Day 15 - Gut Support: Organ Supplement
Day 15 brought me face to face with something I've been avoiding: the reality of what my mineral hair test revealed. Depleted. That's the word that kept echoing as I looked at the results—depleted minerals with few exceptions - Sulfur & Colbalt (who knew!) and across the board, a body struggling to manage stress without the fundamental building blocks it needs.
Enter Organ+, a supplement that would have made me wrinkle my nose in skepticism just months ago. Organ meats in capsule form? (I’m not a fan of the real thing - and yes, I’ve tried!) Ancient wisdom packaged for modern lives that have forgotten how to nourish themselves properly? But here I am, several days into this experiment, and I have to admit—something feels different.
It might be placebo effect. I'm honest enough to acknowledge that possibility. But that mid-afternoon crash, that familiar energy nosedive that used to send me reaching for caffeine or sugar? It's been gentler, more manageable. I feel less depleted when 3 PM rolls around.
There's something both humbling and fascinating about discovering that your body has been running on empty in ways you didn't fully recognize. The mineral depletion didn't happen overnight—it was a slow leak, a gradual wearing down that I adapted to without realizing how much I'd been compensating.
This nervous system challenge has taught me that sometimes the most radical thing we can do is listen to what our bodies actually need rather than what we think they should need. Taking organ supplements feels like returning to an older wisdom about nourishment, one that our grandparents might have understood intuitively.
The irony isn't lost on me that in a world of endless supplementation options, what my system apparently craves is the concentrated nutrition our ancestors got from eating nose-to-tail. The liver, kidney, and heart nutrients that modern life has edited out of our diets, now returning in small capsules that I swallow with my morning water.
Whether it's placebo or genuine cellular nourishment, the result is the same—I'm experiencing what it feels like to be less depleted. And that small shift is teaching my nervous system something important about what true care looks like, about the difference between managing depletion and actually addressing it.
Sometimes growth isn't about doing something dramatically uncomfortable. Sometimes it's about having the courage to address what's been quietly draining us, to try something that feels foreign but might be exactly what our systems have been asking for all along.