Stephen ScogginsFounder - CEO, Lion - Lamb Solutions · Founder CEO Unstoppable Solutions

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27 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this spoken segment, the speaker recounts an "aha" moment when they realized they had been focusing solely on mindset and behavioral systems to explain chronic fatigue. They decided to undergo comprehensive medical testing—including adrenal and gut panels—and discovered that their body was producing almost no cortisol. The speaker explains cortisol’s role in providing drive, energy, and raising blood sugar, contrasting it with insulin’s lowering effect. With such low cortisol, they felt constantly flat, as if carrying a ton of bricks. Previously, they had blamed laziness, trauma, or guilt for their exhaustion and responded by pushing harder with exercise and work, which only worsened the condition. The narrative highlights the importance of looking beyond psychological explanations to underlying physiological dysfunction.

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And I had this aha moment where I was like, all I've been thinking about is mindset. What are the systems? And so I started getting tested. I got my adrenals tested, I got my, you know, gut tested, everything tested. And what I found was just mind-blowing because this whole time I thought there's something wrong with me. And I always connected it to, oh, maybe it was past trauma or maybe I'm just lazy, guilt, right? And what turned out was my body was making almost zero cortisol. Now cortisol's the hormone that makes you say, okay, get up and go. It gives you drive, it gives you energy. If you don't have cortisol— it also regulates blood sugars upwards. So you've got insulin that brings the blood sugars down, cortisol that brings the blood sugars up. So you literally just feel flat, like, like you're carrying a ton of bricks. It's the worst feeling in the world. Um, and so this whole time I'm thinking I am lazy, so I'm forcing myself to exercise more, I'm forcing myself to grind harder, and I'm only perpetuating the problem.