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Um, anyways, um, "For quick context, weight loss isn't an issue for me.

I'm 5'5", uh, 125 pounds, 32-year-old mom of two.

Um, but I recently had a Dutch test run, and it showed that I have HPA axis dysfunction, um, AKA adrenal fatigue." So that's, um, HPA axis is hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis.

Okay.

So it's, like, three-

HPA.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we obviously we-

It's obvious

... shortened it 'cause it's hard to say.

Yeah.

But it's, um, I'm only saying this because, so basically it's just, um, the general state of health and the communication between your hypothalamus, your pituitary, and your adrenals.

It's super important and very, very, um, stress sensitive.

Mm-hmm.

So probably a lot of moms are dealing with this.

Um, their HPA axis, um, is not doing well.

[laughs]

Okay.

Uh, and m- maybe it's diagnosed, like in this listener's case, um, that's a nice, you know, uh, running a Dutch test can be really helpful for those things.

So good, good on you for l- getting this looked at, you know-

Yeah

... trying to figure out what was going on 'cause you were probably having some symptoms and...

But a lot of these symptoms are just lumped into, like, "I'm just a tired mom."

Yeah.