“…The cortisol weakens your connective tissue, tends to create things such as hernias. And the DHEA with aging declines while the cortisol, if anything, tends to rise with aging. And so, fixing your nutrition, vitamin D, calcium, thyroid function will help to raise the DHEA concentration relative to cortisol. And what would be some foods that might help this hernia, kind of you think? Oh, high protein foods. Eggs. Eggs. Seafood. Shellfish in particular. Copper is one of the minerals needed to make strong connective tissues. That would be like lobster, shrimp? Oysters. Oysters. Stuff like that.”