This is designed to evaluate how well your body is managing energy production and stress, based on symptoms across digestion, mood, metabolism, and hormone health. Your results will drop you into one of three buckets: low risk (functioning metabolic system), medium risk (some dysregulation), and high risk (low energy availability, metabolic suppression).
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If you read through some of these questions and didn’t even realize they could be symptoms of — or even related to — a slow or suppressed metabolism, this is your sign to start tuning into your body a bit more. We often normalize things like fatigue, bloating, low mood, or cold hands, when in reality, these are subtle signs from the body that it’s not getting the energy or support it needs.
Here are the two next steps I’d recommend taking:
- Move consistently throughout the day! Even if you get 1-2 solid hours of a structured workout at the gym, constant movement is going to always overpower that gym session. Reach for 8,000+ steps / day.
- Track your dietary intake for 2-3 days (including drinks - energy drinks, coffee, electrolytes, soda, etc.). Use websites like CRONOMETER. Ideally, the vital metabolic nutrients below are:
- Potassium: 4,000 mg / day (citrus fruits, dairy, beef, aloe vera juice; hack: for higher doses? add cream of tartar)
- Calcium: 1,200 mg / day
- B Vitamins: specifically B1 & B3 are the two most important for managing insulin resistance
- Macronutrient ratios: What percent of your daily calories are coming from CARBOHYDRATES? What percent are coming from FATS? How about PROTEIN?Ideally, you're consuming 35% from carbs, 35% from fat, and 30% from protein. *NOTE: there are quite a few factors that go into an appropriate macronutrient ratios*
