We had a great week and the top five have received the gift of engagement on their pages from me...Congratulations to @Julianne Anderson , @Nick Nebelsky has passed his engagement winning spot to @Donna Thornton And congratulations to @Dr. Peninah Wood Ph.D , @Mike Gagnon and @Lisa Black Next week the top three with 50 or more interactions will be awarded with more engagement from me on your pages to help you gain more opportunities to show up in Discovery. Let's grow together! I will be interacting a lot with the winners this week..Please remember I am able to do this for free membership communities or if you grant me access Leaderboard (7-day) 1 Julianne Anderson 🔥 +29 2 Nick Nebelsky ⭐ 🔥 +27 3 Dr. Peninah Wood Ph.D +24 4 Mike Gagnon 🔥 +24 5 Lisa Black 🔥 +14 6 Donna Thornton 🔥 +14 7 Skate Skateboarding +4 8 Jill Perry +4 9 Dr. Bryan Raya +2 10 Ayuba Ayomide +2

I've decided on this topic today after discussions over the past few days with members in different communities. And it's so important. Please read it all. This may be one of the most important topics I've posted about. So.... A message for every community starting to realize traditional medicine isn’t telling the whole story. Most people assume traditional medicine = the full picture. It’s not. It’s the emergency manual. It's great for emergencies. Functional and nutritional medicine is the operating system. And one of the biggest differences, that one nobody talks about, is the labs. Let’s break it down without giving away the entire architecture. 1. Traditional Medicine Labs Ask: “Is This Bad Enough Yet?” Traditional labs are designed to detect disease, not dysfunction. They look for: - Organ failure - Severe deficiency - Pathology - Crisis-level abnormalities - Numbers outside the “disease range” If you’re not in a medical emergency, your labs often come back as: “Everything looks normal.” Normal just means: You’re not dying today. It does not mean: You’re functioning well. 2. Functional & Nutritional Labs Ask: “How Is Your System Performing?” Functional and nutritional labs look at patterns, not just red flags. They measure: - How your cells are producing energy - How your minerals are regulating electricity - How your gut is communicating with your brain - How your hormones are adapting to stress - How your detox pathways are clearing waste - How your blood sugar responds to real life - How your nervous system is compensating Traditional labs look for disease. Functional and nutritional labs look for dysregulation. Traditional labs ask if you’re sick. Functional and nutritional labs ask why you're sick or if you’re thriving. 3. Traditional Labs Use “Normal Ranges.” These ranges are based on the average population, which includes people who are exhausted, inflamed, undernourished, and stressed. People that are sick. Functional and nutritional medicine uses optimal ranges, the ranges associated with good energy, stable mood, strong digestion, balanced hormones, and predictable physiology.

Please help me welcome @Lisa Black to our family!

Today’s Focus: The Breakfast That Predicts the Day If your child is melting down by 10 AM, crying because their sock is fighting back or initiating WWE Round 4 before you’ve located your keys…it’s not personality. It’s metabolic instability in a developing nervous system. What You’re Seeing (Signal) - Emotional dysregulation that feels like a personal vendetta - Sensory overwhelm triggered by photons - “He’s so sensitive today” - She’s vibrating at a frequency only dogs can hear - Sibling conflict that escalates faster than your cortisol Let's look in to see what is happening SUNDAY SITCOM SPECIAL: “THE TWILIGHT ZONE: BREAKFAST EDITION” Narrator (Rod‑Serling Voice): You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of unstable glucose curves. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of a child’s breakfast. That’s the signpost up ahead…your next stop…The Twilight Zone. Meet a few of the cast THE CAST Narrator Dry. Dramatic. Clinically accurate. Lives for ominous glucose commentary. Parent Running on caffeine and the faint hope that today will be different. Child A small human with a developing prefrontal cortex and a flair for glycemic theatrics. Sibling Breathing wrong. The Amygdala Leather jacket. Sunglasses. Chaos agent. The Prefrontal Cortex Overworked. Underpaid. Always quitting. The Pancreas Sweaty. Nervous. Doing its best. COLD OPEN: 7:12 AM INT. KITCHEN: MORNING Narrator: Submitted for your approval: a parent. Innocent. Hopeful. Unaware that they are about to serve a breakfast that will bend the laws of physiology and sanity. Child: I want cereal! And juice! And a muffin! And fruit! And also more fruit! Parent: Sure, sweetheart. The Muffin Menace A deceptively innocent baked good with the glycemic impact of a small meteor. Narrator: And so begins the cascade. A high‑glycemic load capable of launching a small mammal into metabolic hyperspace. Pancreas (panicking): Deploy insulin! Deploy ALL the insulin!

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