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Hey, it's Mariel.

Is anybody else tired?

Like, a lot of the time?

That is something I hear on a daily basis.

People complain in almost every age group that they are tired.

It's like you feel exhausted all day, even if you've slept enough,

even if you think you're doing all the right things. Dr. Amy Shaw is a double board certified

MD and a nutrition expert, an author of the book, I'm So Effing Tired, a proven plan to beat

burnout, boost your energy, and reclaim your life.

As the title of the book suggests, Amy herself used to live in a near constant state

of exhaustion. She was a young doctor with a busy private practice and two kids at home

when she noticed shifts in her mood and her body, like weight gain, irritability,

and trouble sleeping. But she couldn't pin down a specific cause for all of it. And when she

turned to her doctor friends for advice, everybody just said, you know, oh, of course you're tired.

You're a mom with young kids. You're working full time, you're, you know, getting older.

That was my favorite. I felt like there was something more, but I didn't know what. And it really

felt kind of disappointing that nobody could help me and that this was just going to be life.

Then Amy got in a car crash. She'd been rushing from a busy day at work to pick up her kids from karate.

Her car spun until she hit a divider in the middle of the road.

It was totaled.

That week that I had to take off to kind of pick up the pieces, I really started to change my life.

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