I'm going to show you the best way to get at the root cause of those dark circles underneath your

eyes. It's called periorbital dark circles. Now, typically, when you look this up, you're going to see

a million different remedies, okay? And they do work. The problem is the only work temporarily.

You have to keep applying them over and over and over. You can use Kojik acid and you can use

vitamin C, aloe vera, niacinamide, which is a type of B3, or you can even use cucumber extract

or cucumbers. So any of these will work temporarily. Simply take the remedy and rub it underneath

your eyes and give it, you know, some days or even weeks. So what do all of these have in common?

They inhibit melanin, okay, which causes this pigmentation in your skin. And that's cool. You

can do that. There's probably not a lot of side effects. But I want to talk about the two

underlying root causes to this problem. So you can actually permanently get rid of this.

Now, the first one involves understanding just a little bit about your hormone system, okay?

You have this little gland in the brain called the pituitary. And it sends signals

down through the body. And one of the tissues that it controls is the adrenal glands. You have two

of them deep into your abdomen, okay? The adrenal glands produce a lot of different hormones.

But there's one that is called cortisol. And that is a stress hormone. So the pituitary sends a

signal down to the adrenal when there's perceived stress. And that pituitary hormone is called

ACTH. It hits the adrenal and then the adrenal produces cortisol. When cortisol is produced,

that amount of cortisol that is produced reaches up to the pituitary and tells the pituitary

to turn off to stop producing this circuit. And so now that ACTH can stop being activated.

Now, it just so happens when you go through a period of stress called the chronic stress,

which could include loneliness, losses, or anything to raise your level of cortisol like synthetic

cortisol, prednisone, medications, et cetera. What's going to happen next is your body is going

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