Your Adrenal Fix With Dr Joel Rosen

Dr. Joel Rosen: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt-out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And today I’m joined with a special guest, Michelle Cavanaugh. She’s a serial entrepreneur and speaker. She’s the founder of the sales Queen, an online program that helps business owners have more confidence in sales conversions, and in overcoming objection, Michelle loves our for sale, Mr. Sorry, Michelle’s love for sales come from working at Vega foods and traveling the world convincing strangers to try new food products. And in 2015, Michelle decided to start her own company in the health industry. And now she helps others get their mindset right, elevate their confidence, and unleash their inner sales skills. Michelle, thank you so much for being here today.   Michelle Kavanagh: Hey, thanks so much for having me. I’m really excited. And looking forward to this chat. We’re gonna have.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, me too. And you know, one of the reasons we’re really interested in that is because you didn’t have any bones about sharing your own health experiences. And one of your most recent health experiences has been breast x plant surgery. And I when I saw that, and you, you share that with your following. And then I said, Hey, I’d love to interview you and get your perspective on that, and why and how and when and where, because a lot of women that I work with that are exhausted and burnt out, they do say, hey, Joel, I’ve had breast implants, do you think this could be contributing to my exhaustion and fatigue? So before we get into all of that, Michelle, why don’t you just tell us a little bit of your health journey, in terms of just a little background on your view of health, your health history, just kind of give the listeners some ideas on where you’re coming from?   Michelle Kavanagh: Yeah, so I have always been a health-conscious person, I was very active in my teenage years, the early 20s. And then I decided one time to compete in a fitness competition. And, you know, I was like, why not? You know, I’m going to get in the best shape of my life. I’m going to look back at these pictures. And I’m at and be like, yeah, I had a six-pack once, right? But that journey of, you know, going through extreme dieting, and really just putting my body into a state of stress really was kind of like the first thing that I started to really recognize on this health journey of mine of things is going wrong. So shortly after I competed in this fitness competition, I got my implants. So I had my implants in 2021, I got them in 2015. And so I started to, to get like all of these symptoms, and, you know, bloating. I was, I had parasites for a year and a half in my gut. So just like a gut issue, after a gut issue, I started to feel really, really tired. I’d have afternoon naps, every single afternoon. And I was a napper, like, I could never three hours. And it wasn’t just like a 30-minute thing, and I was still feeling exhausted. And, you know, all I just wasn’t feeling great. I was eating a lot more sugar. And reaching for that coffee, you know, later on in the day. And it honestly took me probably up until last year to kind of start to make all of these connections between, you know, maybe this could be my employment because I had seen gut, you know, infectious disease doctors from these parasites that came from Egypt. Apparently, I had seen naturopathic doctors, I had seen almost every specialist that you could think of I was just like, I am 32 years old. And I feel like I am like 75 years old and been smoking my whole life, you know, just like super unhealthy. And so yeah, it took me I would say close to five years to really realize like, hey, so if I’ve seen every specialist, I’ve tried every elimination diet, why am I still having all of these symptoms, right? And so that’s what kind of led me to look more internally and like, hey, why am I so inflamed? Well, sure. I do Botox injections, I do fillers. I do this kind of thing. But what’s inside of my body right now that has been there for a long time? Oh, that’s, maybe let’s explore that.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, absolutely. It’s great that you have that sort of smelling salts under the nose, like, okay, it’s something else that’s not being seen, but I would rewind because part of the reason why I got into what I did and like Craig and yourself and I was a trainer and spent many hours in the gym, and I think what happens is ultimate, the fitness contestants that stand on stage are anything but healthy sort of speak from a physiological point of view, they’re dehydrated, they’re inflamed, they are depleted. You know there. There’s a lot of things going On. So

Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we help exhausted and burnt-out adults learn the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And today, I’m joined by the real pioneer in the industry, Dr. Bill Cole. He’s the founder and creator of the key cellular nutrition and cellular health accelerator program, where he has a team of members of more than 30 dedicated health experts with diverse backgrounds that educate individuals on the steps needed to start improving their infrastructure of well being. Dr. Bill, thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for inviting me. Glad to be here. Yeah. So So I always like to start with my guests and ask them what their story is, in terms of why did you get into the world of functional or alternative medicine? What was your what were your own health challenges?   Dr. Bill Cole: Yeah, well, it really goes back to high school for me, I was a baseball player, make a long story short, one day, I was running to first base to try to beat a ground ball out to the shortstop. And when I before I got to the bag, I felt something pop in my head, got an instant headache, took me out of the game. A couple of days later, the same thing happened. And they took me to the doctor said I had an ear infection happened again. Another doctor said I had a sinus infection both times they tried to put me on antibiotics. A friend of mine said, My dad’s a chiropractor, you should go see him I don’t even want a chiropractor was and I went down and saw it saw the guy took x rays of my neck adjusted my neck one time, problems never came back again. So that got me started. And then I got into Chiropractic and had, you know, thriving practice, I was in partnership with a guy that one of my closest friends and this guy was like, you know, he was the fittest of the fit. Like he walked the walk and didn’t just talk it and out of nowhere, he lost his health. I mean, God preaching health to people how to be healthy, right. And he was a national-level mountain bike competitor to boot. So he was like I say the fitness to the fit, he was truly fit. Well, he just watched his health go downhill. And he went to doctor after doctor test after test, nobody could find anything. Finally, an endocrinologist figured out this was after four years of him suffering. endocrinologist figured out that, you know, he said it sounds like you’ve got mercury in your brain because he had utter fatigue and all of these anxiety issues and couldn’t sleep like super couldn’t deal with stress in any way, shape, or form. Right? He would hear loud noises. And he would have to have his kids, his wife would have to take the kids out of the house. He just couldn’t stand any kind of noise. Well, he said, it sounds like mercury. And Dan said, You know, I thought the same thing. But I had my blood test. And it’s not. And he said, Well, you did the wrong test, you got to do this other test. And they did it and it was mercury off the charts. So he had his answer. But it took him another four years to figure out how to get this mercury out of his brain that was creating all of these downstream type issues, you know, symptom wise, watching that happen. Watching a guy, a guy that you thought was the picture of health, loses health through no fault of his own. It really opened my eyes and it got me thinking in a different direction. And here I am today basically dealing with those types of situations.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, it’s interesting to hear that I think we, as you know, I’m a chiropractic physician as well. And I had injured my back and I hadn’t, I didn’t really know what chiropractic was, and I from a traditional family of allopathic providers, and hey, you need to go for surgery. I mean, it was a 2.5 centimeter herniated disc, an L five s one. And I think I just access I just graduated with exercise physiology degree like I’m going to exercise, I’m going to get this better, I went to a chiropractor. And after that, I realized, okay, this is what I want to do. But then my own health in terms of fatigue, exhaustion, burnout, stimulants, lots of studying to get through stress burnt me out by the time I graduated, and like yourself, or with the story you had with your close friend then realize there’s more to it. So when you discovered that or that he had mercury poisoning and brain chemicals and having to get rid of it. How did that switch up what you were doing with your own practice and how that became your new sort of mission in life?   Dr. Bill Cole: Yeah, well, it’s just, I can tell you there’s even a little bit deeper if you don’t mind me going into that. But that was the first part of it. And that got me thinking man, like what’s going on out here? Right? Are we seeing some kind of a tsuna

https://youtu.be/4F2OJKHli78 Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt-out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m joined with a real special guest today, Frank Benedetto, who is on a mission because he sees the flaws in the healthcare system. And his mission is really disrupting healthcare, helping clinicians reimagine and repackage their skill set to change the world. So Frank, thank you so much for being here today. Joel, what’s up, man? Thanks for having me. Yeah, so listen, I’m just gonna be totally transparent. I, you, and I have a mentor that is, is we have in common, and we had a mastermind meeting last week. And when I heard you speak, you were a guest speaker for him. I was like, Okay, I got to talk to this guy. Because as soon as you opened your mouth, I know we had that same frequency and vibration and alignment and coherence. And really, you started with your personal story. And you also let us know what drives you every day, to make a difference in the world. So why don’t you share that with our listeners?   Frank Benedetto: Yeah, absolutely. appreciate those kind words, too. So my story’s a little dark. My story, my story is, is not one that was born from a place of positivity, and it pretty much started to give you the background. I was 17, luckily knew what I want to do with my life. Somehow, I broke my leg and said, I am going to be a physical therapist. And even at that young age, in my college application, I had finished with saying that I was going to revolutionize the field of physical therapy by incorporating positive psychology. And that young me I almost look back How the hell did I even sense that there’s something wrong at that young age, but I think everybody knows, I think that they’re the typical consumer if they spend any amount of time reflecting on what the healthcare system is right now. It is so obviously broken, we’re all just allowing it. So fast forward, I become a Doctor of Physical Therapy. I become double board-certified top 1% of pts in the country if you want to judge it by that credentialing. And I always had life in the palm of my hands. I was 26 years old double board-certified, bought a house had two kids married. And then tragedy strikes. My dad 64 years old, passed away of a heart attack right in front of me. And I imploded, I spun down a path of Drug Abuse and Alcoholism, I had pushed away nearly everyone close to me. I lost everything, you know, and that huge head start I had erased it. I was $200,000 in self-created debt. Now from student loans. And after I had sold my house, Joel that takes a lot of mistakes. That’s, that’s, that’s master-level mistake making right there to get 200k in debt. And my 30th birthday, I wake up just an absolute loser. And I think 30 every decade we have this image of who I think we’re going to be. On my 30th birthday, I could not have been farther from the person who I thought I was going to be and it was an inflection point. I happen to hate on some motivational videos trying to just muster the energy to get through the day. And there’s this one line and he said this year, this year is the year I’m going to make this goal become reality. And, and I got out of the shower that day and I literally declared it I said I am I will. I always thought I was gonna be a millionaire by the time I was 30 kind of an image or goal, you know, just rooted. Oh, Emily and money. And at that moment, I decided I was going to make a million in my 30th year since I’d failed so miserably. 30 days later, I launched my first business with two of my friends we go direct to consumer, which is not typically a physical therapy works. And we made 1.1 million in our first year no advertising, no physician referrals all direct to consumer. And that’s really when this mission started because I did something that they said really couldn’t be done in the physical therapy world which is to exit the medical model. We had built and built that practice up we sold it for several million dollars later, three years, four years later. And then I pursued my real passion which was inspiring other healthcare professionals to follow my path and reimagine repackage their skill set so that they could treat in the way that they believe and I believe very much in line with your philosophy. The majority of our chronic health conditions are coming from this overworked, malnourished underexercised stressed-out archetype of a person who I was for those years between my dad and I had to go through a lot of self-healing, both physiologically emotionally. And I’m excited to dig in more with you about how we as a profession can help that archetype.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, I know, thank you so much for sharing your missi

Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m joined with a friend, a colleague, even a mentor, and someone I always look forward to talking to. This is actually our third conversation for our podcast. Dr. Kelly Halderman. She’s a researcher, she’s an author, she’s a clinician, she’s a nutraceutical. Formulator she’s the Dean of Students, I don’t know how she has all the time to do all this. She’s also a mom, and a business person, and everything else in between. So, Dr. Kelly, welcome to the show. Once again,   Dr. Kelly Halderman: Thank you, Dr. Jill, awesome to be here for number 330   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, exactly. And you know, I’m excited about the topic because you sort of whispered in my ear, the idea of empathy and how that relates to people that are exhausted and burnt out. And this is a switch of a case from what we’ve talked about with detox 2.5 or, and also talking about utilizing fat and bile movement and all of the above. So why don’t you start with why how you got started or what triggered you to put this on your radar for empathy and how it relates to health,   Dr. Kelly Halderman: Sir, so honestly, I am really not what I would consider a touchy-feely empathic person at all, I feel like I, you know, mothering didn’t come easy to me, relationships don’t really come easy to me. And I’ve always had to work really hard to be like what I’ve always thought of, as is empathic, you know, and some people are really blessed, and they’re just so empathically wonderful, and they can really be loving, nurturing, caring people, and I just think that’s amazing. But we’re not all gifted at everything. So I’ll start by saying, like, this is not my Avenue. This is not something that I would say, Oh, you know, I’m going to read books on empathic people. You know, we’ve all heard about this empathy is part of life and having empathy for people and that’s something that I had, but it wasn’t until I met a brilliant practitioner who’s been helping me with some neural retraining and it had to do with my adrenal fatigue and my chronic fatigue and some of the symptoms that I literally have been struggling with for decades right and she said to me, should we got to know each other as a, you know, practitioner and kind of as an as a friend as well. She said to me about a month ago, maybe a little bit more. Kelly, I think that you’re an empath, and I thought, what like I am I’m not an empath. Like I like everything I just said right. It’s very, she goes, I think you need to read the work of Dr. Judith Orlov, f o. r. l. o FF, MD. So she is a psychiatrist, who writes about empaths and things and so Okay, all right, I’m open to it. Right. Whenever we’ll fix the fatigue, right? Like you know, I mean, I’m there I’m doing really well my house great, but I’m like, okay, so I started reading a doctor, Dr. Judas work. And lo and behold, she has this huge connection between the symptoms, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression, with being an empath. And so there’s a questionnaire and about being an empath. And so, um, you know, I really suggest your listeners that, that it’s something that you can, you can actually do it for free, looking her up, but you know, going through the questionnaire, doctors will I think that’s maybe where we can kind of start is kind of looking at like, what do you think of as an empath, because I didn’t think I was at all and then I took this questionnaire and I’m like, Oh, my gosh, I am and how it plays into health. And I want to talk to you, doctor, so I’m gonna turn the mic around because this is exactly what I think of as genetic susceptibility. You know, when we have those genetic tests, and they’re completely different, you know, let’s say like two people have Lyme disease, and one’s genetics are just a mess, and the others are pretty darn good. So who is going to display the symptoms? Who’s gonna it’s the person whose genetics have not been optimized, right. This is the same thing with an empath who has not learned to optimize themselves because being an empath is absolutely amazing. We have the abilities and ability to tune in, but it can take you down. I mean, literally, it can take you down and I will tell a quick story is that when I was rounding in hospitals with my white coat on going into hospital rooms, I would literally walk out feeling the feelings of people who are sick. And I was like, to my colleagues, like does anybody else feel like they’ve been completely wiped out by like, the stress the trauma that I mean wh

  Dr. Joel Rosen: All right Hello everyone and welcome you back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And today, we’re doing a little bit of a field trip podcast, because I am walking outside in sunny Boca Raton, Florida, in the middle of the afternoon, because I had a couple of cancellations. And I wanted to record this week’s podcast of the less stress life, I don’t have a guest. But what I want to do is I want to share with you three major adrenal fatigue, bio hacks that you aren’t doing, that will make a huge, profound difference in your exhaustion and fatigue. So once again, my name is Dr. Joel Rosen. And the website that we have is called the truth about adrenal fatigue. And the reason why we call it the truth about Adrenal Fatigue is because it’s such a terrible term. It really is. And it doesn’t mean that you’re not exhausted, or you don’t have low libido or motivation or drive, or you’re not handling stress very well. You don’t crash in the middle of the day, or you’re more wired and tired at night, or you wake up with little energy in the morning. All of those things are going on, but the actual term called adrenal fatigue, very seldomly goes on and you’ve probably heard me say this many times. But maybe you haven’t, that. Given that it’s a terrible term. When traditional allopathic and Korean doctors, family, physicians, gastrointestinal doctors, internal medicine, doctors, hear the term adrenal fatigue, it almost makes the hair on their arm stand up. And the reason that is is that they didn’t learn that in medical school, it’s not in the peer-reviewed journals. And if it’s not taught, or studied, or operationalized. And operationalize means, given a great definition that you can actually test for in peer-reviewed journals, that it doesn’t exist, and what traditional doctors will do, which is, is a triage, like think about the medics in the army, they triage the troops that come in, and they and hospitals do that to where if you are having a bleeding neck injury, you need to be attended to first. And if you have a cut, you don’t need to be attended to us as quickly. So it is with faulty adrenal insufficiency, and that’s the term that traditional doctors accept. They accept the fact that if they do it ACTH stimulation test, and they give you a pituitary hormone that signals your adrenals to make amongst other things of adrenal hormones, aldosterone, cortisol, other types of glucocorticoids. And it doesn’t output a minimal amount of cortisol, then it is called adrenal insufficiency. And if it does have a response, then there’s no such thing as adrenal fatigue. So it’s black or white, you either have an insufficiency, or you don’t. And that’s good for the 1970s or 60s or 50s. Health care, when we didn’t have as many environmental triggers, or social media, or EMF and Wi-Fi, are depleted nutrients in our soils, or elect politicians. And the way that the biased information that’s the media portrays to you creates such polarization of people meaning it’s like everyone’s out against everyone. And as a result, when that is going on, and you’re not giving a shade of gray to what you have going on, just because you didn’t fail, and adrenal fatigue insufficiency test doesn’t mean you don’t need to be attended to. And so we aren’t going to talk about the three hacks that I want you to do. But I still want to go back into the truth about Adrenal Fatigue and how it’s such a terrible term. Because there are so many things that can go wrong with the signaling, the utilization, and the processing of the nutrients. That cortisol makes or what the adrenal glands output. That just to say that you’re not, you’re producing enough, or you’re not producing enough. So I shouldn’t use double negatives. But just because you have enough cortisol, and that you don’t have too little, doesn’t mean you have an adrenal problem doesn’t mean you don’t have it. You have an HPA axis dysfunction. Let me give you an example. Today I did, a Dutch review on a 55-year-old female. And typically, I want them to fill out the questionnaires that we give them metabolic assessment forms, send me their last two years of blood work. Let’s meet let’s look at your timeline and history. So that I can look at that before looking at the Dutch test to give the Dutch test some context because the Dutch test is a great test that stands for the dried urine, total cortisol, and hormone test. And we send that all over the world. We’ve sent that to Australia, to Germany, to Spain, all over Canada and us. And it’s a really easy kit. It’s a dr

Dr. Joel Rosen: All right Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly and I’m excited to interview My next guest because I’ve just seen his ascent through the rankings and, and relevancy of the world of biohacking. Lucas is an Australian leading biohacker with over seven years of experiencing, researching, and experimenting with nootropics and other performance-enhancing enhancing compounds. Lucas Owen is extremely motivated to discover something big for science that can benefit millions of people globally. I love that Luke Lucas also offers cutting-edge health content, ranging from nutrition research, homework, hormone research, nootropic research that 99% of the world has never heard of. And we’ll have first-hand ins information from Lucas today, Lucas thrives on offering insanely valuable content on a global scale. And, Lucas, thank you so much for being here today.   Lucas Aoun: Thanks for having me, Joel. Yeah, very, stoked to be here and can’t wait to chat.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, I mean, listen, I remember it was a couple of years ago, where you sent me an email, or a DM and I’m always excited to help anyone out that has an interest in learning. I never look at it as a lack mentality whatsoever. If I can help someone else that would help someone else. I don’t feel like that’s infringing on my space. And I’m glad that I did. Because, you know, it goes to show you, you reap what you sow. And now you get contact with someone who’s moving up through the ranks, and you created good karma with that person.   Lucas Aoun: Yeah, it’s funny. Just tell like, just at a keen curiosity reached out just to ask you a few questions. And now like, ever since then, it’s snowballed. And now I’m just doing what I love every day, which is, which is awesome.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, excellent. So why don’t you tell us a little bit about your story, Lucas, because a lot of people that get into this space, have their own Hero’s Journey or what they’ve been through, and I think it helps our listener understand that there are possibilities of getting health back and then using your challenges to make your armor that much more fortified. But why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background and what some of your health challenges may have looked like?   Lucas Aoun: Yeah, sure. I mean, my journey started out playing professional soccer, I was always focused on the performance-enhancing side of things, how I can improve my performance on the soccer field. And then just sort of from there, I ended up studying exercise science and fell in love with like research. And then obviously, I also fell in love with experimentation and seeing what various supplements and various protocols were doing to my biology. And then from there just transitioned out of that exercise science degree and started studying natural empathy. So like a four-year degree here in Melbourne, Australia. And yeah, just really gained a lot of traction through, you know, researching more about herbs and supplements, and just fell in love with the fact that we can take control of our biology. And then yeah, that’s, that’s been my, my sort of mission is to help share that, what I’ve learned, and all of this underground content that I research, My mission is just to provide people with what I see, I’ve always been, I lead by the premise of, if you know, something that can benefit millions of people, there’s no point withholding that information that is might as well just get it out there and just spread the message. Because as you know, like to spread good vibes, good vibes come back to you.   Dr. Joel Rosen: So yeah, yeah, for sure. I’ve found that that rings true a lot with people that either are insecure or have challenges that they don’t want to share information. And you’re right, it does create reciprocity to bring more into your life. But I’m just curious. So for more for performance-enhancing and your athletic adventures, were there any ever challenges with mental capacity or learning or just energy or fatigue at all for yourself, Lucas?   Lucas Aoun: Yeah, I mean, I did also struggle with acid reflux for many, many years. And my dad’s a pharmacist, so I sort of thought I was privileged in the fact that I could get away with the reflux using proton pump inhibitors or Nexium medications, just to suppress the reflux and that’s really what catapulted me into learning more about physiology and things like that and learned that, you know, it’s doing a great job at suppressing symptoms, but then it was leading to B 12 deficiency. I had low iron And then all these other negative symptoms of like, correlated wit

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And today I’m joined by Dr. Tabitha barber who’s devoted her life to giving women a voice and choice when it comes to their health and well-being. As a young girl. She struggled with self-esteem and identity issues. she dealt with peer pressure and survived the ridicule and stigma of becoming a teenage mother. As she shared in her first published book titled from white trash to white coat the birth of Katherine’s purpose, those events led Tabitha to find her purpose in life. With perseverance and grace, she was able to redirect her path in life and become a successful physician. Dr. Tabitha Barbara is triple board-certified in obstructive abstract tics, and gynecology, menopause, and functional medicine. She cares for a woman, one on women one on one in her clinic as a functional gynecologist, and is the creator of the host and host of the functional gynecologist Podcast, where she shares her wisdom and knowledge with women everywhere to reclaim their health. She’s a keynote speaker, clinical instructor, mentor, medical director, wife, mom, and even grandma. By incorporating functional medicine into her woman’s health practice, she is able to provide women with the tools they need to optimize their health and happiness, which in turn, allows those women to pursue or pursue their purpose in life. Dr. Tabitha, that’s quite an intro. Welcome to our podcast today.   Dr. Tabatha Barber: Thank you so much for having me. I’m really excited about this conversation.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, for sure. We were talking a little bit about what we wanted to talk about earlier before we started. And we want to talk about stress and the role that that plays on hormones and women’s health, health, and imbalances and obviously not feeling great. So you have your own story, though. So and we just kind of referred to that. But what made you want to get into that area of medicine?   Dr. Tabatha Barber: Yes. So you know, I come from this long winding path of becoming an OB-GYN because of kind of the trauma I went through having my daughter as a 17-year-old girl, and things were done to me, there weren’t conversations, there was no informed consent, there were no choices. And it left me feeling really unsettled. And I just felt like this deep desire to help women have a voice and a choice in their health, in, you know, their health care. And so I got my crap together, I went back, I got my GED, and I went to a community college, I wasn’t really sure what I was gonna do. But I knew that I needed to do something related to women’s health. My mother-in-law at the time was in nursing school. So I went into nursing. And I was not a good student growing up. So I didn’t do well in school. You know, I lived in the principal’s office and in detention, and I barely passed. And when I got into the community college, I was excited. And I had, you know, a reason to be there. And I was getting four points. And I was like, why am I doing so? well in school? Why is this so easy for me now, and it’s because I cared and I was paying attention. I was doing the work. And, you know, it wasn’t that I was dumb growing up, I just wasn’t interested in school. And so all of a sudden, I realized, like, hey, maybe I can do bigger things. And I said to one of my professors, I would love to be the doctor, instead of the nurse, I would love to be the one making the decisions and helping women with their choices, and not just carrying out orders. And he looked at me and he said, you can totally be a doctor. And now it was a very defining moment for me, right? Like, what I can be a doctor seriously. And he completely believed in me, and that changed the whole trajectory of my life. And so, from that moment, I was like, wow, I’m gonna be a doctor and I didn’t let anything stop me. So, unfortunately, becoming a doctor is one of the worst possible things you can ever do for your health. It’s extremely hypocritical, how we work 120 hours a week we work sleep-deprived, we live on the garbage and junk food we eat while we’re walking to our next patient or to the or, you know, we don’t take care of ourselves because we are committed to taking care of everyone else. And so I spent the next decade destroying myself for my patients and that taught me a much bigger lesson in the end. Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, we have a lot of common in that story. And thank you for sharing it, you have to have a little bit of humility to be vulnerable and explain that. And the same thing for me, I didn’t realize that I wasn’t as smart as I knew I could be until I started caring. And I always say, like, you kind of e

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt-out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m really excited to be interviewing our next guest, Charlie Johnson, He is an online transformation coach. And he works with busy professionals who enjoy the qualities of life, while at the same time being able to achieve the dream physique. I’m really excited to interview Charlie because personally, I had developed my fatigue and exhaustion as a result of overtraining. And I really wanted to pick Charlie’s brain and get some insights on how to avoid that and all the other things that are associated with transforming your physique. So Charlie,   Charlie Johnson: Thank you so much for being here today. Pleasure show. And so this is a fascinating topic, and something that I love discussing in these little rabbit holes, we can go down with this. And I’d start with the low-hanging fruit first get straight into it. And that’s like training and training volume. Because I think the biggest mistake we have as a society at the moment, I don’t know if you’ll agree with this is that we have this opinion that necessarily doing more of anything or more of reading more of something or doing more of everything is better, and not necessarily doing more is better, better, is better. So I think the biggest mistake a lot of people make is they associate working out more than doing more sets or training more frequently, or getting better results. When in reality, I actually find that a lot of clients, when they come to me, we actually stripped their training back, then you do maybe three hours a week of weight sessions, and they get way better results from doing less work. And there’s less stress in the body, because one of the things people don’t think about is that every time you’re doing repetitions a see an elbow issue, it’s quite common to see your elbow tendonitis, or your knees, this used a nice example. Every time you just say, for example, a leg extension leg machine, you’re putting stress on that joint, you’re gonna be causing inflammation. If you’re training over and over again, to do high reps and lots of sets, like that’s gonna create a lot of extra inflammation and fatigue within the joints in the tissue within that area. And the reality is that you can get a lot more bang for your buck by having fewer sets, but higher quality within the set that you’re doing in terms, your technique, the amount of load, you’re doing, how hard you’re pushing yourself. And that, for me is the first thing that I would really try and address with people when they come to me and they’re in the situation where they might have adrenal fatigue, they’re rundown, they’re not recovering. As the first thing, we’ll be looking at. Okay, what’s, what’s the battering ram that’s literally like nailing down our nervous system and causing this from a training point of view? And I don’t know if you agree with that, Joe, is that something you see with people coming to you that they have this association with, like, I have to do or have to do more, I have to do more doing?   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, 100%. And it’s interesting, I like that. Not more is better, better, is better. And what we tell people, Charlie is that there’s a Goldilocks zone of not too little, and not too much, but you want to be somewhere in the right, the right amount, because we process so many stimuli daily. And I think that’s what’s leading to so much fatigue and exhaustion between notifications on our phones, SMS, text messaging, all of these things, plus, you know, putting out fires to-do lists. So much micromanaging of different stressors cumulatively, cumulatively over and over and over again, and I think exercise is really good. And weight training is a really good sample of that specific thing happening in the body. And you’re right. And that’s, that’s very true in terms of, it’s the quality of the movement, and it’s also the ability to not overload the system. So why don’t you tell us a little bit about your story, in terms of I know, you potentially had some challenges yourself health challenges, and how did you get into doing what you were doing?   Charlie Johnson: So to give a brief synopsis, so when I was 1718, I qualified as a trainer, and I was always a little bit overweight at that stage, and I was in my teens, early 20s. And that probably resonates with a lot of people who are listening to this right now. But I always loved working out. And again, that was interesting. We’re talking about the training more, and not getting results situation because that’s 100%. While I was doing I had this beli

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m really excited to join up forces with my next guest, MacKay Rippey. He’s graduated from the Maryland University for Integrative Health and was one of the first acupuncturists in the country to hold a master’s degree in acupuncture. He’s been helping clients feel better, with the five-element acupuncture for more than 25 years. And he’s just a wealth of information he got into the world of nutrigenomics. And, and how to become a detective in recovering from chronic illness. So, McKay, thank you so much for being here today.   Mackay Rippey: I’m so happy to be here, Joel.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, well, it’s me too. And we were talking a little bit earlier about how excited I was to not just present this information to my audience but to be able to pick up some really great clinical pearls along the way for myself. So we always start McKay with understanding your story in terms of why did you become an acupuncturist? How did you get focused on the world of Lyme and potentially LOTE, knowing that there’s not one protocol that fits all? And it really requires understanding all of that. But there’s got to be a story from you in terms of a health challenge and why you got into this in the first place.   Mackay Rippey: All right, you’re sure you want to go through this right?   Dr. Joel Rosen: Well, yeah, we have, we only have we have three hours.   Mackay Rippey: So let’s go because I was thinking about that addition is like, Holy smokes, I’m that dude. Now, because I started studying acupuncture in 1989. Now, that means I’m no longer young, right, I started, I was the youngest person in my class, I was used to being really young. And I stumbled, I’m going to say, stumbled across acupuncture. It was a Cosmas, either a cosmic joke, or it was divine intervention. And I’ll let you decide which one it was. My father was a patient of acupuncture and had some information around the house about acupuncture. And I would come home from studying English literature at St. Mary’s College, Southern Maryland. And Alex kind of lost, initially thought I was going to study physics. And then I discovered physics was just calculus in the skies. And I wasn’t that interested in math. So I need some sort of skill. I thought I learned how to write and become an English major so that that’s where it was at the time. So I’m reading this information on acupuncture, and just become absolutely fascinated by the theory of it. Not so much helping people just the theory of it. And one of the things that caught my attention, my mom’s struggle with bipolar all her life, like hospitalized bipolar, serious, serious mental illness, and the doctors always say, Oh, it’s just simply a chemical imbalance in her brain. And once we rebalance these chemicals, she’ll be fine. Of course, she was never fine. The chemicals were never imbalanced. Though in the back of my mind, I always had a healthy disrespect, let’s say, for the medical profession, and along comes acupuncture. And they’re basically saying that that ancient Chinese ancient Taoist idea that if you obey the laws of nature, you will be healthy. Okay, okay, that’s interesting, what are the laws of nature, so then they start expounding on them, right? And it’s all the stuff you talk about, over and over again, in your podcasts and your materials on your website and with your, with your patients. It does you go to sleep on time, eat the right foods, eat the right foods in the right seasons, keep your emotions in check. Don’t let stress build up with you all these things, right? Just the basics. And this intrigued me to no end. Because I was a city boy, I grew up in Washington DC, right? We had cement for a front yard right on the sidewalk. We had a bus stop in front of our house. That’s our city we were and I happened to go to school and this lovely   state in it was a Montessori school. So there are these magnificent gardens with azaleas and rhododendrons and all kinds of wildlife. So I had this contrast between nature this idealized nature and my cement city sidewalk. So that’s what got me interested, the lack of effectiveness the medical community had with my mom, and that there’s another way. So I went to study acupuncture. And at first, they turned me away. They said You’re too young. I was still in college at the time when implied you’re going to be talking with very much senior people who are going to have types of illnesses that you’ve never even heard about and have no sympathy for. So Go away, come back in a year or two when you&#8

Dr. Joel Rosen: Welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m super excited for our next guest because I’ve been a fly on the wall watching him progress from where he was to where he is. Now. Ben Azadi is on a mission to help 1 billion people and I’m certainly convinced that he will be able to do that. He wants them to live a happier life. He’s the author of three, not just three, but soon to be four best-selling books. The three that he already has the perfect health booklet, the intermittent fasting cheat sheet, and the power of sleep. He’s been the go-to source for intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet. And he is known as the health detective because he investigates dysfunction and he educates not Medicaid to bring the bat body back to normal function. So, Ben, thank you so much for being here today.   Ben Azidi: Dr. Joel Rosen. I’m excited to be with you, brother.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, me too. So you know what, as far as people that don’t know your story, why don’t you just kind of give us an insight, a little stroll through Memory Lane on your own health challenges and why you developed keto camp and, and we’ll go from there.   Ben Azidi: Absolutely. So I came to a wall. My parents came to America, they immigrated here in the 70s. from Iran, my parents immigrated here in the 1970s. And then I was born blessed enough to be born here in America, in Miami Beach, Florida. And I followed a standard American diet, aka stupid American diet. And it resulted in me being obese, not just physically obese. But also mentally of these, I found myself as a teenager, hanging out the wrong crowds, doing drugs, being addicted to sugar and video games and drugs and alcohol. And I was pretty much left to my own devices growing up. So that really showed and manifested in really poor health. And this transferred into my adulthood, where at the age of 2324 years old, I found myself depressed, suicidal, lost in life, I weighed 250 pounds at that time, this was back in 2008. And I wanted to give up on life, I was tired of hurting, I didn’t know where to start. I never studied nutrition, never exercised. And I was dealing with a bad breakup at that time. And I was crying every day, I was just depressed. And I even went on the internet several times to look for options to end my life and the suffering. But thankfully, I never went through with it. Because every time I thought about doing it, I thought about my mother and I stopped myself from pursuing that. So I knew I needed to figure things out. And a friend of mine, actually, two friends of mine, they’re a couple of Ronald and Carla are their names. They handed me a book and they’re like, read this book, I think it’ll make a big difference for you and what you’re dealing with. So I read the book, and it was a terrific book. And it led to other books. And it led to this whole world I never knew existed, I started to read books from authors like Dr. Wayne Dyer, and Bob Proctor. And Earl Nightingale and Jim Rohn. And Tony Robbins, just these amazing, incredible individuals who have done great things in their life after they went through rock bottom. And for the first time, Jolla helped me take ownership of my results. I said I am responsible. And it felt really liberating, saying those words out loud because it’s almost impossible to feel responsible and say that you’re responsible and still be resentful and angry. So I took ownership. And at that moment, I became the victor of my future, the victim of my destiny, no longer the victim of my history. So I started to actually exercise and eat better and think better thoughts, which we’ll get into in this podcast. And nine months later, I went from 250 pounds down to 170 pounds, I went from 34% body fat, down to 6% body fat finally carved out a physical, physical six-pack, but I believe the most important thing I achieved was a mental six-pack, I started to think better thoughts. And that’s what actually got me started in the health space that became a personal trainer, opened up a CrossFit gym sold a CrossFit gym. And then I studied and got certified as a health coach. And as you mentioned earlier, I started to write these books. So that’s what got me started in the health space. It wasn’t until 2013 that I took this health career if you want to call it that from a hobby to a purpose. That’s when my dad and I ended up getting sick in 2013, where he had type two diabetes. And as you know, it’s a lifestyle disease that’s unfortunately, treated with medication, but I didn’t really understand the disease. And I really put my faith in allopathic medicine and conventional medicine. And my dad ended up suffering a massive stroke whi

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m really excited to join forces on this podcast today with Emily Givler. And she is a functional medicine genetic nutritional consultant researcher lecturer and has a thriving clinical practice at the tree of life in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She is also the co-founder of beyond protocols.org a mentorship platform for practitioners who are committed to learning how to more deeply integrate functional genomics into their existing practices. She holds advanced degrees in certification in nutrition, herbal Ism nutrigenomics from the whole Institute of Medicine, Pan American University of natural health, and functional genomic analysis, where she now serves as an advisor and supplement formulator. In her practice, Miss Givler uses personalized dietary and nutritional protocols based on genetic predispositions, environmental and epigenetic influences, and functional lab testing to help her clients regain health. You so much for being here today.   Emily Givler: Thank you so much for having me, this is going to be so much fun.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yes, I’m really excited because I have, I have been one of the students of your teachings. And I always you have a great skill in delivering very difficult information in a way that’s understood and mostly a being able to be applied. So one of the very first questions I always start with is, why don’t you give us a little background of your own health history and why you got into what you got into?   Emily Givler: Sure. Like so many people in this field, it really was my own health struggles that pushed me in this direction. So I started struggling with some chronic pain when I was 14. And I got moved around from doctor to doctor different types of physical therapy, all sorts of testing for about five years until I landed in front of a rheumatologist at 19. And she diagnosed me with fibromyalgia and told me that with how early it had started, and how fast had progressed, that I should basically plan on being disabled by the time I was 30. And then she proceeded to give me a really obscene narcotic painkiller prescription with the instructions to double it when I was in a lot of pain, which was really every day at that point. And the promise to give me stronger drugs when those stopped working. And when I asked to please to have a liver and kidneys, by the time I was 40, she tacked on an anti-psychotic prescription as well. And so I had this label that was basic that felt like medical shorthand for you’re tired, and you hurt all the time. And those were the two things that I knew. And what nobody could tell me was why. So planning on being disabled by 30 seemed like a really bad plan. So I started kind of this health journey of my own, exploring chiropractic, exploring energy medicine, and ultimately landing in nutrition. And I took lots of missteps along the way, in my own health, which Now, fortunately, helps me, my clients avoid those same mistakes. But that ultimately led me to Bob Miller and functional genomic analysis. And that was when really all of the light bulbs started going off. And I discovered that my own fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue were really rooted in both in influence chronic inflammation, but really driven by high oxalates. And so I started taking steps to mitigate that. So I will be 40 this year, and fully not disabled. I don’t take any anti-psychotics for any painkillers. And I can honestly say that I had almost 40 my pain is about 2% of what it was when I was a teenager and in my 20s. And my energy is about 5000 times what it used to be, even with three small kids running around.   Dr. Joel Rosen: And you still have a liver and kidney.   Emily Givler: I do two kidneys.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Not one just two. Yeah. So that’s, that’s great. So just to kind of go back though, because I do want to talk about oxalates. And I’m really excited to tie that in with fatigue and exhaustion and hormones and the things that you’ve discovered, but just sort of the Friend in Me wants to know, like, Did that really upset you and make you mad? Or feel like a certain, I guess, energy feeling towards those recommendations because they are very aggressive in the medications that they gave you didn’t give you a lot of hope. Didn’t educate you. I mean, what did you learn from that particular experience?   Emily Givler: So it The moment because I had been struggling for five years with no answers. It was empowering to get that label at the time to know that I wasn’t alone. I wasn’t crazy. You know, I was at the point where I was wondering, maybe everybody just feels this way. And I’m just being a baby about it. Because despit

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of the less stress life podcast where we teach exhausted and burnt-out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their energy back quickly. And today I am joined by a buddy of mine, and a leader and pioneer in the world of functional medicine, Dr. Eric Balcavage. This is our third interview, and I told them, hey, Eric, we haven’t talked for a while, I want to hear what’s new on your radar. And we can just kind of geek out in front of the audience and tell them what’s going on. He’s the owner and founder of Rejuvagen. Jen is widely recognized around the world as a leader in functional medicine. He’s been in practice for over 20 years, and he sees he has successfully helped 1000s of people suffering from thyroid problems and other chronic health conditions all over the world. So Eric, thank you so much for spending some time with us today.   Dr. Eric Balcavage: Well, thanks, Joel. We should I was down in Florida with you. But you know, we’ll do it from I’ll do it the distance. I’m gonna be there next month.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Oh, okay. Yeah, I tell people look, the roads are open. So you’re free to come here as much as you want and make that change. You know, you’re old enough now where you can,   Dr. Eric Balcavage: hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, just because I don’t have much hair. Don’t be calling me old?   Dr. Joel Rosen: Well, that’s true. So Alright, Eric, give us sort of a, I guess, with a common question is a little bit about yourself, but kind of give us where you’ve evolved to because you’ve had a huge journey. You were a brick and mortar, you were a hands-on guy, and then you found your passion for helping people going deeper. And here we are in 2021. What would you sort of give us as if I asked you, Hey, what do you do for your life? If you were to give us sort of your elevator sort of sentence of what it is that you do? Why don’t you tell the listeners? What is it that you do now, given the evolution and transition that you’ve you’ve been through?   Dr. Eric Balcavage: At this point? I mean, my 32nd elevator speech is I help people recover from chronic illness. I mean, I think that’s what really what it comes down to. And I think most people come to me because they have some type of thyroid physiology problem. They see my, my information or my posts, or they’re referred to me, and that starts the journey of, Hey, can you help me fix my thyroid physiology. And I think most of those people that come to see me, I’m rarely ever trying to manipulate their thyroid physiology, I’m always looking at a whole bunch of these other things. And so whether somebody comes to see me and they’ve got a thyroid problem that they’ve been diagnosed with, or they have gi issues, or they have adrenal issues, or they have sleep issues or weight issues, you know, that the diagnosis to me means very little. Ultimately, anybody with chronic health issues can benefit from what I think is an inappropriate functional medicine, philosophy, and strategy. And so I help people with all kinds of issues, but what it what kind of is attracted to me are people with thyroid issues, specifically looking to try and fix it, like what’s the secret sauce that fixes my chronic hypothyroidism, hypothyroidism, and chronic hypothyroid symptoms? And I think many times those people are, they’re kind of taken aback when I say, listen, we’re not going to try and manipulate your ti for your TSH, 83. We’re going to try and get to the foundational issues of why your body is reacting the way it is.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, that’s awesome. And I find the same thing with myself as well. And I, I tell people, like, you know, I want to ask you this question. I look at it as if we’re golf pros. It’d be so much easier if you came to us and you haven’t swung a golf club before, versus all the crappy forms that you’ve learned. We have to unlearn that, and we have to relearn the actual skill set. And I kind of liken that to what you just said is I don’t work on diagnoses, because a lot of clients that must be hard for them to listen to where, hey, you’re the thyroid guy, I got thyroid issues, and then you tell them like, okay, I don’t care about your thyroid issues. So how do you have them unlearn their bad swing from an educational standpoint?   Dr. Eric Balcavage: Well, I think that’s right. So a couple of things is that sometimes the easiest people to help are the people that aren’t coming in with their preconceived biases, right. They’ve, they, they say, Well, I’m a limey. I’m a moldy this and they start to explain to you why they have their health crisis. Like they’re dumping thei

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Everyone and welcome back to another edition of less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m really excited about our next guest, Becky rue, she has been a client, patient of mine, a friend of mine, and we’ve also done work together. She’s quite active on social media, she’s had her own health journey, as it relates to thyroid issues and gi issues, and insomnia issues. And I really wanted to interview Becky, because she’s one of these people that goes down those rabbit holes, and continues to look and bring up new things, and really helps not just herself, get an idea of what’s impacting her and what she needs to do to get better. But she helps a lot of people online as well. So, Becky, thank you so much for being here today.   Becky Rhew: You’re welcome. I’m glad to be here. I am. Yeah.   Dr. Joel Rosen: why don’t you just go? Go ahead, go ahead. Yep.   Becky Rhew: I was just gonna say, you know, having these chronic illnesses sucks. And you have to look at the silver lining, which is that maybe you can help somebody else. And maybe you can help them get from point A to point B, faster than you did? You know, so that’s always the hope that somebody doesn’t have to endure quite the drama that you did.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, yeah, for sure. But with that being said, it’s been a long journey for you, right? So why don’t you kind of take us through the genesis of what you were initially dealing with that, you know, that started your, your search for better health?   Becky Rhew: Um, so my symptoms became really obvious to me after I had two babies. So, when I was, when my second baby was a year old, I started to have a lot of weird symptoms. And it seemed to me to be hormonal in nature, because of the timing of everything. That’s the, you know, the path I was chasing at that time, you know, clearly, this is hormonal, let’s fix the hormones, and everything will be great, we’ll be back to normal. But, you know, as you go down this chronic illness path, you can kind of look back on your prior life and realize, maybe I didn’t really feel super great before that, you know, maybe there were some signs of things that were starting to, you know, go wrong. So, I worked with you at that time. And, you know, we were, we were working on adrenal issues, and you had me run my DNA. And that was probably the most cost-effective and efficient thing that I did to customize my, my recovery. Um, it just gives you so many, so much insight as to why your body is doing what it’s doing. And one of the main things that I found out at that time, and your, the program that you’re doing now is so much more comprehensive, but we found a lot of stuff. And what I found was, you know, I don’t process certain amino acids normally, and that I have a histamine issue. So, um, you know, a lot of people have allergies. And those can present in all sorts of different ways. You know, looking back on my past life, I can recall a time I used to get these insane hives after exercise. And I had to go to the hospital a couple of times from having these major hive breakouts, which is kind of weird, you know, but it was isolated, and you just kind of look past it, but you put these pieces together, you know, as time goes on. Um, so I focused on a low histamine diet as one of my main recovery tools. And I found that that was really like the crux of, you know, what would keep me even-keeled. I was having a lot of insomnia as my most distressing symptom, digestive issues, and I found that the low histamine diet was effective kind of across the board. So that I did that for a while. And one of the things you hope that when you’re doing these things that you will recover and you won’t How to do it anymore. So the low histamine diet like you can’t have, you know, tomatoes, um, I love tomatoes in my past life, you know, tomatoes, citrus, um, what else like things like avocados, you know, it’s just like an apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is like the healthiest thing anybody could have, it’s so great for your blood sugar, you know, blah, blah, blah, your digestion, it’s super high in histamine. So you have to modify your diet, contrary to a lot of other healthy food plans. And you hope that you don’t have to do that in the long term. So I would fall off of this low histamine diet and go through periods of feeling not so great kind of thinking, like, maybe I should do that again, you know, going back and forth. Um, you know, I’m a human being. So I have, you know, I like chocolate and ice cream. And so, you know, go through periods of time like that, I was covered so well, that I became a fitness competitor for a little while. That is, that

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, hello, everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And today, I’m joined by a past patient, Marcellus Johnson. And I’m really excited because he’s got a great story. In fact, I just happened to reach out to him and dm him, I saw that he was on Facebook the other day. And I said, Hey, I haven’t talked to Marcellus in a little bit. And I said, Hey, Marcellus, how are you doing? I’m doing great, you know? And it’s because of you and like, wow, like, that’s, that’s awesome. Hey, do you want to get on a conversation and tell people your story, because I know a lot of frustrated people? And like we just mentioned earlier, they believe they can’t get better, or they’re told that they can’t get better, or they’re just going to have to accept it and they’re frustrated. So I think Marcel is gonna tell us a great story about what he went through. And, and we can kind of go from there. So myself, thank you so much for joining us today.   Marcellus Johnson: Yeah, Dr. Rosen, thanks for having me. Yeah. My name is Marcela. So I’m 26 years old. And about two years ago, I went through a really rough ride, the ruff challenge with my health. You know, I’m fairly young, I never thought it would happen to me. But you know, I think a perfect storm was brewing, so to speak. And, yeah, I just went through one of the hardest, hardest times of my life, honestly. And, you know, I’ve made so much tremendous progress. You know, there are some slight things I still deal with even now. But I know how to address them and mitigate them. And because of that, I’m able to live you know, normal life again. And, you know, I did two years ago, I didn’t think that was possible, and a lot of those due to Dr. Rosen. So I really, thank you, Dr. Rosen, for that.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, well, you know, I think you and I am just grateful to have the player role, small role, I’ll be it. And I told you initially, when we started the conversation, that I just a team player, and ultimately, the responsibility and the diligence, and being your own advocate comes down to you. And there’s a lot of things that you do, along with implementing the strategies that we do mindset. You know, a lot of other things that the search to get better, the desire to get better, the willingness, even the knowledge that you deserve to get better. That’s a big one because some people don’t feel that they have that. But a lot of kudos go to you. And that’s why I want to showcase this. But I was reading through some of the notes that we initially wrote down and in terms of and you permitted me to share them in terms of having some of these adrenaline rushes at night. Insomnia, fatigue, joint pain, some of that cop coast, Costco, calm dryness, maybe some difficulty with gi disturbances. So why don’t you kind of give us an idea? Maybe if I didn’t cover it all there, like what were some of the things that you were dealing with, like two years ago before we started?   Marcellus Johnson: Yeah, so it all started in April of 2019. I started to get extraordinary blood sugar fluctuations, where I would eat and I would literally feel like I was gonna pass out. So like, hypoglycemia, I guess, but it started of nowhere. And then all these other things started trickling down, I couldn’t sleep, I would get adrenaline rushes at night. I was wired but tired. I would have this intense joint pain, you know, the costochondritis. But it was you know, it wasn’t just there is also at my, my knee, both my knees actually my right hip, which has been something that has bugged me for many years but now is a lot better. So there’s a ton of things I really dealt with. But one thing that you actually covered, that helped tremendously was when we got went over my genetic tests. You talked about iron metabolism. So my iron metabolism based on my genetics is terrible. It’s not very good. So I did some more research, you know, you had said you should probably donate blood. So I did some more research and I looked at you know, hemochromatosis. I mean, my iron metabolism is on isn’t on that scale. It might be slightly like that, but it’s not as bad as that. But once I started donating blood, the cost of contracts went away. And you know, I went to the doctor and they said, Oh, we don’t know what causes this. You know, my doctor at Kaiser, we don’t know what causes Just put some, some cream on it like some, some cream to numb it like some of that bio freeze or something like that, that’s the best you can do. You know, I don’t need your blood once I felt a ton better. A lot of the inflammation in my joints went away

Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stressful life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so they can get their health back quickly. So be sure to check out our website for the truth about adrenal fatigue calm. So now I’m really excited to interview our next guests, my friend, my colleague, and an A mentor in the way that she’s really a leader in mast cell activation and supporting people that are dealing with those concerns. Dr. Beth is a functional natural Pathak and functional genetic analysis doctor, she has a doctorate in the natural capacity and specializes in functional natural Pathak approaches and a master’s in marriage and family therapy. And she’s found the root causes of mast cell activation to help not just other people heal, but her own self-healing. So, Dr. Beth, thank you so much for being here today.   Beth O’Hara: Thank you so much, Dr. Joel. And it’s just a pleasure to be with you. I’m really excited about this too. I find that for a lot of people taught learning what Mast cell activation syndrome is, can be a major game-changer in their health and looking at it because this is such a missing piece. And it’s one of the biggest overlooked and under-recognized conditions. But it’s affecting between nine and 17%. That’s what these population studies show nine to 17% of the general population. And in people with chronic health issues. It’s definitely over 50%. And we’ve got to be talking about it. So thank you for helping us get this information out there. And I know you’re on board, and you’re looking at it, and you’ve done lots of amazing research as well. So we met each other at the conference, we were presenting it.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Right, exactly, I guess we the nerds, and I say that in an enduring way set tend to resonate together because they have a frequency that’s aligned. And, you know, I, I would go further and say that the incidence or the the the amount of people dealing with some form of activation of their mast cells based on environmental triggers, whether they’re dealing with a chronic health problem or not, is even higher than that if I would.   Beth O’Hara: It’s my suspicion, I don’t have the data to back it up. But that’s my suspicion. And when I’m talking to colleagues like you and other colleagues that are Mast cell, we’re and when working in this area, we all think very similarly about it.   Dr. Joel Rosen: For sure, for sure. And the bottom line is like you mentioned earlier, it has to be on your radar, if it isn’t already, and it’s relatively new on my radar. So I’m really excited to talk to you as well. So as you know, my demographic and the people that listen to this are exhausted and burnt out. And they haven’t necessarily found the combination, the tumbler lock combination of right variables in the right orders to really bust open their health results. And move the chains if you will. And what I’m really excited about to talk to you about is what those combinations can be for people that don’t realize, but let’s start with your own story. Because just like all the guests, and typically all the providers that get into this area, have their own personal story. And I know yours is quite profound. So let’s talk a little bit about what you had to endure and what you went through and where you are now and how you got into what you’re doing.   Beth O’Hara: Sure. Well, I started when I was young. I mean I had little weird health quirks as a young child, but my family moved to the country in an old farmhouse when I was seven. And I thought I was just excited. It was like Laura Ingalls Wilder, those are my favorite books and but we didn’t know that that house was full of toxic mold. And I lived there for 10 years. And I also I was playing outside I was getting bitten by ticks and my health rapidly declined living there. But nobody knew what toxic mold was back then. They certainly didn’t know what Mast cell activation syndrome was that was not even theoretical yet. And but I was I you know growing up. Growing up in the country, you grow green beans, I would be the one picking green beans covered in hives every year head to toe and I would feed the chickens corn covered in hives. I was constantly scratching my eyes. I would scratch my skin at night until I bled in about age 12 I started having major blood sugar issues. When I was I never had the energy that other people had that other kids my age had When I was 16, I was in a car accident. And I could not get up, I just could not get out of bed. And I felt like I couldn’t quite recover. Now that said, I was a very type a young person. And I was on the fast track to medical school. That was my dream

Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach exhausted and burnt-out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m really excited to be joined by a colleague, a mentor, educator, Dr. Titus Chiu. He’s the number one best selling author, award-winning international speaker, and a leader in the field of functional neurology, who help people struggling with post-concussive syndrome, get their brains and lives back. So Dr. Titus, thank you so much for being here today.   Dr. Titus Chiu: Yeah, thanks so much for having me. Appreciate it.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, so listen, I’ve, I’ve seen a lot of the work that you do. And ultimately, I want to delve into the post-concussive field and how that relates to stress, exhaustion, burnout, because the people that listen to this podcast are exhausted and burnt out and frustrated, because a lot of times they go see their doctor and Adrenal Fatigue is not real, and or their blood tests are normal. And ultimately, they are not taken seriously. And they’re frustrated. And I always love to bring in experts about that around that field, but more specifically, things that can lead to fatigue, exhaustion, and burnout. And really, in terms of post-concussive injuries, that’s a huge area to discuss. But before we get into that, Titus, can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, I know you have your own personal health story, maybe help the listeners understand a little bit about your own health challenges that you had had in the past?   Dr. Titus Chiu: Yeah, definitely. So over 20 years ago, I was in a really terrible car accident. And I ended up with broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder I was actually on a scooter on my way to work, and it was hit by a car and got thrown from that. And thank God, I survived. But I was left with chronic pain. And I didn’t know it at the time, I actually had suffered a concussion as well. And so through that whole process, I tried to find answers for the pain and the discomfort, and, you know, all the different symptoms I was experiencing. And I was shocked, because, you know, I was raised in conventional medicine, a lot of my, you know, the family are medical doctors and nurses and, you know, speaking Better yet, against them. They’re great. But the whole model within conventional medicine of just focusing on symptoms, I was shocked, because I couldn’t find answers, you know, outside of painkillers or, you know, things like that, that just didn’t give me long term relief. So I decided to take it, you know, upon myself and I went outside the box, and I went back to school, I got a master’s in nutrition. I did a postdoc in clinical neurology. I even studied chiropractic, and acupuncture, and all these everything I could get my hands on, to start getting answers to these symptoms I was experiencing, and also everything I could get my hands on, so I can share, you know, my breakthroughs with my patients in the world. And so fast forward those over 20 years ago, fast forward. And so here, I am really living that out. Because my mission is to really empower people, high achievers who have experienced concussion or trauma to get their lives back to go from surviving to thriving.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Awesome. Yeah. And you know, when you have that personal story, too, I have that story as well. I hurt my back. I had an exercise physiology degree. And I was watching those bodybuilding magazines, and I injured my back. And I’m from a traditional family of medical doctors as well. And I say I’m like the weird black sheep holistic guy wanted me to go for surgery. And I was no way I was having surgery. Like, listen, I can rehab it on my own. And then it led to like, in your what you just described going down that rabbit hole. Yeah. And being yourself and then learning how to help other people. So I can resonate with a lot of that with what with and again, not that traditional approaches are bad. When there are major health acute based challenges. There’s nowhere else you’d want to be to Yeah, and you know, going to lunch, right, exactly, yeah. Go ahead.   Dr. Titus Chiu: That’s, you know, that’s the thing when I got hit by that car, I was taken by ambulance to the emergency room. So I am so thankful for the doctors and nurses that attended me there because just like you said, when it comes to more life-threatening crises, you know, of, you know, health conditions, hands down conventional medicine all the way. But I found that there was this huge gap and that was my experience at the time and the further I drove Especially around concussion, I found that there’s a massive gap in health care, right? being like discharged from the ER and then actually then getting follow up care for things such as

    Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stress life where we teach adults that are burnt out and exhausted the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their energy back quickly. So just like we always talk about if you’re suffering from an adrenal fatigue based problem, go check us out at the truth about adrenal fatigue so we can support you in getting the answers you’re looking for. So today, I’m really excited to introduce my guest, Jodi stern off Cohen. She’s a best selling author, author, award-winning general journalist, functional medicine practitioner, and founder of vibrant blue oils where she is combined her training and nutritional therapy and aromatherapy to create unique proprietary blends of organic and wild created essential oils. She has helped over 50,000 clients heal from brain-related challenges including anxiety, insomnia, and autoimmunity. Jody, thank you so much for being here today.   Jodi Cohen: Oh, thank you. I’m with my people. I’m an adrenal fatigue junkie too.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Right. Well, that’s what we were talking about a little bit earlier before we got started is you have your own story. And as you know, we talk to exhausted burnt-out adults that are looking for the truth about adrenal fatigue. So why don’t you tell us a little bit about your own story, Jody?   Jodi Cohen: Yeah, I have a, you know, a lifetime of Type A overachieving personality, cross the finish line at my first marathon and think, what am I going to do next? You know, I climbed the ladder of corporate America did all these things. And then one day married with two kids, and my husband was severely depressed. And it became clear that it was more than I could handle. I didn’t want him to die on my watch. And I finally moved him into a residential treatment facility. And the minute I knew he was safe, and it wasn’t my job to keep him safe. It was like I completely ran out of gas, I could barely get out of bed, I could barely function. My kids were five and seven, I had a full-time job. I was a clean volunteer. And yet it took all my energy to make them breakfast, pack their lunch and drive them to school, I’d come home and literally crawl back in bed and binge-watch something incredibly stupid until I had to pick them up. And I was like, I kept treading water. And I wasn’t drowning, but I wasn’t getting better. And I had been practicing nutrition for a while at that point and knew all the remedies that I was supposed to be taking. And at one point, a friend said, you know, it’s probably you’ve been so high cortisol for so long that your gut is just toast, and you’re just not able to assimilate something, you need to try essential oils, you know, these will at least be assimilated through your scanner, you can smell them. So she brought me a huge box, I had been working with wiggly kids. And so I got really good at this technique called muscle testing, where you can kind of drill down on what remedy is going to work in kind of a very noninvasive way. So I use that technique to identify oils to help my adrenals I picked five which seems strange to me since I normally found one or two. And then it occurred to me Oh, I can combine them. So I tested each bottle, combine them put them over my adrenals my low back, and felt like myself for the first time in a month. I am you know I was able to go run which I love to do but had no energy for I cleaned the entire house, I went to the supermarket I made their favorite dinner, I did laundry, I put it away. I was like myself again. And that night I was lying in bed, you know, I’d put them to sleep. And then my pattern would be to kind of be exhausted, but my mind was racing and so I couldn’t fall asleep. You know, as I’m watching the click, clock, you know, ticking through to morning, it occurred to me, oh, this is my pineal gland. My cortisol is so high that it’s messing up my melatonin I wonder if there’s an oil combination that I can make for that. So I went downstairs made another blend kind of you know, the pineal gland is really in the center of the brain. It kind of calibrates the light, and that’s how it knows to release melatonin, your sleep hormone. So I kind of put it around my head fell asleep. So slept better than I had in a month woke up and thought, Okay, that was really fascinating. And just kept making up oil remedies. And at a certain point about a couple of weeks in, I started to really feel like myself again. All of my colleagues who had been charting my journey and trying to help me were fascinated. And they thought, Oh, let me try that. It worked on all of their clients. At a certain point, I had the mental capacity to go online and do some research. And I was super surprised that no one was really looking at oil blends through the lens

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Welcome back to another edition of the less stressful life where we teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m really excited to interview My next guest here because he was dealing with some major health challenges before we started to work together. And then we’ve kept in contact through social media and emails. And he’s always so kind in terms of giving thanks for the improvements that he’s had with his health. And I thought, Hey, you know, what would you be open to sharing your story, and tell other people that had suffered from some of the same things that you suffered with or gone through the same challenges that you’ve gone through and what you did to help yourself and how we got to the basics or the root cause of the challenges and really address those. And it’s not just a one-time thing. It’s not something that you do just one time. It’s the knowledge and information that you’ll have forever in your toolkit. So without further ado, I have Griffin Griffin here today. Griffin, why don’t you thank me, First of all, thank you so much for being here.   Griffen: Oh, yeah. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. Dr. Joel.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, so I’m excited to talk to you because I just reviewed all of the important information that we did working together. And there were so many aha cars, and so many really textbook things that were going on from a functional medicine standpoint, or neutral genomic genetic standpoint. But yet, from what you may have experienced before working together, it wasn’t always that way. So why don’t you give our listeners who listen to this podcast that is exhausted and burnt out, and maybe frustrated and at their wit’s end and not finding solutions to their own problems? Give us a little background on what you were dealing with what you were suffering from and how it was impacting you.   Griffen: You bet. To give you context, right now, I’m 44 years old, and my journey started really, about age 38, where I was extremely food sensitive. I was 240 pounds and at five, nine, that’s not a healthy weight, pretty irritable, sleep challenges just not functioning well as a human being. And after a couple of colonoscopies. I had a doctor that wanted to put me on Humira. I read about the drug, and I said, you know, suppressing my immune system seems like a pretty silly approach, it’s going to have some other consequences. So that’s really where my entire health journey started. You know, a lot of people have seen it, but I started with the bulletproof diet. And that was, my mother was a nursing professor at Oregon Health Sciences University, we discussed me, my challenges, and she said, Hey, I think at least getting on a ketogenic diet would be a good way for you to start and made several improvements, you know, over the next year, so by age 39, my health improved a lot. Fast forward to 44 over the years, and, you know, I resolved some digestive issues, but my energy continued to deplete right and as feeling worse and worse. And, you know, I’m throwing stuff at the wall, trying to make it stick. I’m trying to go on from keto to carnivore and trying all these bio hacks and you know, looking for the silver bullet just not finding it and went to a naturopath. While we were still living in Washington, and that naturopath told me, I had adrenal fatigue and helped me get on some adrenal cortex and a couple of other things. And it didn’t work. So I did more research and came across you on social media. And that’s where we got engaged in, you know, fast forward from it was a January that we connected or February of this year.   Dr. Joel Rosen: And we would, yeah, it was early in the year and I think a couple of my notes are in March as well.   Griffen: March Yeah, exactly. And yeah, you know, the progress of the first five years really being a digestive improvement, but uh, energy decline, engaging with you and where I’m at today is, you know, I kind of I have my life back and being a guy the 12 months ago, my energy was terrible. I didn’t like playing with my kids. I didn’t do fun things because I just felt like crap. I mean, literally, you know, pretty miserable life, and today, you know, we’ve made several lifestyle changes during the pandemic. Maybe we’ll touch on those a little bit but you know where I’m at today. If you would have told me a year ago I could be where I am at the weight. I am at the health I am with the quality of life. If I might have had to suspend disbelief to get there. So I’m super happy with the results, working with you. And that’s why I’m here today. I’m a huge advocate of yours. And hopefully, this inspires some people to get more engaged with you on a p

  Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of the less stressed life where our goal is to teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And today’s a real pleasure for me and you because Bob Miller is a mentor of mine, whatever he says is something that’s going to be cutting edge, it’s going to be helpful, it’s going to give you clues and puzzle pieces that you’re missing to only make the picture clearer and brighter and ultimately help you get your health back. So Bob Miller is a traditional natural pass specializing in the field of genetics specific nutrition, he earned his traditional natural Pathak degree from Trinity School of Natural Health and as a Board Certified through the AMA, in 1993, he opened the Tree of Life practice, and he has served as a traditional mat natural path for 27 years. For the past several years, he has been engaging exclusively with functional nutritional genetic variants and related research specializing in nutritional support for those with chronic Lyme. He’s an educator, a researcher, a nutritional supplement for major formulator, or a medic and software creator, and ultimately a passionate guy to interview to get some insight. So, Bob, thank you so much for being here today. I really do appreciate it.   Dr. Bob Miller: Oh, it’s my pleasure. We always have fun talking about this stuff geeking out, as we say, and trying to figure out these pathways that are so important, particularly with the changing environment that we’re in the changing health challenges we’re in. It’s, I think, more critical than ever, that we understand some of these pathways and how they impact us.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, absolutely. And you’re really what’s great about what you do, Bob is not only are you in the trenches, you’re also in the sort of the front lines, but also in the back lines. So you have a really unique perspective on all of this information. And I always like to start Bob with your own story. So a lot of the people that we interview or many healthcare practitioners in general, they have their own hero’s journey in terms of why they do what they do. And our audience is exhausted, burnt out. Adults, why don’t you tell us a little bit of your background story?   Dr. Bob Miller: Sure. Well, my first career actually was as an executive in the telecommunications industry, very stressful. And at a very young age, in my early 30s, when I had a six-year-old and a four-year-old, I started getting all sorts of colitis. And it got worse and worse. And worse. I ended up in the hospital, I was there for 21 long days. And towards the end, I had lost half my blood, then I hemorrhaged. And it was really a question of whether I’d see the morning, I’ll never forget the look on my wife’s face thinking Am I going to have a dead husband by morning with a six-year-old and four years old. And the response from the medical folks was, well, we need to cut out the colon. And of course, I’m a Pennsylvania Dutch background, so we’re known to be a little stubborn. I was like, No, I don’t think so. And of course, they got angry, you’re gonna be begging us to cut this out, you’d be in the hospital a couple of weeks out of the year. You know, you’re basically an idiot for not doing this. Well, it was like humor me. And I really didn’t know what I was doing. But I just had this instinct of, there’s got to be a better way. And that’s when I started looking at some, you know, some of the old-time herbalism of, of, you know, slippery elm and things like that. And for whatever reason, I went into remission. And I’m 66 now, so I guess that was maybe, you know, 30 some years ago, and no, 40 years ago. And no 30 some years ago, and my colon is just doing fine. No, it’s interesting, just this summer with all of the stress, I had relapsed. And interestingly, some of the things that we’re going to be talking about today was once again, what got me back into remission. So and I think that might be part of my advantage that by having an electronics background, you know, I think in schematics, I think in pathways, and that’s the knowledge I’m bringing to the genomics looking at the pathway. So that’s a little of my story. And so that’s how I got into this, had it not been for that I still probably be an executive in telecommunications.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, I didn’t know that, Bob. And what’s interesting about that is is that when you have that story, it’s also a mission-driven purpose of Hey, had I had that removed, there’s no telling if my health would have gotten better, because I probably wouldn’t have addressed the reasons why it was having to be removed in the

https://youtu.be/rtSpHayrQYE   Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of the less stress life podcast where we help burnt out adults get their energy back and tell them the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can have the life that they want. And we’re really excited for our next guest, Dr. Debbie bright. She’s a weight loss and gut health expert, Dr. Debbie is an internationally recognized and board-certified functional medicine physician, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist. As the founder and CEO of the International millennial health movement, Dr. Deb helps millennials discover their head and food sensitivities so that they can feel their face skin fat and fatigue, all within 21 days or less, while weight loss is is what Dr. Debbie does restore self-worth is who she is. Dr. Deb is an author, speaker, and public feature with appearances on TV, radio, and podcasts and is frequently featured in health and wellness magazines. Dr. Debbie, thank you so much for joining us today.   Dr. Debbie Bright: Dr. Joel, it is such a pleasure to be here to serve your community. So thank you for having me.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, well, listen, I’m really excited to get into how you got to where you got to your own background story. And now what your mission is to help those that are suffering, get their health back. So why don’t you tell us a little bit about your story, Debbie?   Dr. Debbie Bright: Yeah, so you know, for as long as I can remember. Or could remember, when I was a kid, I was always that tired kid, you know, I kind of like to stay in my room keep to myself more introverted. And, you know, that was always with me. And so if we fast forward to, when I decided to go to grad school, I went to chiropractic school. And that’s what I got my doctorate in, and my Master’s nutrition as well. When I was first going in, I went to the doctor, and I just was like, you know, I’m tired. grad school is going to be a significant amount of hours. You know, it’s, people always, often ask me, you know, well, how does grad school like that compared to like, regular college, and it’s like, well, in a regular college or grad school, it’s like, you know, 12 hours is full time versus grad schools, nine, we were doing like 27 to 36 hours, you know, of a curriculum, right? It’s a grind.   And anyway, so I just hold a doctor, like I have trouble paying attention, you know, I’ve got this foggy brain and whatnot. And so they just, they put me on Adderall. And so every day for over a year, I took this pill. And I just felt like, I couldn’t Well, it wasn’t felt like I could not sleep anymore. And at first, it was fine. Because you know, when you’re younger, you can run yourself pretty hard. And there’s a little bit more wiggle room in forgiveness. So taking this pill, never really sleeping is kind of feeling like my eyes felt sunk back in my head. On the weekends, when I wouldn’t take it, I would sleep the whole weekend, I would just totally burn out and crash. Right. So one of my classmates, he, he noticed some of these things going on with just like my overall behavior of just really good at reading people. And he came up to me and he said, I know what you’re going through, I know what you’re up to. I’ve been there before. And I can help you change your ways by addressing your gut health, the foods you’re eating, you probably have something called he was calling it food allergies. But now we know the term is more related to food intolerance or food sensitivities. And I was able to free myself have the Adderall and change my diet and get a much bigger energy payoff, focus, better moods, deeper sleep, lost 14 pounds, and excelled in grad school, whereas before on Adderall strung out sleepless deprived, wasn’t getting the grades you would think one would get when they’re, you know, taking the study drug. So, Joel, that essentially propelled me into you know, I love sports rehab and everything that chiropractic had to offer. But it moved me forward to doing a more functional nutrition type of taking that approach with patients. And so that’s where we are today.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Wow, awesome. So it’s, it’s interesting. A couple of facts that you talk about in that is that you learned that in grad school, while you are going to help other people and in a physical rehab kind of way, and not really maybe realizing your own challenges, and how that increased your scope of practice for when you did graduate. I can relate to that. I remember when I was going through chiropractic college, it was like I had a permanent IV of caffeine going into my veins. And I remember the anxiety we all studied really hard and always having quizzes and exams and deadlines. So the stress of that we were exercising ourselves. And, and

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, hello, everyone and welcome back to another edition of the less stressful life where we teach exhausted adults how to get their energy back quickly. And I’m really excited to join with our next guest, Dr. Debbie Silber because she is the founder of the post betrayal transformation Institute. And as a holistic psychologist, a healthy mindset and personal development expert, and the author of the number one best-selling book The unshakable woman four steps to rebuilding your body, mind, and life after a life crisis. And of course, her new book trust again overcoming betrayal and regaining health, confidence, and happiness. her recent Ph. D study on how we experienced betrayal made three groundbreaking breaking discoveries that change how long it takes to heal. In addition to that, being on Fox, CBS, the dr. oz show TEDx twice and more. She’s an award-winning speaker, coach, and author dedicated to helping people move past their betrayals, as well as any other blocks preventing them from their health work finances, relationships, confidence, and happiness they want. So Dr. Debbie, thank you so much for being here.   Dr. Debi Silber: Well, thanks so much for having me looking forward to our conversation.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, that’s quite a bio. I’m very impressed with that with the books and the TEDx and being on news, and ultimately helping people that have been through some of the challenges that you have been through. So I always like to introduce our guests to get their background story, because a lot of our listeners are exhausted and burnt out, looking for hope, looking for guidance, looking for solutions, and looking for someone who has walked the walk and talk the talk. So Dr. Debbie, why don’t you share with us how your background and how you got into what you got into?   Dr. Debi Silber: Yeah, and I and I can so relate to that person who is just absolutely exhausted, I’ve been there more than once. And I’ve been in a healthy mindset, personal development since 1991. I’ve worked with 1000s of people since then. And my business kept sort of morphing and changing as I did. And then there was trauma, and it was a horrible betrayal by my family. And you know how the universe works. So like, Well, you didn’t quite learn all the lessons you were meant to learn. We’re giving you another opportunity. Well, that opportunity came and this time it was my husband, blindsided, devastated, you know, like anybody who’s been through it. So the first thing I did was I got him out of the house. And I thought, okay, what’s common between these two betrayals, because certainly, I did sign up to be the poster child for betrayal. And I realized, you know, I never even took my own needs seriously, I was never even on my own to-do list, I had four kids, six dogs, this thriving business, and I was sort of nowhere to be found. So one of the first things I did was sign up enroll in a Ph. D program. In transpersonal, psychology, the psychology of transformation and human potential. Because I was changing, I didn’t quite understand it, but I was like, You know what, that’s it, I’m doing something for me my turn, you know, and, and I was exhausted, depleted in way over my head, but I felt so just intuitively guided to just start doing this. And, and then I dove in. And while I was there, it was time to do a study. So I studied betrayal. What holds us back what helps us heal and what happens to us physically, mentally, and emotionally. When the people closest to us lie, cheat, and deceive. And that study led to three groundbreaking discoveries which changed my health, my family, my business, my life?   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, I mean, it’s an awesome story that we hear a lot of with our guests that have made it their purpose and mission and their badge of honor and their armor in terms of the war wounds and the scars that they’ve been through to wear them as that defines them. And I do want to get into those three discoveries, for sure. But I just want to get back into like, okay, you put yours like the shoemaker who has holes in your shoes for kids, the dog that you know, all the other things that you had to do to manage? But how do you go from putting yourself second or last, and being betrayed to looking at that as Okay, I’m going to use the winds to propel my sales, and I’m actually going to enroll in a Ph. D. program. So what was the transformation for you before the transformations and looking at the steps? Well, yeah, how did you decide to do that?   Dr. Debi Silber: That’s such a great question. I think because I looked at it and I and I felt like if I don’t do something good with this having no idea of what’s going to come of it. But if I don’t do something good with this, it’s like a bad game of hot potato. Do you know what I

Dr. Jill Carnahan: Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us again for Facebook Live and Dr. Jill live with Dr. Joel Rosen today. A lot of times I’ve had guests that I know really well, Joel and I knew of each other, but we’re, we’re gonna get to know each other even better today, and I’m really excited about that. Just a little housekeeping. If you want more videos, you can find them on Facebook here, or you can on my Facebook page, which is flutter and functional medicine. If you’re on YouTube. You can find all of them subscribe to the channel there under Jill Carnahan. And we’ve got lots of great interviews, and this will just be another one of them. So, Dr. Joel, I want to introduce him first and then we’ll dive into a story of how you got into what you’re doing. He’s the founder of the truth about adrenal fatigue, calm, and an expert in repairing the broken stress response system in the body, resetting the circadian rhythms of the body.   He’s a chiropractic physician, a certified functional medicine practitioner, and utilizes his undergraduate degree in exercise physiology and psychology. What a great combo. We need that nowadays, don’t we? his private practice is located in Boca Raton, Florida, but his coaching clients reside all over the world. Joel hosts his podcast your adrenal fix, I’m passionate about impacting the practice of health care versus sickness care, and has made it his personal mission to educate doctors and patients alike on the truth about Adrenal Fatigue and how the impact of stressors impact more than the adrenals right to the cellular level. Joe suffered from his own adrenal fatigue health crisis, and now educates 10s of thousands of clients around the world. So and we’ll have to talk a little bit about leading analysts, which I’m sure you have talked about on many of your podcasts as well. Welcome, Joel, thanks so much for joining me today.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yes, thanks for having me. I’m really excited to get to know you in front of everyone and, and be able to bounce ideas and, and somewhat nerd out on the information so that we can ultimately help people get over whatever health and challenges they’re dealing with.   Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yeah, I love that. And I clearly hear in your bio, you have a story. Do you want to tell everybody a little bit more about how you got into, I’d love to hear the pre with, I’m assuming that maybe the adrenal stuff came into after your degree, but tell me your story about how things transpired for you. Dr. Joel Rosen: Sure, sure. So I’m from a traditional approach, family, my sister’s a family practice, Doctor, my mum’s a public health nurse, my cousins are surgeons. And I was always sort of the black sheep member of the family. And I was into athletics. And so my EC my undergraduate degree was exercise physiology. And when I graduated July hurt my back, and everyone wanted me to go for surgery, and I had graduated in a rehab program.   So that’s where I had been introduced to a chiropractor. And I was like an epiphany. I was like, Okay, this is what I want to finally do with my life. However, when I went to undergraduate college, or in Canada, my first two years, I really didn’t exert myself with my GPA. So I actually had to go back to school to get my GPA up. That’s when I got a second degree in psychology. And I load that degree because I had to go back to school, I just wanted to go to graduate school, I thought, What a waste of time to do psychology only to know so many years later, it’s, it’s that ace in the hole that makes the huge difference with people that are suffering from problems is that psychological component. So I ended up going through chiropractic college and was probably on a permanent IV with caffeine to be able to get through the long hours, the study, the stress of the exams, the lack of sleep, and really the brain fog focus concentration. When I graduated Joe, my wife was pregnant with twins. We had to go on bed rest at 1920 weeks because of an incompetent cervix. And we were going to almost lose the twins. And at that point, it was just every single day my mantra was happy, healthy babies, happy healthy babies, happy healthy babies. And we made it to 36 weeks our ob kept saying I had a pager and I thought it was going to be the Rosen’s, you know that they just went into labor. So when I graduated, and I moved to Florida, I was exhausted and burnt out. I have this profession, and I re-injured my back. And I had a patient of mine who’s an acupuncturist, bring in a book called, why do I have thyroid symptoms when my blood tests are normal? And I don’t have a thyroid problem.   So I looked at the book and inside the book, there was a section on adrenal fatigue. And if there wasn’t a picture of me in that section, it described m

    Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello everyone and welcome back to our first relaunching of the less stress life podcast. I’m really excited to join forces with our guest, Dr. Krista Burns. She’s the founder of the American posture Institute. She’s also an author of the book The posture principles and a TEDx speaker. Dr. Crystal has two doctorate degrees and is a leading expert in the charge against postural decline. She has been featured on media including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, radio, and global women magazine and is an international lecturer who has spoken for professional audiences on four different continents. She’s been featured in the prestigious stages, including the World Congress of neurology, neurological disorders, and the World Congress of falls and postural stability. So Dr. Krista, thank you so much for being here today.   Dr. Krista Burns: Thank you, Dr. Joel. I’m really excited. And thank you for the opportunity of sharing how we can, you know, change our posture system to help us be more resilient to stress and prevent fatigue.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yes, excellent. And you know, I appreciate your time. And I heard your name through mindshare recently. And I heard your story in terms of how you lived in Italy. And there was a concern with your certification, so you had to look outside the box. So why don’t you give the listeners your own sort of stress background story and how you got to where you are today?   Dr. Krista Burns: Yeah, so my stress story starts even before that when I was a young, young child, my first goal, my dream was to be an Olympic athlete. And I trained every single day to be a freestyle skier, to the point where I was ranked 12th in the nation of all skiers and females. And I actually moved away from my family because I didn’t come from a ski town. So instead of just skiing on the weekends, I actually moved away from my family to live with another family to ski and train. Even in the summers, I would fly to New Zealand and South America to have opposite seasons and endless winter. So you can imagine that for the first 18 years of my life, that was my only goal was to become an Olympic athlete.   I even had a world two-time world champion, silver medalist sat me down and told me I was a champion. But the one thing he said Is he said, Christa, you have what it takes just don’t get hurt. And those words stuck with me. And what I didn’t tell the silver medalist at the time was that I was already in chronic pain. And I used chronic pain as almost a badge of honor, like okay, well, I’m in pain, but I’ll still ski harder, I’ll still live more weight, they’ll still run faster. And it was the morning of us Ski Team selections and Winter Park, Colorado. And it was I didn’t know what at the time, but that was my last competition. I never competed, I fell and injured my spine. And at the time, I didn’t know much about allopathic medicine, or my options, if you will. And so I listened to my coach. And my coach said, the best thing that you can do the conservative route, is to get injections in your spine. So I said, Great, let’s do it. And so I started at the young age is 18 years old, I would fly to the practitioner each week, and I get injections in my spine under anesthesia. And I was told that this was the best solution for my back pain. What I didn’t realize is how invasive that procedure would be.   So now fast forward, not only could I not ski, I could barely walk, the amount of pain that I was in when I’d been over to put my shoes on in the morning, I would yell out in pain because it was just so intense. And so I literally watched my Olympic window pass me by because I had back pain. So from that point on, I became obsessed with solving this problem of back pain. I thought this is so common, how come you know a young athlete who’s in shape? How could I not overcome back pain? So I became very obsessed with that solution, which led me to get a couple of doctorate degrees. That’s forward to moving to Italy and starting a practice. And once I specialized in postural correction, what was so amazing is that my practice grow. But then in addition to that, I was able to finally heal myself and help thousands of patients who had been in chronic pain previously. So it’s amazing how stress at the time, it’s hard to see beyond our stress when we’re in a stressful time of chronic pain or a stressful business situation that I found myself in, you know, as I was trying to grow my practice. And yet, when we look back, our mess really becomes our message, right? I had this chronic pain that led me down the road of opening a new door of solving it for other people so other people wouldn’t have to go through the pain that I did. In business-wise, I now train other practitioners, chiropractors, physical therapists, me

Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, hello, everyone and welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fix podcast where our mission is, to tell the truth about adrenal fatigue to exhausted and burnt-out adults so that they can get their health back quickly. And today, I’m joined here with a buddy of mine and friend and CEO and founder of heads up health whose mission is to power the data-driven healthcare revolution. David Korsunsky, thank you so much for being here today.   David Korsunsky: Yeah, thanks, Joel, great to be back and excited to dig in here man, was a good friend and have a great conversation.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yes, absolutely. I’m always interested to talk to you in terms of the data-driven revolution, which basically means taking accountability for your health, looking at the numbers that really mean something for people that I work with, that are exhausted and burnt out. But I know you have your own personal story, Dave, in terms of how you got to be the CEO and founder of this company. So why don’t you just take a stroll down memory lane and tell us a little bit about your background and why you’re doing what you’re doing?   David Korsunsky: Yeah, thanks, man. Well, the topic of this show is actually very relevant to my own personal journey. And just to back up a little bit, I was always someone who was trying to push myself physically in the gym, because for whatever reason, I was just always a little heavier than all my friends. And even though I worked out more, I could never achieve any type of comparable body composition and, and that frustrated me. So I was always someone who was in the gym, trying to work on myself. But I was in central Canada, growing up in a small town, I didn’t really understand diet or nutrition at all, I was on a standard American diet, as I would call it. Now, in hindsight, I was probably putting the worst things into my body that it possibly could and then trying to make up for it in the gym, and it just doesn’t work. So when I moved to California, and I started working in a big tech company, in Silicon Valley, I, I had those I had the same lack of knowledge around nutrition, I was in a very, very high-stress environment at work. And my work stress levels were starting to get into what I would call the red zone.   In the office, this was purely work-related stress, but very severe, I was going through some very difficult situations, I was a young director in the company, I had a large team of people that we’re older and more experienced than I was, I had long commutes every single day, sometimes 60 to 90 minutes each way in the car every day on the freeway, in a stressful job working for an extremely difficult boss, who was just up my butt. And we were in a bad place there. I was historically when I would code exercise that used to help me manage my stress. And so that was something I turned to when I would deal with the work stress. But as I’m sure you’re acutely aware, when your stress levels get in the red zone, actually, the training can start making it worse. And I started noticing things like on days where I lift heavy, I could not fall asleep at night. And I didn’t understand why. And on the days when I didn’t train, I could fall asleep. And that never used to happen to me before. So that was getting weird. And I actually at one point, I had a few I guess I would call them um, anxiety attacks, you know, it only happened a few times.   But for those who are listening, and they’ve had them, it’s very strange, out of body type of experience. And you don’t really know what it is. And these were all driven by the word stress. I’m 100% certain of that. But I didn’t know what they were I was not medical personnel. I’m a technology person, a layperson, medically speaking. So I was in distress RedZone I couldn’t sleep. I was having what I would call maladaptive stress, as my naturopathic doctor at the time described it. So I didn’t really know how to approach that situation. I went to my conventional doctor who I had a decent relationship with and ransom blood work and couldn’t really find anything out of sorts. I’m sure you hear this story all the time, man. And so then I, that just wasn’t a satisfactory answer to me because I could feel something was out of sorts only, you know, your own body and your own physical and emotional and, and other types of symptoms. So I mean, obviously, you know, there’s something there. So actually it was a functional medicine doctor that I connected with, and he ran the adrenal saliva cortisol test for me. Now, keep in mind, I was always interested in getting my blood work run, I’d always had perfect blood work, you know, they’d run the CBC and the cholesterol and the basics for me always came back squeaky clean. So there was nothing in my bloodwork, quote, u

Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fix Podcast, where our mission is, to tell the truth about adrenal fatigue to exhausted and burnt out adults so that they can get their energy back quickly. And today, I’m really excited to interview My next guest, Dr. JOHN Tate, who’s the chief health strategist for rejuvenating. Medicine, medical Southwest. After more than 15 years of medical training, including two fellowships and acquiring three board certifications, Dr. Tate saw how conventional medicine was failing so many patients. And after his own devastating injury in 2012, which left him looking for an alternative way for a potential third spinal surgery, he found the solution and his true calling, and in functional and regenerative medicine. So dr. john, thank you so much for being here today.   Dr. John Tait: And my pleasure, thanks for having me.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah. So you know, my audience are people that are exhausted and burnt out. And much like you, I had a devastating back injury myself. And so sounds like I’d like to know a little bit more about your history, your background, what got you to where you are today. So why don’t you tell our listeners a little bit about your story?   Dr. John Tait: Sure, well, we’ll just launch off right from, you know, February of 2012. So I was a few years out in practice, I had completed all that training 15 years, you know, school, residency to fellowships, knew a lot I was my practice at that time was an integrative pain clinic I was working within. And we had a great model, we had a psychologist had physical therapists, we were very good at doing interventions to alleviate pain medications, interventions that we’re injecting in the spine, or, or we’ll say numbing nerves, deadening nerves, so people couldn’t feel things, you know, with joints in their spine. So we had a very good system built around that. And then I found myself on the other side of the table, you know, in that month, and the backstory with my back is actually my first year of medical school, I herniated a disc in my back a few months before I scheduled to start school. And I worked through conventional treatments ultimately had surgery on my L fives, one disc, and my spring break of my first year of medical school. I was not on vacation in Cancun, I was getting surgery. So I learned a lot from that. Obviously, it was a pivotal kind, of course, correction in my training at that time. And walk that forward. Unfortunately, I had some issues with that a couple of years later, went through the conventional Reagan, the roll again, came out the other side really good. And that was about 10 years, until that February 2012, where I woke up that morning had some symptoms in my leg, but I was committed to an event doing I do a lot of hiking, and we were going to do a charity event. And we’d raised a ton of money with my wife to do this event. And I wasn’t going to back out at the event. So I’ll shorten the story. But I gave myself a pretty good sense, ridiculous apathy in my leg over the course of hiking 30 miles that day, and landed back in my office Monday morning, thinking, am I going to go through the same stuff again, there’s shots, the meds, and maybe ultimately a third surgery. And I didn’t like that view. So after a week or so of the what-ifs. I got to work on the What now? How do I solve this without doing those things and find a different path out of it? There’s time.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Gotcha. Okay. So it’s always a learning process with your own health to help other people with their health. So So as far as the model I love that you had a psychologist to help with the pain presentation as well. But what do you feel john was the big learning. Aha for you in terms of once you said, Okay, I don’t want to go down that route one more time. What changed? And what did you do?   Dr. John Tait: Yeah, great question. I think what it came down to initially was like we see in ourselves or our patients so we got to develop this mindset. First of was a little bit fearful when I injured myself again, of course, I was. I knew all too well now at that time where this could lead to me. And, you know, it wasn’t out of just a disdain for surgery or otherwise, I just felt that there was a better way to get my body to heal and recover this time around. I had already been spending a little bit of time in the functional medicine space I had been introduced to regenerative medicine through my training with treatments like prolotherapy and platelet therapy and we’re getting now more traction with STEM Cell Therapy and what that can do to help the body heal. So the first thing was just the mindset or the approach that I said, Well, you know, I know what the other version is over here. But I can play this out a little bit longer down

  Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fix Podcast, where our mission is to teach exhausted and burnt out adults the truth about adrenal fatigue so they can get their energy back quickly. I’m really excited to introduce my guest and my new friend, Dr. Sam Shay DC. He helps biohackers and entrepreneurs mompreneurs and service professionals increase their energy, resilience, and creativity so that they can create and sustain a great business to create more personal freedom. Dr. Sam, thank you so much for being here today. Dr. Sam Shay DC.: Thanks, Joe. Really appreciate it.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, no. So listen, most of the health practitioners that we talk to probably every single one of them have their own personal story, Sam, and I know you have your own health journey starting from six to 18 years of age, why don’t you let the viewers know what you’ve gone through and how you got to where you got to today?   Dr. Sam Shay DC.: Sure. So my story is started really at six when I had my first sentient memories, my family went through a nuclear divorce, as I call it, and my sisters and I run the blast radius of pretty, pretty traumatic divorce. And that began a cycle of 12 years of a sugar addiction of video game addiction on screen addiction. Severe insomnia where trouble getting to sleep would wake up at 3 am on the dot, and then you woken up as loud blaring alarm to crawl out of bed to go to a school that I didn’t like and was humiliated and assaulted on a regular basis for years. And so it was like a warzone at the house. It was a warzone at school and an emotional Warzone at the house, not a physical one. And, um, I also had an eating disorder of overeating. But fortunately, I had a metabolism of a bumblebee. So it just burned off everything. And was in chronic pain from the injuries from the assaults as well as sitting all day at school or in front of a television to numb out. And severe bowel issues. Like I couldn’t have constipation couldn’t go once every three to five days for 12 years. And I was told that was normal. But my parents were both medical doctors. And the diet, I always had my cholesterol checked at age seven, because they were concerned about my cholesterol as to medical doctor, parents in the 80s are led to believe such things. And my cholesterol is deemed too high for a seven-year-old. And I was put on a high carb low-fat diet, which was probably the worst thing possible for me, given based on I mean, all of these things I say are start there. They’re harrowing, and there are awful and all in the collection and there was but the flip side of it is I came through the other side having to learn all these other fields to pull myself out of this hole. And then genetically, one of those is genetics. And I genetically tested myself for my optimal diet and I am genetically more of a paleo diet with some keto tendencies. I’m not genetically predisposed predisposition towards the Mediterranean or a high car, which some people are. And that was, you know, that’s us. This further detailed discussion we’ll have a little bit later on. But for me personally, the high carb diet was a terrible, terrible, terrible idea for me, constitutionally genetically, on top of literally everything else. So I thought I was going to be a medical doctor, I knew I was going to be a doctor at age six, I just didn’t realize I take a sharp turn into natural medicine. And what happened was that in high school, I basically was at a fork in the road, that I’m either going to fix myself or off myself because this is the depression the anxiety, the ill health, the humiliate, like it was just getting too much and I made the decision to heal myself and with the help of certain mentors and books and just this new vision of learning natural medicine gave me hope and inspiration. So I went I mean started at age 16. It was when I really got I mean I had the problems for at least another two years as I was trying to figure this out. And certain things lasted longer to resolve but the main some of the major things really started to turn around and I went to university and did a pre-med degree but also did a holistic health practitioner degree in the evenings and weekends while all the other students were having you know, dramas and drugs. I was learning meditation going to going to weekend courses, even took some post-grad stuff at the local Acupuncture school while in college, just that things were open. And then went to chiropractic school after an interim travel period. And just really drilled into nutrition and especially neurology. And neurology, I picked as at the time was a master subject because to know neurology, you had to know biochemistry, physiology, anatomy, nutrition, pathology, microbiology, etc, etc, etc.   And in chiropractic school, we learned about what was called th

https://youtu.be/i7Rgnp9_csc   Dr. Joel Rosen: Right. Hello, everyone and welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fixed Podcast, where my mission is, to tell the truth about adrenal fatigue to exhausted and burnt out adults so that they can get their health back quickly. And I’m really excited to introduce my next guest, Dr. Anshul Gupta. He’s a Board-certified family medicine physician with advanced certification and functional medicine, peptide therapy, and is also a trained fellow in integrative medicine. He’s worked at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic department of functional medicine alongside Dr. Mark Hyman. And really now he specializes in treating Hashimoto disease and helps people reverse their unresolved symptoms of thyroid dysfunction. So Dr. Gupta, thank you so much for being here today.   Dr. Anshul Gupta: Yeah, my pleasure. Thank you for having me on the show.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, absolutely. So listen, I always like to get an idea on your own story, because I have clients or an audience that are exhausted, that are burnt out, that aren’t handling their stress very well, that crash in the middle of the day, they don’t have focus, they don’t have concentration, they don’t have a libido. They don’t sleep, they don’t wake up juveniles. And ultimately, I like to get your spin like a traditionally trained doctor on why that’s happening, and how that’s related to the thyroid and the adrenals. And a different way to think about things and the connection between the two. And we’ll get into that. But why don’t you tell us your own story, why you became a doctor, and if you had any health challenges, so that we can get a little bit of an understanding of how you got to where you got to?   Dr. Anshul Gupta: Yeah, absolutely. So like I always say is that people who enter the field of functional medicine, almost everybody has their own personal health story or a family health story. So mine was more personal. So as you said, you know, I’m a trained family physician, so I got trained into the conventional side of the medicine. And then I started working in the rural Virginia area. So there, you know, I started my family practice job, a couple of years into the job, I started having more health issues. So I started feeling fatigued, you know, I was having brain fog, I was having stomach issues. And I was, I was gaining more weight. Well, I was always a chubby kid, you know, as a child, but you know, that was cute, and everybody loved it. So I never bothered, you know, like about it. And as I kind of, you know, grew older, again, you know, even in conventional medicine, nobody kind of paid any attention to the weight. They said, Oh, yeah, you are slightly overweight, that’s pretty much it, you know, like, don’t worry about it. Maybe, you know, like, once you get older, you know, you need to figure something out. But now, you know, like, my health was crashing, I was so fatigued by the end of the day that, you know, I was just literally in the evening, I was done. And I would just go to sleep, and I will sleep for 10 hours sometimes. And still, I will feel that okay, well, I can catch up more. And then, you know, like, I was having this horrible stomach pain, nobody knew what to do with it. You know, I was a physician myself.   So I thought, well, I’ll start treating myself. So I started giving some medications, but it was not working. The pain was so horrible at times that you know, I literally thought that I will need to go to the emergency room. But you know, with my training, I knew the emergency room, doctors can only give me pain medications. That’s it because I did not have any other, you know, like significant symptoms. Well, after a couple of months, well, it was not getting better. So I was thought, Well, I’m not smart enough. Maybe my other colleagues are smarter than me. So let me go to all these specialists. So I went to specialist after specialist and then they kept on throwing things at me by doing endoscopy, ultrasounds, and all these different investigations. They keep on adding more and more medications. But in the end, I was still that same miserable person, I was still, I was still fatigued, I was still having stomach pain, I was gaining more weight. And nobody knew what to do with me. And I was just 32 at the time. So I was really scared. You know, at the time, I was like, I don’t know what to do, you know, like, will I be this miserable person, the rest of my life, taking medications and feeling this way. And at that moment, you know, like, there was this moment in my life, I was really scared and without hope, I was like, really, I don’t have a choice. I don’t know what to do. So when somebody actually introduced me to functional medicine and said, You know, like, why don’t you look into that. So I started looking in

Dr. Joel Rosen: Alright, hello everyone. It’s Dr. Joel Rosen and welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fixed Podcast, where our mission is, to tell the truth to exhausted and burnt out adults about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their health back quickly. And it’s a real pleasure and privilege to be joined here with Jordan Syatt, a short ball Harry Potter nerd with an affinity for deadlifting and also happens to be Gary Vaynerchuk, a personal trainer, I guess was personal trainer, Jordan began signup fitness, his online fitness coaching business from his dorm at the University of Delaware in 2011, and has become one of the industry’s industry’s leading experts in strength training, nutrition, and behavioral psychology. One of the only people in the world to deadlift four times his body weight Jordan’s work has been featured all over the world, including a variety of media publications, such as CNN, the Huffington Post, Business Insider, Men’s Health magazine, Men’s Fitness, and schwarzenegger.com. So without further ado, Jordan, thank you so much for giving us your time today.   Jordan Syatt: It’s my pleasure. Thanks for having me, man. Thank you so much.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah. no, absolutely. So So listen, why don’t you give our listeners who probably have heard of you, but maybe they haven’t, in terms of how you got to where you are right now? How did you become an industry leader in fitness and psychology and food and, and helping people transform their bodies? Why don’t you give us a little information about how you got here?   Jordan Syatt: Yes, sure. And for whatever it’s worth, I can ramble on for a long time. So if I’m going on, just Just tell me to shut up and we’ll move on to the next topic. I got into fitness from wrestling. So I started wrestling when I was eight years old. And my mom, she was like, I think I want to get you into wrestling. And at that point in my life. The only wrestling I knew is WWE WWF style wrestling. And so I was like, You want me to hit someone with a chair? And she was like, No, you idiot. I’m Olympic wrestling. So I got into that. And I fell in love with it. I was obsessed with it. So that’s really like was my main focus from eight years old on. So when I got to high school, I made varsity as a freshman, I beat a junior out for the varsity spot. But I had to cut a lot of weight. So it was cutting from 112 pounds to 103 pounds every week, sometimes multiple times a week. And I was good from an endurance perspective. And I was good from a technique perspective because I’d been wrestling for so long already. But my strength wasn’t where it needed to be to compete with the juniors and seniors, which is really were who are on varsity. So I wrote an email to a gym, a couple of towns over from me, I grew up in Boston. So I grew up, I wrote an email to a gym up in Newton, Massachusetts. And basically, I was like, I would love to come there and learn from you. Let me take the trash out. Let me clean the floors, let me do anything, let me just come and learn from you. And I was very fortunate. They let me come in and in turn, but I was equally if not more fortunate. They were very science-based. So from 14 years old, I started working at this gym, and eventually, I started coaching there and I worked there all through high school. And that’s how I got in the fitness industry just coaching there. And I loved it. It was it made me so happy. So every day after school, I’d go there and I’d spend several hours there spend all day Saturday there. And that was basically it and then started coaching I went to I started going to school for exercise science. But after I had spent my entire High School actually really studying and learning and coaching, I realized a lot of the science they were teaching in the college wasn’t up to date, a lot of the tenured professors hadn’t actually kept up to date with the research. And what I really learned was, when I was actually coaching people, I was like you could have the best program in the world. But if they’re not following it, it doesn’t matter. Right. So So I realized I wanted to switch to behavioral health psychology. So I switched to that in college early on my freshman year. And that’s really where things started to take a turn for me in terms of really starting to see a difference in how my clients were able to stick to their programs to enjoy their programs. A lot of the people who were struggling with motivation and really sticking to something long term, I was able to finally reach them. So that’s what got me started in it. And I started my website, for my dorm room and in 2011 and just took off ever since.   Dr. Joel Rosen: That’s an awesome story, I could resonate with that Jordan because I have my exercise physiology background in d

Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fix podcast where our goal is, to tell the truth about adrenal fatigue to exhausted and burnt out adults so that they can get their energy back quickly. And I’m really excited to interview for a second time. Dr. Patrick Porter, we interviewed him back in July of 2018. And we had such a great interview, and I want to get caught up with what’s going on in the world of brain tap. But Dr. Patrick Porter, Ph.D. is the founder and chief brain tap officer at brain tap, which was created with a singular mission in mind, which is basically to better a billion brains. He’s the head of mine-based studies at Quantum University, and is a licensed trainer of NLP, and is the author of six books, books, including popular the popular thrive and overdrive, how to navigate your overloaded lifestyle. So Dr. Patrick, thank you so much for being here. Once again.   Dr. Patrick Porter: It’s great to be here. Thank you for having me.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah. Excellent. So I always like to start with your own health journey. You did talk about that last time. But why don’t you familiarize the listeners with why you got into wanting to help a billion brains and give us a little bit of background in your history?   Dr. Patrick Porter: Yeah, I like to tell people I was blessed to be the son of an alcoholic. And because of that, he wouldn’t get help. And what the main benefit was that he went and found out about meditation in tech, and specifically technology-driven meditation. So we use music, we use machines called GSR machines. And we didn’t have neurofeedback back then this is in the mid, mid-70s. So we had to use this machine that would measure our skin temperature, heart rate, different things like that. And so we started using those as kids. I mean, I remember the first session that I ever recorded was I was 12 years old. But I was held back in second grade. So I wasn’t considered of you toknow, very bright kid, I was a very artistic kid. But then what I found out was when I started shifting out what I like to call out of my survivor’s brain and into my thriving brain. Once I got into that thriving brain, I found out I was a pretty smart guy, I was an honor roll student got a scholarship and everything. And the only thing that I really switched was how I thought about my body and getting rid of stress. Stress was a killer for me. And I didn’t realize how being angry, upset, and how that was causing me to. I mean, I thought I was being angry at other people, but it was really causing me to have problems. And once I figured that out, basically, it’s been my life’s journey to share that with other people that and now I know that, hey, we can use our electrical system to do this, or we can use our biological system. Of course, you got to use them both. But so many people have misused their like the if you want to call it the sympathetic, parasympathetic drive, that their biology is really taking a toll. And actually, that’s kind of been your life mission now. So that’s what you’re talking about. So that’s how we come together, I think in doing that, and I think when once people reduce their stress load, and we’re not going to get rid of stress, it’s how everybody carries that stress that’s most important, and do we have good strategies physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, to get rid of that load, then we can manage it because I mean, think of a fighter pilot. I mean, they’re, they’re under stress, but they thrive on that stress. So whatever your life experiences, there are techniques or tools that we can help you with, not myself, all of them. But you know, part of them, we can be a solution. But we’re barely big on the thought trauma toxin model. And, you know, we’ve got to clear all those out. So we kind of fall into the helping with the trauma and the thought part of it.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, and that’s an awesome way to look at it. And also, I would say, the spin you took on it is an example of why you’ve been able to successfully overcome that childhood because a lot of people wouldn’t say they were blessed with that they were cursed with that. So as a young child, that was pretty enlightening. Well, you said that you, you realize that there are ways to think or control your brain. Can you give us a little elaboration on that at that young age? And what you know now? Dr. Patrick Porter: Well, at that young age, what we learned about was the GSR machines, you’d actually put your hand on a cradle. And it was pulse analysis, really. So it was measuring your pulse rate. And there was an algorithm that would tell you if you were in a brain state called alpha, and so you’d set it for alpha or theta, you’d set it for a number, like, let&#

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Hello, everyone and welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fix Podcast, where my mission is to help exhausted and burnt out adults to teach them the truth about adrenal fatigue so that they can get their energy back quickly. And I’m really excited to have Mr. Mojo himself, Dorian green. Now for our second interview. We are interviewing Dorian because it’s so essential in today’s day and age for the person who’s exhausted and burnt out to have a finger on the pulse literally and physically and metaphorically on what’s going on with their blood sugar levels. So without further ado, Dorian, thank you so much for being on the podcast again today.   Mr. Dorian Greenow: Yeah, thank you for having me back. I’m really, really honored to be here and sharing with the audience.   Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, well, thank you again, I know you’re busy guy, you know, 26 years ago now because our interview was two years ago, 26 years ago from the UK, arriving in America with $750 in your pocket. Why don’t you get the viewers updated with that and kind of how you got to where you are now.   Mr. Dorian Greenow: Wow, as a relatively newly minted American, I would say that the American Dream is alive and well. Yeah, I did come here with $750 and nobody’s handed me a big check. I started as a busboy, barback maitre D direct for Hospitality in New York City working for a catering company came up to be the Director of Operations there, and then came over to the Napa Valley where I became the director of hospitality for a winery. And you know, I’d been in the food wine industry for most of my adult life in the United States. My brother’s a chef, my sister’s a chef, you know, where we all live in food. But in America, I started getting bigger. Why? Why is this I was eating great food, you know, well-made foods, and yet still, that then I find myself in 2015? I was 207 pounds are all my biomarkers, were there for metabolic syndrome. I was on antidepressants. I was failing at my job. And I was like, What is going on here? And then a good friend of mine, to the white of dry farm wines. He said to me, You got a cost out those white devils cost those white devil’s audio laugh, do a terrible Southern accent. So I apologize to everybody for ruining that. And I’m like, dude, I don’t do fad diet. I do not do fad diets. I’ve seen my wife do a cabbage soup diet. No, it’s not in my lexicon. But I started reading up on ketogenic lifestyle and no, Taubes. lasting you take a look at Volek and Phinney, Dr. Nisha winters, and I started looking at every single YouTube that I could find on these people and more. And you know, the more you delve into the science and in my book collection started to get massive, the more you look into it, it makes absolute sense for an individual going back in history. So I started on a well regulated ketogenic diet. I was using a competitor’s meter at that time, and over a period of about five months, most of my waist came off in the first like three to four months, I went from 207 pounds down to 165. Just doing keto and yoga. And that was it. And I did what I call lazy clean keto, was, I tracked my macros baby for the first 30 days just so I could understand foods. A lot of people that don’t think understand carb quantities, I don’t think they understand or read understand nutrition labels. And I think you’ve got to kind of give yourself a little bit of a learning curve there. So that’s what I started doing it. So I could track what I was doing and understand what that change was in my body. And then I was testing with an Abbott meter at that time. And you know, the cool thing was, I could see when I was first starting, how my ketone levels started to come up, you know, you get 0.1 0.2 0.3 and you’re like, wow, I’m almost at that. 0.5 and you enter ketopia. And you’re like,   you also feel you know, the difference in your, in your mind when, when the, you know, when you’re off-field on ketones rather being fueled on glucose, and that fog seems to lift. And for me, I got back that Jawad Aviv that I felt when I was 24. Do you know that that that spa was like where had that gone? You know, where had that been? I’d been in the cop fog was for so long. And so this was a fundamental change. And because of that, you know, I was looking at these test strips, and back in 2015, they were four to five bucks. And I was like, why is this test trip so expensive. So I dropped a list of hundred different manufacturers across the globe. I cross match that with the federal regulations. And we launched keto Mojo and single-handedly my wife and I, you know, I went to gems and I said, Hey, Gemma, do you think I could borrow some of the home equity lines of credit because I’ve got this business idea. And we’re gonna go up

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Hello, everyone. This is Dr. Joel Rosen. And I’m really excited to be talking to my guest Nathan Bryan, on the benefits and the ins and outs of nitric oxide. Dr. Bryan earned his undergraduate degree Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Texas of Austin, and his doctorate degree from LSU and School of Medicine and in Shreveport, where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for the Excellence in Research. He pursued his postdoctoral training as Kirstin Fellow at Boston University School of Medicine in the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute. After two years of postdoctoral fellowship. In 2006, Dr. Brian was recruited to join the faculty at the University of Texas Health Center center of Houston. And in 1998, the Nobel laureate in medicine or, or physiology, Dr. Bryan has been involved in nitric oxide, nitric oxide research for the past 19 years, and has made many seminal discoveries in this field, which we’ll definitely be talking about some exciting stuff today. His many seminal discoveries have resulted in dozens of issued the US and international patents, and the product technology resulting from his discoveries and his innovation has improved patient care worldwide.   That wasn’t so easy for me to say, but thank you so much for being here today. Thank you, Joe. It’s great to be with you.     Dr. Joel Rosen: Yes. So like I said, in another interview that we had, I met you at a seminar on chronic health conditions, and I was aware of nitric oxide. But what I’d like to do, and the reason I’m so excited to talk to you is I work with clients that are exhausted and burnt out and discovered that there may be this thing called adrenal fatigue. So why don’t you tell us especially for people that don’t know the story of nitric oxide and how it’s so important in health?     Dr. Nathan Bryan: Yeah, well, thanks, Joe. I enjoy educating on nitric oxide, because I think too few people know about it, and really its effect on chronic health. And so, you know, he talked about burnout and adrenal fatigue. But, you know, nitric oxide is probably one of the most important molecules produced in the body and responsible for oxygen delivery. Now, you can make cellular energy without oxygen, and you can deliver oxygen to the cell without nitric oxide. So that’s critically important. It maintains normal blood pressure. It’s a cell-signaling molecule in the body house cells communicate with one another. Yeah, and they’re now in this interesting time of COVID. It’s really important for our immune function. It’s basically our immune cells generate nitric oxide that then kills viruses, bacteria, and really any pathogen. So what we’ve figured out over the past 20 or 30 years is that people with optimal nitric oxide production seem to be the healthiest people resistant to infection, the best athletes, normal blood pressure, and then those that can make nitric oxide no bad things happen. You but blood pressure increases you have sexual dysfunction. You have cognitive disorders, and you just have burnout your mitochondria Don’t work. And when your mitochondria can generate cellular energy, then your body has no energy to do the things that you want to do to where you can actually enjoy life.     Dr. Joel Rosen: Yeah, no, I mean, and you mentioned that last time as well, in terms of pretty much any cellular process are any biochemical reaction or any, any process, any signaling of the immune system is going to involve nitric oxide? Why Nathan? Is it something that’s not understood or, or talked about or emphasized why,     Dr. Nathan Bryan: although it’s still relatively new in terms of scientific and medical discoveries, this was just a molecule that was discovered in the back in the 80s. And, you know, we’re, you know, 2030 years past that, and typically, it takes an average of, you know, 17 to 20 years for new discoveries to be integrated into clinical medicine or the standard of care. But nitric oxide, you know, I think it’s, there’s still not a lot of awareness and education. On nitric oxide, I think that stems from a couple of things. Number one, there’s not a standard lab that you can pull on your patients to tell you what their nitric oxide levels are. In number two, you know, there’s never been really any innovations in nitric oxide, drug development, or drug therapy. And I think in terms of, you know, allopathic medicine, and Western medicine, those are the things that drive awareness, it’s new drug discovery, new drugs to market, commonly prescribed drugs, and then diagnostics for either to diagnose a deficiency, which then you can be correct. So we’ve been, you know, educating on this for going on 20 years now. And I think we’re making some headway. But, you know, physicians need to under

  Dr. Joel Rosen: Kerri. So great too Great to see you. Again, I’m excited to go over your results, I know we have a Dutch test to go over your lab work. And of course, we’ve already done the genetic test. But what’s really good about that is we can make changes to what has happened between the last time we talked and what we where we are now, and then relook at the genetics and see what other aspects of your biochemistry that we haven’t Incorporated. And now create a new chart, give you new marching orders so that we can, you know, continue the progress of getting you feeling better. So let’s do this. I always, you know, how we always like to start is just with an update. So we haven’t really talked for a while looks like the last time we talked was in, almost February, so much has gone on. So why don’t you just give me a little update, Kerri, in terms of what you’ve been through what you’ve done, obviously, you know, in terms of how you’re feeling, let’s go through that.       Kerri: Well, everything was going pretty well. I did have a full hysterectomy in June. And ever since then, that I’ve been starting to get those hot flashes, and I’m not sleeping well. And things are starting to slide backward now. So I want to I did the Dutch and I peeked at my results. And I could see my cortisol was high. And so I want to try to get these hormones balanced now that they’re all out of whack from the surgery.     Dr. Joel Rosen: So sure, yeah. And then again, remind me what the reasoning for why they wanted to do the hysterectomy.     Kerri: Well, I was close to menopause anyway, and I was having abnormal periods where I was, I was constantly having my period, and I was starting to get a knee back. And then I’ve also got the brace one genes. So and my mother died of ovarian cancer, so I’ve got some of those risk factors. So we decided it was probably in my best interest to go ahead and just take it out, you know, right, on, you know, my iron again, you know, getting that back in order and, you know,     Dr. Joel Rosen: Sure just to be safe than sorry, as well as the genetic components, as well. But you mentioned though you everything was going pretty well. So       Kerri: yeah, other than that party, you know, all the other issues, you know, that I’ve been having, like with histamines, and rashes and gut problems, all of that seemed to be you know, clearing up and, you know, I was doing well, as far as you know, those items go,     Dr. Joel Rosen: Right, and then and then the full hysterectomy in June. And then as far as the hot flashes, when did they start again.     Kerri: They probably started about a month afterwards. So I thought I was going to be in the clear and not have any issues. But about a month later, I started getting those hot flashes. And they’re mostly at night, but they do happen during the day. But they definitely interrupt my sleep. And so, you know, my sleep had been so great before. Like I finally got my sleep nailed where I was sleeping so well. And my aura ring would tell me, you know, you’re doing so great. And then now it’s like, I’m waking up every couple hours and it’s not good.     Dr. Joel Rosen: No, absolutely not. Okay. And then you also included bloodwork for our review today as well. So what we’ll be doing is we’ll go over the Dutch test first, and then incorporate the bloodwork to get some other pieces of the puzzle information about connecting the dots. And then of course open up the genetics as well. So anything else to add? I mean, obviously, things are going well had been going well. When have you been back to the doctor that did the surgery and Is that who ordered the blood tests and they’re wanting to continue to keep the finger on the pulse for you in that area?     Kerri: Actually, well I went back to the doctor that did the surgery for the follow-up and got the all-clear. I had a different doctor actually ordered the bloodwork she’s monitoring my thyroid and hormones. So she basically did thyroid and hormone workup. But my thyroid the numbers are a little off too. So we need to check that one out.     Dr. Joel Rosen: For sure. And a lot of you know it’s interesting because a lot of people that I work with they come to me first with Hey, my thyroid is not working well you know, I’m taking medication where we’re changing the dose. were changing the actual brand I know a lot of people got upset when they change the tip to the actual brand of the specific thyroid and they felt worse once they did that. So But I explained to them that this is the effect not so much the cause. In a lot of cases, it could be the cause, you know, Hashimoto’s, you have an autoimmune reactivity against the th

Adrenal Fatigue Recovery and CBD   Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fix. I’m really excited for my next guest will branum because he’s got a great story. A lot of you guys that are listening that are exhausted and burnt out and are looking for solutions. I think this will be a really great intro to what Williams found and give you guys some new ideas on how to manage your own stress.   William is a former US Navy SEAL for 26 years of service. He’s the founder of NW recovery. At an early age William knew he wanted to be part of a team that would push him beyond the limits he thought he had and still enjoy the outdoors and all it had to offer. He charged for it and became an Eagle Scout and joined the Navy immediately after high school after graduating from SEAL training buds. class two to eight. He was stationed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, then San Diego, California and finally Oahu, Hawaii, where he served with multiple seals teams taught seal sniper school and deployed around the globe.   As with too many veterans, William suffered with numerous physical injuries and psychological symptoms that negatively impacted him as well being and his quality of life, migraines, severe anxiety, chronic pains, difficulty focusing difficulty with sleeping and falling asleep depression and some symptoms he would struggle with on a daily basis. He tried many prescription medications to help and eventually started to self medicate with alcohol to help with pain and sleep issues.   During his last few years of military service, William started hearing about the promising benefits of canal canal cannabinoids like CBD, ultimately he choose to wait until his retirement with from the military or from the military before exploring this new world of plant based medicine to help his physical and psychological recovery and determined to maintain his top secret security clearance after the military. He sought THC free options of CBD. I could probably go on and on. But I really want to get into talking to you, William. So first of all, thank you so much for your service. And thank you so much for being here today.   William Branum: Yeah, for sure. So,     Dr. Joel Rosen: yeah, no, I’m glad I’m excited. So listen, 26 years, and I’m sure you got lots of stories, you know, that you can tell the the modified version, the sort of the, what do we call it, the the cut the, the sate The, the okay to tell, you know, the non-restricted version, but what I want to do is I want to get into a little bit of what you talked about. So you mentioned you had some some major health issues, maybe let’s talk a little bit about that. And, and start with that.     William Branum: So, um, I guess I’ll start with sleep. Um, my sleep sucks. It’s still I still suffer from some sleep problems. Um, you know, I’ve had three different sleep studies for sleep apnea, and the such, and you know, that not only are they looking for apnea, they’re looking at your, what your brain is doing, you know, I’ve got pictures where I have like, 30 different probes on my brain on my skull, and, and, you know, my breathing and all this other stuff. And what they found is, anytime I would hit REM sleep or deep sleep, almost as soon as I would hit that state, I would blow right out of it, and come back away. So basically, my autonomic nervous system was completely out of whack, um, you know, I have trouble, you know, even just going to sleep, you know, have all these weird, bad thoughts in my head about whatever, nothing self-destructive, but, you know, unhealthy things in my life, whether it’s unhealthy relationships, or, you know, stuff that has happened, you know, in combat or in real life. Um, and, you know, I would use alcohol to really suppress that turn that, you know, kind of dole out those, those negative those things that were keeping me awake, and just so that I could go to sleep. Um, and so, yeah, in, you know, in, in addition to that, I’ve had, you know, I’m 100% disabled through the VA, which really means I’m 250%, disabled, you know, in VA math, um, and, you know, I have, you know, multiple surgeries, I have, you know, just overuse injuries I have, I’m confident I have a adrenal fatigue, and maybe that’s something we could talk about at a later time. Um, because for sure, I would like go and do something during the day and I’m completely wiped out. You know, I’ve overcome some of that. A lot of that, but there’s still some of that sort of hanging on out there. Um, but, you know, you know, you know, joint pains and surgeries and you know, a lot a lot of stuff going on with this with his body. 26 years is, you know, it’s a quarter. So it’s over a quarter century of, of, you know, going out there and doing some some, some good hard

Dr. Joel: Alright, hello everyone. This is Dr. Joel Rosen. I call myself the adrenal fatigue recovery ninja. Although that’s changed. I think I’m more the burnout recovery ninja these days. And I am joined here with a colleague and a patient. And I guess we could say friends as well. with Matt Kaufman, Matt Kaufman is a health coach in Tampa, Florida after experiencing burnout from a toxic lifestyle filled with addiction, Matt got sober and discovered his health issues didn’t just stem from drugs and alcohol, he started to explore other healing modalities, which led him down the journey to redesign his daily life. And then now fast forward and he’s found himself through the love of diet, yoga, meditation, and biohacking to improve his health now, and Matt is on the road to recovery. And he’s here to guide others in their quest to be the most optimal optimized version of him or herself. So Matt, thank you so much for being the podcast today. Matt Kaufman: Thank you, I’m grateful for the opportunity. Hopefully, I can connect with some people. Maybe ring a bell for a few people who are struggling as well. Dr. Joel: Yeah, I mean, you know, it takes one to know one, right? So I suffered from my own challenges as well. And I follow you on social media and I see all the things that cool things that you’re doing. I know we worked together and did some interpretations for you. But why don’t you just give us a little bit of a background story about before you’ve discovered your healing journey, and what your symptom and or your lifestyle or your challenges were with your body? Matt Coffman: Absolutely. So I’ll take it all the way back to childhood. Maybe I can connect with some people I know you have a lot of doctors on here. And that can seem like a far fetched reality to the average listener. someone like myself, who was a few years back didn’t know as much as I know now. I was born in Flint, Michigan. Father wasn’t around he was on drugs. My mother was a bartender she was out of the house most nights kind of being raised by my older cousins and older brothers and my aunt she was on drugs as well. So it’s kind of hectic being back there. As you can tell, diet nutrition lifestyle wasn’t on the forefront of anybody’s you know, we’re just basically trying to survive how do we get food on the plate and so with that came a lot of things. Very poor diet, lots and lots of sugar. So, sweets, my mom wasn’t even home a lot. So there was never like, Oh, you can have one brownie. I could just eat like five in a row if I wanted to. So I mean, to me, it seemed great. And it seemed like a free for all. And it was cool. But also it can lead to lots of different health issues that I had even growing up before the burnout. I had, like 12 different ear surgeries, lots of tubes. reconstructive eardrums always had infections, I don’t think there was a year that went by that I wasn’t on antibiotics, and knowing what I know now that’s just awful, you know, that’s what I would have an ear infection or my ear would be draining, and they would just try to throw me on antibiotics and one wouldn’t work and it put me on another antibiotic and then after a while I’m getting these reconstructive ear surgeries not really ever relating it to diet. At the same time, I’m having lots of dental issues, I have a mouthful of amalgam fillings, you know, that I didn’t know were any harmful at the time just going through the motions and my mom doing the best she could with no no medical or nutrition advice, just taking me to the doctor and following orders. And so then I went to college and was normal. I was always very active. I played a lot of sports. And then in college after the athletic lifestyle kind of led me to just school and my other free time was kind of filled with a party to lots of partying, lots of schooling, doing the average college kids stuff. After that, I had invested in medical marijuana, which a lot of my listeners may or may not know. But yeah, I was invested in that it was relatively new in Michigan, it was cool. I enjoyed growing medical marijuana but with that came some a lot of money and a lot of financial freedom. But also I had these unresolved traumatic issues from being a kid you know, not having a father-mother was gone a lot. She had an abusive childhood so she didn’t really say I love you a lot and we didn’t really get a lot of emotional connectivity from each other. But even though she was always at all my sporting events took care of me loved her to death but there was a lot that she didn’t know that she wasn’t you know fulfilling as a young child so from here I’m experimenting with opiates and Adderall and I already love to drink some drinking and I’m growing the medical marijuana so I’m smoking all day. You can just see after year

Joel Rosen, the adrenal fatigue recovery ninja. And I’m really excited to have here a friend and client with me today, Joseph fleck, I really wanted to interview Joe, because he is the kind of client that we all look forward to having in terms of understanding that there are some health challenges, but then also taking responsibility for your house and being decisive, and being very coachable. And I always find that it’s very enlightening. And revealing when you can identify with someone else who like yourself, you may have had a lot of similar health challenges. And we can go through Joseph’s story, and see where he’s at now and get some good feedback. So Joe, thank you so much for being here today. Joe: You’re welcome. Thank you, Dr. Joel Dr. Joel: So what I’d really like to kind of get started with is maybe a little bit of stroll down memory lane in terms of why you got into the area of taking care of, you know, not so much taking care of your health, but knowing that there was a problem. What was the problem? Before we started really working together? Or before you looked at changing your life? What was not working in your health? Joe: Sure. Well, I’m a 60-year-old construction worker, recovering alcoholic and drug abuser, with nine years, just about nine years sobriety, so personally, 36 months ago, and you know, I have you know, after about six and a half years of sobriety, I was feeling really good, you know, had a hangover really been sick and six years but so I started thinking, you know, what, what else could I do to you know, improve my health, you know, I was still overweight. 248 pounds. Today, I’m 213. So, I started just surfing the internet and I got into a ketogenic lifestyle. And to that extent going down other rabbit holes, you know, eventually led me to you and epigenetic and nutrigenomics and just, you know, so many rabbit holes to go down to and not enough time. Dr. Joel: Yeah, well, no, listen, I thank you for the honesty. I know that, when I get on the call with someone and we talk about, hey, they’re like a Type A or there are addictions and compulsions in their family or even themselves with that. I mean, number one, thank you for being honest and forthright. And number two, obviously, commendable in terms of seeing the writing on the wall, I’m guessing and knowing like, I can’t survive like this for very long. So was there a specific wake up call that you had Joe that made you realize, okay, I can’t continue down this road? Joe: Yeah, it was funny. I work, you know, I construction worker, I’m up and down a ladder-climbing and ceilings and everything. And you know, it just was beginning to get, you know, hard, harder to do you know, and now,, after 36 months, you know, I got 16 months, that’s very time and I’ll probably be in better shape when I retire than when I started 35 years Dr. Joel: Yeah, right. Right. So it was just not being able to keep up with your daily active life like just you felt safe or unsafe on the lot, or people noticing problems with you were you. I mean, you didn’t hit really rock bottom per se. Right. It wasn’t down out. Joe: It was personal, you know, I can still keep up with the best of the guys that work. But just personally my standards, my work was slipping, I could see that, and also, I’d go to a rock concert. And,, taking it was a three-day thing. I was taking a nap. And someone took a picture of me and showed it to me later. And I said That’s not me. And they go Yes, it is. And I, you know, I was laying down on the ground, like back to the camera. And I said That’s not me. And then when I realized how big I was, you know, and I was like, wow. And it just hit, you know, it took a long time to get that way. And it took me a long time to realize. Dr. Joel: Gotcha, okay, well, that’s good. I mean, we always need to have some kind of realization that the path we’re on is not working. I always tell the people I work with, you can’t force someone to do it. I can’t care more than you do about getting you better. You got to come to that realization. For some, it’s something like that. And for other people, it’s more destructive in terms of the wake-up call is they’re in jail or they’re in the hospital or they’re homeless and so kudos again for you in that way. What were some of the starting challenges besides the addiction and realizing that this is not what you want? This is not you? What were some of the things in your health that weren’t working like brain fog, focus fatigue? Joe: yeah, there was fatigue and the brain fog and just the inability to bend over kind of show, you know, without holding my breath, you know, I told somebody the other day, I finally put my pants on without holding on the other day, you know, I mean, that made my day was simple things that make my day I don’t hav

A lot of the people that I consult with, that are dealing with an an Adrenal Fatigue problem, are looking for the root cause. Many times, adrenal fatigue is secondary to mold. Mold exposure from the home, So, in this blog post, I want to bring about mold and environmental illness awareness, and the relationship between Adrenal Fatigue and mold in your home. Did you know that 70% of the environmental mold experts in the industry are a sole proprietors or mom and pops? What is really frightening is that there really aren’t many rules out there. There’s not a lot of regulations around Mold Inspection, or mold remediation. In fact, there are only four states that actually issue licensure to become a mold professional. So as you can imagine, if there’s no regulation, and it’s a very decentralized industry, then you have a wide variety of assessors and remediators out there, and no one’s really policing this stuff. In fact, if you said tomorrow you wanted to become a professional in this field, with no training whatsoever, they could be and that’s frightening. Whenever we access our clients and what is causing their adrenal fatigue, we look at their genetic susceptibilities, what’s unique to them (or their blueprint), then we look at the environmental triggers and how those impact the blueprint, those environmental triggers are ultimately the environment that they live in. So mold inside your home has to be on your radar. Especially when you are cooped up in the home all day. After speaking to a leading expert in the business, you should understand that a proper assessment of mold in the home requires really informing and educating the home owner. To really inform and equip people to understand what their options are, what should they expect, in a typical Mold Inspection, or environmental testing. That part of the service strictly isn’t just mold and testing for other things inside an environment. If you don’t take a look at the environment and ascertain what’s going on there, we’re never going to get the optimal results or outcomes that you are hoping to get. Be aware that a lot of the mold inspectors out there are called “pump jockeys”. Where they’ll come in, and they’ll take a real quick air sample. And that’s it. The problem with that is the sample is only really, it’s a slice of the pie. A good inspection includes the following 3 areas of assessment. It starts out with moisture, mold, and mycotoxins. Most homeowners understand that they have to have a moisture issue in order to have a mold problem. And so inspectors should begin there starting inspecting the property from the exterior, looking for moisture, penetrations, slope issues, flooding issues, roofing issues, things of that nature, and then doing the same thing on the inside of the home. Next, recommended are a variety of sampling protocols. Some that could be PCR testing or DNA testing for molds that get down to the species level. A thorough investigation includes surface sampling, and cavity sampling, which tests for moisture issues inside of a wall so that you can understand if there are mold growth or fungal growth inside of that wall cavity. Next, sampling for mycotoxins inside of a structure is important. The other environmental toxins to test for in the home that should be tested for are things like formaldehyde, benzene, and things of that nature, It all starts with the inspection and then testing behind that Many clients that I consult with the have had adrenal fatigue and tests their homes for mold will come back negative. What’s going on there? You have to consider that someone may have done minimal sampling or have had dry auger plates, which comes back negative. So be careful about basing the decision on just limited information. That’s why it’s so important to go through the three-step process. So I think it really begins with that moisture inspection using infrared thermal cameras, moisture meters, hygrometers borescopes, which are little video cameras that you put inside of a wall cavity. It’s that kind of level of detail that really needs to occur. And then we know as it comes to fungal mycotoxin production. Which is a whole other issue. Because there are different kinds of mycotoxins at the species level, it’s really important to identify what mycotoxins you have. So going in and doing that PCR testing (DNA testing), in addition to test for genus levels is essential, Then coming back and testing at the species level, whether it’s a ERMI test is a great test. An ERMI test people are very familiar with to understand the species level because it’s the species level, that will dictate mycotoxin production, and then a different another layer to that is, okay. This answers the question, do we actually have mycotoxins? Because a mold species can produce mycotoxins doesn’t necessarily mean that it is producing them. So it’s good

Maybe you’ve heard of Dr. Bernie Siegel, maybe you haven’t. He is an oncologist that wrote a book called: “How to live your life between office visits” It’s one of those books that was a game-changer for me because it influenced me in more ways than one. From becoming a doctor, and educating the adrenal fatigue sufferer on how to live their life “between office visits” When I read that book, I knew after that, that I wanted to be a doctor that helped people get their health back and not just give them prescriptive medications, or give a reductionistic approach to their health such telling the adrenal fatigue sufferer “you have too much of this, take that” or “you have too little of this, take that it will be higher” Dr. Seigel’s entitled the book “how to live your life between office visits” because his patients were given this terminal life sentence of having this incurable illness like cancer, and they would ask, “what do I do now”? Dr. Siegel would say to them, what is it that you’ve always wanted to do? Inevitably, the terminal patient would say something to the effect “Well, you know, I always want to be”….fill in the blank. But for some reason or another, like taking over the family business, or having to meet family expectations, I wasn’t able to express myself or my identity. Dr. Siegel would then recommend his patient to finally embrace their calling. This didn’t result in a cure, but what it did result in was a lot of his patients would extend their life. Because for the first times in their lives, they were given permission to live their life on their terms, as they wanted to, and found that that was probably the best medicine that they could have ever been given, When I work with exhausted, burnt out, adrenal fatigue sufferers, sadly, I have found that they haven’t been taught, on how to live their lives between office visits. Unfortunately, the typical approach is to run a saliva test, determine if cortisol levels are high or low, and then recommend supplements accordingly. One of the reasons that never works is because the adrenal fatigue sufferer has a lot of deeper things going on in their bodies. Such as microbial overgrowth, detoxification, pathway issues, neurotransmitter production challenges, faulty immune system signaling, and so on. They also present with e a slew of problems: getting sick all the time. inability to focus or concentrate. gastrointestinal challenges. no libido. inability to handle stress. crashing in the middle of the day, inability to lose weight, or inability gain weight. Ultimately, there’s more going on than just the adrenal problem. One of the most common questions that I get from adrenal fatigue sufferers is “can you recommend supplements for me” My answer is something to the effect “Well, if I’m a mechanic, and you’re asking me can I recommend the proper service for your engine? I can’t do that until I’ve looked underneath the hood and give you some insights”. But more important than that is do understand the road demands that your car is enduring on a day to day basis. In order to give the best advice to the adrenal fatigue sufferer on how to live their life between office visits, I always suggest 2 major tests, to develop an accurate game plan. 2 Major Tests For The Adrenal Fatigue Sufferer The first test is a nutrigenomic test. Maybe you’ve heard of 23andme or ancestry.com. I prefer a test called Functional Genomic Analysis. It’s a saliva test. that looks at all the different genes and enzymes that are responsible for biochemical reactions in the body. You may be asking “why would I want to look at that? Well, I want to look at that because it can tell me how well your body can adapt to stress, how well does it detoxify the environment, how well does it signal its immune system, how well does it make energy at the cellular level? The answer to these questions will help us teach the adrenal fatigue sufferer how to live their lives between office visits. The second test I would say you need is a proper hormone test. The test I love the Dutch test. It’s a four or five-point urine test that you take throughout the day. Some people will say it doesn’t look very well at your circadian rhythm. I would disagree with that. It looks at all the different metabolites, meaning it looks at the other enzyme or the other breakdown products of your hormones. It also looks at your HPA axis. It also looks at organic acid markers. So I can tell if you’re depleted in certain nutrients or you have some challenges with your stress hormones. It looks at your cellular level of cortisol utilization, But those would be the two tests that I would want you to start with so that I can give you a proper assessment and come up with a game plan. That way, we can tell you, where your weakness

In this article, we are going to be discussing the three mistakes adrenal fatigue sufferers make. When I talk to them through my Facebook groups, my social media like Instagram, YouTube, and create content, I get a lot of feedback with the questions that they ask, knowing, oh, my goodness, you’re way off base here, you’re not focusing on the right things that you need to focus on. What I want to convey most important, is that it is not your fault. I had the same challenges when I suffered from my own adrenal fatigue based problem. And it’s very, very frustrating to not be accepted by traditional medicine when they don’t even look at the definition of adrenal fatigue as being legitimate. On top of that, you’re exhausted and you’re burnt out. On top of that, you don’t focus, you don’t have concentration, you crash in the middle of the day, you have very little exercise tolerance, there’s not a lot of libido. Bottom line…you just don’t handle stress very well For me, an example of not handling stress very well, I remember having an exam after exam or finals, or a competition, and just being overwhelmingly stressed to the point where my stomach was killing me. I couldn’t focus, I couldn’t concentrate. I wasn’t a happy person to be around. I didn’t have the energy to exercise the way I wanted to. My circadian rhythm was disrupted. My circadian rhythm would be disrupted, and I would have more energy at night and less in the morning. Probably the most frustrating thing is that you’re not getting the help that you need, and you’re not being listened to. So what I want to talk to you about is what I find to be the number one biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to dealing with an adrenal fatigue based problem. The First Big Mistake Adrenal Fatigue Sufferers Make: The number one problem is the definition of adrenal fatigue. That’s why I have created the truth about adrenal fatigue. Sadly, research shows that it takes 17 years for research to come out before it’s going to be applied and traditional approaches. So basically, it takes 17 years from the scientists in their labs, to have the population use the results of their experiments. That’s a sad thing. Because think about how much we’ve changed. Like the speed of light, our cultural changes, technological changes, environmental pollutant changes. What’s happening is that as the technology advances, I really feel it’s impacting us on a biochemical, physiological level. When you combine that with genetic susceptibilities, meaning you’re not the perfect person to be able to signal your immune system, or turning off the signaling of your immune system, or being able to support different phases of the immune system, or being able to support clearance and detoxification of the chemicals and the toxins that you’ve processed at an alarming rate every day. Or there are problems with making or clearing out neural transmitters or transporting nutrients. Basically, making and breaking anything things in your body. Anything you are required to make or break in the body requires proper biochemistry that is being impacted by our environmental triggers, from Wi-Fi to EMF, to pathogens to chemicals to toxins, to depleted soils, to different gases. So, it is really important to have a proper definition of what is going on in the body when dealing with an adrenal based problem. This is important for bridging the gap. We need to be able to have doctors be able to communicate to doctors, or PhDs and researchers to be able to communicate with other doctors. So specialists should be able to talk to specialists in a common, understandable language. A proper definition of what is going on is also important to have doctors in different disciplines talk to each other in common, understandable languages. And most importantly, we need to have the patient, the person who’s suffering from that exhaustion or fatigue based problem, to be able to ask the questions, get the information and ultimately impact their health as quickly as possible in a favorable way. When you think about the current term “adrenal fatigue”, it’s really a terrible term. It really is. When I suffered from my own adrenal fatigue based problem, I had no idea what it was. I just graduated from chiropractic college, I had my wife was pregnant with twins, I had a lot of student debt. I grew up in Canada, and I moved to California. And then we decided to reside in Florida, all of that I had a physical injury. I was exhausted, and I was burnt out. I was just starting my career thinking, “oh, my goodness, how am I going to do this? Then I learned about a book called Why do I have thyroid symptoms when my thyroid tests are normal? And I thought, well, I don’t have thyroid problems. So a patient friend of mine, who’s an acupuncturist brought that book into me. I sta

In this episode of Your Adrenal Fix, I talk to Dave Korsunsky, the CEO of Heads Up Health, why it’s so important as to why you must become a biohacker. Becoming a health detective: Like many of my guests, Dave Korsunksy has a personal story of burnout. Being in the tech industry, and into engineering computer systems, Dave realized with all the work, stress, deadlines, demands, late-night, partying, etc, that he became burnt out. Experiencing stress overload, not being as sharp and analytical, and the toll all of that placed on his body. Dave admitted that he needed better techniques for managing his health. The story of how that evolved into creating his data driven “Heads Up Health” is simply amazing. Dave would ultimately reverse engineer and apply the same concepts involed in enginerring computer systems, to engineering of the human body, or his body. That is why I was so excited to interview Dave. Because to me, more then learning how to engineer your body for great health is at stake with learning how to biohacker (more on that later). However, learning how engineer your body, so that you can regain your health, is amazing in it’s own right. Not just regaining health, but recovering from burnout. Feeling exhausted sucks, let’s face it. Not having enough energy to get through the day, without relying on stimulants, multiple cups of coffee, sweet foods, energy drinks, a ton of supplements, sucks too. Especially if they aren’t working. Dave basically said, “tools didn’t exist for him to bring all of his data together” and really make sense of it all. That is when he realized he needed to start to become his own health detective. Solving the Analytics Problem: Dave explained that with computer systems, you can have data that isn’t talking to each other. Otherwise known as a bunch of fragments of data. Dave said that is known as an analytics problem. He said that that is what was happening to his health. He was going from doctor to doctor, getting the different tests done, and none of the data was talking to each other. Which is a major roadblock to recovery? When the data is talking to each other, Dave explained that you can begin to see trends. Trends on how that data relates to one another. That is when Dave had a lightbulb moment. That if he can somehow bring the information together, see the trends, then you would be able to have a huge impact on your health. Hence…become a biohacker. When you begin to see these trends, you can then develop awareness on how life, your life, impacts your body. Which ultimately means making better decisions. As Dave says “seeing patterns, that doctors aren’t telling you about” was very powerful for him. When you have been suffering for so long, without seeing the needle move in your ability to regain your energy, you begin to become discouraged. Changing The Health Care Paradigm: The other reason I was so excited to talk to Dave, and fully endorse his company Heads Up Health, is the impact it will have on health care. Health care is sickness care. It is about waiting for your lab markers to be “failing the grade” before any warning signs are sounded. Or when any support is implemented. Tracking daily biomarkers, like blood sugar, ketones, blood pressure, temperature, activity, heart rate variability, sleep scores, activity levels (the list can be endless) can revolutionize health. When your data track this key variable, along with your past medical history, you can see amazing trends. Because now, your health data is communicating with each other. Dave said, like a trader in the stock market, who studies the information, you can now make data-driven decisions. That is why he started his Heads Up Health Data-Driven Podcast. Working With An Expert: Because this is brand new information, and the body has an infinite number of variables, the numbers can get difficult. Heads up health gives its members, access to their health portal so that they can take the information to any doctor they choose. But it is up to the doctor to know what to do with it. That is why I think a health paradigm shift is mandatory. For doctors and patients alike. Patients should raise their antenna’s on lifestyle factors and metrics that they do every day. While doctors should raise their antenna’s on put the information together, and seeing the trends. The trends with functional medicine values. Like their dutch test, organic acid test, blood chemistries, microbiome health, etc. The trends with their nutrigenomic report. The trends with their lifestyle metrics (blood sugar, ketones, blood pressure, temperature, activity, heart rate variability, sleep scores, activity levels, etc. Then put it all together. For Dave, his nutrigenomic data was “a game-changer”. Once you learn to become a biohacker, you will take charge of your health. Dave’s goal vision is to connect to your genomic

https://youtu.be/5xiyDllKt9Y In the latest edition of Your Adrenal Fix Podcast, I had the opportunity to talk to nutritional expert Wendy Myers about her Myers detox protocols for heavy metals. Specifically, I wanted to ask Wendy what heavy metal toxicity has to do with hormone problems, energy production, and the ability to deal with stress. Like many of my guests, Wendy had her own story of health challenges. As well, like many who suffer from a chronic health problem, she was doing what she felt was all the right things. From eating healthy, taking a ton of supplements, but still, she didn’t feel happy, couldn’t lose weight, suffered from brain fog. She just knew for all the work and effort she was putting in, something must be wrong. Because it wasn’t because of her diet and lifestyle. She then learned from her doctor that she had low thyroid levels, her cortisol was low, had nutritional deficiencies, and her doctor wanted to put her on hormone replacements. At 37 years of age. That is when she heard about the hair tissue mineral analysis test. Tests For Heavy Metals: As Wendy mentions, there is not one perfect heavy metal test. The problem with blood tests is that when exposed to heavy metals a long time ago when they have been sequestered into other tissues, the blood test is normal. Wendy suggests that hair, urine, and stool tests all have their advantages, and if possible a combination of all 3 would be the most specific in determining your heavy metal burden. After Wendy started detoxing, she started feeling better and better and better. The Relationship Between Heavy Metals, Energy and Hormones: First, Wendy finds that the most common heavy metals that she sees are aluminum, arsenic, thallium, and cesium. She explained that these metals that we get exposed to from our environment, basically poison your enzymes. The enzymes they typically impact are ones that help transfer nutrients into your mitochondria. If you are not getting nutrients into the mitochondria, then you are not going to have a lot of energy. Furthermore, these heavy metals also poison a class of enzymes called your hydroxylase enzymes. These enzymes are responsible for converting your hormones into different metabolites so that they can be utilized. So if you have heavy metal toxicity, you may have your sex hormone production impacted. Keep in mind, when you are stressed, your stress hormones are made in the sex hormone steroid cycle. Wendy suggested once a heavy metal load is determined, then binders, saunas, and detoxing nutrients can all help with removing the burden. As a result, your energy, hormones, and ability to handle stress, will all normalize. Be sure to check out Wendy here.   The post Heavy Metals, Energy and Hormone Problems, with Wendy Myers: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 38 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

In this edition of Your Adrenal Fix Podcast, I get the opportunity to pick Dr. Alan Christianson’s brain about his new book called “The Metabolism Reset Diet”. The Metabolism Reset Diet Concept: Doctor Alan’s first book is called the Adrenal Reset Diet. I did explain to Alan that I was proud of him that he wrote such a great back, and admitted to him that I was a little envious too. Because I have a book (more like 10) that I have published in my head, that hasn’t actually made it press yet. After we both laughed, I asked Dr. Alan what the difference was between his first book and his second. He mentioned that in the Metabolism Reset diet, it was born out of a clinic that he worked in that saw metabolic syndrome/diabetic patients. Whereas the Adrenal reset diet was specially geared towards those that were dealing with an adrenal based problem. That opened the door for me to get Dr. Alan’s take on the entire adrenal fatigue controversy (more on the metabolic reset diet later). Dr. Alan agreed, that the term Adrenal Fatigue is a really inappropriate term for what is actually happening. He mentioned that endocrinologist and the research supports a term called adrenal insufficiency. That is, similar to Hashimotos’ for the thyroid, the immune system attacks the adrenal glands, such that the output from the adrenal glands are unable to make enough cortisol. This is called Addison’s disease. However, the research does not support that the adrenals actually stop producing cortisol if it is not an Addison’s presentation. Rather, Dr. Alan highlights that the research supports the fact that your circadian rhythm is a great predictor of health. That your circadian rhythm predicts longevity, disease, your symptoms, and can be influenced by a healthy lifestyle. The connection to the adrenal output is the fact that it is based on a circadian rhythm, and this circadian rhythm can and does become disrupted with the continuation of stress. Back to the Metabolism Reset Diet. Based on 2 shakes and a meal, the main emphasis is for controlling blood sugar, and liver function. The great news is the fact that Dr. Alan and his program provide hope that it is possible to change your metabolism. Especially by focusing on supporting your liver function. Rebooting Your Metabolism: By focusing on your liver, Dr. Alan can reboot your metabolism. A great concept that Dr. Alan talks about is the total load. That is, there is not bad or good food per se. Rather, it is the total load, that impacts the liver. If you can keep the total load down, the liver has flexibility to work efficiently. As Dr. Alan says”Its’ the load” and the food “breaks down to the same molecule” The most important concept is kind of the same idea of data in equals data out. Whatever goes into the liver should come out of the liver. By controlling the total load, you will be able to regenerate a very resilient liver. A great quote that Dr. Alan Christianson says about the liver is the fact that it is “a lot easier to force things on liver then to heal the liver”. Meaning a lot of people focus on the wrong things. Such as detoxing the liver instead of healing the liver. What’s great is the results Dr. Alan is seeing stating he is “excited to see how quickly body can bounce back when it’s given the right information” To learn more about Dr. Alan Christianson Metabolic Reset diet click here: To hear about my podcast on detoxification click here   The post Metabolism Reset Diet, with Dr. Alan Christianson: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 37 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

  In this episode of Your Adrenal Fix, I interview renegade fitness warrior and expert Jay Ferruggia, about exercise hacks for those that are dealing with burnout, exhaustion, and fatigue. Jay has been helping guys become the strongest version of themselves since 1994. You may have seen my work in Men’s Health, Muscle & Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Men’s Fitness, Fast Company, Huffington Post, LiveStrong, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Shape, Entrepreneur, Details or on ESPN or CBS. Jay has always been ahead of the curve, with group training in the ’90s, underground gyms since ’96, and training like athletes for over 20+ years. However, Jay admits that he himself has had his own set of health challenges. He admits to have felt physically and mentally weak, skinny, fat, sad, depressed, insecure, painfully shy, socially awkward, crippled with anxiety and indecision. As well, he proclaims he has had struggles with addiction, and have gone broke on more than one occasion. According to Jay, overcoming those obstacles took many years and a lot of hard work. That is why I was so exhausted to get his take on the relationship between exercise, over-exercising, burnout, and the impact that has on the Adrenal/HPA axis. The Role of Exercise and Exercise Hacks:   I, along with Jay (and many of the clients I work) have had a problem with overtraining. That is, not listening to your body, coupled with performing too much work, whether it be training frequency, load, during, etc. Jay agreed by saying “everybody thinks that you have to do super intensity, super hard, all the time”. Rather, Jay suggests that we should take a more realistic approach. The first exercise hack that Jay mentioned which I think anyone who suffers from burnout should know: “Training hard is fun, but it’s what your doing the other 23 hours of the day is what is going to burn you out more so then the work out itself” to which I couldn’t agree more. We both agreed that it’s all about balance. Jay suggested that if you are feeling burnt out, “look at what you’re doing across the week”. Perhaps “Lifting sessions should be lower sessions, longer volume” or what he called “active recovery”. This can be breathing exercises, sauna’s, going for a walk, yoga, or being with friends. The next exercise hack that I thought was just brilliant is what Jay points out as “Information Overload”. According to Jay, Information overload is “Prioritizing what’s in your consciousness, curate who you are getting your information from time blocking, create rules for yourself”. In other words, being vigilant to how much stimuli (information) that you have to process daily. Other Exercise Biohacks:   Next, we talked about exercise hack and the Oura ring (for another podcast where I talk about the oura ring go here or here. Sine if the points Jay and I talked about are: HRV and sleep, look at that and can determine, forces you to be more vigilant and what you are doing, Time of day, how I train, how does it impact my sleep. How sauna impacting it, how is light impacting makes you more aware. To track is to know. What’s happening with mood, strength, libido, recovery signs. Learning how to listen to your body, You have to get better at listening to your body. Dietary advice, metabolic flexibility, you’re going to be human, you want to bounce back quicker, Beginner: try to make huge massive changes at first, it doesn’t really stick, what did your parents /grandparents, hunt, pick, grow, it’s probably pretty good. (JAMES CLEAR ATOMIC HABITS)   Nutritional Information:   I asked Jay’s take on nutrition. He told me he has gone a lot lower carbs so that he can have less inflammation, improved cognitive function, and Alzheimer’s minimization, That you should make small changes over time, and agrees that somewhere in the range of .8-1.2g grams of protein for each pound of body weight is the ideal. The Last Of the Hacks:   One of the best quotes Jay gave during our interview: “Sometimes health and fitness are not the same, or physique transformation, is not about health and longevity” Which is a great reminder: that exercise is the means to a healthier lifestyle, not the ends. Jay also mentioned that with working out, timing and frequency doesn’t matter until how you execute the movement, push, pull, squat, hinge, that ab movement/carry. How multi purposed weight training, build strength, is by building muscle fastest way to lose fast, lifting properly, limit rest period, For recovery, Jay suggests: Deep breathing, sauna, massages, sitting out home, turning off phone at 7pm orthe 8, getting outside, and controlling your light exposure. Lastly, when I asked Jay, what he wish he could have told the younger version of himself if he knew then what he knows now, Jay succinctly said “Slow down, listen to your body” because h

In this latest episode of Your Adrenal Fix Podcast, I interview Chuck Hazzard for a second time, (Check out the first interview with Chuck for Your Adrenal Fix Podcast here). In this episode, we talk about the latest Adrenal Hacks, which will ultimately help you with your broken stress response. The 3 Adrenal Hacks Biomarkers   We first begin by explaining the 3 buckets of Adrenal hacks that the OURA RING has created to help you understand key biomarkers that will ultimately increase your performance. Chuck explains the 3 buckets. Sleep: As Chuck likes to say: ” Your day begins when you go to sleep, not when you wake up”. I think that is great advice for anybody who has difficulty with their sleep. When suffering from an adrenal based, HPA axis dysfunction, a hallmark problem is a disruption of your circadian rhythm. Which is kind of a chicken or the egg phenomena? Meaning, which came first. However, as Chuck explained, the body knows what to do, when given the right information. That is, lifestyle choices that interfere with its ability to regulate itself normally, like eating late, bluescreen exposure, alcohol, or inconsistencies with the timing of your onset of sleep, will impact your sleep quality. And hence your other biomarkers. When you dial in on these factors, your Sleep gets score will get more efficient. The 3 major Adrenal Hacks that Chuck highlights are consistency, the time in bed, and fragmentation. Focus on these vs. the actual micromanaging of your total REM sleep/Deep sleep, etc, and the body will sort itself out. Other key points that Chuck mentioned were: Peak Point, 12-3 Consistency, HR, when is the lowest heart rate, is its second half, like a ski slope, revved up. The bed is for sleep only, not go to bed until you are committed, If you wake up get out of bed, go to the chair, then sleepy, go back to bed, Time in bed, efficiency as high as possible, Don’t focus on REM VS Non-Rem. Rather, total sleep time 7-9 hour of actual time, consistency, Oura tells you that, based on ID your chronotype, how fragmented, did I have a lot of activity, environmental, light, Readiness/Recovery: This is a key Adrenal Hack because quite simply when suffering from a burnt-out, exhausted based problem, your readiness and recovery are very low. The basis of this marker answers the question,” have you recovered from the night before, am I prepared for the day ahead of me”. As Chuck explained the readiness bucket is a marker of sleep and activity. What it means, when the algorithms of the oura measure all your data points, like nocturnal HRV, resting heart rate, how long it takes to get to its lowest point, your body temperature, etc, when they vary too much, then your readiness/recovery scores are going to be lower. That you shouldn’t be working out, or if you have a big workday ahead, you should gear down a bit. The great thing about this Adrenal Hack bucket is what Chuck says “Readiness helps me decide if I will work out, how long, given work demands” Activity: The last Adrenal Hack that we discussed was your activity levels. Chuck explains OURA Activity metric is based on a holistic view, exercise too much or to little, goal is 150min/week, calorie goal which is a lot easier to understand. New BioHack Tools To Come:   When I asked Chuck what were some of the Adrenal Hack tools that we will see coming down the pike with the Oura ring. Chuck indicated that things like the optimal time to work out, based on metabolic type will be coming. Or, when you should work out and how intense. As well, Chuck mentioned that Oura is building in more insights, in trends view, show you baseline, teams, 7 days of data, and compare that to 90 days. The last insights Chuck gave me was: Really paying attention to your Recovery index. That is when was your lowest hr, if it doesn’t get lower, you were naughty, you do not want a ski slope. Hire a coach, to get a handle on their training intensity, Breathing exercises, go a long way, such as oxygen advantage, wim hof control methods If you can get your cells to breathe better, the Glymphattic brain system. To contact Chuck go here:     The post Latest Adrenal Hacks, with Chuck Hazzard: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 35 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

How To “Man Up” And Beat Adrenal Fatigue, with Bedros Keuilian, is the story of a serial entrepreneur who uses amazing business strategies to get exceed in all areas of his life. From business success, personal success, and recovery from an adrenal fatigue based problem. In this interview, Bedros tells us how to man up and beat adrenal fatigue. I am proud to say I met Bedros over 20 years ago when I was going through chiropractic college. Who is Bedros Keuilian? Since then, Bedros Keuilian has become a high-performance coach, speaker, and business consultant. He’s the founder and CEO of Fit Body Boot Camp, a four-time Inc. 5000 listed business, two-time Entrepreneur Franchise 500 listed franchise, and one of the nation’s fastest-growing franchises. He’s also an investor in over a dozen companies ranging from software, digital media agencies, and educational and consulting services. He’s known as the hidden genius that entrepreneurs, best-selling authors. Thought leaders turn to when they want to quickly scale their businesses and build impact-focused brands. So when I had a chance to interview Bedros about his new book “Man Up: How To Cut The Bullshit and Kick Ass In Business and in Life (to get his best selling book click here), I wanted to ask how the same principles he writes about in the book can be used to “Man Up” and Beat Adrenal Fatigue? To which Bedros admitted, he was diagnosed with and had recovered from Adrenal Fatigue. Bedros mentioned that it was about 6-7 years ago when he started his brand “Fit Body Boot Camp” that’s when the real struggles of health and business, really began for him. “Feelings of anxiety, not on the same page as staff, my business partner, poor communication, toxic relationships, not wanting to get out of bed, not wanting to eat right, not wanting to exercise” Bedros also admitted to feeling “Foggy headed, couldn’t focus”, and “was depressed”. To which Bedros had a very accurate statement that “Depression and Anxiety are handcuffed together”. It was then that he realized something needed to change. Because he would let things build and build. He was feeling over-worked, over-stressed, over-anxious. Until one day, Bedros explained that he had a major panic attack that he thought was going to kill him. He had the realization that “It’s time to man up, do what right for your life, take better control of your life”. Bedros took this as an epiphany, or wake up call and admitted: “if this continues, I’m going to have a heart attack”. Besides getting his health back, his family needed him around. That is where Bedros decided “Man Up: How To Cut the Bullshit and Kick Ass in Business (and in life) 3 Core Areas To Man Up and Beat Adrenal Fatigue: In doing this, Bedros talks about 3 Core areas which will be applied to “Man Up and Beat Adrenal Fatigue” Self-leadership: which Bedros explains “lead yourself to health and mental toughness starts with taking full responsibility” Clarity of Vision/Mission: Bedros explains The vision is “what I want” and the mission is “what I do every day to get there” Building a team: that share the vision and mission. The last concept that Bedros Talks about to Man up and Beat Adrenal Fatigue is “never peaking”. That the best is yet to come, in terms of impact, relationship, marriage, making a difference and having significance. All great advice for those in business, in life, and health. To get your copy of “Man Up” Man Up: How To Cut The Bullshit and Kick Ass In Business and in Life (click here) or follow Bedros on Instagram here For our last podcast on how stress impacts the body Click here                 The post How To “Man Up” And Beat Adrenal Fatigue, with Bedros Keuilian: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 34 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

Adrenal fatigue and micronutrients are discussed with Chris Masterjohn in this adrenal of your adrenal fix. Chris and I discuss the patterns that might be seen with individuals are burnt out and fatigued. To begin with, the vitamins and minerals associated with energy metabolism have to be considered and understood. This includes the 7 B-Vitamins, along with Folate and Cobalamin. As well, iron status and oxygenation to the cells must also be determined. With the 7 B-vitamins, problems with skin, hair, nails, and neurological deficits are highly likely. Looking at some of the things that stand out that are unique to certain vitamins and minerals must be looked at. As an example, circadian rhythms. If someone is not able to be entrained optimally to the sleep-wake cycles, Chris suggests looking at Vitamin A status with a 95% probability and 5% with zinc. Vitamin A deficiency can also show difficulty with night vision, and with bumps on the skin. Genetics also impacts the ability to utilize the active form of Vitamin A, making energy problems more likely. Iron overload and deficiency are also discussed. Transferrin, ferritin, and iron status can be really information in the status of energy production. To hear Chris’ version on why you need to manage your iron status and how to do it, go here. Lastly, the perception of stress is discussed and how it impacts not just your adrenal glands, but your mineral status. For more information about the HPA axis, click here. The post Adrenal Fatigue and Micronutrients with Chris Masterjohn: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 33 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

In this edition of “Your Adrenal Fix”, Dr. Joel Rosen speaks with Dr. Carrie Jones about hormone imbalance in women and men. Dr. Carrie is a naturopathic physician and integrative doctor specializing in adrenal, thyroid, & sex hormones, and currently sits as the Medical Director for Precision Analytics, creators of the cutting edge DUTCH test. Carrie utilizes her unique blend of holistic practice infused with modern functional medicine. She is a master of empowering her patients to take back control of their health, especially when they’ve been told they are “normal” but don’t feel “normal.” It’s always great to have an opportunity to talk to Dr. Jones and hormone imbalance in women and men because as the medical director of a lab that tests hormones Carrie has seen it all. When you review as many hormone tests as she has, you start to see trends. While every individual is different, there are very common patterns that begin to emerge. Any little insight that you can get from these common findings, maybe the difference in your own hormonal imbalance. By listening to this episode of Hormone Imbalance in Women and Men, you will discover: * How the DUTCH test stands alone in the assessment of individualistic hormonal imbalance * The importance of the Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) in resetting diurnal rhythm and fighting adrenal fatigue * 3 phases of estrogen detox and how each relates to metabolic health and predisposition for the disease. * Common signs of high & low estrogen, and how 2nd-level estrogen dominance can elicit these symptoms despite “normal” bloodwork * How estrogen imbalance can ultimately affect melatonin synthesis, and the widespread implications this can have on your mood & sleep * Carrie’s personal dietary & routine based strategies to better understand your body, balance your hormones and take back control of your health Follow Carrie: To listen to Dr. Carrie Jones interview regarding female hormone imbalances, click here.   The post Hormone Imbalance In Women and Men: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 32 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

In this edition of Your Adrenal Fix: my special guest Mike Mutzel, M.S and I discuss the various ways stress can impact the body. Not only is Mike a highly respected practitioner with a keen eye for cutting edge translational medicine, but he’s also one of the leading proponents of using bio-individuality to assess and prevent chronic disease. Mike shares with us his approach to dealing with the impact of stress on the body. Listeners will glean tried and true best practices on addressing internal and external stress, with particular attention paid to science-based strategies that help mitigate fatigue and burnout. In this episode you’ll discover: How to rebalance your bodies’ circadian rhythm to help combat fatigue & support adrenal health The integral role the immune systems plays on regulating blood sugar, insulin resistance, & weight loss. What it means to be metabolically inflexible and the simple routine changes that can bolster hormonal pliability. The important distinction between ‘garden variety’ & cytokine-based disease & the secret to their respective remediation. A common sense approach to daily protein intake & the pitfalls of allopathic medicine. Mike’s personal recommendations & biohacks to reduce stress & better live life in the parasympathetic. Follow Mike: https://www.youtube.com/user/highintensityhealth https://www.instagram.com/metabolic_mike/ https://www.facebook.com/MikeMutzelMS   To listen to our most relevant podcast on additional insights on how stress impacts your body, click here The post How Stress Impacts Your Body: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 31 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

Insider Secrets For Biohacking Adrenal Fatigue. Frustrated with being exhausted? Not handling stressors the way you used, and now the least little thing causes you to crash, have anxiety, or even worse, full-blown panic? Learn about how data tracking, or better known as “bio-hacking” your bodies key stressor indicators, so that you can finally learn how to fix your body and recover. When you listen you’ll discover… The 3 key “buckets” that the oura ring helps you with your stress The importance of HRV, -Why “chrono-type” is super important in any adrenal recovery strategy, – What other key hacks you are missing out on fixing your broken stress response. -and much more TO SAVE $50 on your oura ring. Just go to OURA, and use the coupon code “bocahealth“ during checkout for their $50 discount. Once you learn about biohacking Adrenal Fatigue, life becomes much easier. For further information about biohacking, and becoming metabolically flexible, click here: More Biohacking The post Biohacking Adrenal Fatigue: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 30 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

Copper Toxicity and Adrenal Fatigue are discussed Topics: Why there is a high likelihood that you are born with copper toxicity predisposing you to adrenal fatigue How our toxic environment can be a major contributor to your copper imbalance, and learn how to determine if this is a problem for you. Learn how important copper is in producing energy for many vital body functions, how to ensure you have the proper levels, and what the adrenals have to do with the entire process How adrenal fatigue leads to copper toxicity, which can impact mood, abnormal cycles, fungal infections, fatigue, and most importantly, what you can do to fix both your adrenal fatigue and copper regulation.   We all think about the adrenal glands as being our stress glands. While this is true, one of the major functions of the adrenal glands is maintaining and regulation of your mineral balance. According to Henry Schroeder, Ph.D., MD: “Minerals are the spark plugs of life.” Simply put, minerals are necessary for energy production in your body. In turn, that energy is used to managing the stressors that occur in the body. Every enzymatic process involved in the creation of energy is dependent upon the nutrient minerals. Two times Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling went so far as to state unequivocally: “You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”   Copper Excess Problems: Hormone Imbalances Joints Pains and Bone Diseases Chronic fatigue Estrogen Dominance Copper is required to fix calcium in the bones and to build and repair all bones and all connective tissue. The right form of copper is needed to produce 30-40% of our energy. Copper Excess Problems: Anxiety/Depression Cancer Copper is needed for the neurotransmitter production of L-Dopa and noradrenaline. Mg, K, Na, Zn Loss from Cells Under Stress or Copper Overload Mg, K, Na, Zn are lost from inside of cells. Mineral deficiency in cells. Mineral increases in blood temporarily. Hair follicle picks up excess mineral; shows high in TMA. Blood carries lost minerals to kidneys. Lost minerals are excreted in hair and urine. Estrogen/Copper Connection: Excess estrogen causes copper retention Xenoestrogen exposure coupled with low levels of Magnesium, Zinc, Molybdenum, Manganese and Vitamin C leads to copper overload. The post Copper Toxicity and Adrenal Fatigue: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 29: appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

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