A Dog’s Life

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one
hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.—E.
B. White

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I’ve been blessed in so many ways and I’m grateful for every one of them. I’m also sure that those blessings include things I’m not even aware of and I’m grateful for those things as well. I don’t really have the words to express the depth of wonder and thankfulness I feel for the miracle of the gift of life. Even when I’ve been in the grip of terrible hopelessness and despair, I’m thankful for the gift and blessing of life itself.

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I used to see biochemistry as something outside of my control.

However, in the past few years, I’ve been experimenting with dietary supplements and I’ve learned that my biochemistry is something that I can tinker with. You are what you eat in ways that I previously didn’t imagine.

Very recently, I had a pretty dramatic lesson in biochemistry that really blew me away. I was able to induce and then relieve a very serious bout of depression by tinkering with my biochemistry. The induction of the depression was accidental. The relief was deliberate.

What I found is that my depression is directly related to my testosterone and estrogen levels. I’ve been taking a supplement that lowers estrogen and raises testosterone and things have been going well with it. I decided to experiment with a different product that was supposed to do the same thing but I found out that it didn’t. I found this out because a couple of weeks into the new product, my depression (which I thought was gone forever) came back with a vengeance. Once I figured out that the problem was the new supplement, I went back to the old product and within a few days, my depression lifted.

I’ve learned a number of things from this experience. 1) My biochemistry is not outside of my control. 2) My depression is directly related to my testosterone and estrogen levels. 3) Don’t mess with a good thing.

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