Gary Brecka

You're like, blonde hair.

I'm like, Victoria?

The one you've known your whole life?

Yes, her.

Okay, that one.

Shout out to Victoria, she's hilarious.

They're also a perimenopause team.

Yeah, Josh and I are going through it together.

We text about it all the time, trust me.

So, you know, as the brain fog started to hit, you know, we also noticed that when she would wake up in the morning, you were more tired waking up even after a good night's sleep than you were the night before.

And a lot of that, we're going to talk about this when we go to the whiteboard and talk about the test, but a lot of that was related to the breakdown and some of the precursors.

So, hormones are not just manufactured, hormones need precursors.

There's raw materials in a woman's body that are used to make hormones, one of them is called pregnenolone.

And we make cortisol, we make aldosterone, we make other hormones from pregnenolone, but it's this DHEA, it's this precursor in the body that acts like a construction material.

And I don't care how good your contractor is, if you don't deliver materials to the job site, they're not accomplishing anything.

And it's the same in a woman's hormonal system.

If you don't have the precursors, the raw material, the construction product that you need to build other hormones, they become deficient.

And what was shocking about this test was we discovered that she had virtually no cortisol.

And so in the morning, cortisol is our waking hormone, it's responsive to light.

One of the reasons why I love to get first light in the morning, you love to get first light in the morning, I generally encourage people when you wake up within 30 minutes, get outside, get natural sunlight in your eyes, is because that sunlight actually helps your cortisol rise and helps your melatonin get lower.