145: The Hidden Culprit Behind Your Afternoon Energy Crash

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Blood sugar imbalances impact not just nutrition but high performance, affecting focus, mood, cravings, hormones, and resilience under pressure. We explore how glucose instability might be the hidden culprit behind your energy crashes, brain fog, and disrupted sleep patterns.

• Blood sugar rises and crashes affect both body and brain, causing mental drain and mood swings
• Waking between 1-3 AM often signals blood sugar dipping too low, triggering cortisol spikes
• The Stress Mood Metabolism Lab offers insights through simple home testing of hemoglobin A1c, cortisol, thyroid function, and vitamin D
• Continuous glucose monitors from Theia Health or Stelo help track personal responses to food, stress, and sleep
• Every meal should include protein, fiber and healthy fat to slow digestion and stabilize blood sugar
• Just 10 minutes of walking after meals can reduce glucose spikes by up to 30%
• Morning sunlight combined with protein resets cortisol rhythm and stabilizes blood glucose
• High-quality coffee can be beneficial when used wisely - timing and method matter

Book your free consultation with me to determine which lab test might be best for you. Visit jeffreymort.com/resources for product recommendations and jeffreymort.com/learn for free high-performance health education.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You eat clean.
Mostly you skip the dessert.
Maybe you fast, but by 2 pmyour brain is foggy, your
patience is gone and yourmotivation's MIA, and you may be
chalking it up to stress ormaybe poor sleep.
But what if the real culprit issomething deeper, something
hidden?
Blood sugar imbalances are notjust a nutrition issue.

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They're a performance issue.
They impact your focus, yourmood, cravings, hormones and
even your resilience underpressure.
In today's episode, we areflipping the script on blood
sugar.
This isn't about diabetes orcarbohydrates.
This is about high performancehealth, and I'm going to share
with you three subtle signs yourglucose might be off.

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The surprising role of cortisoland stress, how to test and
track even if you're not sick.
And a very simple plan tostabilize your system for
lasting energy, drive and mentalclarity.
Stay tuned.
Hello, I'm.
I'm Jeffrey Mort.
If you're like mostentrepreneurs, you're busy

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taking care of business, yetwho's taking care of you?
If you're ready to take yourenergy and performance to the
next level in your life and yourbusiness, then this podcast is
for you, because today you'regoing to start breaking
boundaries of your mind, bodyand business with integrative
health, and when you do that,your possibilities are limitless

(01:30):
.
I'm grateful you're here yes,grateful as always for you
joining me here on today'sepisode, and be sure to
subscribe to the show and shareit with somebody that you feel
as though it could serve.
So the question is why doesblood sugar matter?
More than you may think.

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Well, for years, I believe thatblood sugar issues were
something other people dealtwith people with diabetes or
poor diets but afterexperiencing burnout firsthand,
I learned that even healthy,driven people can be on a
glucose rollercoaster that theydon't even realize.

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So here's the truth when yourblood sugar rises too fast hello
smoothie bowls, caffeine oreven stress your body responds
with insulin, and that rise andcrash cycle doesn't just affect
your body, it affects your brain.
You can feel mentally drained,you can feel short-tempered or

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anxious.
You can even feel ravenous anhour after eating, or wired and
tired at night, or foggy-headedin the morning, and if you're
waking up between 1 and 3 am,that's often a sign that your
blood sugar is dipping too low,triggering cortisol to spike you
awake.
Does that sound familiar?
Well, I want to talk a littlebit about some ways that we can

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discover this, and so one ofthose ways is a lab test that we
have.
You do this right at homereally easy.
It's called the Stress MoodMetabolism Lab and we'll talk a
little bit about why this isenough.
You don't need 15 vials ofblood from a phlebotomist at a
laboratory to understand what'sgoing on.

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Our Stress Mood Metabolism Laboffers powerful insights using
simple saliva samples and adried blood spot sample.
So just a simple finger prick,a couple of drops of blood on a
card.
There's four tubes for thesaliva samples throughout the
day.
And here's what we test forMost importantly for the purpose

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of today's podcast hemoglobinA1c.
This is a blood marker Fortoday's purpose of today's
podcast.
Hemoglobin A1c this is a bloodmarker.
It's a 90-day average of yourblood sugar trends.
We also look at cortisol.
As I said, four times duringthe day.
This is upon waking, beforelunch, before breakfast and
before bed.
We want to take these samplesbefore eating and this shows

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your diurnal rhythm and yourstress response.
So this is your natural rhythmof cortisol throughout the day.
We want it optimized bothmorning, noon, dinnertime and
before bed, and it's generallyelevated in the morning to give
you energy, and then we want tosee that curve come down before
bedtime so that it's offset bymelatonin.

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If your cortisol is elevated.
You can't have both.
You can't have elevated well,you can in some cases, but
generally you can't haveelevated cortisol and elevated
melatonin.
And we also look at thyroid.
So not just TSH like yourprimary care might run, but we
also look at TPO antibodies andwe look at free T4 and free T3.

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Those are very importantmarkers and we're not going to
go too deep in those today.
We're going to leave it at that.
That's a podcast episode foranother day.
We look at vitamin D, which isvery important for the immune
system.
It's very important for hormoneproduction and more.
We look at more and we do thisto be able to spot hormonal
imbalances and underlying rootcauses tied to energy and

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metabolism.
Now you might be wondering, jeff, what about insulin?
We're talking about blood sugarhere and you haven't mentioned
that yet.
Well, insulin used to be on thestress mood metabolism test.
They removed it temporarily.
It's temporarily unavailablewhile our lab upgrades their
precision equipment.
But hemoglobin A1c gives us aclear enough picture for now,

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and the goal isn't just totarget numbers.
It's to optimize your energyand your performance, to give
you the clarity and the energythat you deserve on a daily
basis.
So I want to give you fourtools that you can use right now
.
Now, and here's how to startreclaiming your mental energy

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and your emotional stabilitywithout obsessing over your food
or giving up your favoritetreats.
Number one track your patterns.
Try a continuous glucosemonitor If you have a medical
condition.
The one that I highly recommendis Theia Health, t-h-e-i-a
Health.
You can find that on ourresource page.
We can actually link upbiometric products on the

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episode, but unfortunately wecan't link up any supplements.
Unfortunately, the FDAregulates us on that.
But the Continuous GlucoseMonitor by Thea Health by far
the best one for you knowsomebody that's tracking a
medical condition or if you'retaking this with the utmost

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seriousness, that's the one Irecommend.
And for general wellnesstracking, there's a little more
economical product out there bya company called Stelo S-T-E-L-O
.
It's about half the price and,um, that one there, uh, they
have, you know, several generaloptions, but that one's not
recommended.
If someone's dealing with amedical condition, a great one

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just for tracking generalglucose spikes and dips during a
30-day period or 60-day periodand then seeing your personal
response that's where it's at is.
Seeing that response to foods,to stress and sleep is
incredibly empowering.
You can get a really good ideaof what's triggering your blood

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sugar to either rise or fall.
And you know, of course, if youeat food it's going to go up.
It's just a matter of how notnecessarily quickly it comes
down, but there's a generalslope downward of blood sugar
falling after you eat that.
We want to see If it stayselevated for a long time, you
know, two, three, four hours.

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That's not good.
Then there's something notallowing that blood glucose to
be processed or eliminated outof the body, or the body is
still producing blood sugar.
So, number two balance yourplate Now.
I said these are things youcould do now.
Yes, the CGM, the continuousglucose monitor.
You would have to order thatand go through a 30-day period

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to be able to track that and see.
But you'll get instant data onthat and as a practitioner, I
love seeing that data Forclients.
I can go in before a call and Ican check on a client's data to
see how's their blood sugarsince our last meeting, how has
their sleep been, how activehave they been?
Are they getting close to their10,000 steps per day?

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And it's great to be able tosee that and hold them
accountable.
That's what clients come to mefor is that accountability.
So, number two this is somethingyou can start with today
Balance your plate.
Every meal should have aprotein.
Now, that's okay if you'replant based, but you still need
your protein, you still needyour fiber and you still need a

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healthy fat anchor on your plate.
Why is that important?
This slows digestion and keepsyour blood sugar stable.
No more crashes after thosehealthy meals.
Number three by far the bestthing you can do to balance your
blood sugar is just 10 minutesof walking after you eat, or
gentle movement after meals canreduce glucose spikes by up to

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30%.
That's absolutely amazing 10minutes after you eat, and it
also improves digestion andmental clarity as well.
And then, number fourprioritize morning sunlight and
protein.
Now you might be thinking, jeff, those things not something I
expected you to say in the samesentence sunlight and protein.

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But what this does is it resetsyour cortisol rhythm and
stabilizes your blood glucose.
And then the bonus it helps yousleep better at night, which is
crucial for sugar control.
Are you starting to see how thisall ties together and just how
powerful the science and thedata can be for your overall

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health, your energy, yourperformance and your longevity?
So you don't have to give up.
You might be wondering whatabout coffee?
You don't have to give upcoffee, but you do need to do
this.
Let me be very, very clear youdon't have to give up your
coffee.
In fact, high quality coffeecan be incredibly beneficial
when used wisely, and the key tothis is how and when you drink

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it.
We talk about all that and uh,give you some great education
and information.
Um, in our learning andresource pages over at uh,
jeffreymortcom, slash resources.
Uh, for the products that Irecommend uh, purity coffee or
the?
Uh equal life coffee LifeCoffee it's the same, actually

(10:42):
the same coffee, but Equal Lifeteamed up with Purity.
And you can find that on theresource page.
Excellent, excellent products.
So many reasons why to switchto that coffee that I can.
I have done other episodes onthat as well and I'm really
going to be going deep into thatas well.
And then at jeffreymortcom,slash learn for free,

(11:06):
high-performance healtheducation.
That's our blog page over thereand our learning center.
Definitely check that out.
And over there inside there webreak down which coffee supports
your adrenals, how to avoid thecrash, why timing is everything
when it comes to caffeine andblood sugar and so much more.
So check those out over there.

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And to wrap things up in today'sepisode energy isn't a mystery.
It's a measurable metric, andif you're crashing, if you're
foggy or feeling like yourmotivation's gone missing, it's
not that you're broken.
You're likely just out ofrhythm, and blood sugar is often
where it starts.
So take the next step.
Book your free consultationwith me.

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We can determine which labmight be the best for you.
Maybe it's a stress moodmetabolism test, maybe it's a
minerals and metals test.
These all come with a consultand you get a free 20-minute
consult right off the bat anyway.
So take advantage of that.
The link is in the show notesand with any of our lab tests or
wellness programs, you get acustom bio-individualized

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wellness plan createdspecifically for you.
So check out the link in theshow notes and, if this episode
resonated, share it with afellow high performer who could
use some steady, sustainable,safe energy.
And until next time, stayaligned, stay energized and keep
breaking those boundaries.
Bye-bye everybody.