Gary Brecka

So when you go into post-menopause, your estrogens start to drop, the most powerful estrogen gets floored out, the mood changes, the skin elasticity changes, libido leaves the building, and you feel like a crazy person, right?

And your menstrual cycle is all jacked up if you even have a menstrual cycle.

So that explains those four things.

If we don't have cortisol rising in the morning and falling later in the morning, this is waking, this is morning, this is afternoon.

So by mid-morning it's peaked and then it starts to fall off during the day.

But look at this low rise in cortisol.

She has no cortisol.

I'm gonna show you why, because her pregnenolone, the precursor to make this hormone, was also floored out, which is why if you're going to do hormone replacement therapy, talk to your OB-GYN about replacing the entire suite of hormones, including pregnenolone, testosterone, progesterone, E1, E2, and E3.

The other thing is, look at what's happening in the afternoon.

As cortisol should be tanking, look at the direction of her cortisol.

So her stress hormone is rising when the circadian cycle should normally be tanking.

And then it barely goes down and matches her normal cycle.

So we're out of the hormone.

We've run out of the hormone cortisol, which makes it very, very difficult to wake up in the morning.

Look at the 24-hour free cortisol.

Look where that's pointing.

It's completely deficient.

Look at her ability to clear cortisol.

Very deficient.

That's a solid F, right?