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If cortisol is elevated upon waking, do you use the phosphatidylserine before bed to help lower that? Have you seen Proglyco-Synergy for reactive hypoglycemia…? If cortisol is elevated on waking, do you use the PS before bed to help lower that?

Dr. Amy Nett: Well, you could because you’re saying like a high waking cortisol reflects the overnight cortisol. Yeah, I...

Have you seen Proglyco-Synergy?

Dr. Amy Nett: No, I haven’t. I’m going to really quickly look it up. Oh, from Apex Energetics. Okay. So,...

Any thoughts on CBD use in children?

Chris Kresser: I think it can be an absolutely life-saving treatment in some cases; for example, kids with severe epilepsy,...

When you use Doc Parsley’s Sleep Cocktail, I know in several of the case studies you use it in addition to 5-HTP and melatonin. I also was wondering when it would be advised for any sleep disturbance. Also, in one of the case studies you mentioned 5-HTP even though the patient had normal melatonin levels. Is this common for you to use if melatonin is normal if they have sleep disturbance?

Chris Kresser: Okay, for the Sleep Cocktail, the reason I like it is it has a really low dose of...

I understand it’s thought that probiotics don’t add the higher numbers of good bacteria in the gut over time. That is to say, they don’t take up residency. They are just helpful in transit. I just can’t help feeling that if they, for instance, are keeping pathogenic bacteria in check, this must give time and space for proliferation of good bacteria and therefore they must make some changes that remain after they pass through. What are your thoughts on this?

Chris Kresser: The studies that I was referring to, they actually looked. They looked at patients who were taking probiotics...

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