To all people who struggle with their hormones - start your fix here: 1. Eat breakfast.
Within 60 minutes of waking. With protein, carbs, and salt.
It stabilizes blood sugar, lowers cortisol, and turns on your thyroid. 2. Stop skipping meals.
Fasting is a stress signal. It kills ovulation, lowers testosterone, and raises adrenaline.
Feed yourself before your body starts eating itself. 3. Stop overtraining.
Too much cardio or HIIT = chronic cortisol = low progesterone and testosterone. Lift weights, walk, recover. 4. Get sunlight every morning.
Natural light sets your circadian rhythm and drives dopamine, thyroid, and reproductive hormones. 5. Replace seed oils with saturated fats.
PUFAs suppress thyroid, slow metabolism, and promote estrogen dominance. Use butter, ghee, or beef tallow instead. 6. Balance calcium, magnesium, and sodium.
They regulate adrenal output and smooth out stress reactions.
Low minerals = unstable hormones. 7. Sleep like it matters.
No blue light at night, no scrolling in bed.
Deep sleep is when hormones actually rebuild. 8. Track your hormones and morning temps.
It’s the only way to see if your metabolism is truly working. Do these for 30 days before touching a single supplement.

I don’t know about you, but singing “My bed is too big, too big without you, babeeee” by Blue System in the shower does more for my vagal tone than sitting in some awkward position humming “om” while secretly resenting the whole experience.

Some people took the “balance muscle meat with gelatin” idea and turned it into “muscle meat is the problem.” That was not the point. The point was never to replace steak with collagen powder/gelatin gummies/broths. The point was that modern people eat a lot of lean muscle meat and almost no connective tissue, skin, tendons, broth, or gelatin so they get a lot of methionine with very little glycine. That is where collagen helps. Muscle meat is methionine-rich. Collagen is glycine-rich. They balance each other. But collagen/gelatin by itself is not complete protein. It is very low in methionine, tryptophan, and cysteine. It is also low in several essential amino acids needed to actually build tissue. And this matters because methionine is not just some “bad meat amino acid.” You need methionine for methylation, creatine, carnitine, phosphatidylcholine, CoQ10, and every new protein your body builds. You need cysteine for glutathione, taurine, bile acid conjugation, sulfur metabolism, hair, skin, nails, and antioxidant defense. You need leucine to trigger muscle protein synthesis. Collagen gives you glycine, proline, and hydroxyproline. That is valuable. But it does not give you the full anabolic signal. So enjoy the broth but don’t forget to eat your steak.

If nothing beautiful excites you anymore - architecture, faces, nature, design - that is almost 100% a signal of impaired metabolism. Beauty is a reward signal. And reward signaling runs on dopamine, which runs on energy availability. Someone hypothyroid, underfed, or chronically stressed has blunted reward sensitivity. So the same sunset, face, garden, building, or piece of music feels underwhelming to them compared to someone running a hot, well-fueled metabolic body. And it runs the other way too. Viewing beauty lowers sympathetic tone and cortisol. Chronic cortisol is catabolic. So the relaxed-alert alpha state you get from a fractal scene, warm light, beautiful proportions, or a human face is pro-metabolic in itself. State shapes how much beauty you feel. And felt beauty feeds back into state. Look at beautiful things. And nourish yourself enough to feel them.

It’s genuinely funny watching biohacker bros discover Actovegin as some exotic “peptide,” while you spent your childhood getting injected with it because your post-Soviet doctor told your mom it was good for your brain. Mine was very into this stuff, so naturally my butt was frequently injected with it. I mean, of course. You’re 10, juggling math school, ballet, swimming, chess, and 100 other extracurriculars, so obviously you need mitochondrial support before homework 😆

PROGESTERONE LITERALLY BUILDS BONE. Not in the simplistic “bone is made of progesterone” way, obviously. But from a hormonal signaling perspective. Estrogen protects bone mostly by slowing breakdown. Progesterone helps build bone by stimulating osteoblasts -- the cells that lay down new bone. But women are told bone loss is just “low estrogen.” The bigger missing piece is that perimenopausal bone loss can start years before estrogen fully declines. And what happens first? Ovulation becomes irregular. And when ovulation becomes irregular, progesterone drops first. So yes, we need both hormones to dance for bone. But the medical order is backwards. Women are pushed toward estrogen first, while the bone-building hormone that often dropped first is not even mentioned. Then problems show up, and only later someone thinks to correct progesterone -- if they correct it at all. Check progesterone. Support ovulation. Correct the bone-building side before blindly pouring in estrogen, if ever.

Rome had complex eye surgery by the 1st century AD. It had running water, public baths, heated floors, sewage systems, surgical instruments, military hospitals, concrete, and roads so well built that some are still visible two thousand years later. Then the Empire collapsed. And Europe spent centuries crawling back toward things Rome had already figured out. The most important thing for our generation to realize is that civilization does not automatically move forward. It can absolutely go backwards. It has been many centuries since Rome fell. And I don’t think Western civilization ever fully recovered. Not in medicine, not in law, not in architecture.

When I first heard D3 K2 could make teeth whiter/stronger, I was like sure, cute. I was taking it for metabolic effects, and K2 mainly to route calcium where it actually belongs. But after about 3–4 months, my dentist called for my usual cleaning and I realized… wait. I don’t actually need one. I drink tea constantly so I usually get buildup faster than I’d like. Now it’s been over a year: no plaque/tartar drama, no extra cleaning appointments, and my teeth are very white. I still go for checkups, obviously. I’m just not running back for tartar removal every few months anymore. I also use hydroxyapatite toothpaste and eat more liver than I used to, btw, so maybe those are part of the story too. Since it’s summer and I’m tanning much more this year, I’m taking a break from the divine combo. We’ll see if the effect holds.

Me after going too hard on leg day because I found out lower-body muscle isn’t just for looks. Your legs are some of the biggest glucose-disposal machinery in your body. Glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves -- when they’re strong and active, they pull glucose out of your blood like a sponge. When they atrophy, glucose hangs around longer and insulin has to work harder. And the soleus in your calf is basically your second heart, helping pump blood and fluid back up from your legs. So yes, train upper body. But prioritize legs. Not just for shape. For blood sugar, circulation, lymph, metabolism.

If you're coming out of years of restriction, embrace some weight gain in phase one of fixing your metabolism. That's how you ascend later and eat way more calories at maintenance. Be patient. It takes months for your body to adjust and respond. To keep early gain modest, ease off heavy fat at first. Don't gulp a gallon of raw milk with mountains of carbs on day one. Wake your mitochondria up with clean carbs first: ripe fruit, OJ, honey, sugar in coffee, well-cooked starches with salt, rice, potatoes. Then layer in raw milk and fattier foods, ideally separated from your sugar hits. If you don't mind a little weight gain, combining is fine. Just know phase one is temporary when you do it right. And enjoy the ride! No one is judging you except yourself.

"avoid the sunlight and make sure to wear sunscreen, even when indoors"

I was digging through papers on hormones and somehow stumbled upon this “masterpiece” on the National Library of Medicine: An actual academic paper studying the “black pill” phenomenon. My jaw dropped. Imagine looking for endocrinology and suddenly PubMed hands you peer-reviewed incel anthropology 😆 their main conclusion is basically that incels use dating apps and social media as “evidence” for their worldview, but the technology is not really the core issue. It becomes a way to launder resentment into something that sounds analytical, inevitable, and scientific. Science really said: these men turned not getting laid into a theory of civilization. Read it for yourself if you’re interested in how academia studies incels as a modern social phenomenon. I am still laughing that this exists in the same database as liver enzymes and thyroid receptors

I’m not exaggerating when I say morning visceral massage and showering in the dark before bed change your health and overall wellbeing for the better. Visceral massage shifts the body out of morning anxiety. It gets things moving in the gut, softens the abdomen, opens the breath, and makes the whole system feel more fluid & warm. And showering in the dark before sleep feels almost sacred. No harsh bathroom LEDs. Just candlelight, moonlight, or the smallest warm glow possible. A hot shower before bed raises body temperature. Then, as you cool down after, that temperature drop becomes a sleep signal. Darkness removes the artificial stimulation and brings the body back in sync with its circadian rhythm. Together, they send the most ancient signal to your nervous system: the day is over, its time to sleep and let go. Two wildly underrated rituals.

Never forgot when PETA posted this as an April’s fools joke in 2013 👍🏼

Puberty is when the face is built. In boys, testosterone and androgen signaling drive the broader jaw, larger mandible, heavier brow, stronger cheekbones, and more robust lower face. In girls, estrogen shapes the softer female pattern: fuller lips, subcutaneous facial fat, softer jaw, smoother contours, and earlier bone maturation. Aromatase deficiency, androgen insensitivity, delayed puberty, PCOS, and endocrine disorders all show the same thing: hormones sculpt the face. Genes set the blueprint, but hormones decide how much of it gets built. So when a teenage girl is under-eating, losing her real cycle, and masking it with the pill (!), she is disrupting the exact endocrine window where her face and body are still being built. Low fuel means lower thyroid, lower IGF-1, weaker ovarian signaling, higher cortisol, and poorer tissue building. It changes the whole architecture really. And yes, her face can reflect that for life. Filler and cosmetic industries are happy about it though.

This breakfast with friends is pure perfection. Fresh Hawaiian fruit, raw honey, cheese, and laughs. I’m pretty sure if people ate breakfast like this every day, we would have eliminated most metabolic disease on Earth by now

Specialization rots the brain. You do one narrow thing again and again, and you become blind and useless. In health it gets tragic. The cardiologist doesn't understand endocrinology. The endocrinologist doesn't know what the gut does. The gut doctor never asks about your thyroid. Meanwhile your body is one interconnected system. Thyroid affects bile. Bile affects estrogen. Estrogen affects mood. Mood affects breathing. Breathing affects posture. And on and on. Da Vinci said: "Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses, especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." That is the whole game. A specialist sees a little slice. A true thinker sees the whole system. Be a thinker. That is how you connect the dots in your health and literally everywhere else.

She is only 37, but somehow the story is that she had to eat 600 calories a day to look like this. What a bunch of lies. This is exactly how they scare women. They make it seem like after 30 your only options are starvation or ozempic.

When they own the information, they can bend it all they want

I’ve noticed a pattern: the luxurious foods most people can’t afford are often framed as bad for you. Or morally wrong. By medical consensus. By activists. Or both. Caviar. Foie gras. Grass-fed steak. Meanwhile, you’re told to eat grains, seed oils, plastic bread and kale while they eat like kings (its heart healthy you know). But these “bad” foods are some of the most nutrient-dense foods humans can eat. My parents lived in the far north for a while btw. They watched people eat caviar and beluga meat the way other people eat bread. No greens or grains. No fiber lectures or smoothie bowls. No supplements either. Strong, lean, clear-skinned people. No modern metabolic diseases, before fast food started arriving in containers. And now an army of outraged vegans will scream at you for eating a steak. Or for saying meat is good for you. Let them scream. Eat like a champion. Be one.

One of the most fascinating things about the human body that drives me crazy is that you often have no idea where pain is actually coming from, even when it seems obvious. Unless there’s clear trauma, the spot where you feel pain and the source of the pain can be completely different places. It’s called viscerosomatic referral, a real, well-documented neurological phenomenon. Organs, muscles, skin, and joints send signals into the same spinal cord neighborhoods. Their nerve fibers can converge on the same neurons before the signal reaches the brain, and the brain defaults to the more familiar source. Classic example: heart attacks showing up in the left arm, jaw, or neck. Classic viscerosomatic referral patterns: - Right shoulder/blade: gallbladder, liver - Between the shoulder blades: stomach - Mid-back: pancreas - Top of either shoulder: diaphragm - Low back: kidneys, uterus, colon - Inner thighs: ovaries, uterus - Around the navel: small intestine - Left arm, jaw, neck: heart And it gets messier. Fascia is continuous and densely innervated, so tension in one area can pull on and irritate another. Muscle trigger points have their own referral patterns. Upper traps can mimic headaches. Scalenes can mimic carpal tunnel. Nerves refer along their distribution, not necessarily where they’re compressed. Veins and lymphatic congestion can ache in ways that feel muscular. Joints refer too. Hip pathology often shows up as knee pain. And all of this layers. A gallbladder issue can refer to the right shoulder. The shoulder compensates with chronic tension. The tension develops trigger points. The trigger points refer into the neck or head. Now the person is chasing “neck pain” or “headaches,” when the original layer may have started somewhere completely different. I actually fixed my right shoulder tightness and burning sensation when I fixed my gallbladder but its all truly confusing and fascinating tbh, especially when you start going deep into anatomy.