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Do you have terrible blood sugar issues, because I can’t do what I want, when I want without food?

Dr. Amy Nett: Yeah, again, I think I sort of answered that. You’re unique in that. I don’t know that you have terrible blood sugar issues, but maybe we want to do some glucometer testing, see what your blood sugar actually looks like. Maybe we want to look at a hemoglobin A1c, fructosamine, get more information on that. But again, big picture, I don’t see a problem with you sometimes doing better with snacking. It’s not, necessarily a red flag to me. So, yeah, I’m not particularly alarmed, but there are some big data pieces we’re missing here. Cortisol, blood sugar, hemoglobin A1c. And you said, when you did the BioHealth functional adrenal test, cortisol was super-low, and DHEA, average.  

 

So, maybe that’s okay, but remember, that was probably only free cortisol, because I am guessing that was going to be a saliva test, so incomplete picture. I’m excited to see here DUTCH test results. And you said the DHEA average was ridiculously high, may be connected to PCOS, maybe, maybe. And then the practitioner you were seeing at the time thought it was connected to dysbiosis. Yeah, sure, maybe. Remember, free cortisol, such an incomplete picture, and yeah, low cortisol, lots of different reasons for that.

 

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