Your metabolism isn't just about weight. Your metabolism is the engine of life — the sum total of how well your cells take food, oxygen, and light, and convert them into usable energy (ATP). That energy fuels everything: hormone production, brain clarity, digestion, immunity, even your ability to sleep at night and get out of bed in the morning.
Most of the chronic issues wrecking people today — fatigue, hormone problems, bloating, anxiety, acne, hair loss, PMS, infertility — all trace back to one thing: not enough cellular energy.
That's it. That's the root.
Everything else is just a consequence.
This is what no one tells you:
When energy production slows down, your body starts making cuts — like a bankrupt company shutting departments:
- Digestion? Cut.
- Hormone production? Cut.
- Detox? Cut.
- Brain function? Memory? Sleep? Mood? Cut, cut, cut.
And then you're sitting in a doctor's office being told you need antidepressants or birth control, because no one's looking upstream.
Ray Peat saw this decades ago. He understood something most researchers still ignore.
The body isn't stupid. It's compensating.
If it's hoarding estrogen or shutting down ovulation or bloating after every meal— it's protecting itself from energy collapse.
Your system is stuck in low-power mode. And the only way out is to restore energy production at the cellular level.
That doesn't mean another supplement.
It means stopping the things that signal threat — starvation, inflammation, toxins — and giving your body what it actually needs to feel safe again.
Here's where you start:
1. Eat on time — no more skipping meals or starving your liver2. Stop fearing sugar — your thyroid, liver, and ovaries all run on glucose
3. Cut the PUFAs — seed oils wreck your mitochondria and drive estrogen
4. Support bile flow — if you can't digest fat or detox hormones, you're stuck
5. Warm up — cold hands, cold feet, cold gut = low thyroid, low function, low output
No, you don't need a cleanse. You need fuel. And the ability to use it.
If you're ready to stop guessing...
And you're done playing symptom whack-a-mole…
The real work starts with your metabolism. Fix that, and your body stops fighting you.
I break all of this down in detail — including protocols, food lists, and the real reasons your labs still look "fine" while you feel like hell — in my book, coming soon.