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Hi, my name is Shawn Edwards.
I'm not a native Texan, I've lived all over the World.
I'm a lawyer and I've been
in private practice for about 15 years.
Well the primary thing was
immeasurable rage over nothing.
It was it was quite
literally crazy making. I also had weight gain for no apparent reason.
I had night sweats.
But really the fundamental flaw was
anger that had no basis in reality.
Things are really good in my life. I'm Not Kidding.
So many of my friends, they've lost their
jobs, divorce, so on and so forth.
Those things don't apply to me. I have a very good job, I make good money,
fabulous house, good man at home.
All those things are fabulous, so why
was I so angry, why was I depressed?
That's what I was trying to solve.
I felt that I had to be
under control all the time. With my job,
it's very, very stressful. I have a high degree of stress in my work
So, imagine if you have to not only manage all that stress,
but then also have to keep a lid on this rage that
comes from nowhere. I mean, my beloved would be sitting next to me on
the couch breathing and I would just
literally want to say to him stop breathing.
Stop making that noise, and all he's doing is breathing.
You can't even imagine
the amount of control that it took to keep all of that in check.
If there's anybody out there that has the same feelings that also has
kids or has a low paying job or is having trouble making the bills...
I can't imagine how much worse it would have been.
I have some problems with my kidneys, and so
a year ago I went to my kidney doc for my regular check up.
I said I'm gaining weight there's no reason for it.
There's nothing going on with my kidneys. I don't understand it. He says, oh no,
it's no big deal.
I went to my regular GP. I said I'm gaining weight,
I'm unhappy, something's going on, I don't know what it is.
Oh, it's probably just your stress you need to lower your stress.
You know...workout, exercise, eat right. Really...?
Like I didn't already know that part!
The very first thing that happened is I came in for free consultation
and they listened. And when i sad I don't know who I am anymore.
This person that I see in the mirror is not me, I don't know who that is.
They nodded and said, we understand.
This is after literally a year and a half of trying to get people to
say, oh, well let's try this, or let's try that.
We did the tests and sure enough
my Estrogen was low...imagine that. My Testosterone was low...
imagine that. DHEA was low...imagine that. And my Cortisol levels
were like in that basement! I also had a Thyroid thing going on.
All of these tests... Now granted there were a lot of tests, I'm not gonna pretend that
there weren't,
but no one else said lets do these
saliva tests. No one else said, well let's check your micro nutrients, let's
check that.
No one else said that, she said that. So we ran the tests, they come back, and sure enough
I've got all kinds of things going on.
It literally was two weeks,
and it was fabulous!
So mind you, remember, I had this rage thing happening, right?
And, so something happens at work
and I literally brace for the rage.
Like, here it's coming, right so I have to keep control so I don't pop a cork.
But it doesn't come. I was like, okay, well that's weird.
That's kinda cool. Excellent. But I said, ok, whatever.
I go back to work, do the thing. It's a couple days later,
the same thing, somebody's talking to me I'm like oh, no...
this is probably gonna be one of those things. So I brace literally
brace for the rage, and it doesn't happen. And I said oh my God, I think I'm back!
And sure enough I was. So, it's been four months.
And two months ago we did another test to kinda see how my levels were.
I had, some of my levels were still a little off. They were a little high, so she had to actually
reduce the dose.
So that's been now, I want to say, six weeks.
Fabulous results, right, just absolutely,
unbelievably fabulous results! So
here's what did we win. Right, so the first thing that we won
is...I don't want to kill anybody anymore.
I don't have that rage. I'm back to the person I was
before. That low-grade depression like my life sucks,
which it didn't, thats gone, alright,
so I'm like a normal person. Do I still get mad? Well, yeah, but it's
not that insane range.
So what else, oh, so I stopped gaining weight.
Alright, and remember that for two years
I was averaging a weight gain of one-pound a month
when I haven't changed any of my eating, no diet
changes, nothing. I started run/walk but that did not matter, still here comes that
pound. For four months I haven't gained
a single solitary pound. OK, now you may ask, well, but she's not losing any weight
yet either.
Okay, well, I broke my toe, and so I
only started working out again two weeks ago, okay?
So I got through Christmas, I got the holidays, I got to Christmas
no weight gain. I broke my toe, but I'm back.
And so I have a high degree of confidence, because I haven't gained any weight...
I have a high degree confidence that, Now that I can actually
start running again that the weight will start to come off.
And so I'm pretty excited about that.
But my mood is good, my libido is back,
which my beloved, let's be clear, he's very excited about that.
So, my family has really noticed a change.
I laughingly say, well I'm bathing in my hormones.
And so they all laugh and say, we like it when you bathe in your hormones.
My humors back. I'm not angry.
I'm happy about the things that I'm supposed to be happy about again.
If that makes any sense at all, so if you're out there
and you're struggling with any of these things, I would really encourage you to
see Dr. Shel
a soon as possible, because it's worth it. it will
Not only will you get your life back, but your family will get their life back too!