Up next, starting the afternoon, we have Nora Gagatis and her title is Re-Thinking Fatigued, the Adrenal Neck. From DC Berkeley, hey. So my name is Nora Gagatis and for those of you that don't know me, I'm the author of Final Body and Final Mind, hopefully you're familiar with that. But I'm also the author of a newly released book called Re-Thinking Fatigued, which her dream was really telling you what you can do about it. And this is currently available in all the e-book formats online, you know, Kindle Live Books, Nook and all of that. Unfortunately, due to the time constraints that we have today, we're not going to have much of a chance to talk about what you can actually do about it, but it's all in the book. So I'm hoping to broaden your thinking about this all to common issue and challenge you guys all to think about this in yourself in some new ways you maybe haven't thought of before. I really hope and expect that you're going to come away from what I'm about to present here with some very new and considerably updated and in a modernized appreciation of so-called adrenal issues, right, that lay the groundwork for actually being able to successfully address them. So with that much further ado. Oh, okay. Problems. There we go. So I don't need to tell any of you that we're living in a really profoundly stressful world now, something our ancestors could not have possibly even begun to fathom. And your stress management capacity can totally make or break your health and your quality of life. You can be doing virtually everything else right. And stress alone, especially if it's mismanaged and really chronic can totally unravel you. And I'm sure a lot of you already understand that. I do. But a typical stress reaction, you know, creates a cascade of roughly 1400 biochemical reactions in your body. And managing these reactions is essential toward optimizing your health process and brain function. So what stands between this whole modern day stress monolith that we're living in and our health is insignificant measure the health of our adrenal function. And unfortunately, the adrenal related issues are very poorly understood nowadays by by most health care providers, even natural health care providers. And they're often still based in very outdated sort of 1950s based information and 1950s based stress physiology. And this presentation really brings the whole issue of stress management and adrenal health into the 21st century. And it's going to provide you with a much broader and more practically useful perspective of the subject. You know, our drenals are our stress hormone factories and they're poised to respond to the stress to the stressors we face or the stress that we impose on them. So adrenal dysfunction is often perceived as one thing when in fact it may be many things. And what's commonly referred to as adrenal burnout, we hear everybody walking around talking about adrenal burnout. It's frequently something else entirely. And unless the source of the problem can be actually identified, it can't be effectively addressed. And I think that makes sense. So I plan to go through some of the more common adrenal issues here and offer a different way of thinking about your adrenal health. The big surprise here is that the problem may not be your adrenal glands at all. So, you know, stress basically, the way I like to define it is what it isn't. And stress isn't what actually happens to us in life. It's how we respond to what happens to us. And stress can be either physical, emotional or physiological, where the effect is always physiological. So another really important thing to keep in mind here is that our stress hormones are there to essentially keep us alive and particularly help us deal with emergencies. You know, we're actually not meant to live in a perpetual state of emergency. And our stress hormones are actually designed to work in a much more punctuated fashion.  I don't know. But, you know, our adrenal reactions basically rapidly raise our blood sugar in order to, you know, increase our access to basically rocket fuel, right, that metabolic kindling, and give us that shot in the arm that we can use to outrun whatever it is that might be pursuing us or, you know, deal with that extreme exertion. So small amounts of hormones like cortisol are also necessary for other things. You know, it's not all bad. You know, we need it for good gut health. We need it again to manage our stress and for healthy moods and sleep cycles and things like that. Too much or too little can be really problematic. But our bodies and brains are really only designed to handle so much, you know. And we're not supposed to be marinated in cortisol 24-7 on an ongoing basis. So we're actually designed physiologically to be functioning in a calm, relaxed, parasympathetic state like 99.9% of the time. And then, you know, and then maybe 0.1% of the time, you know, when we shift into survival mode, that, you know, that's called for, what's called for then is sort of this need for emergency exertion. And cortisol basically gives us the boost and adrenaline, give us the boost that we need in order to deal with that. Unfortunately nowadays, this whole thing is really flip-flopped. And so many people are being chased around by cantankerous wooly mammoths and saber-two tigers and whatever, pretty well 24-7, 99.99% of the time.   Well our ancestors would never have comprehended doing things this way. And our bodies and brains were never ever designed for it. It's a very, very real problem, real problem designed or associated with modern life. So this is the man often referred to as the father of the study of stress physiology. His name is Dr. Hans Sellier. And he was a brilliant Canadian, Canadian, hey, endocrinologist and researcher. And he was nominated more than once, actually close to 10 times for the Nobel Prize. So, you know, the guy was no slouch. And he had some brilliant ideas. And his model of stress involving these progressive stages of adrenal exhaustion were accepted for many years, in natural health circles, as sort of kind of being the gold standard. And this stuff is still being taught today in fact. And I learned it too in the beginning. But it's really no longer accepted by the current science of stress physiology. And, you know, we have these new advancements in our understanding of stress physiology and what actually constitutes adrenal compromise. And it just really isn't what Sellier proposed. And stress and adrenal, quote unquote, exhaustion does not necessarily progress in predictable stages as, you know, as they used to think. In other words, most of natural medicine is still unfortunately in the 1950s when it comes to adrenal issues. Of course, that said, this means, you know, conventional medicine is probably still pretty much in the dark ages when it comes to this whole issue. But this is the basic model of what Sellier proposed. It all seems logical enough at first. He originally proposed in 1956 that the stress response had certain progressive stages. There's an alarm stage where cortisol significantly elevated or high. There's a resistance stage where it could either be high or low. And ultimately there's an exhaustion stage where cortisol becomes chronically depressed. And then you have this further broken down into seven different subset, you know, progressive stages of adrenal exhaustion.  And in fact, as it turns out, now that we have some better and more affordable testing to show it, a person can go into elevated states or depressed cortisol patterns almost literally overnight. There are some people that can be exposed to chronic even severe levels of stress over years or even decades, and the pattern never really changes. So there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye. But Sellier's model is basically a glandular model of adrenal dysregulation. And the glandular model is largely, it turns out, just inaccurate most of the time. And that's why you can take adrenal supplements till they're coming out of your ears and they just simply never do a thing. Now, this part of Sellier's understanding really is true. That cortisol is in fact released as part of a generally predictable daily circadian rhythm where it is highest in the morning and it's at its lowest level at night. Now, this is an overview of our primary stress response system. Most of what's thought of as adrenal dysregulation is not glandular at all, and that's part of the myth. But it's instead due to brain-based mechanisms and dysregulation resulting in faulty signaling to the adrenal glands and poor integration of your cortisol rhythms.  They basically just do what they're told to do by your brain. Now, this particular study by Bruce Sherman McEwen in physiology reviews back in 2007 titled Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation, The Central Role of the Brain. And in it he says, quote, the brain is the key organ of the response to stress because it determines what is threatening and therefore potentially stressful as well as the physiological and behavioral responses which can be either adaptive or damaging. You know, plain and simple. There's a lot of research happening in this area right now. So basically there are four areas of the brain involved in regulating your adrenal function. You have the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. And this basically controls the amount of cortisol you're producing at any given time. You also have the hippocampus, part of your temporal lobes deep in the limbic part of your brain.  Then you have your mesothencephalic midbrain.  And then finally you have the pineal gland which is responsible for obviously the production of melatonin and in so doing involved with cortisol melatonin balance which is the basic circadian rhythm. So here we just sort of have another way of looking at this in more detail. The brain sends messages to the adrenals from the HPA axis where the messaging is sent through these little areas of nuclei from the brain. And these nuclei activate the adrenal glands and they cause them to release glucocorticoids. Mainly cortisol but also the catecholamine neurotransmitters like epinephrine and norepinephrine and that sort of thing. Now basically inputs from neurochemicals like neurotransmitters or cytokines, inflammatory compounds, to what are called the paraventricular nuclear cells or PVN cells of the hypothalamus, determine the cortisol output that your adrenals produce, the amount of cortisol that your adrenals produce. So if there is excessive input, say too many excitatory neurotransmitters and that exceeds the inhibitory input, then the result will be excitatory or stimulating, you know, makes sense. So in other words, too many stimulants, too much stress in your life, too much exercise, too much burning, the candle at both ends can all potentially lead to something like that. And if the input is more inhibitory instead, then cortisol output is going to be inhibited for better or worse. So it turns out, though, that infections in certain types of inflammatory compounds or cytokines, in other words, have a huge dampening effect or can have a huge dampening effect. The amount of cortisol produced, along with your neurotransmitter activity, by the way, is controlled by what is called the central integrative state of the paraventricular nucleus of your hypothalamus. I know you knew that but I'm just reminding you. So there are basically two ways in which the hypothalamic sort of interference can result in adrenal dysregulation, you know, creating the effect of too much cortisol or not enough. So what effect would most adrenal supplements out there have on this, do you think? None. No effect at all. You know, surprise. So this diagram is taken from what's called an ASI, Adrenal Stress Index. Many of you are probably familiar with it. And it's a salivary hormone panel basically designed to measure your overall cortisol burden and also your basic cortisol rhythms. To me, that's the most important part of this thing. There are, you know, pages of other things that they like to measure in there, too. But, you know, the primary purpose is to really get a clear snapshot of how your adrenals are functioning in general, and particularly within the context of cortisol. So I'm kind of biased in my preference for diagnostics lab, you know, for this when it comes to that. But there are probably a lot of other labs that are doing a good job, too.  If by some miracle you test positive, you can pretty well take that to the bank. But it's mostly about, you know, showing false negatives. I only use Cyrex labs for that type of testing. But, you know, they try to add bells and whistles. But nearly everything I want to know is right on the front page of the test. The overall cortisol burden and the graphic representation of the cortisol circadian rhythm here. And this particular diagram in the slide basically shows what's supposed to be generally optimized cortisol circadian rhythm. Here's, you know, the dotted lines here represent the normative range. You know, it's all supposed to be taking place in here somehow. And this is just kind of as the semi-solid line depicts just a perfectly normal cortisol rhythm where it is highest in the morning when you first wake up and then it kind of levels off during the day and begins to decline. And then by, you know, by midnight, hopefully it's down at its lowest step, which makes sense. That's when you need the least stimulation. So, but an aside here is that the current normative range is really standardized for the automatic assumption that a person's obviously dependent on glucose as a primary source of fuel because the reason it's highest in the morning is to bring your blood sugar up so that you can feel activated and energized and start your day.  So you're kind of left, you know, having to sort of use a judgment, make a judgment call when it comes to evaluating this in people you know have adopted this other way of eating. So sometimes what we'll see may look like low morning cortisol in a person who's ketogenically well adapted. You know, I'll typically ask them whether or not they have trouble waking up in the morning, trouble getting going, you know, and if they don't then I don't worry about that particular variation. So in general ketogenically well adapted individuals tend to need less cortisol in, you know, overall. And especially early in the day to get going, although we still use a little cortisol in order to mobilize and increase fatty acids, you know, in the bloodstream from our fat cells to be used as fuel for energy production. So it still has a role to play. But this happens to be the ASI of a person with chronically elevated cortisol levels. They also have an elevated fasting glucose and a really high prediabetic hemoglobin A1C. And in this person's case their diet is actually pretty good. It's not that bad at all with respect to carb intake and that sort of thing.  And they also happen to be malabsorptive. And they've been experiencing muscle wasting, surprise, surprise. One of the things about cortisol is that it is a catabolic hormone. As opposed to anabolic, which builds things up. Cortisol is catabolic, which means it breaks things down. So when you have over-elevated cortisol levels, it's very hard to make gains with your fitness regimens. You also, very often, when somebody says they have a lot of trouble gaining weight, I'm interested in, number one, are they malabsorptive? And number two, you know, what's going on with their cortisol rhythms? They also may, this particular person also was showing some signs of early neurodegeneration. Because again, the richest repository of cortisol receptors in the brain is the hippocampus. And that's the first part of the brain to deteriorate in things like dementias and Alzheimer's. One very common source of excess cortisol production is also overtraining by athletes. It's a surefire recipe for crashing later on. And more is not better. And there was a former elite trainer, his name was Mike Menser, way back when. And he once said that overtraining is not just a bad mistake. It is literally the worst mistake you can make as an athlete. It's also a very good way of suppressing your immune function and making you vulnerable to a lot of unpleasant things long-term. So here are the common symptoms of chronically elevated cortisol. Basically, not feeling rested after sleep, finding it hard to recover from physical activity, abnormal weight loss, or abnormal weight gain. There are different reasons for both. Being more fatigued after meals, chronically elevated fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1C, even if you're on a low-carb high-fat diet. Having a lot of nervous energy, poor sleep, possible GI symptoms. You know, through a process of the suppression of secretory IgA, excessive cortisol tends to suppress secretory IgA, and that can lead to things like dysbiosis and leaky gut and things like that. It can lead to neurodegenerative changes. In other words, learning and memory issues. Where do I leave my car keys again? You know, stuff like that. Elevated cortisol can also lower your T3 thyroid hormone by suppressing an enzyme called 5D-idonase, which is responsible for the conversion of thyroid hormone T4 into active T3. So that could show up in your blood cams, too.  That's kind of the idea. But in these cases, what you often see in blood chemistries is a functionally or clinically depressed TSH, coupled with T3 and T4, you know, depressed T3 and T4 hormones. This is what I often refer to as depressed thyroid function, secondary to pituitary hypofunction related to chronic stress. Excess cortisol also increases your protein breakdown that can lead to muscle wasting. And remember, your heart is also a muscle. And that's one reason why marathon runners are notorious for dropping dead, you know, due to heart failure, because they're constantly stressing themselves in an unreasonable way for prolonged periods of time. It's also invariably leads to neurodegenerative changes in the brain, and this can also lead to bone loss that may result in things like osteoporosis over time. Excess cortisol also suppresses your immune function and interferes with healing and regeneration. And that can cause shrinking of your lymphatic tissue over time and also diminish your lymphocyte numbers and your lymphocyte functioning. Again, as I mentioned, you can depress in a secretory IGA production, which is, of course, your first line of defense of your immune system in both your gut and lung tissue, which is in short not a good thing. So this is what depressed cortisol looks like on an ASI. And this is also an example of what, you know, what's typically referred to in mainstream natural medicine is stage 7 adrenal exhaustion, right? The last nail pounding into the coffin, the burned out adrenals. This person happens to experience depression and fatigue, chronic fatigue, some anxiety, and they regularly crave caffeine and alcohol. And this person also had a lot of food sensitivities, and that may be one likely cause as well as a known parasitic and also a chronic viral infection. Things were going really well for them. They had a lot of chronic personal stress and they were also drinking too much and had not enough rest. So if we're looking at this from a brain-based perspective, just the brain-based perspective, you know, inflammatory cytokines generated through the food sensitivities and infections can adversely alter the paraventricular nuclear cells of the hypothalamus and dampen their output.  So what are the common symptoms of chronically low cortisol? Well, basically, you know, chronic fatigue and decreased tolerance to cold or stress, poor circulation, low blood sugar symptoms, which by the way, in other words hypoglycemia, in other words, this is not a dietary sugar or starch deficiency. There is no such thing. You may feel a little better eating sugar starch, but what you're doing is putting a band-aid on the problem and what you need to do is dig deeper to find out what the root of the situation is. You really do need to find out. You may be experiencing excessively low blood pressure, apathy or depression, poor stamina, joint aches and pains, muscle weakness, a need for excessive amounts of sleep, lowered resistance to infection. You get sick more often maybe than a lot of people, and also having a sort of a subnormal body temperature. It may not be thyroid related at all, primarily. So what are some of the potential causes of what looks like adrenal burnout? Well, again, you know, infection or inflammation, you know, leading to decreased hypothalamic output, we already talked about that. That's a possibility. But also free radical processes and cancers, right, can lead to a state of chronic fatigue. Pituitary hyperfunction, you know, low adrenocortic atropin hormone. Having abrupt withdrawal from long-term steroid use, probably not too big a going concern for most people, but you know, you see that sometimes in athletes. Iron deficiencies and also B6 and B12 types of anemias. Also insufficient cholesterol. You know, anything that lowers cholesterol is not good for this, right? Because adrenaline, cortisol, you know, these hormones are steroidal hormones. They're basically cholesterol-based hormones. So statin use is not friendly to something like this. You know, nutritional deficiencies like B vitamins, minerals, EFAs, there's certain raw materials needed in order to manufacture these substances needed.  Autoimmune disorders, which we'll get to. And also things like that can trigger or exacerbate hypoglycemia. Things like, oh, I don't know, diets high in sugar and starch. And poor or irregular eating habits, too, that can lead to this roller coaster ride and not a fun one.  Not like that. In my view, it's better to get away from having to deal with blood sugar altogether by adopting a more fat-based ketogenic approach to eating, but, you know, that's just me, hey, maybe not just me, but I'm biased. But blood sugar surges are the surest way of screwing up your adrenal function or pretty much just about anything. It has a huge, massive endocrine effect. Also constant stimulants seeking, either through substances like caffeine or nicotine or whatever, or excessive exercise or, you know, seeking external stimuluses all the time.  These are the people you see bungee jumping out of airplanes and Mount Dew commercials, right? If you have a red bull habit, you might need to rethink that. But also, this is an increasingly common issue in our society today, something our caveman ancestors really knew absolutely nothing about. I certainly don't know anything about. But this can also be some combination of the above and also perhaps a few other things that we'll get to. We're always tempted to look for one thing, but it's oftentimes layers of things. But an important thing to remember is that our adrenal hormones are all about survival. Some things bear repeating. And that need for survival basically takes precedence over absolutely everything else, including the production of your sex hormones and immune enhancing DHEA and a whole lot of other things.  You know, not particularly important.  Not really that good for date night. You know, there's this phenomenon referred to as the pregnenolone steel. As you can see, where steroidal hormone production ends up getting diverted away from sex hormone production, straight to the survival hormones. And, you know, this can lead to really big problems and uncomfortable symptoms in women going through menopause, but also it can be a common cause of depressed testosterone in men, although the most common cause of depressed testosterone in men is something called aromatization, which is basically related to metabolic disorder. And my friend Dr. Janet Lang is fond of referring to the closely related sort of steroidal hormones here in terms of being a family, right? They function together and they dysfunction together. And anything you do to one of them is going to impact all of them. So think before you start slathering on these hormone creams, whether they're bio-identical or not, it doesn't matter.  This is actually in somewhat the sort of disturbingly the most common form of adrenal dysregulation that I see in my practice. The part of your brain's temporal lobes called the hippocampus is responsible, among other things, for mitigating your stress response. That's the primary place your brain mitigates stress response. And it has the richest repository of cortisol receptors of any other part of the brain. And this part of the brain is also responsible for the integration and conversion of short-term to long-term memory, and it's also learning. So this is where acetylcholine is produced, which of course you need for normal cognitive functioning and memory. And it's the part of the brain that's incredibly important too for supporting neurological stability. This is the first part of the brain to deteriorate in Alzheimer's disease and dementias, and it's the very first part of the brain to suffer under chronic stress. So the symptoms of dysregulation here, something you need to take very seriously and take inventory of as I go through this, include things like problems falling asleep, problems staying asleep, energy crashes in the late afternoon, real difficulty getting going in the morning, often coupled with problems winding down at night. There's kind of an up and down kind of a thing to it. Memory problems, difficulty learning, new information, forgetfulness. Ongoing issues here can increase your risk for cardiovascular disease. It can also lead to GI problems because these cortisol rhythms also help coordinate gut motility and also your immune function because the rhythms also coordinate and modulate your immune function. In addition to leading to things like cognitive deterioration, dementia, you might also see signs of neurological instability. And this can be things like mood-lability, in other words, mood swings, emotional reactivity, panic attacks, neuralges, migraines, increased seizure potential, not good stuff. The thing is that a lot of mood disturbances do have a circadian rhythm component and it's something to rule out and to look at. So this is what it looks like on an ASI. And this person basically experiences extreme fatigue in the morning. Is there any wonder why? And then they crave caffeine, drink a whole pot of coffee or whatever it takes to get themselves going. They're chronically irritable. They're chronically agitated. They have a lot of emotional reactivity and a lot of problems with restless sleep and winding down at night because of course when they're supposed to be sleeping, look at where their adrenal hormones are doing. I had this one right in my book, Primal Body, Primal Mind, when I called it a brain-based adrenal pattern. But it was wrong, although I was using the best and most accurate information I had at the time. When I called this pattern an HPA-axis issue, it isn't. It's most likely a hippocampal issue and it is not a good problem to have. This type of adrenal issue needs to be taken very seriously, needs to be addressed very aggressively with diet and nutritional support. And I talk about what to do with this in the book. I'd be recommending a fat-base ketogenic diet for this person so fast it'd make your head spin because a person like this has literally zero room for error. And this person is for sure going to have all kinds of serious blood sugar issues and it has to be gotten under permanent control. So temporal lobe degeneration as a result of this is no joke at all. We joke about senior moments. It's not funny. It's all too common nowadays and a lot of younger people are having these senior moments, you know, showing up in younger and younger individuals. Radiologists are seeing this sort of thing even in relatively young individuals nowadays and calling this a normal variant of aging. There is nothing normal about this simply because it is becoming commonplace because of the crazy life that we lead and because of the way we eat. So causes of hippocampal degeneration include things like chronic stress, basically leading to chronic cortisol marinate of the delicate hippocampal tissue, excess dietary sugar and starch and chronic dysglycemia leading to cortisol surges and insulin surges and free radical activity and neuro-inflammation. Also other chronic neuro-inflammation due to dietary antigen exposure, like gluten and other types of food sensitivity issues and also exposure to haptans, environmental compounds and things like that. Methylation defects are also oftentimes a problem with this as well because methylation is incredibly important for the integrity of the hippocampus. Also poor digestion and diet can lead to key methyl donor deficiencies, especially B12-infolic acid and then lead to elevated homocysteine levels, which by itself is neuro-inflammatory neurodegenerative. And also there's also deficiencies of elongated omega-3s, especially particularly DHA, which is of course needed to help modulate cortisol in the brain and as possible autoimmunity as well. And then excess dietary and sugar and starch and chronic dysglycemia. And I just kind of want to make this point. And the title of the study pretty much says it all. Quote, higher glucose levels are associated with lower memory and reduced hippocampal microstructure. That's the title. It kind of says everything. And the conclusions of the study, where's follows. They said, our results indicate that even in the absence of manifest type 2 diabetes, mellitus, or impaired glucose tolerance, chronically higher blood glucose levels exert a negative influence on cognition, possibly mediated by structural changes in learning relevant brain areas, such as, oh, I don't know, the hippocampus. So, you know, in the face of the things we can't control, we need to control the things we can. And what we put in our mouths is something we still have some control over. So moving right along, we also have the pineal gland and melatonin and pineal activation. And melatonin and cortisol are always in direct opposition to one another. When melatonin is up, cortisol is down. When cortisol is up, melatonin is down. And this is the cortisol melatonin circadian rhythm, okay? And the pineal gland, which produces melatonin from serotonin, is influenced by light input through something called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which is, again, sensitive to the time of year and how much light we're getting exposed to during the day and all of that. That's what typically governs the melatonin circadian rhythm. But the most common thing to disrupt melatonin is actually a cortisol issue. But, of course, when you live in modern, you know, day 24-hour sunlight in the form of electricity, that doesn't help either. But other things can disrupt healthy melatonin production in circadian rhythms, too. Inadequate sleep disrupts this, which in turn dampens your immune response. The dysregulation can also be seasonal for some people, or for people who don't get enough time outdoors during the day or enough exposure to normal, you know, normal daylight. Pineal disturbances can influence metabolic syndrome and weight problems, you know, pretty substantially, actually, which is one reason why sleep is so important when it comes to weight issues.  And you're also probably not going to dream very much, which can also be related to be six deficiency. And you're not going to have enough appropriate REM sleep. But also your immune system is going to be weakened and there's going to be a pronus to getting sick a lot more frequently. A lot of people notice themselves getting sick a day or two after pulling an all-nighter or flying through multiple time zones. Dear God, I know that one. I just got back from a tour through Australia and there were time zones within Australia too. It was crazy. But anyway, melatonin actually primes and stimulates your immune function and inflammation while cortisol dampens it and reduces inflammation. That's essentially a modulatory pattern or dance. No good or bad guys, but it all needs to be in some form of appropriate balance. So you need to get these melatonin cycles under control. And I talk about ways of doing this in the book. And by the way, you don't do it by taking melatonin supplements. The worst possible thing you can do. You want to screw up your melatonin cortisol rhythm, take that melatonin at night. You'll do it every time. So the other aspect of this is your mesolympic and mesencephalic midbrain. It's right at the top of your brainstem and it's the part of your brain that is all about survival, right? It's where our brains epinephrine and norepinephrine are produced, your brain's version of adrenaline. And the midbrain basically controls what you can think of as the amplitude of your adrenal or your immune response. This region of the brain is also really sensitive to inflammation, particularly interleukin-6, the richest repository of interleukin-6 receptors, very nasty type of cytokine. And it basically generates hyperfunction by overstimulating the mesencephalic reticular formation, which is the part of the brain that produces norepinephrine. So strong emotional reactions and events can really plasticize activity here. In other words, things get stuck. There's kind of a feedback loop. And it can kindle really long-term issues in people, especially like traumatizing events and things like that can lead to a more chronically exaggerated stress response.  People with this type of brain dysregulation, you see them wearing like sunglasses all the time. Even indoors, even on cloudy days, even early in the morning or in the evenings, they're really sensitive to bright light. They're also really sensitive to loud noises. They don't like that. They cannot stand crowds for love or money. And movement close to them tends to be over-activating of this part of the brain. Many people, these issues also have elevated, you know, GAD antibodies. You run into that pretty often. Can't really get into that. You know, the part of the... What helps wind this part of the brain down is, of course, our GAVA-nergic system. And so you kind of have to look, too, at... You got to look at GI infections and severe dysbiosis also, because that tends to depress GAVA. So that's one of the things to look for in this sort of instance. This part of the brain is directly connected to the gut through the vagus nerve. And they actually emerge from the same tissue at one time and remain connected throughout our lives. And so certain types of lactobacillus rhamnosis is something that sometimes can enhance GAVA activity in this part of the brain. But the brain and the gut are always connected. So what are the potential sources of chronic fatigue? Again, we talked about chronic infections of all kinds, free radical processes, mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammation, depressed thyroid function. And again, you know, especially the type associated with deprespituitary function. Diagnosed or subclinical anemia, or also excess iron and ferritin, can also lead to extreme fatigue and almost thyroid-like symptoms. These are things to rule out. Now, this is an artistic rendition of our intracellular ATP-producing energy factories, our mitochondria. And if this organelle isn't working well, then you don't either. And these energy-intensive organs, energy-intensive organs like the heart and the brain have really, really high level of mitochondria. And they're really vulnerable to mitochondrial health compromise. So mitochondrial respiration basically produces ATP, but at the same time, this process also generates a lot of free radical activity in the process. And so a well-adapted ketogenic state seems to regulate mitochondrial uncoupling that has the effect of dampening free radical activity. A well-adapted ketogenic state is also known to enhance the generation of antioxidant activity, including increasing glutathione in the brain's hippocampus. Hello. And that seems to also be able to protect vulnerable mitochondrial DNA from being damaged. And this is a study related to that I don't have time to share with you. I've still got a couple of minutes. All right. So there's one more adrenal issue to consider here, and that's adrenal autoimmunity. And this is our nation's most famous sufferer of a form of adrenal autoimmunity called Addison's Disease. Extremely common today, but it's only rarely ever diagnosed. And the reason for this is that you're not diagnosable with Addison's Disease until a minimum of 90% tissue destruction has already occurred. That is the standard of medical diagnosis. So if you're only halfway there, you're only at 45%, I promise you will notice this in every part of the way you feel and function, but you won't have any answers. You're going to think that you've got some form of adrenal fatigue or adrenal burnout. But is this really a glandular issue? No, it's an immune issue, and it needs to be addressed on that level, regardless of whatever tissues are involved. And again, it may be responsive to taking supplemental adrenal glandulars, one of the few things that adrenal glandulars may be helpful for, but in tandem with a lot of immunomodulatory steps, whole other subject, and again, this basically speaks to the commonality of this problem. Common symptoms, basically the same symptoms as adrenal fatigue. There was a really interesting case study. There was a woman who came into my office in her summer. She was suffering a very wide range of debilitating symptoms for a number of years and prior to showing up, and she did a bunch of Cyrex testing, found that she had a ton of food sensitivities. She had a leaky gut, all kinds of antibody production against a variety of tissues, including her adrenals. Her fatigue levels were totally extreme. She also had Hashimoto's and a few other associated tissue antibodies that she discovered, and that all made sense. So this person was sensitive to absolutely everything. She was struggling for answers, couldn't find them, but all this kind of made sense. We addressed food sensitivity issues, did some work on her gut, and then she adopted some nutritional strategies, basically, that I talk about in my book.  But it turns out she doesn't have any depressed energy problems at all. Her energy levels are excellent. She's never felt more vitality in her entire life. And she also, usually with low cortisol, it's very hard to heal your gut, but she doesn't show any signs of leaky gut anymore either. Her numbers look great. She's lost all the weight she's needed to lose. Basically, she's become a fat burner, and so she's not really relying on glucose as a primary source of fuel, so the need for cortisol is a lot less, so she's being able to make much more efficient use of the cortisol that she's able to produce, which is really awesome.  Also Ralph Waldo Emerson basically said the world belongs to the energetic. And don't make the mistake, though, of confusing real natural energy with nervous energy or the effects of stimulant use. Neurosis and de-stimulation are just simply not the same thing. So what's thought of as adrenal fatigue or adrenal burnout is all too commonplace in this truly sort of non-paleo modern phenomena, even among many modern-day paleophiles, right? So sometimes the symptoms are related to chronic infections and also very commonly things like mitochondrial dysfunction or brain-based issues that need addressing. And increasingly commonly, there may be autoimmune involvement or it may be some combination of these things. It can take a lot of testing to figure out what's going on, but it's no longer as simple as any sort of progressive model of adrenal exhaustion that was proposed by Selyed in the 50s. So even though we have zero time here to go into specifics, here's the general advice to consider. Please resist hormone therapy approaches unless there is absolutely no other choice. And yes, this means bioidentical hormones too. Be leery of any adrenal approach that involves the use of things like isocort or whatever it is they're using nowadays. Always get to the root of the adrenal dysregulation first and then restore healthy function rather than treating the adrenals as though they don't know what the hell they're doing, all right? The body will always have its way. So you might as well play by your body's rules. And again, in the face of all the potential stressors in your life that you have, it's just critical to take control of what you can, but it's also critical to be good to your brain. Supply it with nutrients and healthy natural dietary fat, preferably in the absence of dietary starch and carbohydrates or sugars. Get the blood sugar under control or better yet eliminate the issue by adopting a fat-based ketogenic diet, I'm just saying. Learn to take some time out, neurofeedback, biofeedback, meditation, massage, infrared, saunas, vacations, adequate sleep, whatever it takes to relax you. Or you can always do this. And then detoxification has to be part of the equation nowadays. You have to compensate as much as possible for the toxic bombardment and oxidative onslaught from our environment. It's more than just a matter of avoiding toxins in the first place, that's not enough. And you also have to detox your mind too, focus on appreciation and gratitude. Try to avoid self-medicating. And remember, cut yourself some slack, try not to take life in all its little dramas too seriously, turn off the news, get outdoors, practice a little earthing maybe, learn to laugh more, and give time for the really important things and the people in your life. So for more information, there is my book, Primal Body, Primal Mind, which some of you are familiar with. There will be a book signing tomorrow at 4 o'clock. I have a tiny little handful of my book there. And then there is also my new book available in all the e-book formats called Rethinking Fatigue, which your adrenals are really telling you and what you can do about it. And please remember to sign up for my free newsletter. So thank you very much for your time. We don't have any time for questions, nor do you mind taking them in the hallway? Yeah, I mean, come find me during the book signing tomorrow. Or just grab me in the street or something.


Hi everyone, Shawn with jaspyscasebreaks.com here doing a random number block randomizer for Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspurs, and Liverpool FC in the 1 box 2020-2021 impeccable soccer picker team or picker club number 6. Works just like every other random number block, but these teams are not entered into the prism soccer box promo. 10 spots in this format, everyone gets a random number for the break, 0 through 9. If you do number 3, you'll get all cards with 4 of those clubs with 3 being the first number next to the slash on the left side of the slash. So for example, if the card is 243 out of 299, 13 out of 999, 3 out of 25, 43 out of 49, 93 out of 99, and so on the number 3 with the card, all redemption cards will go to the 0 spot, even if it is a known 1 of 1 redemption, it will still go to the 0 spot. And any non-number cards are randomized to the group. Here is our list of customers, thanks to everybody for getting in from Nicholas Losis down to CJ Monroe with last spot mojo, and the numbers from 0 through 9. Dice will be randomized both lists and pair them up, 3 out of 2, 5 times. Good luck. 5th and final time, from Aaron McCluskey down to Robert Runkle. 5 times on the randomizer, 5 times on the dice, and 5 times on the numbers. 5th and final time, from 0 to 5. So 5 times on the numbers, 5 times on the names, and 5 times on the dice. There you go. Aaron McCluskey, 0, 1, 4, and 3, CJ Monroe, 2, 9, 6, and 8, Nicholas Losis, 7, Robert Runkle, 5. There is the randomizer, let's sort this by number. Aaron with 0 and 1, so 0 gets you any and all redemptions for these 3 clubs, Manchester City, Tottenham, Hotspur, and Liverpool FC, even known 1 of 1 redemptions, but don't worry, Aaron, because you also have the 1 spot, which gets you any and all live and in-person 1 of 1s as well. And there you go guys, that's the random number block randomizer for 2020-2021 Impeccable Soccer, 1 box random number block, pick your club number 6, Manchester City, Tottenham, Hotspur, and Liverpool FC. I'm Sean, jaspyscasebrakes.com, the break itself coming up next.


Baltops is all about alliance unity, alliance solidarity, alliance security, and security of the Baltic region. So the alliance has come together with 14 alliance members and three alliance partners in a special relationship here with a huge flotilla of forces at sea to conduct a full spectrum of operations from air defense, mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare operations, and amphibious landings. And I think that shows a very strong message of resolve.


Thank you very much. Hi, everyone. So in this session, I would actually like to explore what sets Bitcoin apart from other cryptocurrencies. And so obviously, there's a lot of factors to take into account. I've only got 90 minutes and 47 seconds. So I'm just going to focus on some of the key considerations here. But so just before we start, what is actually Bitcoin? So Bitcoin is a digital asset. And I would actually call it a synthetic commodity money. So synthetic, it's just in a digital realm. It doesn't have physical nature. So it's something abstract. Commodity, because it doesn't have a formal issuer. So it's nobody's liability. And it also got an predictable supply, which is also kept, which makes it artificially scarce. Now, a very important characteristic of the asset itself is that if you properly store it, it becomes very difficult to seize. So it has characteristics that are very similar to bear assets. Now, on the other hand, Bitcoin is also a payment system, or payment network. And so actually, a censorship-resistant system to transfer value around. So it's open. You don't have to ask anyone for permission. Anyone can participate. And there should be no third party interference, which means that nobody should be able to block or censor a payment or transaction. What's very important here to understand is that those two things are inextricably linked. So Bitcoin, the asset, plays an essential coordination mechanism in the underlying economic incentive design, which itself is really the foundation of Bitcoin security model. So now if you go and strip the asset away, then the system stops functioning. So you can't really separate those two. Now, how does Bitcoin actually achieve censorship resistance? I would say two things. So first, through massive duplication and redundancy. So data is shared and broadcast to everyone in the network. Every single node needs to first verify every single transaction and install it forever. Second, we've got proof of work or mining. So there's going to be a few sessions after that, so I won't go into detail. But proof of work is essentially really a conflict resolution mechanism to decide if you have two valid but conflicting blocks, which one actually gets processed in the absence of essential authority. Now, that is a very resource-intensive process. And so it costs quite a lot of energy. And I think we're going to talk about this in future sessions. But so lots of people actually say, oh, Bitcoin needs to become more efficient. And I actually think that it's an oxymoron because I believe Bitcoin is inefficient by design. So it's precisely because it is so inefficient that it prevents any single entity or group of entities to dominate the network. And so this is very important to keep in mind. Now, how is Bitcoin different from other crypto assets or cryptocurrencies, whatever you want to call them? A few things. So first, I actually think it's a use case that does require censorship resistance. So if you take a step back, and actually for any given blockchain application, whether it's storage, computations, whatever, if you actually ask, do you the benefits that we get from that censorship resistance, do they actually outweigh the costs that are associated with it? And it turns out, for most applications, that's definitely not the case. So censorship resistance always a nice-to-have feature, but often really the high costs associated with it just don't make for a viable use case. Now, if you want to build an alternative full-stack financial system, which is what Bitcoin is trying to do, then you need to have a censorship-resistant base layer. Now, whether the costs associated with that are actually worth the benefit, so I think it's a discussion for another topic, another time. But as a result of all of this, Bitcoin has got the highest network value of all cryptocurrencies and by far. So right now, it is over $150 billion that are stored in Bitcoin. Now, second, Bitcoin also got the highest level of security. So it means it's by far the most expensive system to attack. Now, Bitcoin is backed by an enormous amount of hash rate. So yesterday it was 43 extra hashes. I think today we're at 48. Altamar was around 58, I think. And so we're really not talking anymore about small enthusiasts that run a few machines in a garage, but this is really a multi-billion-dollar industry that has emerged. So we have huge data centers. And as you can see in that map that are geographically distributed, pretty much all across the world. So this map is based on a list of hashing facilities that we identified, so it's around 120. And so as you can see, really, it has essentially moved out from China to other regions as well, which means that, at least from a geographical point of view, it is definitely more distributed, which makes it also less susceptible to changing political conditions in given countries. Third, I would actually say Bitcoin is the most decentralized cryptocurrency system out there. Now, just one note, decentralization. Many cryptocurrency projects think that this is a goal that you want to achieve, but it's actually rather a means to an end in that end being precisely censorship resistance. Why do I put decentralized in quotation marks? Because it's a very ill-defined, muddy concept. That is also very difficult to measure. However, some data points that we can have a look at. So for example, there's over 100,000 nodes on the global level, so you can see they're pretty much nicely geographically distributed as well. Actually, Bitcoin got a very wide-kind distribution. So we estimate that there are at least 50 million holders or users, and those range really from individuals to large institutions. So in terms of distribution, it's definitely more distributed than other cryptocurrencies. Now, hashing used to be pretty centralized two years ago, mostly in China. Now, as we can see from the previous chart, essentially, it is definitely less centralized. Also, mining pools have a lot less power than January believed. So they're constantly put in check by all these hashers because switching costs are very low. So if my mining pool operator, which I essentially use as a service provider, misbehaves or disagree with the pool policy, I can very easily switch to a different pool, and that keeps the check on pool behavior. Bitcoin also got a relatively healthy ecosystem, so you have multiple different implementations. Lots of developers working on different projects. And then finally, a point that I'm going to get back to you at the end of the presentation is, I think, the key feature of Bitcoin is that it's very resistant to change, so you can't easily change any system rules. Now, looking at activity, Bitcoin also has the highest activity end usage level. So just looking at on-chain activity, for example. If you remove change transactions and non-economic transactions, then actually, on any given day, on average, Bitcoin transfers $5 billion of value across the network. Now, also in terms of transactions, generally, on average, it's around 300,000 to 400,000 transactions, which represent roughly 600,000-plus payments per day. Now, also looking at trading volumes, so if you remove all the wash trading and all the fake volumes and so on, you get to number that's close to $1 billion a day. Now, also, lots of people actually say that Bitcoin is a store value and still needs to get the unit of account and medium of exchange function, but I would actually argue that it already is a medium of exchange and unit of account in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. So pretty much every single cryptocurrency is quoted against Bitcoin. And if you measure a portfolio performance, you always take Bitcoin as a benchmark. So in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, it already acts or has all three functions of money. Now, also in terms of asset support, so if you look at what do service providers actually support, so that's wallets, payment service providers, exchanges, Bitcoin is pretty much universally accepted, a lot more than any other assets. And also, we can see really an institutionalization that has started over the last two, three years. So we've got new rather incumbents, regulated entities, institutions that try to provide regulated services that make institutions comfortable. So we have new financial products, such as features, future, sorry, trackers and so on, new exchanges that launch, as well as custody solutions. And what's interesting to note here is that this institutionalization seems to be pretty much limited to Bitcoin alone, with a very few exceptions. So what makes Bitcoin now different from other crypto assets? Nothing, it's mainly three things, although again, I don't have too much time, unfortunately, to go into all factors. But really, the key is the first move advantage, I would say, and the network effect as a result. So then likes to refer to Bitcoin's immaculate conception. So what he means by that, and I don't want to put any words in his mouth, is that there is an anonymous founder that left the project, so completely disappeared. Initially, it has relatively fair distribution, so pretty much anyone could participate just having a computer, provided, of course, they knew about Bitcoin. And so what that means is really that Bitcoin was relatively decentralized right from the start. If you have any new coin that launches today, you can't really avoid having some sort of centralized control element in that project before you can actually bootstrap it. Now also, something that people often tend to forget is that Bitcoin had a more or less two-year grace period before actually people started realizing that Bitcoin was there. So during the first two years, almost nobody knew about it, which meant that developers had time to actually focus on product development, make it more robust and fix box before, essentially, others could really attack it. Now if you launch any coin today, it will essentially be under attack right from day one. And then third, I think it's pretty obvious, is a bit on brand recognition, which I think we all agree on. So any blockchain use always makes a reference to Bitcoin. Everyone has heard about Bitcoin, although many don't really understand what it is. So really in terms of brand recognition, Bitcoin trumps any other cryptocurrency. And so really we have that kind of positive feedback loop here where you have users that use the system, which drives up prices and has resolved network value, which then incentivizes hashers or miners to actually add more hashing power, which creates more security for the network, which then over time, again, drives network activity. And the thing is today, it's really almost impossible to recreate the same economic incentives that actually pay for the security. So to get a network value that is high enough to incentivize miners to actually provide that service to secure the network is really, really difficult today to actually bootstrap that right from scratch. Second, I think, really is the design philosophy in Bitcoin. So it's really based on a security first approach or mindset. So really the key is to ensure the liveness of the system. So let's avoid at any cost anything that might disrupt the network. And so this also explains in the focus on preference towards soft forks or hard forks when upgrading the network, as those are backwards compatible, less disruptive for the network, but also focus on the base layer keeping it as dumb as possible, so with very limited functionality to reduce attack surface. And as a result, you focus more on optimizing that base layer and actually scale in different layers. So you build different systems and layers on top of it, which each might have different functionality and also different security assumptions. And then any proposed change really has to go through an extensive and long scrutiny. So just taking Segwit as an example, it took more than two years of testing before it actually got added to the code base. So it's all of this design philosophy, which is very different from many other cryptocurrency projects, which really have a move fast, break things attitude and be a lot more flexible. And so this ties really in the final point, which I personally think is the most important thing is Bitcoin's widget social contract. So what I mean by that is that essentially cryptocurrencies are more socioeconomic systems rather than just purely technical systems. So essentially can liken it to a sort of social contract that is implicit and agreed upon by all participants in the network. Now that social contract determines the key properties of that cryptocurrency. So in the case of Bitcoin, for example, there would be 21 million coin limits and other factors that actually make Bitcoin what it is today. Now that social contract is not written out somewhere. It's kind of like implicit. So everyone that down is given software implementation runs it, connects to the network, implicitly agrees with the rules. And that social contract is expressed essentially via the protocol rules, which you can kind of like into a constitution. Now the thing is that constitution's in the end it's all about code rights. So code can be copy pasted. Anyone can just change parameters. So what is the most important thing here as Eric Wall rightfully points out in his tweet is that no properties of any given cryptocurrency are essentially real unless it is extremely difficult to change them. And so if you have lots of that happens in lots of cryptocurrency where you have scheduled hard forks to change the rules every other day or every other week, well then none of these properties are actually real because it can't be guaranteed that they will still exist in a few months time. And so this is really my opinion. The key feature of Bitcoin is that it's extremely resistant to change. So we have that very diverse set of constituencies, could be miners, developers, hollers, and even different factions and tribes within those constituencies that all have different goals, different essentially visions for what Bitcoin is. And as a result there's constant infighting and no single party or group of people essentially can dominate the system and then the narrative over what Bitcoin is. So that's social contract. And so this really creates a very healthy system of checks and balances between all these different constituencies. And so just to give an example, so we've had that civil war going on in the Bitcoin community of a block size debate. And so if you can't even agree to increase the block size from one megabyte to two megabytes, you can be reasonably sure that the 21 million coin limit will also never find agreement to actually be changed. And so another example would be a segway to X so kind of like that corporate takeover that actually got fought off by an intolerant minority that was very vocal about it and actually caused all the businesses to reconsider their strategy. So that just shows that Bitcoin is extremely resistant to change and that is precisely what makes its key properties as real as it can get. Okay, just for the end, just like a few cautionary words as well. So it's not a panacea either. So let's not forget, as Jakama pointed out, it's still an experiment. Now there are many challenges and open issues that still remain. So for example, scaling, privacy, fungibility, but of course there's also interesting new projects that work on facilitating these. Now, one question that came up quite a lot into the past few days, the viability of the economic incentive model. So when the block subsidy drops or approaches zero, will fees actually be able to compensate for that loss in subsidy? And if yes, does that then mean that only a very small set of large institutions we'd be able to use a base layer? And if yes, what does that actually mean for Bitcoin itself? Now also one thing is we often refer to Bitcoin as being censorship resistant, but the thing is you can only find out how censorship resistant it is if it actually gets attacked and ideally by very large state, let's just say state level actors. Now the thing is has Bitcoin already been truly battle tested? We don't really know, I wouldn't say, I don't think so actually. So it's been very robust, but these attacks were very, very small compared to if a very powerful state actor tries to actively disrupt it. So right now Bitcoin is censorship resistant, yes, but the actual litmus test is really if somebody actively tries to shut it down. And then finally also regulations. So we have these two types of those sides of the ecosystem that kind of like diverge, one is the more regulated side, then the other one is the offshore unregulated side, including mixers and shady exchanges. And the thing is how can we bridge both worlds without actually sacrificing some of the key properties that make Bitcoin what it is? But then again, there's also reason for optimism. So Bitcoin has demonstrated tremendous resilience and robustness over the last years. So it's been operating for over 10 years now with near zero uptime, near zero downtime, actually. And so that and all the developments on top of it actually make me very confident in it. But again, let's not forget, it's still an experiment and there's still lots of things we actually do not understand about Bitcoin, including that social contract who is participating in it, who can influence it, how does that form and evolve. Even the economic incentives are still very poorly understood. So there's lots of research that needs to be done. But yeah, that's it. Thank you very much. So feel free to drop me an email whenever you have a question. And I'll have you can put it.


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What's going on everybody Datsudoi here, and we're coming back with some more rank matches this time with Krillin and Bardock on the same team Which is a team I never thought would work, but with the buffs the Krillins assist that being that you can always use the rock and Apparently it has more well apparently there was some translation issues, so I'm not even sure what it actually is going to do But if the assist is a little bit better that means when Bardock gets them to the corner Krillin can actually help out I Figured Krillin's still the best bet as a lead since Bardock's assist is better Everywhere else but the corner Mess that up entirely It's calling Goku get the ah Spammed reflect one too many times. Uh-oh. It's Krillin time. Man. Have you ever just messed up the beat? Backdash, oh Krillin time again. Oh, let's go this team All right, I'm feeling it. I gotta start playing more Krillin man. Krillin's my favorite character. I just got to accept that Maybe wait for some mossy. I'm hoping the moss who takes the third slot Got I'm just gonna reflect out of that. Oh happy birthday to me and Goku We're just all having a great time Yikes, we're gonna be eating a lot of Damage. Oh My sweet sweet Prince. Good night. Geez. All right. Now we're gonna we got up. Oh, let's go. Oh How did I mess that up? Yikes. Oh No, I missed it. That means Goku's getting switched up All right, I would switch him out.  Oh Space it out get that vanish. Keep spacing it out. Yeah, just play the beam game Kind of want to get Bardock back in. Oh Yeah, saw that one coming Just a pro tip if they have Goku black on their team and like they don't use the assist at all You gotta expect that. Ah, it's a moss suit. I Really should be getting Goku out of here if I don't get level three. I'm gonna get level three That was actually a really smart choice to sparking there. I Think maybe a level one even would have killed with sparking Actually, maybe not that was pretty scaled Okay, so we got Bardock and we got sparking and we're probably going to want to do that relatively soon Yikes Okay, I think Bardock keeps them in the corner. That's why I'm doing this for just the un-techable hard knockdown Oh block that. Okay. There should be death going up Nice trip them up. All right. That's pretty good. Let's move on to the next match here Wasn't the cleanest match mostly because Goku got a You know, he got a little early birthday present Super Saiyan 3. We're back again. Oh Man, I gotta stop changing teams Up wrong assist now now I'm down both assists.  Oh, no too bad And level one just uh just to get Gohan out of here. That was a really rough section of gameplay there I think I used the wrong assist twice messed up every combo. I tried wow and I ran it to sell See get knocked down. Oh Come on. Oh gotta stop What what is going on? Oh? No, that was a good angle. That was a good angle for him. That's so much for me. Haha. That was really a Awkward just clash clash. Okay. I'm just gonna take the hit now. If you don't mind who bar dock players Well, I guess that's what you get for being like every other. Ah, I thought I was gonna get hit by that going up That's so I actually didn't even notice he had himself in the first game Guess when I'm watching the footage back, I'm gonna have to take note of everything that went No Kind of knew the reflections coming through Double three ah grab Nice So once again, we're down to the equal game here No Zamasu again. Nobody ever uses that Wow that one hit me I mean, I deserve to be punished because I Going in for the overhead. Let's go. Oh my god. I did not mean to spend the bar on that Oh, I didn't have sparking so I can Oh Oh my god, please get two bars Even that didn't kill No, no, no, no, no God Backdash Whoo, we win. All right. That was very intense at least for me. I was really panicking there Um, all right, I guess we're moving on to the third and final game already really liking this team so far Obviously the patch is going to make it a little bit better. Come on. Come on. Rematch me Come on. Come on. Don't do it. Yeah. Yeah So you got to be a little bit coy with them. I understand. All right, let's go up Oh, it's Krillin time already Check your clocks. Everybody make sure you're setting the right time zone.  Everybody makes mistakes.  Oh get that key blast out of here Oh my god, the loops the cell loops I I agree and see you Krillin All right, so our goal for today is to get cell back in here Oh, you can't do the same thing twice All right. Now. Let's get cell in here real quick. Boom Oh remix boom All right, I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it today. Bardock Bardock is so clean I hope merge the mosses as fun as Bardock and Broly for that matter Oh, I always miss it. I shouldn't even be going for the heavy I'm blocking Oh, wow. I just out of range probably should have went with a just medium there Oh the grab I'm never expecting it You really use some work on that area Going down. All right, actually I'm going to die. I gotta die change the plans The work of a god All right Hello mountain. Nice to meet you. I'm Bardock Yikes, I did not expect that Okay, just No God behind the back Oh, baby, let's go Hup Get down there. Oh, that wasn't even a combo. Wow. He could attack that Yikes I guess he can only do that in the corner or I just timed it so poorly. Well That was a pretty good rank Session, so I'm gonna be getting out of here. Hopefully you enjoyed the video If you did let me know down in the comments and hopefully You know, you liked it enough to leave a like I'm dad's adoya, and I'll see you in the next one