Brandon Epstein

And I was like, well, what about the thyroid?

And she's like, yeah, of course it'll help.

It's light.

Light heals everything.

So I just started researching it.

So I did a lot of things.

I cut out caffeine this year.

That was a big thing that I don't think caffeine creates hypothyroidism, but for me, when I turned on that gene, right?

Epigenetics, I turned on the gene for, I didn't have to have this, but like my mom has, my brother has it.

And so I had the gene and I put it on through stress, through excessive caffeine and just a very stressful life in my mid twenties.

So the way it turned off was turn off the things that are associated with that stress response.

So pulling out the caffeine just put me more on the parasympathetic nervous system, allowed me to relax more.

And then, yeah, all this stuff and just noticing the fears come up when I pull away the things I like, right?

The comfort of the food, the comfort of the caffeine, just all my things that I like, all the comfort and just seeing where the fears that came out through that and just recoding it, recoding it.

And this is going to sound very woo woo, but I was taking the medication because, you know, if you ask a doctor, they tell you, you have to take this medication for the rest of your life, right?

And they get mad that you even ask about what an alternative is.

Like I've had doctors be like, be grateful.

You just have to take a pill.

Like, get out of here.

But there was actually experience I had two years ago where a doctor wouldn't give me my medication, even though my blood didn't change.