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:

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…

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 thyroid protocols...

No one had ever explained to me that you can have a perfectly normal thyroid… and still have no energy...

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...

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...

Doctors kept adjusting the hose… no one was checking the spigot...

I was at the end of my rope when I became determined to find the answer to this question: "Where does the body actually get its energy from?"

You may be surprised that I found the answer to fatigue inside a beer brewing book...

I had spent years studying fermentation and energy systems through brewing...

What I didn’t realize was that the same principles applied inside the human body...

In reading these books I learned that mitochondria are what produce energy... not the thyroid... (this is worth reading over and over...)

I used to think that if only I could just get my thyroid to work, my energy levels would come back to normal... they didn't...

What I didn't know at the time was that my body was full of mitochondria... and that the reason why I felt exhausted was because the mitochondria in my body weren't producing any energy... 

For years I thought my thyroid was broken... I thought if I could just fix the hose… the water would start flowing again...

... but the real problem was much simpler....

The spigot had been turned off the whole time....

... and once I realized that… everything changed...

I started focusing on helping my mitochondria produce ATP (energy) in my body based on the principles I read in brewing books...

I know this may sound strange at first...

It did to me too...

... But once I started focusing on cellular energy instead of just my thyroid… everything began to make sense.... 

I became obsessed with cellular energy and figuring out what was turning the spigot off in my body... 

... and because I understood mitochondria, I finally understood what was happening with my body… and what to do about it…

This gave me more direction than any lab, and helped me more than any diet, supplement or protocol...

It felt so liberating...

I realized I wasn't failing the protocols… the protocols were solving the wrong problem...

I had been overdoing lifestyle interventions trying to fix my hypothyroidism with protocols that were too complex…

… but this was simple…

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

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 better!

It felt like someone had finally turned the spigot back on...

My big win wasn't that I reversed hypothyroidism... it was knowing that I could do something to feel better...

... and understanding why the things I did actually worked...

I started to find out the things I used to think were good for my thyroid were turning off my spigot...

Like thinking I ate healthy because I'd eat organic, lean meats and veggies... but boy was I wrong... I thought I was fixing my thyroid, but I was actually turning my spigot off...

At one point I had cut out so many food groups from my diet, I was eating like a rabbit... no wonder my energy levels plummeted...

I had to get to the point of feeling tired, and always feeling like I'm about to faint to pay attention to the mitochondria...

Once, I made that change, I started to see how many people who were struggling with fatigue were making the same mistake I was... 

They were on restrictive diets like Janae who was on a low-fat diet when she found this...

As a physical therapist she used to avoid fat like the plague not knowing how that was turning her spigot off...

Mitochondria feed off nutrients from healthy fats and if you starve your mitochondria, it won't be able to produce any energy to even give your thyroid a chance to do its job... 

Just one simple shift, helped her feel better...

It wasn't anything major and it wasn't a complete fix, but knowing she could do something to feel better was an answer to her prayers...

Janae is a perfect example of someone who shifted her focus from her thyroid to restoring her body's energy supply...

Looking back, it's easy for me to see why I was doing things I thought were healthy at the time... but were actually draining my energy dry...

I was trying really hard to get my life back on track and was frustrated that nothing was working... but I'm glad I stuck with it...

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 and start feeling better… because if you are anything like us, it's likely that you are doing too much and getting your energy back is easier than you’ve been led to believe…

If you're reading this thinking: “Maybe my spigot is turned off too."

You're probably right...

I wish doctors knew about this... and I wish I could simply give you a list of brewing books to learn this, but it took me years to figure this out... so, instead I put together a program to help you get started now... 

The program walks you through the exact steps I used to turn the spigot back on...

It's not about fixing your thyroid or doing more... it's about doing less...

If you give me 30 days, I can show you that it is possible 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…

The Energy Jumpstart Blueprint is designed to do one thing: turn your spigot back on...

See you inside…

Cheers!

Jorge

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