Take 60 seconds every waking hour to move—stretch, breathe, walk. It keeps your body energized and your mind clear. That adds up to 2 hours of exercise a week. No sweat, all benefit—for your whole being.
Mood
Enter at Their Speed Limit
In the bustling world we live in, where interactions are constant and varied, there’s a subtle art to connecting with others that can significantly enhance our communication. This art is known as matching and mirroring, a concept rooted in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Today, I want to dive into this fascinating technique and explore how matching or matching minus the energy of the person you’re speaking to can transform your conversations.
The Essence of Matching and Mirroring
At its core, matching and mirroring involves adopting aspects of another person’s behavior, speech, or body language to build rapport and create a sense of harmony. It’s a natural process we often do unconsciously with people we feel comfortable with. By consciously applying this technique, we can enhance our ability to connect with others, making our interactions more fluid and effective.
Imagine you’re speaking with someone who is very calm and soft-spoken. If you approach them with high energy and a loud voice, it might create a disconnect, making the conversation feel awkward or even overwhelming. Instead, by matching their calm demeanor, you can create a sense of comfort and understanding. This is entering at their speed limit.
The Power of Matching Minus
Sometimes, it’s not about fully mirroring the other person but slightly dialing back your energy to match theirs. This technique, often referred to as “matching minus,” involves subtly aligning with their pace and tone without completely mimicking them. It’s a delicate balance that shows empathy and respect for their state of being while still maintaining your own unique presence.
For example, if someone is expressing sadness or frustration, you don’t need to mirror their emotions exactly. Instead, you can match minus by adopting a more subdued tone and calm body language. This approach acknowledges their feelings and creates a safe space for them to open up, without amplifying their emotional state.
Practical Applications in Everyday Life
Whether you’re in a professional setting, such as our aesthetic doctor’s office at Precision Aesthetics, where we go to great lengths to ensure everyone’s comfort and privacy, or interacting with friends and family, mastering the art of matching and mirroring can have profound benefits. Here are a few practical tips to get started:
- Observe and Listen: Pay attention to the other person’s body language, tone of voice, and speech patterns. This observation is the first step in effectively matching their energy.
- Subtle Adjustments: Make small adjustments to your own behavior. If they’re speaking slowly, slow down your own speech. If they’re using specific gestures, incorporate similar ones naturally into your conversation.
- Practice Empathy: Show genuine interest and empathy in your interactions. People can sense when you’re truly engaged and respectful of their emotional state.
- Stay Authentic: While it’s important to match and mirror, it’s equally crucial to remain authentic. The goal is to create rapport, not to mimic or lose your own identity.
Conclusion
“Enter at Their Speed Limit” is more than just a technique; it’s a mindset of empathy, respect, and connection. By consciously matching or matching minus the energy of those we interact with, we can create more meaningful and effective communication. In a world that often feels rushed and disconnected, this simple yet powerful approach can make all the difference. Let’s embrace this art and enhance our relationships, one conversation at a time.
Remember, the next time you engage with someone, consider their speed limit. Adjust your approach, and watch as your connections deepen and flourish.
Feel free to share your thoughts or experiences with matching and mirroring in the comments below. Let’s continue the conversation and learn from each other.
With warmth and respect, John
Matching and Mirroring: The Art of Elevating Spirits
You’ve likely heard about the techniques of matching and mirroring, right? To establish rapport, one must initially match someone’s energy level before guiding them to a different emotional state. Imagine encountering someone whose energy is somewhat low; if you approach with overwhelming enthusiasm, you might entertain them, but you won’t necessarily uplift their spirits.
Instead, what if you began by matching their subdued energy, gained their trust, and then, with permission, engaged them in an activity to elevate their mood? This approach isn’t just about entertainment—it’s about providing a truly enriching experience.
This post is dedicated to Michael Smikun and Fernando Valencia. I recently learned from Michael during a captivating hour where he managed to energize a room full of disinterested doctors by encouraging them to tickle each other, followed by a thorough discussion on how to uplift energy and facilitate energy transference.
Moments later, I shared these insights with Fernando. I have often described myself as a golden retriever. I get excited when I see my friends and often “jump on them and lick them,” and that actually does cheer them up 90% of the time. He reminded me of the intuitive approach of golden retrievers: sometimes, when you’re feeling down, these dogs don’t just overwhelm you with energy. Instead, they might gently lay their head on your lap, a simple act that can lift your spirits enough to invite you to go out and play with them elevating you both.
As I write this, it strikes me how much we can learn from the empathetic nature of dogs. Perhaps my next blog should explore everything we can learn from animals. But for now, heartfelt thanks to Michael and Fernando for their insights.
I’ve heard similar principles a thousand times before, even 40 years ago at an Anthony Robbins seminar, and I’ve read about it in various forms from many different sources. However, either it takes time, or Michael and Fernando explained the micro-distinctions with such precision and practical examples that it’s transforming. How I engage with the people I love is the most vital piece of our engagement.
This is not about selling shit. It’s about being present to let each of my family and friends know how deeply I care about them. Interestingly, “being present” might actually be more beneficial than blurting out the latest life-saving tip I’ve learned. It’s a subtle yet powerful shift from giving advice to truly connecting, and if I’m thoughtful enough, I might even enter at their “speed limit” — perhaps there’s another blog in that concept alone — and who knows? Maybe then, I could truly make a life-saving difference.
As I re read this it might make an interesting discussion or debate whether “golden retriever” energy works all of the time, or 90% of the time or it just feels that way. Also is it a good pattern interrupt or is it better to ask permission? I’ll let you know. Or you can let me know. Practice caring more about the people you love.
*Michael Smikun and Fernando Valencia are part of the Unblinded team.
You Bet Your life, every day
Title: Betting Our Lives on Our Daily Choices
It’s a profound realization when we stop to consider that every decision we make is essentially a bet placed on our lives. This isn’t hyperbole—it’s a stark reality. From the food we eat to the amount of physical activity we undertake, each choice carries weight and consequences that sculpt our future.
Imagine if, with each decision, we were acutely aware that we were gambling with our longevity and quality of life. Would you still reach for that extra slice of pizza if you saw it as a wager against your health? Or would you be more inclined to choose a nutritious salad, seeing it as an investment in a longer, healthier life?
It’s akin to taking your body to Las Vegas, where every meal and every minute on the couch or treadmill rolls the dice on your health and appearance. The outcomes are visible; they shape not only how long we live but how we look and feel during those years. The sagging energy levels, the skin quality, the fitness of our hearts—all these are influenced by the ‘bets’ we make with our lifestyle choices.
Today, our options extend far beyond diet and exercise. The choices about what supplements to take, whether to opt for bioidentical hormones, synthetic versions, or avoid hormone treatments altogether, and the decision to use anti-aging drugs like Metformin—all reflect deeper layers of complexity in how we manage our health. Millions are already embracing these advancements, seeing them as tools to tip the odds in favor of longevity and vitality.
In a world where these choices were visualized as literal bets, perhaps more people would pause and consider the stakes. The sedentary lifestyle, the quick and easy fast food, the allure of binge-watching late into the night—these might appear less tempting when their long-term impacts are weighed against the benefits of more wholesome, active pursuits.
Yet, making healthier choices isn’t just about dodging negatives; it’s about embracing a vibrant, energetic life. It’s about running through a lush park on a sunny day, feeling alive with every breath. It’s about enjoying the crisp, refreshing textures of a well-made salad, knowing that with each bite, you’re nourishing your body.
This isn’t to say that indulgence is the enemy—moderation is key. But if we saw each unhealthy indulgence as a risky bet and each healthy choice as a winning investment, perhaps the scales would tip in favor of decisions that promote vitality and well-being.
Ultimately, the stakes are high because the wager is our life. Each day offers new choices, and thus, new risks and rewards. What will your bets be today?
Practice getting triggered and how fast you can recover
I think this will work for most people. We have all gone ape shit visceral allowing a lousy cable channel to trigger us. So watch whichever one you hate and viscerally disagree with and then after you are triggered, see how fast you can recover. Its a friggin muscle. the ability to recover from being triggered, not go down the rabbit hole, not speak in absolutes ( ie they always say that do that). PS this applies to your closest relationships as well. You need to learn how to control your emotions and I cant think of a better way then to trigger yourself with something innocuous like politics and then see how fast you can recover. Then when something really important happens, like your husband crashes your Porsche, you will not get upset. You might have noticed what I did there, ladies, LOL
Am I allowed to say ladies. Sorry if that triggered you I cant help you. You are way beyond help I suggest heavy drugs, sedation and 24 hour a day medications.
PS Did you notice that Fox had the pretty female anchor? Ok now I am really asking to be cancelled.
The worst brain damage is Emotional. Protect yourself
Physical damage heals rather quickly. If its merely a head wound it might be just days or weeks. Emotional damage can take more than a lifetime to heal. Talk to anyone even in their sixties and seventies. I promise you they will still bear the scars of childhood emotional trauma and even those they allowed themselves to endure throughout their life.
You will hear stories of abusive spouses, neglectful parents, lousy boyfriends and girlfriends, business failures, lousy bosses, teachers and people who told them they were worthless. The scars last forever. Some say we are even healing from a previous lifetime.
So why do we not protect ourselves? We all wake up every morning and the first thing that happens is as our brain realizes it is now awake it begins to think. Or what you allow to pass for thinking. As a human being that has evolved on this earth for millions of years as a prey animal, you are hard wired to look out for predators. So of course the hard wired tendency is to look out for the modern day predators, the bills, the mortgage, the food and gas prices the stability of the world, safety of your children and the neighborhood. Or the same 50,000 thoughts you had yesterday.
So you have just created a mountain of stress for you brain. And you wonder why so many meditate in the morning or have a morning ritual or exercise or whatever to get out of their heads? But its really an inside job. Because you can even worry while you are running. It takes “thought discipline”. You literally have to stand guard at your brain.
Everyone reading this has done it at least once and probably a thousand times in their life. An awful thought or worry pops into your head and you just gently let it pass. If you have ever mediated you know what I am talking about. And if you are a human with a working brain of any sort, there had to be a time where you said to yourself, I will deal with this later and got on with your day.
So the point of this post is to not allow any new injuries into your brain. We can and will always work to relieve our brains of every little and big trauma we have experienced in our lives. But why in Hell or God’s name would you allow new injuries in?
Lets define new injuries. It happens every single day. Your best friend calls you and asks you if you saw the news and literally ramps you up about politics, a war, some humanitarian crisis, immigration, inflation, fuel, food prices. Take your pick. We have a ton of stuff to create negative energy about.
I am not saying we shouldnt do something. Vote your conscience, donate an extra dollar work an extra hour, but also dont forget the serenity prayer. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I. cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
What I am saying today is do not allow additional brain damage. The worst brain damage in the world is emotional brain damage that can take a life time to heal. I sincerely believe that some is so severe it indeed may be more than a life times worth of damage.
The good news is that you can heal. Its actually almost easy. Find a method to heal or let go of your traumas and pain. But the big butt is do not allow new damage every day.
Monitor every one of the 50,000 thoughts coming into your head today. Immediately release the negative ones. Because you can not begin to release the past ones if you are merely heaping bad negative thoughts upon a foundation of bad negative thoughts and feelings.
Its like any damage. You will never get to the core so you can start repairing if if you are constantly adding damage. Or its like bailing out a ship full of negative water. If there is bad water still flowing in faster than you are bailing your ship will sink.
Start today by stopping the flow of bad thoughts ideas and feelings. Its absolutely existential to a happy existence.
Everybody wants community and they will pay big for it.
| Church | Self Help |
| 1 Community | 1 Community |
| 2 Sense of Belonging | 2 Sense of Belonging |
| 3 Friends | 3 Friends |
| 4 life lessons | 4 life lessons |
| 5 north star for hard times | 5 north star for hard times |
| 6 something to believe in | 6 something to believe in |
| 7 sense of purpose | 7 sense of purpose |
| 8 sense of hope for better future | 8 sense of hope for better future |
| 9 charismatic leader | 9 charismatic leader |
| 10 some charity | 10 some charity |
| 11 leader often flawed | 11 leader often flawed |
I was watching TV this morning and stumbled across a televangelist. It’s amazing how far we’ve come. But what sets someone like Tony Robbins apart from Jim Bakker? The answer is nothing.
Sorry if I am impugning the good that many do. But even in the good that they do, dont they all say “listen to me, I have the answers, pay me, do as I say, I am not perfect, I will teach you lessons, find peace friendship in our community, do not spread blasphemy amongst our herd or you will be expelled.” I could go on literally all day.
By the way only Osho said dont follow me if you are not following yourself you are already on the wrong path, Pure genius. He didnt even write a book because he didnt want anyone to follow. All his books are his speeches transcribed. Had to insert him because he is the only on in all of history that I know of that doesnt say “follow me”
I am not saying the others are doing bad work. In fact I know both the church and self help gurus have inspired countless monumental success stories. All I am saying is that they fullfill the same basic human needs,.
They all have their stars and their crooks. I just like honesty and transparency. I also believe most of them have a good heart and are sincerely doing their best. I still own my own brain, so I do have questions.
Blind faith has its upsides and its downsides. I made the comparison recently to house flipping or the “no money down craze”. Many who got rich had Shit For Brains. (PS guess who owns SFB inc). I noticed forty years ago the most successful were not necessarily smart they just did exactly as they were told becasue they didnt have the ability to discern.
In fact most super intelligent people are plagued by their brains. I remember thinking in my early twenties. I wish I could just be happy joining the union making $50,000 a year buying a house in Staten Island, having 2 and a half kids and a dog. Unfortunately I would rather kill myself then be that bored with life, and I almost did countless times. But I didnt succeed. So I guess we will figure out what is next in life for us all.
Sorry for the segue. The brain is too active. The point of this blog is whether you belong to a church a cult, or a self help group, we humans all want, no NEED, community, family, a sense of belonging, a map for life, and hope. There is nothing wrong with seeking it, just dont drink poisoned Kool Ade. Some Kool Ade might be the price of admission. Its too bad the leaders of the churches and self help courses are not into growth. They fear that their kingdom will be toppled if anyone tries to improve what they are doing, because that means they are no longer the sole arbiter of everything.
PS once again I am acknowledging that I learn from all of them. I love to learn. I am also smart enough to understand the way their ecosystem must operate. They can not tolerate everyone questioning them.
Can you imagine if Christianity allowed every parishioner to question everything every day? LOL
Maybe they all use religion as their model, it’s pretty obvious how to run a community of “learning” “Self help” “Self growth” or even “Salvation” “Hope” and “life skills” and “life lessons”
I guess they are all like the McDonalds LOL. McDonalds is famous for creating protocols that anyone can follow. So is religion or self help any different than McDonalds? oops on to the next blog.
To be successful, you must be like McDonald’s: replicable, unquestioning, identical. Actually, hotel chains are like that, too. You know what to expect. Meeting expectations gives people safety. We can even get into the neurology of that and how David constantly reminds us that the amygdala must feel safe.
The amygdala is really interesting must do a blog on that too.
Oops almost forgot AA. But AA is only 2 million compared to two billion in Christianity. Maybe they need to borrow more from the church. PS I learned a lot from AA as well. Serenity prayer is about every single issue in every day of your life. So is HALT. Are you hungry angry lonely or tired? I would bet if HALT was hanging in every household 99% of all arguments would never happen.
But we all need to belong to something, unless you lucky enough to have a dozen siblings and a family bigger than a football team. I wonder how large families fare psychologically? I am sure depending on their leader and rules, they are either fantastic or fantastic disasters too.
Deviant from the Norm or Pet Peeve?
I dont know about you but I almost never get angry when its expected, but unexpected is another issue. How do you like it when you decide to leave late to avoid traffic and the road is completely closed and there is a three hour back up? I expect snow in the winter, but what the hell is going on today, Its late April? I guess I am just like Brad Pitt (heart throb). Or is it Larry David (angry old fart)? Or maybe I am just an anti nihilist.
The world does need order. As Brad Pitt said how can we survive when some Bozo is in the fast lane going slow? Or maybe its just survival. OK this is a big can of worms now opened can crawl in any direction. But I am OK with that, how about you? I love to “THINK” vs regurgitating the same thoughts as yesterday.
You do know that most of your thoughts, all 50,000 or 90,000, are the same as yesterday, right? So why did you even bother waking up if that was all you were going to do with today? Seriously the quality of your life is the quality of your thoughts. If your thoughts today are the same as yesterday, why did you even bother to wake up today? PS it gets worse. Not only are the thoughts the same, they are mostly negative. They actually have to be negative or you would’nt be reading this.
Sorry to repeat, but we need a basic understanding of our brain, as it relates to evolution, and being here, as a predicate to this conversation. So whether you believe in evolution, millions of years, or religion, thousands of years. You are not the first of your family line to be here.
Every one of your ancestors, maybe hundreds or thousands, needed a sweet tooth so they didnt eat poison and die, and they needed to store fat efficiently, and not waste energy ( be lazy). They also needed to worry about predators. We didnt always have guns, so you better worry all the time 24/7 about getting eaten
So we have established that you are a fat, lazy ice cream eating neurotic sitting on the couch, because you had to be. Its in your genes.
Today lets explore why you are fat, lazy, anxious and angry to boot. PS almost forgot, probably alcoholic too. Talk about getting glucose into your blood stream. Although a yo yo effect, hmm addicted anyone?
Sorry my brain is a little ADD. But so is yours. It is all wired together so every thought leads to another thought? The only difference is my brain is thinking. Your brain is jumping from one problem to another. Cant believe how much the brain actually does creative thinking when its not involved in protecting you by worrying about that animal ready to pounce on you. You do know that todays animal is not a lion, tiger or bear, its next months mortgage payment, the kid’s tuition, your boss, or if you are lucky, huge business loans, and your retirement account or lack of.
Wow what a bunch of interesting ideas to pursue. I believe I just gave myself a years worth of blogs. However lets finish this thought. As you can tell I have gotten good at not thinking of the dozens of real life challenges I could be worried, about and the expected doesnt make me angry, but I, and I am willing to bet a lot of us, get angry when people deviate from the norm or violate societal norms.
Heck Larry David’s whole persona on Curb Your Enthusiasm is based on that guy. 47 Emmy Nominations and 5 million viewers, and thats behind an HBO pay wall.
So here is my theory. Society does’nt exist without order. Seriously it is as big a threat to your life as the predator, running out of fuel (dont lose fat its the most efficient fuel) and your brain needing glucose or avoiding bitter, potentially poisons.
For me it feels like an aha moment. I know for all of you with what you think is bigger problems maybe not. I am totally vexed why I can be happy all day except for when that one asshole calls to sell me something and refuses to identify himself. I also agree with Larry David when the person on line for ice cream is trying 5 different ones. What the hell? that is a complete break down of society.
I expect murderers to murder, crooks to steal. But I dont expect District Attorneys to let them out of jail.
(the whole raison d’etre for Fox News. We might be on to something a lot bigger here. We all want society to work so we dont get killed. So when something deviates from the normal we absolutely are triggered to worry. It is existential.
Now if I can just remember that, so the next time I get a spam call selling solar and I ask three times what he is selling, just spit it out and he insists he is not selling he is offering me something great, I dont have to yell at him. Nor do I have to tell the next caller, “didnt your mother teach you manners? You are supposed to identify yourself when you call another person, or are you merely a bastard”. Hey Larry David, your protege is waiting, or is it Brad?
But seriously what do you think? I am going to start welcoming and publishing comments. We have a lot to think about. And I seriously wonder if others think or should I say feel, the same.
I think its wired into survival there must be some order and asking for 7 samples at the ice cream counter or driving slow in the fast lane will surely kill us. OK maybe not the ice cream samples. But if you have ever driven on the no speed limit autobahns in Europe, driving slow in the fast lane will kill you.
Google it. To this day people drive on the average 150 mph on the autobahn. I remember driving there when I was 17 and just wished when I got home that the asshole in the left lane here driving 49 miles an hour tried that shit in Germany and experienced the near death experience of someone coming up his butt at 150mph or more, and just maybe was able to slow down without killing him or her. Maybe they would think twice about self righteously sitting in the left lane even at 59 mph thinking they are the traffic cop of the word.
Life needs order and meaning it is not Nihilistic. In fact I prefer flow.
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi takes on the problem of how to live a happier life. A meaningful life is one where the person spends his time in a state of optimal experience called Flow. To live a great life, all your goals must be unified in a way that produces the maximum amount of flow.
Flow doesnt happen when people deviate from the norms or sit and shit in the left lane of your life while you are trying to finally get in the flow and enjoy your life.
Killer Hormones
Feel free to read into that any way you want. I am finally of the age where I am measuring my hormones and I’ve noticed certain ones declining.
Let’s put it this way you know how difficult it is to get an insurance company to pay for anything yet mine is happily paying out thousands of dollars a month to pay for my growth hormone. They know that if your body is not repairing itself you’re going to decline rapidly. My testosterone also declined. However the most amazing thing about it is that its not the sex drive that suffered its the mental drive.
I still always wanted sex and was ready and willing but my numbers declined and so did my mood and desire to do anything. PS after i started supplementing I ran for US Congress. There is so much that you need to know about this.
First of all if you don’t have a baseline or youthful numbers you wouldn’t even know where to begin. For example a mans testosterone can range anywhere from 200 to 800. So as a hairy Armenian, who could part the hair on my back with a comb, before laser hair removal. My numbers were always 900. Not saying this to brag, but if I declined to 400 that would be a disaster, a decline of half and I would be depressed at the very least. So go get a doctor to write a cpt code so you can get it tested for free.
Yet a normal white Irish guy who’s been four or 500 his whole life would be happily functioning at four or 500. So if we both went to the doctor he would say we are both normal given the 200 800 range. So if you don’t have a test get one, because you’ll need to refer to it 20 30 or 40 years from now because your endocrinologist is going want to know what your normal was. And we’re not even getting started.
Women also have a small amount of testosterone which is responsible for their sex drive. And if men are too low in estrogen they would have heart issues so we all need a test consisting of a full sex hormone panel including estradiol progesterone and testosterone free and total for men. In addition to that you need to know your inhibitory and excitatory hormones meaning the ones that wake you up and the ones that keep you calm and help you fall asleep.
Obviously your thyroid needs to be measured and you need a comprehensive blood test. But in addition there are companies like neuroscience that will measure your inhibitory and excitatory hormones. You may have heard of epinephrine and norepinephrine or dopamine, those are all excitatory hormones which can be measured. And you want to make sure that chemicals like serotonin, your happy sleepy neurotransmitter is abundant at night, As well as melatonin. There are companies like neuroscience that actually measure a number of different hormones and neurotransmitters in urine and your saliva at various times of the day and night to get an indication of whether you’re hormones are helping or hurting you.
They then recommend TAAT or Targeted Amino Acids Therapy. So they would give you various amino acids (high school biology amino acids make up proteins and are more or less abundant in different foods) for example you’ve all heard that turkey is abundant in tryptophan which many claim is the reason for the nap after Thanksgiving Turkey dinner.
Again apologies but impossible to not segue when explaining all of this even superficially. But the bottom line is you can’t fight against your hormones I’ll even relate my personal experience if that helps you to understand a little better how much it can affect you. I take testosterone as a shot once a week. Ironically what I’ve noticed is that towards the end of the week when my testosterone is low I am for a lack of a better word bitchy, but when my testosterone is high and I am strong I am much more confident and able to deal with pretty much anything. Men who take testosterone are also given an aromatase inhibitor, in simple terms if a man has too much testosterone he could convert the excess testosterone into estrogen ( voila man boobs) As we get older we are not as efficient in utilizing testosterone. So some of our testosterone becomes dihdrotestosterone which causes male pattern baldness and some actually converts into estrogen. So an aromatase inhibitor like anastrozole is taken to reduce the amount of estrogen slightly, Again not too much because we do need estrogen to protect our hearts. That’s why we measure everything. Women are given aromatase inhibitors to reduce the amount of estrogen in the case of estrogen positive cancers or cancerous thought to be fed by estrogen.
So my first suggestion as always is to start with your family doctor. Anytime you’re not feeling well it could be because of a serious illness. They will probably do a CBC short for a complete blood test. However you probably want a full hormone panel as part of that blood test. Word of caution if your doctor doesn’t right a proper CPT code your insurance will not pay for. If your insurance doesn’t pay for it you could be looking at a $2000 bill if you’re measuring all the hormones as well. So always check first. If your doctor’s knowledge is less than mine you need to find a new doctor.
Now in all fairness my dear friend who’s a heart surgeon doesn’t know the difference between an amino acid and a vitamin because he never studied it. But he’s the guy you want if you need open heart surgery so everyone has their specialty. If you want to approach this problem conventionally you need to see an endocrinologist but at the very least you need to have an idea if your hormones are normal by the numbers. Something as simple as low serotonin could cause sleep difficulties, anxiousness, weight or mood issues (Pharmassan Labs) Low cortisol in the morning could mean your thyroid is not functioning properly. However once serious issues are ruled out and the conventional doctors, including the endocrinologists have given up on you, you can actually take care of yourself with certain amino acids to assist in “waking yourself” up in the morning and helping you relax at night. But always test first and check with your doctor for more serious issues, before you go on to your own vitamin or amino acid protocol.
Once you are in range the conventional doctors will send you home and tell you you are normal and that’s where you might want to intervene. In fact another famous New York doctor who wrote the book The Natural Hormone Solution was constantly criticized for not telling patients “exactly what to take” It’s not a simple matter of treating to the numbers the range is too large. That is why I offered my personal information. If it helps you to understand and explain why the final exact amounts are determined by how you feel. Even after administering a lot of tests she offers women progesterone and estrogen cream and tells them to adjust what they take depending on how they feel
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