Overthinking and obsessing about things in Chinese medicine is known to cause,

they call it a spleen sheet efficiency,

but essentially spleen sheet efficiency in Chinese medicine means weak digestion.

So if you overthink and worry and obsess do any of those things,

it weakened your digestive system.

It pulls your digestive energy and it will keep you from healing.

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Dr.ruciot.com. We know that when hormone levels go down, muscles get weaker. We know that,

you know, bones get less dense and things like that. And the only way we've been able to rebuild

bone density, which we do, is to basically get people's hormones optimized in conjunction

with the right supplements, let's say. But to your point, that's all important. But if you

really want to see the power of the nervous system, you need to understand that when you first

start doing any activity, let's say,

lifting a weight or going for a run or pedaling a bike or swinging a golf club, the first thing

that actually gets stronger is the nervous connection, not the muscle. The muscles along for the ride,

right? It's along for the ride. And so, you know, if you don't believe that, we'll just look at a stroke victim, right? You lose innervation. There's nothing, right? So the point is it's the nerves that's driving everything. And so I think it's really, really important to understand that because when I work out now and I do something every day because that way I don't have to

wake up and decide today's the day I'm going to do something. That way my compliance is, you know,

99, 95%. So there's a few days of travel where it's wacky and I, you know, whatever, can't quite

get it there. But, but that's really rare. Um, you know, I focus on, on basically

training my nervous system. So I did a vassper workout this morning, which is in a new step with

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