Welcome back to Graw Huskall. I'm Stephen Graw, Board certified naturopathic doctor and I'm here today to answer your wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging questions.

So the first question today is, which lab would I recommend to increase energy?

So I think what we're really looking at

is what are the possibilities of why you might have low energy

and how do we test for those. So if you already know

that you have some type of thyroid-based issue which can, like low thyroid can lead to

low energy, Hashimoto's can lead to low energy. However, what most people don't understand

is that the adrenal glands

and what's called the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis

actually affects the thyroid

and it affects it

affects the thyroid and it affects it more than people realize because once you start

stimulating the stress response it starts to block

actually T. S. H. T4 and then it starts to block

T4 to T3. Now again that doesn't have to mean anything to you but it shows

how thyroid stimulating hormone and actually T4 to T3 can be blocked by stress by

by glucocorticoids and that means that you're not going to be getting the most

out of your thyroid, out of your metabolism. But it also can just simply go back to you have something

wrong with your ability to produce energy and I like the first place to look at are you simply kind of burnt out.

Are you not able to respond correctly to stress in your life?

So until we get really we can get to

mitochondrial function all of that. But what I'd like to do is just start with a

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