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.

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!

Sorry. Running behind today. Global Diabetes & Prediabetes Stats How many people have prediabetes? According to updated global analyses: - Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) prevalence: 9.1% of adults globally. - Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG) prevalence: 5.8% of adults globally. - These numbers are based on diagnostic criteria and represent adults aged 20–79. How many people have diabetes? - 589 million adults worldwide (ages 20–79) are living with diabetes in 2024. - That’s 1 in 9 adults globally. - Over 90% of cases are type 2 diabetes. - Projected to reach 853 million by 2050 — a 46% increase Undiagnosed diabetes - 252 million people worldwide have diabetes but don’t know it. - That’s over 4 in 10 adults with diabetes walking around undiagnosed Mortality & economic impact - 3.4 million deaths in 2024 were attributed to diabetes — one every 9 seconds. - Diabetes accounts for USD 1 trillion in global health expenditure annually DIABETES CAN BE REVERSED AND THERE ARE $1 TRILLION REASONS WHY THEY WON'T TELL YOU. I've met a lot of Skoolers here, so I made 10 archetypes. I'll give you one: The Midnight Poster Signature vibe: Posts at 1:47am and calls it “peak creativity.” Glucose signal: Liver dumping glucose like a panicked intern who forgot the deadline. Catchphrase: “I’m just built different.” Reality: Yes. Built without a circadian rhythm. Why they join my community: You're fasting glucose is higher than their engagement rate. What these creator archetypes have to do with diabetes & prediabetes? Here’s the plot twist and a tease: All the hilarious creator archetypes: the Overcaffeinated Admin, the Midnight Poster, the Launch Zombie, aren’t just “quirky creator behavior.” They’re metabolic signals in disguise. Because diabetes and prediabetes don’t start with a diagnosis. They start with patterns: - Energy crashes - Brain fog - Mood swings - Cravings - Belly fat that won’t budge - Late‑night productivity spikes - Living on caffeine instead of fuel

You are what you eat. That statement is truer than ever in a world with all its highly processed, industrial-grown food. We see the cost of the lack of nutrients reflected in our health and wellness. Chronic diseases just don't appear one day. Our bodies start to break down, our digestive systems fail, and worst of all, our brains suffer the most, either now or later. Globally, dementia is one of the fastest‑growing health burdens on earth: more than 55 million people are living with dementia today, with 10 million new cases every year, and the worldwide cost has already surpassed $1.3 trillion. Alzheimer’s disease is the dominant form, and dementia is now the 7th leading cause of death worldwide. Affecting almost every family. Everyone knows someone that these diseases have affected. Someone develops dementia every 3 seconds. WHY? Annual global cost of dementia: over $1.3 trillion. Annual Cost of Dementia in the United States (2025 Estimate) $781 billion. Alzheimer’s and dementias do not suddenly appear in someone’s 60s. The biological disease process begins decades before symptoms, often in a person’s 20s, 30s, and 40s, you are just not aware of it. Brain and blood changes appear decades before memory loss becomes noticeable. You don’t wake up at 65 with dementia. You’ve been building it for decades. Alzheimer's and Dementia is a long, slow metabolic and inflammatory process. IT'S NOT AN AGE EVENT. The brain is affected by: - Blood sugar regulation - Chronic inflammation - Sleep quality - Stress hormones - Nutrient status - Vascular health And these patterns accumulate quietly over years. By the time symptoms appear, the underlying biology has been progressing for a long time. Your 20s, 30s and 40s will determine your 60s and 70s. Today I'm looking at ten foods that hinder brain development, cause disease, contribute to neurodegeneration, and accelerate brain aging. I'll go into the science to show you exactly how you are contributing to the deterioration of your own psychological, mental, and cognitive health with your food choices.

Come join me where every day is a class not in the classroom. As soon as you join with the standard tier, you have access to all these daily themes but at a deeper level, live weekly calls, and anything else you may be interested in. Name it, I'll write it for you and we'll discuss. The only extra cost is if you prefer a 1:1 consultation, an individually designed program, or lab work. Pretty simple. Today's class theme.... The Future of Medicine Isn’t More Pills - It’s More Understanding. Why Your Doctor Reaches for a Prescription First - And Why the Future of Healthcare Is Changing Most people don’t realize this, but the traditional medical system trains doctors to follow a very specific model: Identify the symptom - Match it to a diagnosis - Prescribe the medication. That’s the model. That’s the workflow. That’s the healthcare structure. Doctors are excellent at what they’re trained to do: - emergencies - surgeries - infections - acute care - life‑saving interventions - But here’s the part most people never hear: Your doctor isn’t looking for the root cause of any symptoms, because they were never trained to look for the root cause, because the system doesn’t teach it. It doesn't fit the current model. It gives almost no training in: - physiology literacy - metabolic patterns - nervous system regulation - nutrition - environmental load - lifestyle physiology - upstream pattern recognition So when you walk in with: - fatigue - anxiety - acid reflux - headaches - mood dips - brain fog - sleep issues - depression - weight issues …the system is designed to slap a diagnosis code on it and manage the symptoms, not decode them. And that’s why so many people end up with: - a pill for sleep - a pill to wake up - a pill for mood - a pill for acid reflux - a pill for pain - a pill for focus - a pill for depression - a pill for anxiety - a pill for headaches - a pill or injection for weight issues Each one treating a symptom, not the origin.