Okay so let’s start with my most recent question. A dear friend of mine was asking about the brain stimulation machines. He was on the verge of buying one. First of all just to be clear being “happy” might require the opposite treatment depending on your condition. Just ask anyone who’s been to a psychiatrist recently. Their first question is do you have a lot of anxiety or do you feel too depressed or lazy to get out of bed. So based on that question they’re going to give you uppers or downers. So much for conventional medicine. Reminds me of a high school drug dealer. Lets not even go there. And of course disclaimer I am not a physician. If you have a medical problem you should see a doctor. In fact it’s imperative that you check your hormones. I am sure some of the famous people who killed themselves had their hormones way out of whack and just felt intolerably miserable day after day and did not know there are options to fix your brain chemistry and or your hormones. Most insurance companies will pay for all the blood tests, however ask first. You don’t want to pay a $2000 bill because your doctor requested to test all your hormones but didn’t put a proper CPT code or diagnosis which would justify the test. That being said obviously if your thyroid is not functioning properly in the morning it’s going to be difficult to wake up and do anything.  Conversely if it’s producing too much at night you’re not going to go to sleep. PS if you are not sleeping dont forget no coffee after 3pm.  Some are so sensitive to caffeine any is too much. So you really need to eliminate as many potential problems as possible problems, thyroid, sex hormones out of balance etc. Doctors can check all your hormones via a blood test or more recently they are doing it simply with your urine and saliva. Some will say that doesn’t tell you the levels in your blood. Well guess what if you want to know the actual levels of certain chemicals  in your brain you would actuallyhave to crack your brain open and measure that. Suffice it to say the companies that measure your hormones through saliva and urine have done it hundreds of thousands of times and have correlated the results  blood test results. A typical therapy might include certain amino acids to help your body make more inhibitory hormones to help you relax at night and get a good nights sleep and other amino acids to help your excitatory hormones during the day assuming everything else checks out.

The foundation of any treatment plan is rest first and then you can stimulate. Doctors often talk about adrenal exhaustion. If you’ve been drinking 6 cups of coffee for 10 years you probably have it. When I first started working with Oz Garcia I actually had a near perfect diet with the exception of the coffee. It didn’t seem like much to me but when I wrote it down he noted that I have one in the morning one in the late morning don’t we all? Then I had one after lunch one for that late afternoon low and one after dinner I guess that does add up five,  he made me get off coffee.  Then I did a clearing with ultraclear. I went from falling asleep at three in the afternoon to unbridled energy till midnight and never looked back. He said the coffee had exhausted my adrenals and my liver was congested with accumulated toxins over 40 years. I didn’t believe him because I was running 5 miles a day every day and out of nowhere was overwhelmed by this exhaustion where I had to take a nap everyday at three it felt like an acute illness. But he was right.

I’m sorry if I’m a little bit all over the place but there’s so much you need to know if you are going to take care of yourself. And guess what only you can take care of yourself. Only you have the time and care enough about yourself to explore all the possibilities and solutions. Unfortunately there are a lot of things that could cause a similar problem, heck you can even have a tumor on your pituitary gland which gets back to me reiterating you do have to check with your doctor or work with a doctor. But you have to point the way you have to be your own personal Sherlock homes of health. For example if your libido is shot and you’re exhausted Male or female it Could be testosterone.

So back to the question please go to Fisher Wallace.com to see the simple brain stimulation machines that are becoming evermore popular in the past few years. This is not your Frankenstein electroshock therapy. In fact they use either a 9 V battery or three AA batteries many claim that they couldn’t possibly do anything. Be your own judge they have some pretty good university studies supporting its use. These machines retail around $700 I have a friend from France who has a similar machine that costs 2000 dollars Friends of mine who use these machines claim that it helps them to relax  and gives them a better nights sleep in fact one of my friends says he uses it at night and falls asleep while he’s using it.

There are also tons of supplements you can take to relax from magnesium to melatonin and 5HTP, i have gone on too long already let me take on supplements in the next post