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Episode 26 Why the Holidays Are a Metabolic Stress Test

November 25, 2025 • Kacey Wallace

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The holidays don’t just test your patience — they test your physiology.
In this episode, Dr. Kacey Wallace reveals why the “most wonderful time of the year” is actually a full-body metabolic stress test… and why your symptoms aren’t weakness, but data.

If you’ve been feeling tired, foggy, overwhelmed, puffy, craving everything…
or just not like yourself—

This episode will help you understand what’s really going on beneath it all…
and why January resets almost always fail.

Because it’s not about willpower.
It’s about physiology.

After the holidays, your body isn’t “off track”—
it’s trying to recover from a perfect storm of stress, sugar, disrupted sleep, and nervous system overload.

🧠 In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why holiday chaos disrupts your cortisol rhythm
How stress, sugar, sleep loss, and emotions combine into a metabolic storm
The early signs your resiliency is slipping
Why your immune system often crashes after the holidays
And why your body needs partnership—not punishment—in the new year

If you’re ready to stop blaming yourself and start understanding your body,
this conversation will feel like a deep exhale.

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You don’t need a harder reset.
You need a more supported system.

And when you give your body that—
everything starts to shift.

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