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Women who skip peroids... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 1: connections between body, mind, and spirit, where we believe that
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  Speaker 1: true wellness arises from addressing the root causes of our
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  Speaker 1: Now Here is doctor Troy.
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  Speaker 3: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. I have a number
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  Speaker 3: of clients that have come in that have complained of, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't had a cycle in like four or five months,
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  Speaker 3: and they're well within their child bearing years the you know,
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  Speaker 3: late teens to late forties, and if you're in that area,
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  Speaker 3: I mean there are ways that we don't have a cycle,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll talk about those. But if we miss occasional cycles,
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  Speaker 3: or menstrual cycles. It's called amenarea. So if you ever
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  Speaker 3: see like that, like as a diagnosis or on some website, amenareea. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that just means that occasionally skipping a cycle here and there. Now,
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  Speaker 3: normally what is normal for a cycle. Twenty eight days
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  Speaker 3: is ideal, that is the lunar cycle. But plus or
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  Speaker 3: minus three days is fairly consistent for most women. And
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  Speaker 3: when I say most, it's like sixty seventy percent, And
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  Speaker 3: then there are those that will range anywhere from eighteen
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  Speaker 3: to forty days, and that's not all that unusual. Though
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  Speaker 3: it is not normal, it is not unusual. So with
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  Speaker 3: women's cycle, you should have a menstrual flow and not
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  Speaker 3: heavy for about five days plus or minus two. So
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  Speaker 3: some of them will have a decent flow but only
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  Speaker 3: have three days. Now, doesn't that sound heavenly? Some of
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  Speaker 3: you maybe you have like even less than that, and
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  Speaker 3: you're actually kind of concerned about it that maybe I
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  Speaker 3: won't get pregnant, And we'll talk about those in future podcasts.
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  Speaker 3: But that's also a problem. Some of you have a
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  Speaker 3: full seven days and you're going through like a pad
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  Speaker 3: an hour on day two and three, and that's not okay.
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  Speaker 3: And please catch my Excessive Flow podcast. So, but for
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  Speaker 3: those of us that have not had a cycle ever,
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  Speaker 3: that would be considered amen area. So let's say you're
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  Speaker 3: eighteen and you haven't had a cycle, that would be
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  Speaker 3: a menarrehea. If you're fourteen fifteen and you're really concerned
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  Speaker 3: that you haven't had a cycle yet, it's okay, that's
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  Speaker 3: actually better. Now. I know it's not cool or awesome
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  Speaker 3: because all of your friends started at ten, eleven or
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  Speaker 3: twelve and they're actually bragging about it. That actually is
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  Speaker 3: not healthy. And we know the earlier that a woman
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  Speaker 3: starts their cycle, the less healthy it is for them
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  Speaker 3: in the long run. And part of it is is
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  Speaker 3: because there's so many hormones in our environment that have
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  Speaker 3: been put there by companies that it's driving women to
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  Speaker 3: start their cycles earlier. But it also creates more problems later.
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  Speaker 3: Now I don't like speaking out what those problems are
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  Speaker 3: because then you're just going to think about that. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't want you to concentrate on something that you
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  Speaker 3: want to have happen to you, if you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. We shouldn't focus on that which we do
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  Speaker 3: not want. We should focus on that which we want
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  Speaker 3: and so that's just kind of a little gift for
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  Speaker 3: everyone right there. But there are some serious conditions that
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  Speaker 3: have been known to start with early cycles. It means
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  Speaker 3: that you're over estrogen, well unopposed estrogen, and a woman
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  Speaker 3: tends to create different types of cervical, uterine, breast not
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  Speaker 3: happy conditions to say the least. So we want to
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  Speaker 3: at least address that so that we can say, okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: if you're sixteen and you haven't had a cycle yet,
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  Speaker 3: well that is unusual, but it's not awful by any
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  Speaker 3: stretch of the imagination. If you have a decent diet
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  Speaker 3: and low stress, and you get good rest, and maybe
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  Speaker 3: you're active and everything's doing well, and you have a
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  Speaker 3: fairly clean environment, I'm gonna expect fifteen sixteen, seventeen is
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  Speaker 3: when you begin. And so but if we're now eighteen
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  Speaker 3: and we haven't begun, okay, we could call you a menarehea. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if you're a woman who's been cycling and now you
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  Speaker 3: throw a couple of months where you haven't had anything,
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  Speaker 3: that's also considered a menareea. Now. The typical things that
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  Speaker 3: can elicit a skipped period are things like pregnancy. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: we'd want a pregnancy test if you're active. If you're
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  Speaker 3: not active, okay, then it's the other things. Stress, weight
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  Speaker 3: loss and weight gain will do it. Adrenal thyroid dysfunction,
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  Speaker 3: which goes back to liver issues. You could be hitting
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  Speaker 3: early menopause if it's like in your forties, but I've
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  Speaker 3: seen women even in their late thirties hit menopause. And
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  Speaker 3: it could be that you're breastfeeding still. I should have
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  Speaker 3: my period now, but you're still breastfeeding. That's not such
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  Speaker 3: a big deal. You could be anemic, and so look
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  Speaker 3: at your fingernail beds. Look at your tongue. How pale
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  Speaker 3: are they? How pink are they? They should be nice
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  Speaker 3: and pink, saying you have lots of good blood. Excessive exercise.
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  Speaker 3: When I was in college, I had a good friend
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  Speaker 3: who started working out bodybuilding. She lost her cycle for years.
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  Speaker 3: While she was bodybuilding, her body literally said, look, you
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  Speaker 3: are under so much tremendous stress trying to get strong.
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  Speaker 3: It's obviously something bad that you're running from or have
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  Speaker 3: to fight to get this much muscle on your body,
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  Speaker 3: and it is not safe to have children. So her
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  Speaker 3: body naturally shut down her cycle. Next, you could have
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  Speaker 3: stopped contraceptives and your body's having trouble trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: out how to reregulate itself. Birth control pill is tough
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  Speaker 3: on regulation of the body. Some drugs will do it too,
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  Speaker 3: if you're on medication, if you do not have enough
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  Speaker 3: zinc and you're developing ovarian cysts, that can do it too.
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  Speaker 3: And of course problems with the regulatory mechanisms, which is
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  Speaker 3: the hypothalamus in the brain and the pituitary just underneath
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  Speaker 3: of it. So there are all kinds of things, and
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  Speaker 3: these are fairly common. So when I have a gal
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  Speaker 3: come in that has this dysregulation of their cycle, it
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  Speaker 3: now becomes a big detective kind of looking for where
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  Speaker 3: are the obvious things that we need to support. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Number one, we're going to support the adrenals because that
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  Speaker 3: is stress handling. The adrenals want a lot of copper
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of zinc. And so the copper is
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  Speaker 3: natural vitamin C, not a copper band on our wrist,
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  Speaker 3: not a copper iud by the way, And we do
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  Speaker 3: want to be careful with how much maybe even hot
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  Speaker 3: water that we're in. I know it sounds weird, but
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  Speaker 3: copper pipes can actually contain a lot of copper in
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  Speaker 3: hot water. I was testing our water with a purification
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  Speaker 3: device and it said it's best to have it under
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  Speaker 3: fifty parts per billion or million or whatever was testing for.
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  Speaker 3: And my cold tap was at ninety four. My water
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  Speaker 3: filter put it at eighty four. It wasn't great, but
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  Speaker 3: it's not, you know, an ideal water filter. When I
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  Speaker 3: turned on the hot water, only it was in the
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  Speaker 3: one seventies, there was that much copper being leeched off
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  Speaker 3: the pipes. Now I found it interesting because I have
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  Speaker 3: a shower filter. My shower filter that I thought was
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  Speaker 3: pretty decent. The cold water went from its general ninety
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  Speaker 3: four to an eighty four. It wasn't much better than
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  Speaker 3: my fridge filter. I thought interesting. And then when I
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  Speaker 3: turned on the hot water, it didn't go up to
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy, but it went up to one
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  Speaker 3: twenty one. So your shower, taking long showers, like I
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  Speaker 3: love long showers, if you take a long shower that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have a shower filter, you're probably absorbing some significant
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  Speaker 3: amounts of copper. Just to let you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: have plastic pipes, that's a whole other animal. So there's
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  Speaker 3: some ideas for you Now the next thing is is
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  Speaker 3: that let's say that we have cycles that are really
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  Speaker 3: close together, it may be that it's best to run
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  Speaker 3: a saliva test, where it collects a saliva sample about
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  Speaker 3: every two to three days through your entire cycle. So
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  Speaker 3: if your cycle is a bit longer, we do it
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  Speaker 3: every three days. If it's a bit shorter, we do
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  Speaker 3: it every two days, and we begin to see what
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  Speaker 3: all the hormones are doing in the body and get
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  Speaker 3: this wonderful graph. It's an eleven sample test and it
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  Speaker 3: runs around four to five hundred dollars and so but
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  Speaker 3: it can tell you a lot of great information about hey,
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  Speaker 3: what what should we be working on. It looks like
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  Speaker 3: the pituitary is not doing its job, and that would
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  Speaker 3: lead us to a hypothalamus pituitary issue. Let's say that
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  Speaker 3: we see even other things that are catastrophic. We're like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, let's follow it up with a cortisol
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  Speaker 3: test and see how the adrenals are doing. And then
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  Speaker 3: we see that your cortisol is completely a mess. Your
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  Speaker 3: cortisol is a twenty four hour cycle. The menstrual cycle
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  Speaker 3: is a twenty eight day cycle. We think it's well,
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  Speaker 3: it's seven days no, that's just the bleeding portion. But
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  Speaker 3: your whole monthly cycle actually is everything, and so we
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  Speaker 3: want to know what it's doing through the entire month.
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  Speaker 3: So how do we know if we have adrenal issues?
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  Speaker 3: Are you tired between two and three in the afternoon?
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  Speaker 3: Do you have tenderness on the inguinal ligament? What's the
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  Speaker 3: inguinal ligament? If you feel your hip bones right on
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  Speaker 3: the side of the front of your sides and the
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  Speaker 3: almost waistline, those bones are where the inguinal ligament attached
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  Speaker 3: to and they go to the pubic bone in the front,
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  Speaker 3: so you can palpate or touch all along there and
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  Speaker 3: if you have tenderness, that's actually an indicator for adrenal issues.
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  Speaker 3: Medial knee, so on the inside of your knees where
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  Speaker 3: your knees might might hit each other, to feel if
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  Speaker 3: there's tenderness right on that. Medial knee is also another
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  Speaker 3: adrenal point that we would see. Some people, if they're
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  Speaker 3: comfortable with it, can shine a bright light in their
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  Speaker 3: eye and will have another person watch does it dilate
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  Speaker 3: and does it contract? And if it does, great, no
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  Speaker 3: adrenal issue. If it doesn't, we have some adrenal issues. Exhaustion.
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  Speaker 3: Probably mostly if you can check your blood pressure. Many
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  Speaker 3: people check their own blood pressure. If you do it
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  Speaker 3: laying down and then you start the machine. Once you
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  Speaker 3: get a reading, and then you start the machine and
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  Speaker 3: stand up, it should elevate by about ten points. If
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't. Again, adrenal insufficiency. Now, chiropractors and other practitioners
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  Speaker 3: that look at leg length. If you have a chronic
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  Speaker 3: short leg, that often can be an adrenal issue. So
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  Speaker 3: if you're a chiropractor out there listening to this or
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  Speaker 3: another practitioner, you might look at your client's leg lengths
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  Speaker 3: and if you notice, you know what, you always have
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  Speaker 3: a short leg. But I go to a chiropractor, you
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  Speaker 3: may have adrenal insufficiency. Now what's fascinating is we'll look
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  Speaker 3: at a CMP, a comprehensive metabolic panel blood test, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll immediately go to sodium and potassium. If sodium potastic
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  Speaker 3: are both low, it's a drenal But another one that
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  Speaker 3: can be low in that scenario is chloride. Now, sodium
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  Speaker 3: chloride is table salt. And so what do people want
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  Speaker 3: when they have adrenal issues? They want crunchy potato chips,
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  Speaker 3: They want the sodium. So if you find yourself craving
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  Speaker 3: crunchy salty things, that's kind of a shoe in for
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  Speaker 3: adrenal stuff. Now, for those of you in my office,
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  Speaker 3: I will do heart scans on a fair amount of
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  Speaker 3: my clients where we look at each individual heart valve
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  Speaker 3: and they tell me what's going on with certain organs.
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  Speaker 3: But there is a rest period between the closing of
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  Speaker 3: the valves where we get that thump thump thump, thump,
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  Speaker 3: thump thump. We're hearing the valves close in between where
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  Speaker 3: there's a rest period that should be very still and silent,
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  Speaker 3: and if that line is actually wavy, that can be
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  Speaker 3: a drenal fatigue as well and insufficiency. So those are
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  Speaker 3: at least some ideas of how to decide whether or
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  Speaker 3: not you have adrenal issues. You might only check and say, okay,
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  Speaker 3: well I can do the medial knee, I can do
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  Speaker 3: the inguinal ligament and ah, yeah, I'm tired at two
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  Speaker 3: to three in the afternoon. It doesn't matter what I
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  Speaker 3: do or eat. Then we would say, yep, that's probably sufficient.
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  Speaker 3: Though you could look at old blood tests, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to do all of them. As you start having
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  Speaker 3: more and more of those positive Yeah, you get adrenal stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Now what do the adrenals want? Like we already talked
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  Speaker 3: about copper, trace minerals, zinc, and most people are not
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  Speaker 3: getting enough of those things because most people don't eat
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  Speaker 3: a lot of greens, and the greens that they're eating
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  Speaker 3: are not very fresh, and so trace minerals, copper, it
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  Speaker 3: just isn't in our diet anymore. And so if you
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  Speaker 3: can't give your adrenals what they need to function, they
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  Speaker 3: are going to be insufficient. I don't care what you
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  Speaker 3: do and how relaxed you are. Now a brief word
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  Speaker 3: on stress. So I have another podcast where I go
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  Speaker 3: through what is your foundation? So some of you out there,
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  Speaker 3: if I ask you what your foundation is, some people say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's okay, great, but what does that mean? Some of
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  Speaker 3: you are like, what do you mean? Christ I don't
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  Speaker 3: understand that. What do you mean my foundation? And so
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  Speaker 3: I'll ask people when you stop your brain and you
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  Speaker 3: shut down all thought, what does it feel like? What
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  Speaker 3: are you when you do that? Well? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: My brain has never stopped. Ah, you might try to
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  Speaker 3: figure out how to stop it. Well, I'll die if
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  Speaker 3: it stops. Why don't you try and see now. One
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  Speaker 3: of my most favorite things to do with clients is
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  Speaker 3: to ask them, now, I want you to kind of
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  Speaker 3: empty all your thoughts the most you can, and now
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  Speaker 3: ask your brain, I wonder what my next thought will be,
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  Speaker 3: and listen. You can do that. Now you can pause
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  Speaker 3: me and ask I wonder what my next thought will be?
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  Speaker 3: And listen. Now what happens when that all thoughts stop
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  Speaker 3: and you're listening with a hyper awareness? How does it feel?
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  Speaker 3: What does it feel like? Some people will say it's empty.
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  Speaker 3: Others are like, my gosh, it's peaceful. Of course, keep
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  Speaker 3: doing it. Those of you that feel it's empty, that's
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  Speaker 3: a judgment by your brain. It tries to make you
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  Speaker 3: afraid so that you won't listen anymore. But as you
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  Speaker 3: get good at it, you can do some things to
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  Speaker 3: quiet the mind. I recommend that you often try to
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  Speaker 3: shut it off just by watching your thoughts. Some people
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  Speaker 3: they'll do this and they'll find that their brain just
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  Speaker 3: starts running. If you want to do it, well, have
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  Speaker 3: your cell phone and set it for ten seconds and
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  Speaker 3: then ask the question, because what you'll find is it
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  Speaker 3: seems seamless that your brain will start chattering and you'll
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  Speaker 3: start thinking about whatever it hands you, and you'll be
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  Speaker 3: five minutes down the road wondering what the hell was
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  Speaker 3: I supposed to do. And so to get back to that,
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  Speaker 3: we set a ten second timer so that when it
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  Speaker 3: startles you back into reality, that it goes off. You
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  Speaker 3: ask the question immediately, what were you thinking of?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: If if it was important, grab a piece of paper
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  Speaker 3: and write it on it and then do it again.
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  Speaker 3: And so if there's things that you're like, Okay, I'll
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  Speaker 3: think about that later, but not right now, because i'm
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  Speaker 3: doing this great, write them down and then do it
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  Speaker 3: again a couple three, four or five times if it's comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: But pretty soon you'll find, hey, my mind was pretty
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  Speaker 3: quiet for like ten seconds. You have done something few
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  Speaker 3: people will do. Now, let's say your brain just does
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  Speaker 3: not stop. We will want you to distract it a
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  Speaker 3: bit by now focusing on breathing. And here's what I
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  Speaker 3: have people do. They breathe in through their nose and
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  Speaker 3: out through their nose, and they try to get to
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  Speaker 3: a five second count. Of doing that, you may find
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  Speaker 3: the beginning I can't get five seconds. I understand you
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  Speaker 3: haven't expanded your lungs or contracted them very much. You've
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  Speaker 3: been shallow breathing most of your life. Let's begin to
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  Speaker 3: expand them a little bit now. The thing that we
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  Speaker 3: want is we don't want noise with the breathing. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want that's not what we're doing. We shouldn't actually
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  Speaker 3: hear the breath go in our nose. If you have
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  Speaker 3: nasal passages that are plugged, then you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: do something a little different, or you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: call me and let's get rid of your allergies and
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  Speaker 3: your infections so that you can actually breathe through your nose.
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  Speaker 3: But for most of us, we can probably breathe through
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  Speaker 3: our nose. And we're gonna breathe slowly but decently through
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  Speaker 3: the nose and take a fairly full breath in that
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  Speaker 3: five seconds, and then breathe out through the nose and
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  Speaker 3: let it go all the way out and breathe in again.
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  Speaker 3: And you'll find that as you're doing this and focusing
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  Speaker 3: on that five count that you're not thinking anything. You're
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  Speaker 3: focused on breathing in through the nose and out through
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  Speaker 3: the nose and counting, and that's okay. That's a great
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  Speaker 3: way to silence your brain, but that's conscious breathing. Eventually,
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  Speaker 3: we want you to get to a spot where you're
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  Speaker 3: just breathing and watching the body take a breath in
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  Speaker 3: and breathe out, not for a five count, you're just
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  Speaker 3: watching it. You're just seeing when does the body want
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  Speaker 3: to breathe? When does it want to release the breath?
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  Speaker 3: And I'll also have you set a timer for that,
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  Speaker 3: because your brain will hijack you once again and say
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to focus on this is boring. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not interested in boring or labels. I'm interested in seeing,
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  Speaker 3: can you clear your mind for ten seconds while watching
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  Speaker 3: three breaths? The breaths when you're not like doing a
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  Speaker 3: five count, they're fairly quick, we're fairly shallow breathers, so
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  Speaker 3: they might go in and out about every three or
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  Speaker 3: four seconds, and just watching how does your breathing do.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a great way to let go of stress.
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  Speaker 3: If you try to do it when you're really already
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  Speaker 3: stressed out, it's not gonna go well for you. So
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  Speaker 3: practice when you're not stressed so that when you are
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  Speaker 3: you can watch all those little tricks that your brain
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  Speaker 3: plays on you to try to get you to not
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  Speaker 3: do it. So those are some ideas of decreasing stress.
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  Speaker 3: Now thyroid so not only a drenal with occasional skip periods,
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  Speaker 3: but thyroids involve too. And if thyroid's involved, if you've
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  Speaker 3: listened to my other podcast, you know the livers involved,
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  Speaker 3: and so is the gut. But for thyroid, we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about the the second intercostal space as tender and right
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  Speaker 3: below your clavicle, right next to your sternum, just off
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  Speaker 3: to the right, and you feel that bump under your collarbone,
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  Speaker 3: you go to the next indent, below the next rib,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the second intercostal space. That space, if it's tender,
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  Speaker 3: is a thyroid point a low Achilles reflex. So right
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  Speaker 3: below the calf, right above the ankle on the back
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  Speaker 3: of your leg is that big thick Achilles tendon. When
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  Speaker 3: you tap that tendon about an inch inch and a
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  Speaker 3: half above the heel, it will make your foot want
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  Speaker 3: to get away from that tapping motion, and that is
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  Speaker 3: a positive reflex that we want. If it's diminished, you
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  Speaker 3: have thyroid issues. Likely next is costl chondro tenderness. This
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  Speaker 3: is the bumps on our chest that are our ribs.
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  Speaker 3: As we have the sternum in the middle and as
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  Speaker 3: we travel about three out three inches out. That's the
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  Speaker 3: junction at which we have rib to cartilage, so that
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  Speaker 3: our chest is flexible when we breathe. If those are tender,
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  Speaker 3: which mine are, I know I've been working on my thyroid.
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  Speaker 3: Those are thyroid points. Next, you could have swelling in
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  Speaker 3: the front of your tibia. If you've ever had your
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  Speaker 3: shin kit, that's your tibia. If you are swelling there,
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  Speaker 3: that's another indication of thyroid hypofunction. Some people will take
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  Speaker 3: a two percent iodine solution and paint a three inch
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  Speaker 3: square on their chest or abdomen and watch it for
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  Speaker 3: twenty four hours. If it goes away within twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 3: some people can be as fast as eight hours. The
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  Speaker 3: body is absorbing all that iodine because it wants it,
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  Speaker 3: because it needs it, and that's what the thyroid is
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  Speaker 3: looking for, is that iodine. And then last, if you
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  Speaker 3: can check your temperature an old thermometer and you have
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  Speaker 3: it sitting on your bedside, you don't lift up your head.
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  Speaker 3: You simply reach over, grab the thermometer and put it
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  Speaker 3: in your armpit and check about Oh it's about six.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's like three or four six minutes to check,
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  Speaker 3: and you do that five days in a row and
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  Speaker 3: all of them average to below thirty six point six
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  Speaker 3: degrees celsius. You have a hypothyroid issue. So these are
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  Speaker 3: ideas as we go through this process of trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out why you're skipping cycles. And so stress can
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  Speaker 3: be a big one, Exercise can be a big one,
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  Speaker 3: but nutrient density not having it is equally as important.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm also going to recommend that you get to
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  Speaker 3: a chiropractor and have your spine adjusted and put back
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  Speaker 3: into alignments so that your brain can communicate with all
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  Speaker 3: of your tissues because guess what. Your adrenals, your ovaries,
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  Speaker 3: your thyroid, your pituitary all require communication and blood flow
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  Speaker 3: and good functioning nervous system. So if you have that,
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  Speaker 3: you'll find that many of your conditions can be cleared
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  Speaker 3: up quite beautifully by a well functioning nervous system. So
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  Speaker 3: until next time, I'm doctor Troy, and remember there is
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  Speaker 3: way more right with you than there is wrong with you.
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  Speaker 2: educate the listener and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure,
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  Speaker 2: or prevent disease