Not feeling like yourself and waking up between 1-3a isn’t always a hormone thing.
Sometimes it can be a shift in your gut neurotransmitters as you make more brain chemicals in your gut than the brain!
Hormones can cause a neurochemical shift but so can a ramp up in particular gut bugs.
How do you know what’s going on?
Feeling down, depressed or sad is more estrogen deficiency.
Progesterone deficiency is wanting to isolate, anger, frustration and irritability.
Intrusive thoughts like suicide or other types of harm to yourself or others, those are more often a shift in gut bugs.
If it’s a major character shift for you and it happens around the full moon in particular, it’s for sure time to look into gut bugs.
Folks in your family saying you need to look into your moods, gotta check the bugs.
A microbiome aka gut bug shift can happen for many reasons and I’m starting to figure most humans need a microbiome reset 2x a year.
I’m thinking the best option here is a detox to open up the detox pathways then a parasite and microbiome cleanse to follow up.
I know I typically talk about a 1-2x a year cleanse and the more I learn about our food sourcing, environment, and water the more I think it’s wise to cleanse the body in a deeper manner.
The Standard Process 21 Day Purification paired with a gut bug reset like Bioclear or a specific parasite cleanse may be a vital part of health maintenance these days.
Tomorrow my podcast comes out with Kim Rogers, “The Worm Queen” and the brains behind the herbal parasite detox called ParaFy.
She blew my mind with her connection to the Pacific Northwest and some wild info she had to share about the drinking water in the Seattle and South Sound.
If you’re feeling out of sorts with your mood and hormone replacement therapy isn’t helping, it’s time to consider a look into the gut.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s podcast breakdown and a few tips to test out what’s got you feeling off.
Here’s to keeping your brain sharp,
Dr. J
