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information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hi, everyone. Today I spoke

with Dr. Jenny Tufankean, and she did a great job of outlining how important mitochondria are in chronic fatigue syndrome and those who also

have this annoying and chronic post-exertional or post-exercise, malaise or fatigue. Now, we had

recently discussed this with Ari Witten, and what Jenny brought to the table that I

really appreciated was a simple one-week trial protocol that can help you determine if mitochondria

are the reason for this non-responsive fatigue plus or minus post-exertional fatigue.

Now, it's also important for me to mention and clarify that we discussed this within

the greater context of it's not all about the mitochondria.

And I express how I had not found much favor with mitochondrial support because as I became more adept at using diet,

lifestyle, gut health therapeutics, and potentially referring for limbic retraining, doing work on mold,

there was not a lot of room for improvement with other therapies, but as myself and we at the clinic are becoming more and more honed with these tools, there is this cohort, this small subset of people who still seem to have some lingering either fatigue or post-exertional malaise that can wipe them out for a day or

days. And I'm starting to see now how and where mitochondrial support should be used. So it's not

something that you use right out of the gate. It does have a time and a place. And thankfully, at least from Jenny's experience, a one-week protocol can be sufficient to at

least give you the binary of improving yes or no. So this was a really interesting conversation

and regarding Jenny or Dr. Jenny, she is a naturopathic physician and a functional medicine educator.

She has been treating chronic illness for two decades, and she herself suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome and did a deep dive to try to help herself.

And she has found her way to a framework very similar to what we

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