There is a big difference between hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s…

Hypothyroidism is a thyroid problem…

Hashimoto’s is an autoimmune problem… a problem that creates a different type of fatigue…

No one understands this type of fatigue unless they’ve experienced it themselves…

When I say I used to feel exhausted, I'm talking about bone-deep fatigue…

It wasn’t me being distant, dramatic or lazy…

It wasn’t me being just tired or run down…

It was the kind of exhaustion that lives deep in your bones...

It’s hard to explain what a flare was like without sounding dramatic…

I'd wake up feeling like I'd been hit by a Mack truck, even if all I did the day before was exist.

When this happened, my body felt sore and beaten up, like it had been through something physical and brutal…

My muscles and joints ached constantly and deep like everything was inflamed and heavy…

The fatigue was crippling…

Not “I could use a nap” tired, but the kind where standing up required me to grab onto a wall...

I felt weak, dizzy, and slowed down, as if I was walking through mud…

Things that were normally manageable suddenly felt overwhelming… Simple tasks required planning…

I would sit in my kitchen without moving… just enough energy to feel unmotivated…

I would feel low and sad for no reason like a flattening of everything.

The flares would happen even when I did everything right...

I'd cut out gluten, dairy, sugar…

I'd take a whole stack of supplements (selenium, iodine, iron, B vitamins, etc…)

… yet my entire system felt like it was under siege… like my body was pulling the fire alarm because of steam from the kettle, and refused to shut it off.

Everything suddenly got louder, harder, and heavier at once.

I was doing everything I could just to get through the day...

This was me in 2012…

If you’ve been living like this, you know that surviving quietly takes more strength than anyone realizes…

Everything changed for me the moment I realized that:

Your thyroid is like a garden hose...

Imagine you're watering your garden, and someone turns off the spigot...

Would you start to wiggle the garden hose or slamming it into the ground in hopes the water pressure returns?

... because that's what most people are doing when they have a cabinet full of supplements, or start intermittent fasting, cutting out sugar, dairy, gluten and following complex protocols...

The reason I got my energy back is because I started looking to the spigot rather than the garden hose... 

I focused on the source of energy rather than my thyroid...

Sure, you can have holes in your garden hose, but those holes are harder to find when there's no water running through it...

Conversely... you can have completely normal thyroid levels and still feel exhausted if your spigot is turned off...

Unfortunately, I didn't learn this from a doctor...

I learned about this once I ran out of options...

I had talked to a doctor, endocrinologist... and sought out naturopaths, functional medicine practitioners...

I did everything they told me to do and nothing worked...

I was at the end of my rope when I discovered the true source of energy of the body...

I was looking into why I was so gassy, bloated and constipated when I read the words "yeast candida"...

That was an eye opener because the first time I read about yeast candida wasn't in a health book... it was in a beer brewing book...

And that realization changed the direction of my search completely.

I was blaming my thyroid for low energy which was like blaming the garden hose for low water pressure when the spigot was turned off…

That’s not to say the thyroid had nothing to do with this…

… but Hashimoto’s creates a perfect storm for fatigue because it affects three systems at the same time:

#1 Thyroid hormones - regulate metabolism
#2 Gut health - drives immune activity
#3 Mitochondria - create cellular energy

Most conventional treatments focus only on the thyroid...

Functional medicine and naturopaths tend to focus on gut health…

… But very few people pay attention to the spigot itself… their mitochondria, the actual source of energy…

Every cell in your body has tiny energy generators inside it called mitochondria.

If those energy generators aren’t working well… you can have perfectly ‘normal’ thyroid levels… and still feel completely drained.

I couldn’t believe no doctor ever talked about this… and even more surprising was that the answer had been in front of me this whole time… 

I had already learned how to naturally activate mitochondria to create ATP (cellular energy) from brewing books…

I finally understood what was happening with my body… and what to do about it…

It felt so liberating...

I had been overdoing lifestyle interventions trying to fix my hypothyroidism with restrictive diets, supplements and protocols that were too complex…

… but this was simple…

Which was good news because I was too tired to learn a new protocol…

I didn’t need any labs… they all became useless once I knew what I was doing…

Even though I was exhausted, I could still do simple things to activate the mitochondria…

One week into it, I started to notice less bloating and improved digestion…

Two weeks into it, my sleep started to improve…

By week four, I finally started to feel like myself again!

I started sharing what I did with others and realized most people were doing too much… they were trying to find a way to fix their thyroid or working on their gut health or both… but were completely ignoring their mitochondria…

I said to them, forget all the supplements and diets… just focus on these three things… and they came back surprised at how simple it was to get their energy back…

If you have done the labs, restrictive diets, supplements and protocols, then I have good news for you… you have what it takes to do this… you are probably doing too much and getting your energy back is easier than you’ve been led to believe…

I put together a program to help you get started if you are ready to get more energy, sleep better and feel better…

If you are in your 30’s or 40’s and you follow every step of the Energy Jumpstart Blueprint then I can guarantee you’ll notice a boost of energy in the next 30 days or you don’t pay a penny…

You can get started with the first step for just a one-time payment of $44 and see for yourself that this can be the answer you’ve been looking for…

Inside this program I share how mitochondria function is the key to both natural thyroid hormone production and gut health…

See you inside…

Cheers!

Jorge

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