Today I got the tvns I've ordered and had my first session! It tickled a little and during the session it felt as if my tiredness was enhanced but I couldn't see any difference in stress/hrv while using it. Anyone else that have tried and got a vagus nerve response?

Do you have any good recommendations for low vitamin D and low Ferritin levels? I think I need to start there and then build from that place but I don’t know if supplements would help enough to get me to an optimal level with where my levels are right now. I’ve been taking 1000-2000 IU of vitamin D supplements but from what I have been reading that doesn’t seem to be high enough. My numbers have only gone from 17-23 taking that for over a year and a half. No one told me my iron was low so I haven’t addressed that yet.

I wonder if it's only me? When I take my t4 after about 15 minutes I get really tired. Especially if my body already is tired. So when I wake up around 5 in the morning I take my t4 and then it helps me sleep some more ... Happy to hear how you experience this, do you feel the same or not at all?

Every afternoon, right around 3pm, your focus goes flat and you reach for coffee or something sweet. You have probably blamed sleep, age, or willpower. I know, I used to. Your cells are struggling to take in fuel. Your insulin signaling, the system that moves glucose into your cells, has become dysregulated. That is a metabolic pattern. It is called insulin resistance. React with 🙋 if this afternoon sounds familiar.

Early insulin resistance does not show up on a basic metabolic panel. Fasting glucose and HbA1c can both be normal, and yet the woman in front of me is exhausted, foggy, gaining weight around her midsection, waking at 3am, and has been dismissed by two or three physicians who told her everything looks fine. Fasting insulin shows a different picture. A result above 8 to 10 µIU/mL alongside normal glucose is the pattern I see consistently in high-achieving women in their 40s. It does not trigger a diagnosis, but it is the beginning of a cascade that, left unaddressed, becomes much harder to reverse. Caught at this stage, it responds well. That is exactly why we test rather than guess. Have you ever had your fasting insulin tested? Comment below. 💛