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I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. This week I want to teach you a technique that I bet you've never heard of.

I know you're going to totally love and that is one of the quickest

cheapest ways you can reset your cortisol. Let me start by telling you about Liz.

Liz is 38 a mom of five boys ranging an age from 12 down to two years old who was

dealing with a lot of stress and about 50 pounds more weight on her

frame than she felt good about or was healthy for her as her

blood sugar and cholesterol were also starting to creep up.

She was coming to me as her functional medicine doctor for help with sleep, weight, sugar cravings, brain

fog, and worry bordering on chronic anxiety, and as she said to me, to get her health back on track.

I've always been a bigger girl, the 5 foot 10 woman sitting in front of me sad, but in the past

I've been able to lose the weight.

That was before the last two babies though, and right now I'm so stressed out worried about the boys

finances my mother who's getting older and now needs my help a lot more on top of

it all I just can't get a handle on anything I think the hardest part is I'm just not getting any

sleep, so I wake up already tired, cranky, and a little blue and then eat sugar throughout

the day to keep going and in some way reward myself. I know it's not good for me but without the sleep

it's just really tough to quit. With all the worry and fatigue I'm also having some

brain fog I just can't seem to focus on anything. I asked Liz what had helped her to lose the weight in the past to which she

replied Weight Watchers. Being mindful of my calories helped me stay focused though

she admitted sometimes I ate those calories in Hershey's kisses not

salads. We both chuckled and talked about how one of the greatest powers of a program

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