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Dr. Jeff Cumro - Stopping Stress and Optimizing Health

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01/22/2026

"It's okay, I take a supplement to cover potential deficiencies."

But does supplementation really work the same way as nutrients attained from the diet?

This study (and others) suggest that they don't. If vegetarians take in extra iron, they can still be anemic.

Why?

Like most nutrients, it isn't just the nutrient itself. We also need the co-factors that help them do their job appropriately, different forms are sometimes available in our foods than in our supplements and there are absorption issues in some cases as well (our body doesn't extract the full amount that is contained in the supplement).

I'm not picking on vegetarians with this, because we are all susceptible to this.

The takeaway: The Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA's) are designed to keep us from being deficient - not for having us at optimal levels.

If we don't know what is getting into your cells, we are guessing.

Using blood tests to assess these things can be the difference between fatigue, brain fog or sickness and having the vibrant, energetic lives we all crave.

01/21/2026

If you have consistent neck or shoulder pain, you may be working on the wrong area.

Take a look at your shoulder blades (you may need someone else to snap a picture for you).

Do you see how the right shoulder blade sticks out more than the left? This is called winging of the scapula and is a sign of shoulder dysfunction.

To protect your ability to use your arm, you may be using other muscle groups to overcome that dysfunction, leading to persistent pain in other regions (stereotypically the neck, shoulder blade or shoulder joint).

Getting in to get a workup is the first step on this, but in most cases functionality can be restored - eliminating the headaches, neck pain, shoulder ache or "knife in the back".

01/21/2026

Our body and brain are designed to heal from traumas - including some of the worse injuries that we face (traumatic brain injuries).

Among the most important aspects of this is having the energy and the resources to heal. Without either side of this equation, we are left with less than optimal results.

With the stresses that most of us face on a daily basis, the sleep debt that society carries and the diet that is consumed by the average person - most people aren't meeting the standards needed.

The body is a self-healing organism.

When we get a scratch, we don't have to tell it to put down more skin. We just have to supply the things it needs.

Major traumas may require more resources, but when we supply them, it is amazing what humans are capable of.

01/21/2026

Vegetarians often do so for their own reasons - but it is hard to maintain a healthy body and brain without animal proteins. Here's why I advise those them to add some sort of broth or certain types of meats/supplements, especially if there is a brain injury.

1. We need complete proteins for our own body. If we have an deficiencies in amino acids, we have to substitute the next best thing - leaving altered functionality in our system (read: less functionality).

2. Animal proteins provide these amino acids in the proper balance that they are needed allowing us an efficient form of sustenance. We don't have to eat massive amounts of other foods to get what we need (which still often leaves those who don't eat animal proteins in a less optimal state).

3. Our brain needs certain types of fats - namely omega 3's like EPA and DHA - which are found most readily available in seafood sources. These are critical for those that sustain a brain injury, have risks of dementia or learning/behavioral disorders and for those that want to protect their brain as they age.

If you choose not to eat meat, that's okay. But knowing that it is difficult to get the materials you need, and having a plan to properly approach these challenges is paramount to long-term health.

Remember, not all meats are weighted the same though. Processed meats can actually make things 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦. Avoiding these when making your selections can help you navigate health more efficiently.

01/20/2026

Humans didn't evolve eating a lot of carbohydrates through the winter, yet most people are taking this to the extreme - eating highly processed carbohydrates year-round.

Think about this for a moment...

You are part of a hunter-gatherer tribe.

You either hunt to get food, or you find things that you can grab off of the land.

If you don't hunt in the winter, how much are you going to have to eat?

Maybe something if you're lucky, but very little.

We evolved with this in mind - a certain diet at certain times of the year helped keep us metabolically flexible (the ability to use different energy sources to most efficiently supply our body and brain with what it needs to run).

We don't have these problems today - food is readily available and most people are grabbing whatever their heart desires.

This goes against our programming, though, and can leave us reliant on certain circumstances to fuel our body and brain.

When those circumstances no longer fit, we are left with a lack of focus, increased stress, fatigue, pain and more.

What you eat and when you eat it matters.

01/20/2026

Sleep is imperative for human health. You literally can't live without it.

It also plays an intricate role in our delicate physiology.

When we don't get enough sleep, it increases our stress response, which in-turn throws hormones off balance (higher cortisol and lower s*x hormone levels allowing for the production of more cortisol), alters metabolism and neurological function.

Sleep is also a learnable skill in most cases.

If you are thinking you will "sleep when you're dead", or you are getting 10 hours of sleep a night and "don't need help" despite waking up not feeling refreshed - it is impacting your health.

We help fix the underlying problems before they become problems affecting every area of life.

01/20/2026

It is easy to assume that kids are little adults - the same things that work for adults will work fine (perhaps with dosages adjusted) in kids.

While this may be true in some cases, looking at the brain and the immune system in this way is short-sighted.

Why?

The brain and immune system (along with other things like movement patterns) are still developing.

When they are exposed to toxic insult, excessive inflammation, trauma or other challenges, this can alter the development - leading to life-long alterations.

What are the leading causes of inflammation?

Lifestyle - dietary, sleep, stress and toxic insult - all play a major role in these levels.

Working to optimize lifestyle can also increase the odds of optimizing neurological and immune development, as well.

That's just one of the ways we work to develop, and sustain, health for a lifetime.

01/19/2026

Focus is something we think we can get more of if we try hard enough.

While that may work for a short period of time, it isn't likely to work for long.

Why?

Focus requires energy and the prefrontal portion of our brain.

As we run low on energy, or stress starts to pile up, we turn down this part of the brain. You may see this with impulsive decisions, emotionality or simple mistakes that you normally wouldn't make.

So, how do we restore the ability to focus for the long-term?

That's what we dive into in the MINDS Method - working to restore you energetic capacity, vibrancy and ultimately fuel your success in health and life.

If you want to see what's holding you back the most, take the quiz in the comments.

01/19/2026

Antibiotics have contributed a lot to society.

However, their negative effects haven't been fully documented yet with research suggesting their misuse (which has been common) plays a role in many of the chronic health challenges that we face.

Working to protect metabolic and immune function through lifestyle changes can help you avoid getting sick - and speed your recovery if you do. This helps limit medications to only those that are absolutely necessary - minimizing the damage that they can do on a personal and population level.

01/18/2026

Omega 3 fatty acids (in the right proportions to omega 6 fatty acids) greatly decrease inflammation in our cells.

If we decrease inflammation, we decrease a lot of the disease processes that go with it, including pain.

Sadly, when we take certain types of drugs (even those sold over-the-counter), we can disrupt this process, rendering our body less capable of producing those protective particles.

Our ratio of omega 6 to omega 3's should be 4:1 or less. Most Americans clock-in at around 15:1 to 20:1 (depending on the research you read). I have seen significantly worse ratios than this as well!

Inflammation is undoubtedly tied with our chronic health epidemic and it appears that some of the things we are using trying to help ourselves are making the problem worse.

01/18/2026

If you already knew the answer to a question in your business, would you continue to spend significant portions of your revenue researching it?

Probably not.

Yet, that's exactly what we continue to do with many of the industries that are affecting our health - including our food industry.

Is it enough to know that the companies that marketed to***co as healthy moved into our food industry in a big way when the government cracked down on to***co?

No.

But when we know they are using many of the same marketing tactics to push foods that we know are poisoning our population it takes it to another level.

Processed foods are leading us down a similar path as to***co in the 1900's.

The question is, do we start to change that path, or do we continue to follow it while "more research is done"?

01/17/2026

Are the farm chemicals that we use really as safe as we have been led to believe?

This is a strong debate in the Midwest. The farmers that use them most will tell you that they are safe.

The researchers tell us the other side of the story, which likely contributes to some of the health challenges seen in areas where these chemicals are used the most.

Many of these chemicals have an antibiotic effect, wiping out many species (including the healthy ones) in our gut.

This loss of diversity in our system leads to higher inflammation, metabolic challenges and immune issues (all of which contribute to many of the chronic diseases we face).

With that piling up, is organic food worth the additional cost?

After seeing the toxicity that can exist even in those that live in urban areas in the Midwest, and my own personal experience with autoimmunity, I vote that way with my dollars more often than not.

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