We've all seen it. Or if you have kids, you've had the humbling experience of living it.

There's a kid at Target absolutely losing it. Full meltdown. They want a toy, a piece of candy, some form of dopamine hit, and when the parent says no, the little turd erupts into a torrent of crying, wailing like a banshee, kicking, screaming, and becoming a menace to everyone within a thirty-foot radius. And in a moment of pure exhausted embarrassment, the parent just gives in.

When my son was about two or three, he had o...

I've been doing this for 24 years.

I started my first day of clinic on September 11th, 2001. I made it through the end of the dot-com bust. The housing crash in 2008. I had two kids 13 months apart (that stress was personal, not global). The pandemic. Riots. All of it.

This week feels different.

I don't know how else to say it. It feels deeper. Spiritual. Subconscious. Almost like a universal subconscious shift that everyone's picking up on whether they realize it or not.

And I don't like it.

What's Differen...

Everyone is stressed as hell right now and they're getting their ass kicked.

Every person. Every appointment. Every conversation.

Anxiety. Stress. Fear. Sitting in the chest. Crushing. I wrote most of this after teaching at ICAK's winter meeting in Orlando. What became clear in the days after confirmed what I was already seeing in the clinic: everyone, and I do mean everyone, is getting crushed by adrenal exhaustion right now.

Almost all of my patients this week said some version of "I don't know what's wrong ...