. We do all of these tests to try

480
00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.839
and find these hidden stressors so we can turn off

481
00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.369
that sympathetic nervous system. All right. So if you can't

482
00:27:56.430 --> 00:27:59.289
get rid of the stressors, like you know, your parents

483
00:27:59.410 --> 00:28:02.509
are sick or your kids trying to get them in college.

484
00:28:02.930 --> 00:28:06.490
You have to change how you respond to those stressors. Okay.

485
00:28:06.569 --> 00:28:08.789
You have to get help, you know, with taking care

486
00:28:08.809 --> 00:28:11.170
of your parents. You have to try and figure out,

487
00:28:11.549 --> 00:28:13.390
you know, what's the best way to get my kids

488
00:28:13.430 --> 00:28:16.210
through school or whatever the stressors are. How can I

489
00:28:16.289 --> 00:28:19.170
change my response to these stressors that I cannot change?

490
00:28:19.579 --> 00:28:21.759
And then you want to repair the damage caused by

491
00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:24.220
the stress. You want to repair the gut. You want

492
00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:27.970
to repair the nervous system. Give yourself time. The amino

493
00:28:28.049 --> 00:28:30.930
acids so you can make serotonin and dopamine to feel good,

494
00:28:30.970 --> 00:28:37.160
the rest and digest type of neurotransmitters and not those

495
00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:42.259
sympathetic epinephrine and norepinephrine. So that's how that works. I

496
00:28:42.299 --> 00:28:44.079
think it's time for a break. Is that correct, Rebel?

497
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Yes, we should go on a break.

498
00:28:45.990 --> 00:28:47.559
OK, so let's go on a break. And when we

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00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:49.519
come back, I'm going to show you how you can

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00:28:49.579 --> 00:28:53.480
tell if you're sympathetic or parasympathetic is dominating you. And

501
00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:56.799
then we're going to talk about that second hormone, progesterone.

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And you're going to see how these two connect. All right.

503
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How a disruption in cortisol and stress can lead to

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00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:08.289
a problem in progesterone and sex hormones. All right. So

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we'll do that when we come back from break.

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don't I feel like myself anymore? We have a community there.

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where you can really get to understand this information. So

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I'm really pushing this. I've done this for a long time.

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And now I see that my problem is distribution. I

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need you to help me to distribute. distribute this information.

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If you subscribe to my YouTube channel, you'll get a

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notice whenever we're doing a live broadcast here and you'll

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be able to see the replays or you'll be able

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to see whenever you want to. So anyway, so I

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want to get to this and then we're going to go.

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So let me tell you how you can tell if

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00:31:41.170 --> 00:31:44.799
your sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system is on. Most of

545
00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:47.299
you guys have watches or rings that look at heart

546
00:31:47.339 --> 00:31:50.279
rate variability. OK, so I'm going to get to all

547
00:31:50.339 --> 00:31:52.220
these questions you guys keep putting in at the end.

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I promise I'm answer. So heart rate variability. You probably

549
00:31:55.700 --> 00:31:59.309
have it on your on your phone or whatever. And

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I want to make sure you know what that means.

551
00:32:01.549 --> 00:32:04.829
All right. So heart rate variability. Every second your body

552
00:32:05.069 --> 00:32:08.569
is making changes. OK. And so if it sees something

553
00:32:08.650 --> 00:32:11.309
out of balance, the sympathetic nervous system turns on, raise

554
00:32:11.349 --> 00:32:13.599
your heart rate for a little bit, takes care of that,

555
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:16.059
and then you're supposed to rest and digest. So this

556
00:32:16.140 --> 00:32:18.619
is happening every second. So how you can measure that

557
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.009
is the distance between heartbeats. So even if you have

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a heart rate that's, I'm sorry, even if you have

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00:32:24.150 --> 00:32:27.589
a heart rate that's 80 beats a minute, not all

560
00:32:27.630 --> 00:32:31.309
of those heartbeats are separated out at the same space. OK,

561
00:32:31.470 --> 00:32:33.349
if something is out of balance, it's going to go

562
00:32:33.470 --> 00:32:40.069
for a minute. So anyway, you should have this constant variability, sympathetic, parasympathetic, sympathetic, parasympathetic.

563
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And what this is doing is measuring the heartbeats, turn

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them upside down at me. I'm sorry, turning them this way,

565
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:49.220
90 degrees. And the long ones means that there was

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a long space between the heartbeats. And this means that

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00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:54.700
it was a short space, okay? So if it was

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00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:57.910
a short space, that means sympathetic. Long space means parasympathetic,

569
00:32:57.930 --> 00:32:59.809
all right? So look at this. You see a lot

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of long spaces and a lot of short spaces. Then

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we ask people to stand up to see how they

572
00:33:04.009 --> 00:33:07.970
respond to a stress, which going from sitting to standing

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is a stress because your blood pressure has to change.

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All of these things have to change because now you're

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working against gravity. So now you can see the sympathetic.

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The lines got short, but then you recover. And now

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the parasympathetic comes back again. When you are under chronic stress,

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this is how that looks. There's no variability. So if

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00:33:25.089 --> 00:33:29.130
you have low heart rate variability, you're running strictly off

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of sympathetic. That is a problem. You can't do that forever.

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And then eventually, that's going to disrupt your cortisol. So

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if you really want to understand what's happening, you need

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00:33:40.259 --> 00:33:43.079
to look at your heart rate variability. We actually have

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a separate app that helps you look at that, but

585
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:47.470
you can use your ring. But you need to understand

586
00:33:47.529 --> 00:33:49.950
what that is telling you. So look at your heart

587
00:33:49.970 --> 00:33:51.990
rate variability, and you can tell whether or not you're

588
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in sympathetic or parasympathetic. All right. You want to enhance

589
00:33:55.509 --> 00:33:59.019
that parasympathetic activity. All right. So now let's get to

590
00:33:59.059 --> 00:34:02.779
the second thing. Okay. So why am I saying cortisol

591
00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:06.259
and progesterone? Because when you're under stress, remember I told

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you it disrupts, it disrupts your hormones. How does it

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00:34:10.340 --> 00:34:14.340
do that? It stops ovulation. It says you can't make

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an egg. You're under too much stress. We can't have this.

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And you'll see this, uh, when people are going through

596
00:34:21.449 --> 00:34:24.230
the infertility workup, a lot of times while they're going

597
00:34:24.250 --> 00:34:26.380
through the workup, because it's so stressful, they have to

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00:34:26.389 --> 00:34:29.559
time their sex and ovulation, all that stuff is so stressful.

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00:34:30.019 --> 00:34:33.460
They don't get pregnant. Once they say the heck with it,

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00:34:33.619 --> 00:34:35.659
this is just not meant to be. I'm going to

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00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:37.400
turn it over to God or whatever. You just, you

602
00:34:37.460 --> 00:34:40.750
let go. A lot of times that, brings on the

603
00:34:40.809 --> 00:34:44.199
rest and digest. You ovulate. Oh my God, I got pregnant.

604
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:46.599
I've been trying for three, four years. I'm not saying

605
00:34:46.619 --> 00:34:50.460
that happens all the time, but you probably know people

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00:34:50.500 --> 00:34:55.780
that's happened to. So that's why I'm saying stress, cortisol. Cortisol, again,

607
00:34:56.280 --> 00:34:59.579
it's your inability to adapt that's causing the problem. The

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00:34:59.619 --> 00:35:03.670
stressors are causing you not to ovulate It's not necessarily

609
00:35:03.730 --> 00:35:06.969
the cortisol, all right? So cortisol, it can be. Now,

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00:35:06.989 --> 00:35:08.989
when cortisol gets too high, like we showed, that can

611
00:35:09.010 --> 00:35:10.829
be a problem. But this is what I want to

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00:35:10.869 --> 00:35:12.239
show you, and I'm going to show it to you.

613
00:35:12.409 --> 00:35:15.000
And I'm actually going to have a download for this.

614
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:19.000
All right, so this is what's happening, all right? When

615
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:24.159
you have a menstrual cycle, the lining sheds, estrogen comes

616
00:35:24.219 --> 00:35:27.239
around to regrow that tissue. It regrows the tissue, and

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00:35:27.300 --> 00:35:30.889
it stores fat. Why would it store fat? It's storing energy,

618
00:35:30.949 --> 00:35:33.559
so in case you get pregnant, you can have enough

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00:35:33.699 --> 00:35:37.019
energy to maintain that pregnancy. You've got to think. There's

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00:35:37.059 --> 00:35:40.900
people in all of these countries that are so poor,

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but they still have children. How is that? Their body

622
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:47.909
will store fat the first part of the cycle, and

623
00:35:47.929 --> 00:35:51.349
they'll try and have that for the baby in case

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00:35:51.389 --> 00:35:53.570
they don't get food or whatever the next day. So

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00:35:53.610 --> 00:35:57.769
that's a survival technique. So you have to understand that.

626
00:35:57.809 --> 00:36:01.329
So that's why estrogen causes growth of tissue and it

627
00:36:01.349 --> 00:36:04.090
stores fat. Well, you always got to have a balance.

628
00:36:04.110 --> 00:36:07.010
What does progesterone do? It slows down the growth and

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00:36:07.050 --> 00:36:10.090
it burns fat for energy. So you need those two

630
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in balance. When you don't ovulate, you don't make progesterone.

631
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When you don't make progesterone, you don't have that balancing.

632
00:36:18.659 --> 00:36:22.650
So what happens? This is what happens. When you don't

633
00:36:22.710 --> 00:36:26.349
have enough progesterone, see how you have these follicles develop

634
00:36:26.409 --> 00:36:30.619
and these follicles are making estrogen. And when you It's

635
00:36:30.659 --> 00:36:34.099
two times. When you don't ovulate, then you're going to

636
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:36.849
make a lot of estrogen that's going to cause a

637
00:36:36.969 --> 00:36:40.110
lot of growth and a lot of fat storage, and

638
00:36:40.150 --> 00:36:45.150
you won't have this balancing part over here. Also, estrogen

639
00:36:45.469 --> 00:36:49.090
is action, growth, all that, okay? So it stimulates you.

640
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:54.159
Progesterone is calming, okay? So in those two weeks prior

641
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:57.900
to your cycle, if you don't have progesterone, you're not

642
00:36:57.940 --> 00:37:01.090
going to be calm. You're going to have anxiety. You

643
00:37:01.110 --> 00:37:05.300
will have irregular heavy bleeding because ovulation is the menstrual timekeeper.

644
00:37:05.300 --> 00:37:09.639
14 days after ovulation, you should either be pregnant or

645
00:37:09.699 --> 00:37:13.360
you should have a menstrual cycle. When you don't ovulate,

646
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.559
your body doesn't know when to have a cycle, how long,

647
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:20.349
how much, all of that. So these happen a lot

648
00:37:20.409 --> 00:37:23.369
of times in puberty because your body is still trying

649
00:37:23.409 --> 00:37:29.090
to regulate its ovulation cycle. And it also happens in perimenopause.

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00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:31.570
It can happen there because your body is trying to

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00:37:31.590 --> 00:37:34.349
get out of the reproductive cycle. And a lot of

652
00:37:34.389 --> 00:37:39.679
times that causes a, I say every transition causes turbulence.

653
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:43.619
So when you're transitioning in or transitioning out, it can

654
00:37:43.860 --> 00:37:48.090
be very turbulent. And also when you have PCOS or

655
00:37:48.409 --> 00:37:52.570
you have an ambulatory cycle, even if you're 15, 16, 17.

656
00:37:52.570 --> 00:37:54.909
What PCOS means is that you make a lot of

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00:37:55.030 --> 00:37:57.530
cysts that are making a lot of estrogen and you

658
00:37:57.550 --> 00:38:00.460
don't ovulate and so you don't make progesterone. So what

659
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:03.159
do you get with PCOS? You get all of this stuff.

660
00:38:03.639 --> 00:38:06.519
You get anxiety, you get heavy bleeding, you get fibroids,

661
00:38:06.539 --> 00:38:09.860
you get all of these things because you did not ovulate.

662
00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:13.989
Why didn't you ovulate? Because you probably had stressors. Those

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00:38:14.030 --> 00:38:17.230
stressors causes the cortisol to either go up too high

664
00:38:17.269 --> 00:38:20.039
or too low. Either way, it's still going to cause

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00:38:20.099 --> 00:38:22.800
a problem. So that's what I need. And this is

666
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:26.000
the reason why I don't, because we talk about popular thinking.

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00:38:26.139 --> 00:38:28.820
I can't tell you how many people I see on

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00:38:29.070 --> 00:38:31.769
that come to me. And on Facebook says that you

669
00:38:31.829 --> 00:38:34.769
don't need progesterone if you don't have a uterus. Well,

670
00:38:35.269 --> 00:38:38.369
progesterone is for more than that. Progesterone influences more than

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00:38:38.389 --> 00:38:42.010
just pregnancy and bleeding. It influences the brain. And we

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00:38:42.050 --> 00:38:44.719
talked about how it's calming. It helps you to make

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00:38:44.900 --> 00:38:48.139
serotonin and dopamine. It's calming. It actually makes something called

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00:38:48.219 --> 00:38:52.800
allopregnenolone that acts like GABA. And GABA is very calming.

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00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:57.889
On the uterus, I told you it helps with controlling

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00:38:57.909 --> 00:39:00.190
the bleeding and the lining of the uterus. But let

677
00:39:00.230 --> 00:39:02.429
me tell you also what it does. It is a

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00:39:02.530 --> 00:39:05.750
smooth muscle relaxant. So it can help with the cramping

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00:39:05.789 --> 00:39:09.329
that you may have when you have a cycle. Progesterone

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00:39:09.389 --> 00:39:12.429
is needed. We talk about reproduction to make the cervical

681
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mucus be more inviting. It also affects the hypothalamus. Remember

682
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I told you about how progesterone helps you to burn

683
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fat for energy? You know what it does? It increases

684
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thyroid function. It lowers something called thyroid-binding globulin that can

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make thyroid ineffective. And estrogen actually increases thyroid-binding globulin and

686
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progesterone lowers it so you have more free thyroid hormone. Remember, now,

687
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also we are talking about estrogen in their bones. Well, estrogen...

688
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helps you to not break down bone, but progesterone helps

689
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you to actually build bone. And this is one thing

690
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where testosterone is also important because testosterone can help you

691
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to build bone. But also I told you that progesterone

692
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is a part of your immune system also, and especially

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your breasts. So even though you don't have a uterus,

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you still have breast tissue. And that breast tissue needs

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to be protected with progesterone because also even after menopause,

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your fat tissue makes estrogen. So even after menopause, even

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if you don't have any ovaries, you can still be

698
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exposed to estrogen, but you won't see it in the

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blood because the blood only shows you what's coming from

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the ovary. And this is not coming from the ovary.

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It's coming from fat tissue. So that's why progesterone is

702
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so important. But sometimes we would rather be comfortable than correct,

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and we'd rather stay in a routine and make changes.

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And that's what happens in medicine. And unfortunately, most people

705
00:40:38.849 --> 00:40:42.090
would rather live with old problems than new solutions. So,

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you know, the new solution is, hey, you can test

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with saliva and it'll give you a better information. The

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new solution is not following popular thinking. Let me understand

709
00:40:53.179 --> 00:40:56.929
this on my own. And that's why I'm I'm asking

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you to join the school group. If you're already a member,

711
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you can open up the classroom and you can select

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00:41:02.329 --> 00:41:05.369
the course and you can unlock the course. If you're

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new to Ageless Blueprint, you can join for free. You

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can open the, and I'm going to have all these

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links in the description below. But I really want you

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to think about coming to the course. It's a self-paced course.

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And I'm going to have a question and answer. at

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on September the 15th from eight to nine o'clock Eastern time.

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And when you go into the class, you'll get the

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zoom link. You'll go through the class. We'll talk about

721
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it and you'll be so informed that you'll be able

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to teach other people what I'm teaching you. And that's

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what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to help you

724
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to see one, do one, teach one. That's what we

725
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did in medical school. See one, do one, teach one.

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And that's what we're trying to do here. So, all right, let's,

727
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let's have some questions. How much time do we have

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for questions?

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We have about five minutes.

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Okay, so let's go. Would this work for everyone or

731
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do different things work for different people? When you say,

732
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would this work for anyone? Now, I would tell you

733
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anyone can identify those stressors, okay? If you identify those stressors,

734
00:42:03.969 --> 00:42:06.389
you can try and relieve yourself of those stressors. You

735
00:42:06.429 --> 00:42:09.130
know what happens when you leave a job that's stressful,

736
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you feel the relief. You know what your stressors are.

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And if you can't get rid of the stressors, you're

738
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going to have to change how you respond to those stressors, okay?

739
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And then just like with everything else, I will tell you, hey, look,

740
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what you want to do is you want to try

741
00:42:25.829 --> 00:42:29.409
and repair the damage caused by the stress if all possible.

742
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And then you want to prepare for future stress because

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00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:36.260
somebody's talking about what products would work for who and

744
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where do we get the products. At Taylor MD Formulations,

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00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:43.219
which you just saw the commercial for, we have something

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00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:47.599
called Cortisol Reset, that has adrenocare glandular and has serinecom

747
00:42:47.659 --> 00:42:49.980
in it. If you go to TailMD Formulations, we have

748
00:42:50.019 --> 00:42:52.610
all kinds of products. We have all kinds of information

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so you can understand what the product does and why

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00:42:57.449 --> 00:42:59.969
you may need it and why the symptoms may point

751
00:43:00.010 --> 00:43:02.590
toward that. But I'll tell you, if you're waking up

752
00:43:02.650 --> 00:43:04.510
at two or three o'clock in the morning, you have

753
00:43:04.610 --> 00:43:09.530
one or two issues. Low progesterone, low progesterone at night

754
00:43:09.650 --> 00:43:11.590
because progesterone helps to calm you down so you can

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00:43:11.630 --> 00:43:14.530
go to sleep or high nighttime cortisol, which wakes you

756
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up at two or three o'clock in the morning. All right.

757
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So during the course, we can answer those questions. I

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can tell you more when we're in a private setting.

759
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So yeah, please. That's what I'm saying is that, I

760
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do all of this, but I really want it to

761
00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:35.059
help you. And this is not, again, you need to

762
00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:36.980
talk to your medical doctor, all this, but I'm just

763
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trying to get you to understand the patterns and for

764
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you to ask different questions when you go to the doctor. Hey,

765
00:43:43.260 --> 00:43:46.679
could it be cortisol? Have you ever heard about saliva testing? Hey, look,

766
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:49.199
I know a lab that can, so I need you

767
00:43:49.219 --> 00:43:53.219
to help educate even your healthcare provider if they're not

768
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attuned to this, because I think everybody needs to understand

769
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this because I didn't understand this until I started researching myself.

770
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So can chronic stress disrupt your cortisol rhythm? Yes, that's

771
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the whole idea. Chronic stress is the problem, and that's

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disrupting your cortisol rhythm. It's all about rhythm. Remember how

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it was this, it's all about cycles. I have a

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lecture called Cycles, Balance, and Transitions, okay? Because everything runs

775
00:44:20.130 --> 00:44:24.050
in cycles, estrogen and progesterone, your menstrual cycle, your cortisol curve,

776
00:44:24.409 --> 00:44:28.099
everything runs in cycles. And those cycles have to be balanced.

777
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You have to have enough action and enough recovery. They

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have to be in balance. And whenever you're transitioning from

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one age to another, so it's like this ageless blueprint.

780
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Whenever you're transitioning from one stage in life to another,

781
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there's always going to be turbulence. Okay, so that's the stressor. Change,

782
00:44:49.010 --> 00:44:52.530
why do people hate change? Because it causes turbulence. When

783
00:44:52.550 --> 00:44:56.150
should cortisol be tested? At any time, it's a daily rhythm.

784
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What you do is you, You collect four vials at

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different times of the night. And all we did was

786
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connect the dots. If you look at those, we just

787
00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:08.219
connected the dots. I'll try and show you. It's just

788
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connecting the dots. Okay. So you tested four times a day,

789
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any day, and you'll get this because remember how I

790
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told you it takes time for your cortisol curve to shift.

791
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If you go from New York to California, well, it

792
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:24.800
takes time for this to move too. So just because

793
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you have one stressful day, this is a pattern. that

794
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is repeated. And you know that this stress, it repeats

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that feeling every day. So you can be tested on

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any day because this is a curve that is stable.

797
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:44.699
It doesn't move day to day. It moves by what

798
00:45:44.969 --> 00:45:47.989
is this situation I need to adapt to. Because if

799
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you just go out to California for a day and

800
00:45:49.570 --> 00:45:51.489
come right back, it doesn't bother you. But if you

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go out there long enough, your body will adapt. So

802
00:45:54.690 --> 00:45:58.760
that adaptation is crucial. And that is due to this

803
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rhythmic cortisol curve. Okay. Are we, I can't see this

804
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time up here. So we got like two more minutes left, right? Three. Three.

805
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All right. Any other questions? If not, okay. When should

806
00:46:11.250 --> 00:46:17.639
cortisol be tested? So Rebel, does this help end some confusion?

807
00:46:18.139 --> 00:46:21.670
Is that, hey, look, stop talking about lowering cortisol. We

808
00:46:21.690 --> 00:46:24.489
really need to be measuring cortisol and we need to

809
00:46:24.670 --> 00:46:28.150
understand that we don't need to be measuring those two extremes,

810
00:46:29.170 --> 00:46:32.900
Cushing's and Addison's. You got all of that middle ground there.

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And that's where functional medicine is involved. We're not looking

812
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for diseases. We're looking at where is the dysfunction? hey,

813
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you're supposed to be at this level of cortisol and

814
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you're either over here or over there, that is what

815
00:46:46.630 --> 00:46:50.909
we're talking about, is that we want to understand what

816
00:46:51.110 --> 00:46:56.179
is these minor changes that can cause major problems when

817
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they keep recurring day after day. So please, again, I

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need you to subscribe. I would love for you to

819
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join school. The community is free. I usually try and

820
00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:12.239
post something there two or three times a week. And

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I will inform you when we're having a podcast. So

822
00:47:16.420 --> 00:47:19.659
please join the community. And I want this community to

823
00:47:19.739 --> 00:47:23.880
be a beacon of truth. Join these Facebook groups. See

824
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:26.579
what they're talking about on there. And maybe you can

825
00:47:26.739 --> 00:47:30.280
interject some real information that could help them and could

826
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take them away from popular thinking. and take them into

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functional thinking and pattern-based thinking and not just popular thinking.

828
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So if you understand these basics, you're going to be

829
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able to move away from popular thinking and you're going

830
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to be able to be able to discern what pattern

831
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you're in and how can you change that pattern. So

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I hope to see you guys next week. And I

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hope I'll see you in the school community. I hope

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I'll see you on the question and answer on September

835
00:48:00.309 --> 00:48:04.610
the 15th. So please, please, please, you know, take this information,

836
00:48:04.739 --> 00:48:08.039
absorb it yourself and share it with somebody else. All right.

837
00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:10.960
So Rebel, that should just about do it, right?

838
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:12.000
Absolutely.

839
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Okay. So any parting words for you, Rebel?

840
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I would just like everyone to really listen to what Dr.

841
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:23.360
Taylor's telling you. Try to find a medium balance in

842
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:26.039
your life to where things could be happy and you

843
00:48:26.059 --> 00:48:29.260
won't be too high or too low on anything. And

844
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remember to join us back here next week.

845
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All right. All right. So see you guys. Thank you

846
00:48:33.579 --> 00:48:36.460
so much for your time. And look, just share this

847
00:48:36.500 --> 00:48:39.570
with somebody else. It's just easy. Copy, share. Hey, listen

848
00:48:39.590 --> 00:48:42.869
to this guy. Okay. So anyway, we'll see you next week.

849
00:48:43.949 --> 00:48:45.829
Thanks for joining Dr. Taylor today.

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852
00:48:54.170 --> 00:48:56.929
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00:48:57.130 --> 00:49:03.590
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00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:12.460
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