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Normal Labs, Broken Metabolism: It Wasn't Your Willpower

by Shawn R. Gorden
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798195249281
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 206
  • Original Price: GBP 12.52
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 209 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Women's Health

You did everything right. You tracked the calories. You cut the carbs. You hired the trainer, followed the plan, and showed up to every appointment with a list of symptoms you'd spent days organizing - hoping this time someone would actually listen.

They handed you a printout. Normal across every line. And sent you home.

That wasn't a clean bill of health. That was a clinical failure. Not yours. The system's.

In Normal Labs, Broken Metabolism, OB/GYN and functional medicine physician Dr. Shawn R. Gorden, MD explains why the standard lab reference ranges were never designed to tell you how well your biology is functioning - only whether you've crossed a threshold that triggers a diagnosis. The gap between those two things is where millions of women are living right now: symptomatic, dismissed, and told their results are fine.

The real problem isn't your willpower. It isn't your discipline. It isn't even your diet.

It's one of three biological drivers that hijack hunger, metabolism, and energy at the hormonal level - and none of them show up on a standard panel.

Drawing on more than two decades of clinical practice and over 15,000 patient encounters, Dr. Gorden breaks down the three hunger drivers that standard medicine consistently misses:

  • Leptin resistance - the hunger signal that never turns off, no matter how much you eat
  • Dopamine dysregulation - the craving that has nothing to do with food and everything to do with your reward circuitry
  • HPA axis dysregulation - the cortisol-driven hunger your stress is manufacturing around the clock

Each driver has a distinct biological signature, a distinct symptom pattern, and a distinct protocol. This book gives you the clinical framework to identify yours - and a structured 28-day foundation protocol to begin correcting it.

This is not a diet book. There is no meal plan. There are no macros to count.

This is the explanation you were never given. The one that replaces years of self-blame with a biological mechanism. The one that finally makes sense of why nothing worked - and what actually will.

Normal Labs, Broken Metabolism includes:

  • A 36-question clinical self-assessment to identify your primary hunger driver
  • Driver-specific 28-day foundation protocols for leptin, dopamine, and cortisol patterns
  • A chapter on perimenopause and menopause and how hormonal transitions amplify each driver
  • A clinical reference guide for informed conversations with your physician
  • The biological explanation for why every previous attempt failed - and what that means for what comes next

If you have been told your labs are normal and your body is telling you something different, this book was written for you.

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