The Hidden Reason Your Body Can’t Recover | ft. Dr. Scott Sherr Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #461

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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0:00.0	94% of US adults have some mitochondrial dysfunction.
0:02.8	It is the base dysfunction of almost anybody.
0:07.0	Now, the issue and the thing that we have to be really careful of
0:10.2	is how we address it.
0:11.5	Are you experiencing fragile energy?
0:14.2	Like one night of sleep or one hard workout,
0:18.5	or one stressful week, and you crash. And you're not crazy. This is something that
0:23.5	Dr. Scott Shear calls the spiral of doom. You're so tired that you lean on caffeine. That stresses
0:29.3	your system. Your recovery gets worse and you push harder and that spiral begins to tighten.
0:35.6	So today I'm talking to Dr. Scott Shearer.
0:37.7	He's a board-certified physician who explains why, yeah, your motivation isn't necessarily
0:43.0	the problem.
0:44.0	It's into your biology.
0:45.5	He breaks everything down through two major keys that most conventional doctors out there
0:51.2	are not even talking about.
0:52.9	Key number one, your mitochondria are the engines that
0:54.8	make energy in your cells. They have to be working optimally. And your nervous system. That's a switch
1:00.7	that decides whether your body's in repair mode or survival mode. And if one of the two are off,
1:05.7	in his eyes, you're going to be suffering in this spiral of doom. So we get into why modern
1:10.6	stressors
1:11.2	quietly shut both of those down,
1:13.7	why willpower can't really fix a depleted system.
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