Tired But Wired? The Hidden Loop Destroying Your Energy | Dr. Scott Sherr, MD

0:00I eat perfectly.

0:01I exercise six times a week.

0:03I try to get to bed on time and sleep.

0:05I'm feeling depleted.

0:06And I think people are in this state and they don't have a name for it, but you call it the sympathetic spiral of doom.

0:14And it's a loop.

0:14You have sympathetic activation, which is your fight or flight, your nervous system being activated.

0:18You have mitochondrial dysfunction.

0:19The challenge is anytime you try to downregulate your nervous system, it actually might make you feel like you're crashing.

0:24People feel like they crash when they go down and try to do their breathwork, try to do their meditation.

0:29Oftentimes, they feel terrible when they try to do it, if they can even do it in the first place.

0:33You've only been able to function because you've been at that high of a state.

0:36You can't meditate your way out of this like physiological stress to your cells and mitochondria is what you're saying, right?

0:42So what do we do?

0:43If someone's stuck, what's the first step to getting out of this loop?

0:46Today on the podcast, I'm joined by Dr.

0:48Scott Scher.

0:49He is a board-certified physician and a pioneer in health optimization medicine.

0:53As an expert in mitochondrial function and the chief medical officer of prescriptions, he's helping people break the sympathetic stress loop to rapidly restore energy, focus, and resilience.