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Hello to the most incredible community!

I hope you're taking care of yourself this week — and if you're not quite there yet, that's okay. That's what this newsletter is for.

This week's questions come from three people whose bodies are waving the same flag in three different ways: a reader who suspects they have a fatty liver and doesn't know where to start, a woman with a new Hashimoto's diagnosis who can't shake her bread addiction, and someone heading back to the gym who wants to build real strength as they age.

Here's the thread tying them together — your liver, your brain chemistry, and your muscles all run on the same currency: the daily inputs you feed them. Take the inflammatory ones out, put the right ones in, and the whole system starts to turn. Let's get into it.

Here's what we're covering in today's questions:
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Thank you for being here. Now on to the questions!

When weight won't budge and your liver's overwhelmed, start with your blood sugar.

Fatty liver and stubborn weight almost always trace back to one thing: insulin. When blood sugar runs high, your liver stores the overflow as fat — and the cycle feeds itself.

Berberine Plus uses dihydroberberine (DHB) — absorbed up to 5x better than standard berberine — to support healthy blood sugar, insulin sensitivity, and weight management. Pair it with LIVER BOOST (Nurse Doza's go-to in today's very first answer) and you're working both ends of fatty liver at once.

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Q: Hi Nurse Doza. I see your videos about fatty liver all the time and I am wondering if I have fatty liver. What are the symptoms and what can be done about it? Thank you!

A: Nurse Doza: 1 in 3 people have a fatty liver — and most don't even know they have it. The symptoms are very common, ranging from sluggish energy, constipation, weight gain, and painful periods to low testosterone and even skin rashes. Fatty liver develops over years and is often diagnosed alongside high blood sugar, gallbladder issues, and diabetes. Although there are zero medications for a fatty liver, thankfully there are plenty of natural ways to reverse one.

How to reverse a fatty liver — 5 proven ways:

  1. Fasting (24–72 hrs) — known to reverse fatty liver and lower the visceral fat found in it.

  2. The Mediterranean diet — a diet high in Omega-3s can reverse fatty liver.

  3. Supplements — Berberine, green tea extract, turmeric, NAC, alpha-lipoic acid, and milk thistle. Our favorites: LIVER BOOST (16 nutrients in one pill to help your liver detox) and BERBERINE PLUS (helps with fatty liver, insulin resistance, blood sugar, cholesterol, and naturally supports your body's own GLP-1 production).

  4. Cut out inflammatory "foods" — processed sugar, processed carbs, processed oils, sodas, alcohol, and food dyes.

  5. Support your MTHFR genea compromised MTHFR gene could lead to a fatty liver. Methyl folate (vitamin B9) and Betaine (Trimethylglycine) help support it and reverse fatty liver.

A healthy liver gives you healthy energy, healthy hormones, healthy skin, and healthy poops. If you need help getting started, take our free 14-Day Liver Reset course.

Extra credit: Go deeper with our $10 Gallbladder & Liver course, and bring your questions to the Brain Health community space.

Fatty liver and Hashimoto's both hide in the same place: your bloodwork.

Both of today's first two conditions develop quietly and show up in labs long before you feel your worst — liver enzymes, fasting insulin, a full thyroid panel, inflammatory markers. Most people have just never had someone sit down and read it to them.

For $99, send Nurse Doza your existing bloodwork (or get told exactly what to order) and walk through it together — what's going on, and what to do next. No guessing.

Q: Nurse Doza, I need your help with my diet! My doctor said I have Hashimoto's and I have been reading that bread is really bad for it! But I love bread and I even make my own sourdough bread at home. I'm willing to give it all up completely but I am so addicted to bread!

A: Nurse Doza: There is absolutely no nutritional value in eating bread. It's comfort food, plain and simple. And yes — bread is so bad for you that it can worsen autoimmune issues like Hashimoto's. Most bread in the USA is full of glyphosate, high-fructose corn syrup, and seed oils, meaning our favorite snacks are now increasing our rates of colon cancer, diabetes, and dementia. So why are we addicted to something so harmful?

Bread turns into sugar when we eat it. Sugar gives us dopamine. Dopamine gives us pleasure, focus, and motivation. That's why we can't stop eating bread. So what's the answer to stopping not just food addictions, but all addictions? Find healthier ways to get dopamine. If dopamine is supported in a healthy way, food cravings go away.

How to make healthy dopamine:

  1. Morning sunlight

  2. Hugs

  3. Yoga classes

  4. Attending church

  5. Taking your vitamins (B9, B6, SAMe, Betaine, Magnesium, Copper, vitamin C). Our favorites: BLISS (literally makes dopamine and serotonin each time you take it), ZEN (an adrenal multivitamin), and BOOST (B vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that all help make dopamine).

  6. Supporting your adrenals — your adrenals make dopamine.

  7. Repairing your gut — 50% of our dopamine is made in the gut.

  8. Fasting.

Although fasting doesn't raise dopamine right away, it does break our emotional connection to food by breaking through old patterns and traditions around our meals. It's part of what we teach in our online Mindset course. Undo your beliefs toward food, and you'll start to see the world in a whole new way. You can do it.

Extra credit: Take the $10 Mindset course and join the conversation in the Mindset community space.

You can't out-supplement a belief. That's why we built a course for the part between your ears.

Today's bread question isn't really about bread — it's about the story we attach to food. Willpower runs out; beliefs don't. The Mindset course helps you rewire the patterns that keep cravings in the driver's seat, so the healthy choice stops feeling like a fight.

It's self-paced, it pairs with everything Nurse Doza teaches about dopamine and gut health — and right now it's just $10.

Q: I need your help putting on some muscle, Nurse Doza! I've been working on my health lately and I'm starting to go back to the gym. My friend told me that lifting weights could help me live longer. I don't want to just get old, I want to get stronger!

A: Nurse Doza: I love this! Age is just a number, and you can get healthier at any age. Longevity is a focal point of our clinic and our school, and over the years my view on it has changed. With all the research we've done, I believe your longevity, your lifespan, and your time on Earth are determined by your…

  • Fasting insulin

  • Nightly, deep REM sleep

  • Resting heart rate

  • The strength of your thigh muscles

Building muscle is about more than strength. Sitting at a desk for 40 hours a week for 30 years is not what the human body was designed to do! In fact, studies show that physical exercise can increase the production of new brain cells each time you exercise. So what should our goal be if we want the most out of this human experience? Exercise! Your brain literally depends on it.

The best exercises for a healthy lifespan:

  • Leg presses / bodyweight squats / stair climbing

  • Arm hangs / pull-ups

  • Push-ups / planks

  • Belly breathing (4 seconds inhale, 4 seconds hold, 4 seconds exhale)

Do these daily, with or without weights. Each rep with proper form and breathwork, and each exercise to fatigue — which is different from the "no pain, no gain" idea.

You are the ultimate machine, capable of doing the impossible! Take our Longevity course, where we teach the latest, most-researched tips for a longer, healthier life. Keep getting stronger!

Extra credit: Dive into the $10 Longevity course and train alongside the Longevity community space.

Building muscle is the workout. Recovery is where the longevity happens.

You can train to fatigue every day (and you should) — but the gains, the new brain cells, the longevity markers all get built during recovery. NAD+ is the cellular fuel behind energy, repair, and healthy aging, and it's one of the first things to decline as we get older.

SHED makes at-home NAD+ injections simple, so the recovery side of your longevity plan is as dialed-in as the gym side.

Your body isn't broken. It's asking for better inputs.

A liver fed the right nutrients detoxes, balances hormones, and rebuilds itself. A brain with healthy dopamine stops begging you for bread. Muscles you use daily are the closest thing we have to a longevity drug.

Start with one change. Do it daily. Repeat.

To your health,
Nurse Doza

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