This article chronicles my experience and results following the Root Cause Protocol to battle my chronic fatigue. I’m currently 118 days into the protocol but my progress and results have been eye-opening and — dare I say it — life-changing.
At this time, I have initial hair and blood test results, takeaways from a consultation with Morley Robbins, my EMP progress graph (I’ll share what this is later), and daily journal entries documenting my results.
As I continue, I will update the article with progress. Does balancing minerals and curing fatigue with the Root Cause Protocol work? I am determined to answer that question with my results and health, once and for all.
My root cause protocol results-driven review
Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How To Fix It On Your Own by Morley Robbins was probably one of my most compelling and resonating reads ever. Like you, I am highly motivated to reduce my chronic fatigue and health issues (like my intermittently poor sleep and achy back).
The fact that the Root Cause Protocol is backed by meticulous research, a deep understanding of human biology, countless studies, and hundreds of client testimonials made this dense book a page-turner for me.
One of the biggest things that struck me is how the author, Morley Robbins, uses his vast knowledge to make recommendations that are counterintuitive to what we’ve been taught. Things like vitamins D and C — mainstays in every doctor’s office and sold in every checkout aisle — are questioned for their efficacy and, instead, are recommended to be taken in more natural forms.
This makes a lot of sense to me but I can imagine the controversy that some of these ideas will bring. Still, I was intrigued because it all felt like common sense and was so straightforward. And, as an engineer, I knew that I could test it and track my progress definitively. So, there was no downside in trying.
And of course, mostly, I was compelled because I needed it to work.
My Motivation to Start the RCP
In 2017, I was severely burned out. Three years of sleep deprivation to hustle and grow my career and passion project took its toll. I learned an important lesson the hard way:
Stress significantly impacts your physical and hormonal health.
I had shockingly low testosterone, depleted levels of all four essential minerals (sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium) required for energy production, and extreme fatigue.
After major lifestyle changes over three and a half years, I considered myself recovered. I nearly quadrupled my testosterone levels, increased my average sleep score to 94%, and completely overhauled my diet and fitness routine.
I felt much better at baseline, but the fatigue lingered. And so did several questions:
- Why am I not the morning person I used to be?
- Did my mineral levels ever fully recover since burnout?
- How can I eliminate fatigue before our second child arrives?
- Could the tagline of Morley Robbins’ book, ‘How balancing 3 minerals and 1 protein is the solution you’re looking for,’ be the final recovery step that I’ve been missing?
Despite having researched health and nutrition for years, mineral balancing was still new to me. But, from a hair test I had taken years ago, I knew there was something there.
After finishing the book in two days I was ready to dig in and was motivated to track every detail of my Root Cause Protocol experiment, for myself and others battling fatigue too.
What Makes The Root Cause Protocol Different?
The Root Cause Protocol is unlike any other diet or health regimen. Most diets teach you to focus on the “enemies.” For example:
- Keto dieters focus on avoiding carbs
- The vegan diet is against all animal products
- The Plant Paradox diet’s enemy is lectins
And now you’re supposed to avoid all ultra-processed foods which are in an estimated 71% of all food sold in US grocery stores. When it comes to fueling your body for optimal health and metabolism, there is a never-ending list of enemies.
What’s different about the Root Cause Protocol (RCP), is that it focuses on your energy production at the mitochondrial level. The idea is to make you feel better at the source, as opposed to other diet regimens that focus solely on something like weight loss, which could actually harm your body.
It’s all about strengthening the host rather than attacking the enemies. The RCP mantra is, “Ignore the enemies! Ignite the energy!”
The formula for “igniting the energy” is quite simple: it happens when you reduce excess iron and increase bioavailable copper. There’s a bit more to it than that, but it’s an important starting place.
After a decade of experimenting and optimizing my diet, I felt like I was pretty advanced and zeroed in — except I thought mostly of food quality, macros, and nutrient density rather than considering its minerals. This is a big difference and the missing piece of the puzzle, even for people like me who strive to eat a variety of whole and not industrially-produced foods.
For years, I suspected a mineral deficiency but didn’t know how to evaluate or solve it. When I tried new supplements, I often experienced negative side-effects such as vivid dreams and brain fog. Without guidance and a research-backed plan, I gave up.
Thankfully, the Cu-RE Your Fatigue book and Root Cause Protocol is like your mineral manual.
But, of course, implementing what you learn is not easy or 100% straightforward, as I quickly discovered. And since everyone’s body chemistry is unique, you have to take ownership of your results and think like a scientist with a minor in journalism.
I’ll show you what worked for me.
Why It’s Worth The Effort?
For me, it was the data that sealed the Root Cause Protocol deal.
To benchmark progress and make discerning decisions, Morley Robbins created what’s called the “Full Monty Iron Panel.” This blood test is a powerful tool to identify key mineral dysregulation that causes the metabolic dysfunction many of us are experiencing.
I had taken blood tests for years, and even once a mineral hair test, but I had never fully understood the interaction between the two, or even the interaction amongst minerals and how one affects the other. That’s where the book and the Root Cause Protocol comes in.
It walks you through these tests and how to “read” them to discern any mineral issues and metabolic dysfunction.
And if you haven’t heard about metabolic dysfunction (or metabolic syndrome) yet, it’s becoming all the rage. In a nutshell, if your minerals are off-balanced, it can lead to metabolic disorders which include things like chronic fatigue, blood pressure changes, headaches, digestive issues, muscle weakness, and even anxiety.
This stems from the fact that our mitochondria are rich in minerals and use them to function healthily and to reduce decay. Studies have found that eleven of the twelve essential minerals for our health have important roles within mitochondrial metabolism, yet are still not widely addressed or publicized.
So, following a program like the Root Cause Protocol to gain an understanding of where your mineral deficiencies lie is a fundamental (and often overlooked) step towards better health and longevity.
In the next section, I’ll dive into my initial results. Are you fired up? Because my mitochondria sure are.
My root cause protocol Results and Success Story (So Far)
As promised, this is going to be a results-driven RCP review. I started with four main goals in mind. Although some incredible and unforeseen results have cropped up, these are the four areas I’ve been tracking most closely:
1. Reduce fatigue
2. Relieve stiffness
3. Improve sleep quality
4. Balance minerals
To deem the Root Cause Protocol a success, I needed to make measureable progress toward these goals.
The results are still coming in, but let’s see how I am doing so far after 118 days of focusing less on what nutrients my body needs and more on what minerals my cells need.
My Progress Towards Reducing Fatigue
To track this daily, I set up a simple 1-10 rating scale to rank how I felt each day, which I dubbed my personal EMP rating: energy, mood, and productivity.
It’s nowhere near perfect since there are many variables out of my control (especially once baby arrived), but I did control a few. I eliminated alcohol, screen time two hours before bed, and intense exercise, since those influence my sleep quality or energy levels most.
Early on I noticed how closely my energy levels and mood were linked. Maybe I was experiencing mood swings from Alex’s pregnancy as we finished up the third trimester and later had our son, but I suspected they were caused by mineral level swings.
At baseline, before starting the RCP, I was a 3. My goal, was to reach a 10. Here is a graph showing my daily progress toward my goals.
The amazing thing was that once I hit my ’10’ I continued to feel better! So I continued to log my scores, but kept moving the bar higher as things I didn’t even anticipate — like my back pain — seemingly disappeared overnight.
For me, graphs like these are what really helps to understand that true progress is being made. This is the power of journaling and documenting daily progress.
This is an exciting result. However, you may have also noticed my progress was a bumpy ride. At times, the peaks and valleys were intense. You can see an example of my frustration to elation to depletion all within a matter of days in the below journal entries as I figured out what supplements I needed and which made me feel worse.
Each peak represents a newly introduced supplement that made me feel awesome. Each valley shows an existing supplement stopped working or a new supplement that made me feel horrible. It’s a very simple, trial and error process that you just need to keep detailed notes for.
So yeah, it might not have been the easiest journey, but was it worth it? Did you notice that after the 108th day I surpassed my goal of a 10 EMP rating… and all of this after our son was born on Day 95!
Here’s some more specific details on what my rating system meant to me personally, to help you develop your own.
My EMP Rating Methodology
Rating 3 (Baseline) – This means I sleep well but feel tired upon waking and in the afternoon. I typically reach for a coffee when I need a productivity boost and something small can put me in a sour mood for several hours.
Rating 1 – I have hard time falling asleep or can’t wake up and have vivid dreams much of the night. My fatigue is extreme and is paired with headaches and dizziness. I need a nap to function and my mood is really poor.
Rating 10 (Goal) – It took me 107 days to reach my goal. This means I wake up excited for the day ahead and have limitless energy. I feel happy and incredibly focused. My body and joints aren’t stiff.
Rating 12 – Yes, I had to widen my rating scale as a major and unexpected benefit cropped up on day 108. More on that below.
My Stiffness Reduction Results
After fatigue, this was my next biggest focus. For all of my adult life, my body has ached. I wake up stiff, I recover from marathon training runs slowly, and I am frequently injured.
Because of my condition, Alex lovingly calls me “a delicate flower,” and sometimes, “the prince and the pea.” Rather than chalking it up to aging, I’ve been determined feel forever young.
Before our first child was born, a ran a 6-week yoga/PT experiment to reduce pain because I was afraid of throwing out my back lifting our baby out of the crib. Thankfully, the experiment worked. While I still wake up stiff, I feel great after yoga and as long as I maintain 3-5 routines weekly I am much less delicate.
So, is the RCP making me feel forever young? I’m hesitant to scream from the rooftops yet, but holy crap…. YES! As shown in the journal entries below, I noticed improvements early and throughout, but then, on day 108, BAM!
Seemingly overnight, my morning stiffness was gone. Along with it, went the chronic morning back pain that has ailed me since childhood. I always blamed my back pain on the diastasis recti that I was born with (I know, rare for men), but now I know a simple mineral imbalance was the root cause.
With the disappearance of my chronic back pain, my energy, mood, and productivity ALL got an unexpected boost. I can’t even begin to explain how much of a drag it is to wake up in chronic pain, day after day after day.
Hopefully the huge wins keep coming and I’ll have more reasons to widen my 1-12 EMP Rating scale in the future. The sky’s the limit, and I want everyone to feel that way too.
My Progress Toward Better Sleep Quality
Each day, I journaled about my sleep and measured sleep quality using the Pillow app and my Apple Watch. Sleep data is not perfect, but after years of monitoring trends, especially in experiments such as our 5-day fast experiment and caffeine withdrawal experiment, I know a real improvement when I see one.
Several times throughout my RCP journey I saw hints that, with the right mineral balance, major improvement was coming. From way higher than usual deep sleep scores to perfectly uninterrupted nights to…. I’ll just show you.
First, here are a few journal entries documenting my sleep progress.
Consistent deep sleep cycles!
What do I mean by that? Before starting the RCP, I had pretty good sleep quality (according to the Pillow app), but I never cycled through REM sleep and deep sleep consistently throughout the night.
Specifically for me, I attribute my better sleep to trialing out the various forms of magnesium available out there for supplements. I think finding a simple magnesium malate and magnesium glycinate are most responsible, I have more consistent deep sleep and more hours of deep sleep. This feels great!
My Mineral Balancing Results
My fatigue, mood, stiffness, and sleep results are evidence enough that the RCP has been a smashing success for me. Surely, my mineral levels are balancing. But I don’t need to speculate. I have my before data (blood work and hair test) from June, 2025 and will be retesting in January of 2025.
Many Root Cause Protocol critics complain that there is not proof that it works. Instead, there are just testimonials. As an engineer, I wanted to see proof too which is why I plan to monitor future results. However, I understand why people don’t need the follow up blood work and hair testing.
If you feel life-changing results, do you really need to see them in ~$450 worth of tests? Probably not, but anyway, I’ll have follow up test results and more graphs coming soon!
In the next section, I will share what to expect when starting the Root Cause Protocol, including my before blood and hair test results, along with key takeaways from my one-on-one consultation with Morley Robbins.
Our RCP Tracker & Cheatsheet
Download and instantly access our RCP results tracker and cheatsheet, including the following.
- Monitor hair and blood test before and after results.
- A spreadsheet to monitor EMP rating and supplementation progress.
- Critical reminders, such as Starts, Stops, dosages, and timing.
Plus, we're just an email away for support.
What’s It Like To Start The Root Cause Protocol
I’m not going to get technical in this article because Morley does a much better job of that in his book, Cu-RE Your Fatigue, and on his website, where you can sign up to download the Root Cause Protocol Handbook.
Getting Informed
You should really read the book to get all the information. Different aspects of the protocol will resonate differently based on your individual goals.
My key takeaways:
- Restoring balance to three key minerals, magnesium, copper, and iron, is essential to beating fatigue.
- The protocol eliminates many synthetic supplements (iron, D3, calcium, zinc, and synthetic B vitamins being the heavy hitters) and processed foods because they attack copper, the most important and under-appreciated mineral.
- The RCP plan adds whole foods and whole food supplements, one by one, to naturally balance all elements and boost bioavailable copper, which is what turns oxygen into energy rather than ‘rust.’
My key action items:
- To oversimplify, we need to purge iron and hoard magnesium.
- Thanks to supplementation and foods being fortified with iron filings since 1941, basically every American has excess iron embedded in their tissues, which, according to the book, is the primary cause of oxidative stress and inflammation in the body.
- We need to eliminate iron supplementation and fortified foods, and start donating blood to purge excess iron. (For women, this happens naturally during menstruation, which is what Morley says attributes to a higher expectancy in women.)
- Sufficient magnesium is hard/impossible to get from whole foods and easy to burn off when we’re under stress, which we all are under (especially if you’re a fast oxidizer like me, which I learned from my hair test).
- I need to experiment with different forms of magnesium to find what works.
There were a few other things I learned that immediately grabbed my attention because they’re counterculture to what we’ve been taught for years. More on that in the summary of my RCP consultation below.
Success Tips for Starting the RCP
Starting the Root Cause Protocol can feel daunting. It’s important to have a longterm mindset of progress over perfection. My goal was to see some results within a year. In addition to a longterm mindset, these reminders will help you get started on the right foot.
You’ll be excited to implement everything too, but it’s important to make one change at a time. Too many variables at once is a bad experiment. They say it perfectly in the RCP Handbook: “It’s a process not a race.”
Speaking of the handbook, it will become your close companion. Download it and follow the STOPS and STARTs, learn dosage and timing (and don’t be afraid to dose even less than the recommendation as you get started), and buy from the trusted supplement brands. I kept the handbook on my phone so I always had the searchable PDF handy.
If you’re in the US, I had good success with both the FormulaIQ supplements and the Jigsaw Health supplements.
Your other close companion is a journal. In my opinion, daily journaling is a requirement. I’ve personally enjoyed using Apple’s free Journal app. See one of my many examples below.
Really, it’s not rocket science, but it’s the best way to find patterns and course correct when you experience setbacks.
Getting Tested
Getting blood work and hair testing isn’t a requirement for success. But, I can tell you from experience, the Hair Test Mineral Analysis and Full Monty Iron Panel results will likely be strong motivation to commit to the plan.
Frankly, not having your before data is a missed opportunity. But you can be your own judge, particularly once I get my after results in January, 2025. And until then, feel free to ask questions in the comments.
Once you have the data, an RCP consultant help you understand their meaning.
My Initial Blood Panel and Hair Test Numbers
The most important thing is the blood testing results, which I got back first. I quickly made charts comparing my numbers to the ideal/reference numbers. I wanted to see where I was good (green), just okay (orange), and bad (red).
As you can see by the lack of green boxes, I had lots of room for improvement, which was a relief and a rush at the same time. It was proof that my fatigue isn’t a figment of my imagination and I was excited about having a path forward.
A few weeks later, I got my hair test results back. The PDF with my results is a cluster of graphs with an overwhelming amount of data that will certainly make you feel less healthy.
According to Morley, he’s only seen one perfect hair test result of the 7,500+ he has reviewed. The most important thing you’ll learn from this analysis is your metabolic type, either fast or slow. I learned that I am in the 20% minority of fast oxidizers, which means all that excess iron I discovered on my blood test is rusting at an above average rate. Yikes…
Here are my hair test mineral analysis (HTMA) numbers that are mostly in the orange.
In the chart above, I am only listing the nutritional elements and significant ratios, since, according to Morley’s years of research and experience, that is what’s helpful.
There was an especially scary graph titled, “Toxic Elements,” that showed small amounts of arsenic, mercury, and aluminum in my hair sample. Morley assured me that this was normal. We’re all exposed and it’s good to see your body getting rid of those. He reminded me that the worst metal is iron.
Below is a snapshot of the the two key HTMA graphs from the company I used to test with, Trace Elements. Does it look a bit jagged to you? That’s an indication that my body is stressed out.
These results, while a bit doomsday-y, were helpful because they showed a lot of optimization opportunities. My consultation with Morley Robbins was especially exciting, because he simplified everything and gave me a clear path forward.
My Consultation with Morley Robbins
Fortunately, Morley has a very simplified process for analyzing all these results. You should hire an RCP consultant to help you decipher the results. I was extremely honored to have a consultation with Morley directly.
After an incredibly enlightening 90-minute video call, I could see my whole RCP roadmap laid out before me.
To aid the discussion, Morley crunched my numbers and distilled the most important ones into his personal cheat sheet:
Key Takeaways and Action Items
My consultation was very personalized and it was helpful to learn about the key things I needed to focus on to reap the most benefits. Here is what I learned, but before I get into it, I want to share one thing:
Morley was the first to admit that the RCP isn’t perfect, but it’s a darn good place to start in understanding your fundamental mineral levels and how to balance them.
Here’s what I’m doing.
1. Eliminating dietary iron.
I have too much iron in my body, and nearly everything that’s red in the above graph is related to iron. This makes sense as my hair test showed that I was a fast oxidizer, which Morley explained in layman’s terms and to give a visual, is like all of that iron oxidizing quickly into rust. This is not good.
Fortunately, the easiest way to do this is to donate blood. Morley recommended I experiment to see what makes me feel best, starting out by giving blood every 60 days and decreasing frequency from there. This will vastly lower my total iron binding capacity (TIBC) which is way too high.
This is actually scary because when your serum iron and TIBC ratio nears 60%, you have a far higher future cancer risk. I’m encroaching 50% and the ideal is 20%.
The next step has been surprisingly hard, but I eliminated all foods fortified with iron. Once you start checking food labels, you’ll see that it’s hard to avoid and in so many common food products, from pasta to oatmeal.
I can already feel this helping, and once I have follow up blood test results it will be nice to see more of my iron panel in the green.
*As a quick aside, most doctors would flag me as having high hemoglobin too. However, since Alex and I live above 7,000 feet, my elevated levels actually match my elevation. However, I still marked it orange because when I gave blood two months later I was at 18.2, which is too high.
2. Increasing my magnesium intake.
Magnesium is the first thing that goes when stressed, and I’m definitely susceptible to stress.
Foods high in magnesium include dark leafy greens, legumes, nuts and seeds, and avocados. I already felt like I ate a lot of these (we have an avocado tree in our yard), so I turned to supplementation.
Morley informed me that this is very much a trial and error process, because there are ten common forms of magnesium supplements — and the one that works for you might not work for your sibling. It’s very personal.
Morley recommends several high-quality supplement companies, and I’ve mostly gone with one called Jigsaw Health. So far, it’s been excellent and they offer several types of magnesium which I’ve gone through.
I found that anything with malic acid or sodium bicarbonate affected my sleep adversely, leaving me with vivid dreams and feeling exhausted upon waking. Instead, I found luck with simple magnesium malate and magnesium glycinate supplements from FormulaIQ.
In future revisions to this article, I will share more about what supplementation has worked best for me. If you have questions before then, please leave them in the comments.
3. Adding more copper.
Underappreciated and underserved. Look for copper in foods like oysters and beef liver… or if that’s too hard to stomach, take desiccated beef liver supplements.
My mineral interactions show that I’m high on calcium and iron, and thus should increase my copper intake. I’ve opted to do this through eating beef liver (and if you have a great recipe, let me know in the comments!)
4. Don’t stress about the “normal” ranges.
Despite many of my numbers in the red, Morley thought I was doing pretty well and just needed a few tweaks, namely more copper and magnesium. Also, these numbers show only one side of the story, and not the interactions with other minerals.
The best example of this is that my Total Cholesterol is ‘high’ at 222 (LDL is 160). For years my doctors have unhelpfully told me to reduce my meat intake and exercise more — something I’ve already done for a decade.
I am completely aware that cholesterol is massively misunderstood by doctors and nutritionists, but still, I’ve been worrying about this for years.
But, Morley reassured me that the ranges were moving targets, and in the not too distant past, ‘high’ was above 250. Now it’s sometimes closer to 150 before you’re recommended statins.
His recommendation for me was that if it keeps increasing, to take an oxidative LDL test. But for now, to continue adding copper and managing future stress. Also, to remember that cholesterol is an oxygen sink, and given that I’m a fast oxidizer, I just need to continue reducing my iron levels and the cholesterol might go down too.
The same goes for my Vitamin D levels, which are “low” and need to be lower. This is another highly controversial piece of the RCP puzzle.
I am all on board because I have been “deficient” ever since I started measuring in my 20s. But for the last 4 years, being deficient made no sense to me. I live near the equator and spend several hours a week running outside shirtless for marathon training.
Frankly, there is no way I am deficient. But, because I was fatigued, doctor’s orders had me on a monster dose of 100,000 IU vitamin D quarterly. This did nothing for my energy.
The book argues that vitamin D is simply a cash cow for pharmaceutical companies and the acceptable ranges have been adjusted (specifically in the US) to make it seem like many of us are deficient when we aren’t.
Case closed. No more worrying about D for me. A big thing Morley pointed out was that my Vitamin A was very high, which is a good thing because it shows that I’m catalyzing and utilizing my Vitamin D effectively.
5. Speaking of stress, get rid of it in alternative ways.
I had expected Morley to stick to a supplement discussion but he reminded me that managing my stress was incredibly important in maintaining my magnesium levels as well.
He shared his personal story going through emotional fear therapy (EFT) to uncover areas of stress that you may have been holding onto since childhood without knowing it.
Alex and I have worked hard these past few years to release excess stress. We left our stressful corporate jobs to build this wellness website and work on our health and relationship, after all. But I’d be remiss to dismiss this recommendation from Morley, because stress always finds us.
It won’t necessarily eliminate your fears, but hopefully keep them from physiologically displaying.
I have yet to explore this option, but it’s on my list.
6. Finally, continue journaling.
Morley was thrilled to see the careful notes I was taking. How else would I have figured out what worked for me and in what dosages? Even something as simple as having a large glass of coconut water and all of its potassium could whack me out.
This is how I learned that I don’t do well with supplements that contain sodium bicarbonate, and how I knew within 3 days that I didn’t respond well to cod liver oil or need any added taurine.
I know, it’s a lot of work but the feeling of being a 12 out of a 1-10 energy scale is the best feeling in the world, and I’ve never known my body better.
Let’s see how I do in 2025, and don’t forget to join our newsletter and our community membership hub to keep on following along.
My Current Daily RCP Process
My daily process continues to evolve, and what has worked for me won’t be perfect for you. Still, I thought it would be helpful to give you a quick day in the life on the RCP.
After 118 days, I am still only on “Phase 2” of the root cause protocol. To learn more about the “Starts” and “Stops” of each of the four phases, check out the handbook or download our RCP Tracker (version 2 coming soon).
Morning
I start my day with a liter of filtered water with 3 drops of boron and 20 drops of trace minerals (both from Jigsaw Health). With breakfast, I have two capsules of desiccated beef liver, 1 capsule of Vitamin E, and 2 capsules of FormulaIQ magnesium malate.
Afternoon
Away from meal time, I make my Adrenal Cocktail, which is 1/4 tsp salt, 170 mL coconut water, and two juiced oranges mixed with a bit of water and ice. When I exercise, I’ll apply 1-2 pumps of magnesium lotion to my legs or back.
Night
With dinner, I have one capsule of FormulaIQ magnesium glycinate. Some nights (maybe 2-3 times weekly), I’ll add 1/4 cup of magnesium sulfate to my pre-bed bath.
Future
Wow, that process looks so simple now that I type it out. But, it’s gone through dozens of iterations and by next week this will be obsolete. I will continue evolving by adding one supplement, monitoring for 3-7 days, adjusting one dosage size, monitoring for 3-7 days, and repeating, journaling along the way.
Our RCP Tracker & Cheatsheet
Download and instantly access our RCP results tracker and cheatsheet, including the following.
- Monitor hair and blood test before and after results.
- A spreadsheet to monitor EMP rating and supplementation progress.
- Critical reminders, such as Starts, Stops, dosages, and timing.
Plus, we're just an email away for support.
Closing thoughts on The Root Cause Protocol
I (Ryan) started documenting my journey with the Root Cause Protocol in May 2024 after reading Morley Robbins’ book, Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How to Fix It On Your Own. My motivation was simple: better sleep, less fatigue, and better moods.
Over the past 118 days, I’ve journaled and documented step-by-step how I’ve implemented the book and which supplements I’ve used along the way. And, most importantly, how I’ve felt.
So far, my results have been better than even I anticipated. Sometimes, a single supplement would make me feel like night and day — both in good and bad ways — and my journey documents that. To be honest, I’ve had my best days and my worst days… all from supplements. Wow, even I didn’t know how much mineral imbalances could affect our physical, mental, and metabolic health.
But in just a few months by increasingly understanding my body’s needs, my energy levels and sleep scores have skyrocketed, and an unanticipated benefit is that my back pain seems to have disappeared over night.
My main takeaway is that it takes careful documentation and a helpful consultation with an RCP expert to truly understand your personal goals. I was fortunate enough to talk directly with Morley Robbins to understand how to read my tests and understand what was and wasn’t important. For me, I learned that that I needed to decrease iron and stress while increasing copper and magnesium.
This article will continue to be updated as I continue with RCP. I plan to take more blood and hair tests in January 2025.
Let me know in the comments what brought you to this article and if you’ve tried the Root Cause Protocol! A good place to keep tabs on my journey is by signing up for our newsletter, and better yet, to consider joining our membership where we have dedicated discussions and calls about mineral balancing. Good luck!
Our RCP Tracker & Cheatsheet
Download and instantly access our RCP results tracker and cheatsheet, including the following.
- Monitor hair and blood test before and after results.
- A spreadsheet to monitor EMP rating and supplementation progress.
- Critical reminders, such as Starts, Stops, dosages, and timing.
Plus, we're just an email away for support.
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