Burned Out, Brain Fogged, and Running on Empty

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00:05:38:03 – 00:06:03:03
Synergee
Welcome back, Synergee listeners. Last time Doctor Sam joined u he introduced a concept that clearly struck a nerve with many of you. The idea that the mitochondria or the body’s factory for energy. Doctor Sam is an expert in this area, and we are thrilled to have him back. And we’re going to take this conversation even deeper today, because for many people, that factory, that energy factory is not running the way that it should.

00:06:03:04 – 00:06:24:17
Synergee
This isn’t about just feeling tired. It’s about brain fog. It’s about burnout. It’s about poor recovery, low motivation, inflammation, hormone changes, loss in drive, and feeling like you’re just pushing through life instead of living it. This is also June and it’s Men’s Health Month. And so you wanted to pause and take a deeper conversation in what happens to men.

00:06:24:17 – 00:06:35:24
Synergee
And honestly, so many of our high performing people as well, when they keep trying to lead, they’re providing their parents, they’re working and they’re serving, but their their tank is empty

00:06:35:24 – 00:06:50:20
Synergee
because eventually pushing harder, it just doesn’t work. So today we’re diving into the hidden physiology behind low energy mitochondrial dysfunction, hormone imbalance, toxins, stress recovery, and what it actually takes to rebuild capacity from the inside out.

00:06:50:24 – 00:16:37:21
Synergee
So this is a conversation I think many people deserve to hear. And I’m super excited about having Doctor Sam back.

00:16:40:20 – 00:17:09:10
Dr. Sam
Heavy metals are way more prevalent today than people understand. I think we all understand today that mercury in our mouth and the way of amalgams. It’s not the healthiest thing we could have in our mouth, to say the least. But there’s so much just environmental toxicity with arsenic, cadmium, lead even at times. Yeah, that can really change the landscape of what happens with energy production.

00:17:09:10 – 00:17:27:21
Dr. Sam
And oftentimes that component gets overlooked. Right. And that depletes our minerals. And we’re trying to out process our toxic burden. We deplete our minerals with our athletes that sweat it out every day. They’re depleting their minerals. And then we get into a really sticky mess with low minerals, high heavy metals.

00:17:57:13 – 00:18:16:14
Dr. Sam
And that’s what’s going on at the cellular level inside of us. If you’re struggling with low energy and you’re doing all the things, maybe you’re eating a whole food based diet. Maybe you’re working out, you’re protecting your sleep, but you’re like, something is not working. I still don’t have the energy that I deserve to have. This is not making sense.

00:18:16:16 – 00:18:30:03
Dr. Sam
Then looking a little bit deeper into these other components, like your mineral status and your heavy metal status can be part of that equation.

00:18:30:05 – 00:19:17:20
Synergee
Right?

00:19:17:22 – 00:20:42:17
Dr. Sam
In kokutai and efficiency. As we age, we lose capacity to have enough CoQ10. So I mean, that’s an age related change. Do we know why that is?

00:20:43:15 – 00:21:04:16
Synergee
You just said a mouthful though, because I had not considered the toxic burden and oxidative stress burden being a component in low CoQ10. I just think that’s not something I’ve ever really conceptually thought of. And that is huge. That is really huge. Fat soluble toxins. Our toxins come in as fat soluble particles. Our liver has to bio transform that into water soluble.

00:21:04:16 – 00:21:25:05
Synergee
But as it’s coming in, it’s coming in as a fat soluble toxin. And so that’s a huge connection there.

00:21:25:07 – 00:25:10:06
Synergee
Right.

00:25:10:08 – 00:25:40:03
Synergee
So I feel like we could have a full podcast on viruses alone because as we’ve all experienced the last few years post Covid and we’re seeing people stuck in this pro-inflammatory state who may or may not have had a severe case of Covid. Right. And people, you hear their story when they come in with fatigue that’s been chronic and, you know, kind of episodic times in their life where they’ve had profound fatigue.

00:25:40:05 – 00:26:04:10
Dr. Sam
You go back in their history even pre-COVID. And a lot of times viral episodes like Epstein-Barr virus, things like that are part of that story. And so I feel like having some tools for that. These and vandals, you know, how do you improve the immune system enough to wear those things? And vandals are, you know, suppressed because they’re not going to go away as far as I know they’re going to be there.

00:26:04:10 – 00:28:03:24
Dr. Sam
But how do we protect the body enough to where they’re not creating havoc that’s uncontrollable?

00:29:04:00 – 00:29:34:10
Synergee
You’re in good company. Lori and I have both had our own individual experiences with mold and with other biotech. And it’s it’s extra special to navigate that. I think it humbles us as providers. I know Laurie would say this too. I remember a very vivid conversation with Lori when she was being exposed and not aware that she was being exposed, where she described to me that her brain was hijacked by aliens, and she’s got the best brain on the planet.

00:29:34:11 – 00:29:41:04
Synergee
And I’m like, oh, you’re fine, you’re fine. You’re just having some hormonal shifting.

00:34:43:11 – 00:35:18:20
Dr. Sam
I love it.

00:35:18:22 – 00:36:58:00
Synergee
Right?

00:36:58:02 – 00:37:24:02
Dr. Sam
I love it.

00:38:41:17 – 00:38:48:12
Synergee
Or maybe they’re over exercising, right? And they’re pushing and crashing. Right.

00:38:48:14 – 00:38:54:03
Dr. Sam
Yeah. That’s okay.

00:40:18:20 – 00:40:36:22
Synergee
And also, you know, the adrenal supplement to those out there are struggling with fatigue. And they do have some exposure going on. Sometimes it’s the fuel to keep the inflammation going. Sometimes it can make you worse. Like you may feel better in the short term, but you’re burning through things a lot faster, burning through your reserves a lot faster doing that.

00:40:51:07 – 00:41:00:08
Dr. Sam
Sure. Yes. And that goes back to gut for phase two. Those of you that don’t know about phase two, that’s elimination. Being able to poop it out.

00:41:00:10 – 00:41:08:06
Dr. Sam
If you ramp up phase one and you’re running it through the liver and dumping it, but you can’t poop it out, you’re just recycling all of that.

00:44:11:04 – 00:44:19:23
Synergee
Yeah. So I want to dig in a little bit and talk about hormones, because so many of our men start noticing a decline in energy, right. Not functioning, not having the motivation that they used to have and the knee jerk reaction for their primary care. And now all of these men’s hormone clinics that are around are just testing hormones.

00:44:31:10 – 00:44:36:09
Synergee
Let’s just test sex hormones. Let’s be clear and give them testosterone,

00:44:36:11 – 00:44:41:20
Synergee
And let’s only check total testosterone. Let’s not look at sex binding lobular. And let’s not look at free.

00:44:41:22 – 00:46:35:07
Dr. Sam
Let’s not look at inflammatory markers.

00:49:28:03 – 00:49:51:04
Synergee
So, Doctor Sam, what I’m hearing you say to our men is that you deserve a workup. You deserve a full functional workup looking at lifestyle impact and looking at testing and really digging into what is going on so that you can be the man that you want to be, be the person that you want to be, do the things that you want to do and feel good and age well, right.

00:49:51:05 – 00:50:00:24
Dr. Sam
Not just putting a pill or an injection on top of a symptom and calling it a day. And unfortunately, some men just don’t like to go in to be evaluated, right? We feel judged.

00:51:43:16 – 00:52:07:03
Synergee
Right.

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How can you help? That’s right, that’s right.
Dr. Sam
00:52:18:21 – 00:52:51:12
Unknown
And that’s true for most of us. Right? That’s true for most of us. Where most of us are fighting ourselves, whether we want to admit it or not, that’s our human nature. Yeah.

00:52:51:14 – 00:52:52:04
Synergee
Okay. That’s right, that’s right.

00:55:39:23 – 00:56:26:00
Synergee
So as we’re closing up today, what is the one thing that you would leave our listeners with as a thing that’s made the biggest impact for you and your health journey to inspire them on their health journey?

00:56:56:09 – 00:57:17:13
Dr. Sam
Awesome. I love it, and I just want to say also, we wish you the best on your healing journey. And we know that it’s not linear. And oftentimes the journey that we go on teaches us so many lessons that we then give back to the community. So I just bless you in that and hope that it’s as linear as it can be.

00:57:17:15 – 00:57:25:18
Dr. Sam
I call those opportunities.

00:57:25:20 – 00:57:34:23
Synergee
Yeah. So blessed, so blessed. And listen for our listeners.

00:57:35:00 – 00:57:50:09
Synergee
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00:59:18:18 – 00:59:44:22
Synergee
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