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Dr. Julia Bowlin: [00:00:00] Winter is not productivity failure. It's a biologic and energetic season that's really asking you for a different operating system.
Hello and welcome to Mindset Medicine. I'm Dr. Julia Bowlin, and this month we are working inside of the theme energy over everything because this year is winding down and winter is settling in, and sometimes it becomes painfully clear that our willpower, our motivation, and our hustle. Our unreliable currencies.
This episode is all about energy over everything. How to care for your light in the dark months. And this matters right now because so many people are mislabeling normal seasonal biology as personal failure, we have shorter days, heavier bodies, quieter minds, lower output. None of that means that we're losing our edge.
It means our nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed [00:01:00] to do in the winter. In a culture, however, that demands summer level performance year round, this conversation is really about recalibration. It's about how to protect your energy instead of burning it. Working with the season instead of against it, and understanding that how you care for your body, your rhythms, and your internal resources right now determines how steady, clear, and resilient you'll be moving forward.
So there is something very important that I wanna name right now out of the gate. 'cause a lot of people are quietly beating themselves up about this. If you feel heavier in the winter, if your energy's dipping, your pace is slowing, your motivation feels less sparkly than it did in June. That is not a mindset problem, and it's certainly not a personal failure.
It's biology. Every mammal on the planet understands this instinctively. Your dog doesn't feel guilty for sleeping more in the [00:02:00] winter. Your cat isn't questioning its ambition because it's parked on a warm surface in the sunlight coming through the window, and bears don't attend productivity seminars before they hit hibernation.
Why do we feel like we have to do that? Animals respond to this season, and humans are the only, I'm gonna say crazy species that looks at winter and says, cool. Let's ignore all of the biology and just push harder. Okay? So winter is not productivity failure. It's a biologic and energetic season that's really asking you for a different operating system.
It's requiring and requesting less output, more conservation, more internal processing, more rest, not collapse, not quitting, but just some preparation and yet. Modern life has erased our seasonal permission to listen to our biological changes. Artificial light, [00:03:00] constant simulation, endless calendars and year round urgency is telling your nervous system that there's no off season, but there really is.
So when your body naturally downshifts, we make it a pathology. Like there's something wrong with this. Like we have seasonal affective disorder, or how about we just say it? Yes, there is a true disorder associated with the seasons, but let's look at it for what it probably really is. It's true biological change, and we are just trying to push through it.
So here's what I see clinically and in hospice over and over again. When the body's signals are ignored long enough, they don't get quieter, they get louder. Fatigue becomes inflammation. Poor sleep becomes irritability, anxiety, and brain fog. Dehydration masks as exhaustion under fueling, looks like low motivation and lack of a movement if the body turns into [00:04:00] stiffness, pain, and low mood.
None of that is moral failure. It's an unmet biologic need, and this is the season of working with your energy instead of trying to overwrite it, of listening instead of forcing. Of tending to your internal resources instead of trying to burn them down to meet expectations that were really never designed for January months, and this, this is where the core idea of my episode matters right now.
Energy is the primary currency, not output, not hustle, and not prove it energy. So how do you protect it? How do you replenish it? How do you stop leaking it through? Dehydration, poor sleep, under nourishment, emotional overextension, and constant mental pressure. I often remind people that you can't outthink a dehydrated brain.
You can't [00:05:00] willpower your way through low blood sugar, and you certainly can't perform at your best when your nervous system is running on fumes. This isn't about lowering your ambition. It's really about respecting timing. Winter doesn't extinguish light. It concentrates it, it goes inward. It strengthens roots, it prepares quietly.
So before we go any further, take one breath here. Not to fix anything. Not to reset anything, just to let your body register that it's allowed to be where it is. Nothing wrong. You're not behind. You're responding to a season. Now, why does winter feel heavy when it's really not the problem? We already talked about biology, but let's really get into daily life and cultural reality.
Winter often gets framed as something that we just need to push through, as if there [00:06:00] it's a goal to endure with minimal damage and maybe maximum productivity. But the framing alone creates resistance. Winter isn't a glitch in the system. It is the system. And for most of human history, winter naturally slowed life down, shorter days, met less light hitting the retina, which directly affects our melatonin, serotonin, and cortisol rhythm, and our sleep architecture.
Our bodies adapted nervous systems, adapted communities adapted, but modern life didn't. We still expect summer mode performance in a winter mode body. And here's where heaviness creeps in. Less daylight changes, hormone signaling, cold tightens our muscles and our connective tissue. We move less without even noticing it, and we drink less water [00:07:00] because our thirst cues are blunted.
We crave more dense or quick energy foods because the body is really seeking warmth and fuel. And none of this is pathology, it's physiology. But when those signals are ignored, when sleep shortens, hydration drops, meals become erratic, and movement disappears, the body doesn't whisper. It compensates and compensation feels like heaviness.
I see this play out differently Across all occupations. Healthcare workers feel it as deep fatigue and emotional overload. Fewer daylight hours after long shifts, more sympathetic activation and less recovery time. Teachers feel it as mental exhaustion, managing energy in darker classrooms with students who are already dysregulated by the season.
Tradespeople and outdoor workers feel it physically. Cold joints, stiffness, slowed, [00:08:00] warmup time, right? They have to get their bodies moving more, and office and corporate workers feel it cognitively. They might feel more brain fog, irritability, difficulty focusing under the artificial light for long stretches.
Caregivers feel it emotionally and they have less internal reserve to hold everyone else together. Same season. Different expressions, and yet culturally we treat all of this as if it's something to override. We just gotta push harder, drink more caffeine, add more structure, and pretend the body isn't responding to real environmental cues.
So when fatigue shows up, we label it as laziness. When introversion increases, we label it as withdrawal. When desire for quiet appears, we label it as loss of drive. These aren't [00:09:00] symptoms to eliminate they're signals asking for interpretation. Think about animals again. Your dog doesn't want longer walks in the dark and in the cold.
It wants warmth, predictability, and rest. Not because it's unmotivated, but because its nervous. System is conserving energy, but we as humans judge ourselves for that same instinct. Winter heaviness often means that your system is just trying to conserve resources. Being introverted trying to withdraw just means that your attention is turning inward.
The pull towards quiet means your nervous system wants fewer inputs, not fewer, bigger dreams for your future. The weight isn't the season. The weight comes from fighting the season while being dehydrated, under fueled, poorly rested, and disconnected from our body and the signals when we stop resisting these signals.
And instead respond with sleep, [00:10:00] nourishment, water, and movement that matches the season. Winter stops feeling like something is wrong. It just becomes information. And information when respected helps bring relief. One of the biggest misunderstandings that I see, especially in high functioning capable people is that the belief that energy, motivation, and willpower are interchangeable and the same.
Energy, motivation and willpower are not the same. They're just not. And winter really exposes that misunderstanding quickly. Motivation is emotional. It's that spark that says I want to do this. Motivation is influenced by light exposure, sleep quality, blood sugar, stability, stress, hormones, meaning and mood.
And when daylight drops and routines shift, motivation naturally quiets. [00:11:00] Again, that's not failure. It's seasonal biology versus willpower. Now that's our brain function. That's cognitive. It's effort. It's mental muscle. It's a part of you that says, I'm gonna do it anyway. Willpower is useful in short bursts.
But willpower is expensive. It draws heavily from the nervous system and really rigs up the stress hormones in the winter when baseline energy is already lower. Willpower can drain the tank faster than you realize. Energy though now that's foundational energy is physiological, it's biological, it's part of the body long before it's psychological.
So energy, it's sleep architecture, it's hydration at the cellular level. It's whether your brain has glucose available. It's whether your muscles and joints are getting enough movement and warmth, and it's whether your nervous system [00:12:00] feels safe enough to downshift. This is where people get stuck. They wake up tired and they try to think their way out of it.
They feel foggy, so they push harder mentally. They feel unmotivated and then they criticize themselves. But the body doesn't respond to pep talks. You can't outthink poor sleep. You can't mindset your way out of dehydration, and you can't willpower your way through, under fueling without consequences. And here's a simple daily analogy.
If you don't water a plant, it doesn't become unmotivated. If you don't feed a pet, it doesn't lose discipline. If you leave your phone unplugged, it doesn't need a better attitude. It needs energy. So winter is where the energy deficit really shows up the fastest. Less light disrupts our circadian rhythm.
Cold [00:13:00] increases our caloric demand Movement naturally decreases and thirst Cues are blunted meals get irregular and sleep gets lighter. So what people tend to call low motivation is just often mild dehydration, inadequate protein or carbohydrates, blood sugar swings, fragmented sleep and chronic low level stress.
And then they respond by pushing harder. Seriously. And that's gonna to bad part because energy isn't something you force into existence. It's something you need to cultivate to protect and replenish. This is where your trifecta really matters. These aren't rules. These are regulators. The trifecta is sleep, food, and water and body movement, period.
Sleep because your nervous system repairs at night. Food and water because brains run on fuel and hydration and body movement because [00:14:00] circulation, lymph flow and mood depend on it. And when one of these is off, the energy is going to drop. When two are off, motivation's going to collapse. And when all three are off, willpower suddenly becomes punishment, and there's a lot of negative energy around that.
So low energy isn't personal failing, it's just a message. And when you treat energy as a resource instead of a moral issue, everything changes. Decisions get kinder. Pace gets smarter. You stop wasting what little energy you have. Trying to generate more through pressuring yourself. And here's the paradox that I see all the time in practice, when people stop forcing energy, especially through willpower energy returns, huh?
Imagine that. But what is the cost of leaking energy in these dark months? Like one of the reason [00:15:00] winter feels so draining isn't just that the energy is naturally lower, it's also what is available quietly leaks away in places that we really think to look like. It just leaks, like energy leaks aren't dramatic.
They don't announce themselves, they energy leaks hide in things like tolerating things.
Outro: Hmm.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Things we've learned to live with that are quietly taxing our system every day. A toleration might be physical, wearing clothes that are slightly uncomfortable or not warm enough, maybe sitting under harsh lighting for hours, or working in a space with constant noise and visual clutter.
Being mildly cold most of the day and telling yourself it's fine, your nervous system is noticing it all. Cold alone increases muscle tension and sympathetic activation. Tight shoulders, clenched jaws, shallow breathing. These aren't stress [00:16:00] reactions that you choose. They're an automatic response to an environment that feels demanding.
Then there are physiologic tolerations. We just went physical tolerations. Now let's talk about physiologic. This might be running on low grade dehydration because you're ignoring your thirst cues. It might be skipping meals or undereating during the day and over-relying on quick energy. Quick energy foods like sugars and carbs.
It might look like poor sleep that's been normalized because, oh, that's just how it's, none of these feel urgent. But together they do drain energy slowly and steadily. And then there are the emotional and mental leaks. Example might be overscheduling without having a strict margin. We're holding everyone else's stress without noticing our own and what it's costing us.
Maybe staying in conversations, commitments or roles that require constant self-monitoring. [00:17:00] In winter, the nervous system has less bandwidth for this. That doesn't mean you're less capable, it just means your system is prioritizing conservation. Different occupations leak energy differently this time of year.
Healthcare professionals leak energy through constant vigilance and emotional presence. Educators leak energy by managing dysregulated environments with fewer daylights office workers, leak energy through prolonged screen exposures and artificial lighting and caregivers leak energy by carrying the responsibility of everybody without any seasonal relief.
Same winter, different leaks. And here's the important part. This isn't about fixing everything, and winter is not the season for optimization. It's the season for awareness. It's the season for presence over performing. You don't need to eliminate every drain in your life. I just asking you to notice them.[00:18:00]
Awareness alone reduces the nervous system load. It interrupts the constant background effort for adaptation. This is why winter can feel so heavy when we ignore our leaks and surprisingly lighter when we stop arguing with what's really true and just accepting it. You don't have to push more energy into the system.
You might just have to stop letting it drip away through all your tolerances, and that begins with paying attention. Without judgment and without urgency.
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Dr. Julia Bowlin: Because rhythm regulation, daily life, the trifecta and no rigid routines is medicine. And when energy feels scattered or thin, most people think they just need more control, more structure, or even a tighter plan, maybe even a better system. But [00:20:00] winter doesn't respond well to rigidity. What it does respond to is a better rhythm.
Rhythm is different than a routine. A routine says, do this at this time, no matter what a rhythm says, let's give the body something. It can. Trust rhythms, reduce the number of decisions that you have to make. It lessens the nervous system stress, and in the winter, decision fatigue is real when daylight is limited and the stress hormones are already elevated.
The brain burns energy, just negotiating your very basics of your routine. This is where rhythm becomes medicine. Think about pets again. Dogs thrive on rhythm. They don't need novelty to feel safe. They need predictability, feeding times, walking times, rest times, and when rhythm is disrupted, behavior changes.
Anxiety increases and energy scatters, and we humans are no [00:21:00] different. We just learn to ignore and override those body signals. Daily rhythm is a foundation. Sleep matters more in, in the winter, not just how long you sleep, but consistent sleep. Irregular sleep confuses our cortisol rhythms and makes fatigue worse.
Light exposure early in the day matters. Even when it's cloudy outside, the brain needs that signal to regulate your mood and your alertness. So get outside, put your face in the light, because movement also matters too. But winter movement is different. It doesn't have to be the same as in the summer.
This isn't the season for pushing, punishing workouts. It's actually just the season for circulation, warmth, joint mobility, a walk that loosens instead of depletes movement that tells the body, we're safe, we're alive, we're moving, we're here. Right? And then lastly, there's that nourishment and hydration.
In winter, people often [00:22:00] eat less during the day without even realizing it. They drink less water and then wonder why their energy crashes. Cold blunts are thirst cues, busy schedules, overwrite hunger cues, and the brain interprets this as stress and we still gain weight. We don't need a perfect diet, we just need regular fuel.
Because our brains run on glucose and water. Nervous systems regulate better when our blood sugar is steady. This isn't really about discipline. I know people get those big jugs and they force it through, which is good, but it's really about rhythm and physiology. Weekly rhythms matter too. Maybe given yourself an unscheduled block of time every week, four hours.
It's just an intentional pause, not to recover from failure, but to prevent depletion opening up space for you to have flexibility. I call it UST time, unstructured time. So there's [00:23:00] daily rhythms, weekly rhythms. Maybe Monday you have more motivation, and Friday you're lower on your energy cues. Listen to your natural rhythm throughout the week.
And then there's seasonal rhythms as well. Winter is not the time to stack a bunch of commitments or to expand outward. It's the time to simply design fewer obligations. Just getting more depth with what you have doing more repetition and less novelty. This isn't about falling behind, it's just intelligent pacing.
Rhythm works because it removes the friction of everyday life. It stabilizes your energy without demanding motivation. And it also, this rhythm supports my main trifecta, which is sleep, nourishment, and movement. Without it turning into a project, and when the body feels supported, it stops fighting back.
Energy doesn't need to be forced. When rhythm is present, it will regulate [00:24:00] itself. So how do we care for our own internal light without overexposing ourselves? It's winner. Energy isn't meant to blaze or give bright light. It's meant to glow and be slow. Think about tending a fire. You don't keep the flame alive by throwing it into the wind.
You don't expose it constantly just to prove that it's still burning. You shield it, you feed it steadily, and you protect it from the elements that would drain it faster than you can replenish it. That's what winter care looks like for your energy. This is where boundaries often get misunderstood.
Boundaries aren't walls. They're not withdrawal, and they're not disengagement from life. Boundaries are energy management rooted in physiology and not personality. In winter, the nervous system is already working harder to maintain your temperature, regulate your mood, and manage lower light exposure.
When you [00:25:00] overexpose yourself, whether it's socially, emotionally, or brain-wise, cognitively, you increase demand without increasing the supply of stuff you have. That's when people start to feel brittle, and this might show up in small everyday ways. You might say yes to one more evening commitment when your body is already tired.
You might be staying in a conversation that requires constant emotional regulation. Tampering it down when you really wanna say something, it might look like being available to everyone while feeling totally unavailable to yourself. It might look like wearing yourself thin because it's not that big a deal.
I can push through it, but the body keeps score, folks. It keeps score. I'm telling you, overexposure drains your energy quietly. Not all at once, but enough to dim your flame. Winter naturally favors depth over [00:26:00] breath. What do I mean by that? Fewer interactions mean more meaningful interactions. Shorter commitments mean more presence in the commitment and less noise means more substance.
It's not antisocial. It's seasonal intelligence and animals instinctively reduce exposure in the winter. They conserve warmth, they limit unnecessary movement. They cluster, they rest, they preserve. Humans on the other hand, often tolerate chronic exposure over exposure, and then we normalize it such as too much screen light late at night, too many conversations without recovering socially.
Too much emotional labor without refueling and maybe too many layers of expectations piled onto your system that's already running low of energy. And then we call it normal. It's normal for that. Alright, so [00:27:00] caring for your light doesn't mean to disappearing. It just means choosing where your energy should actually go.
You don't owe full access to everyone all the time. You don't need to explain why you might feel quieter. You are allowed to protect yourself and what's tender about yourself when you stop over exposing your energy. Something subtle but powerful happens. The flame studies, the nervous system relaxes and energy becomes consistent instead of erratic.
Not flashy, not loud, but reliable, and that kind of light will carry you through the winter without burning you out. Next, let's talk about presence as a form of recalibration. Everybody talks about trying to get present, be present in the moment. There's a reason for this. When energy is low, the reflex for most people is to push through it, to rely on momentum, to override what's happening internally, and then they hope [00:28:00] grit is gonna carry them across the finish line.
But pushing is expensive, willpower is expensive. Presence on the other hand. Is quietly restorative, not because it adds energy, but because it stops unnecessary loss. And here's what's happening neurologically. When you're not present, when your mind is scanning ahead, replaying conversations, bracing for what's next, your nervous system is staying activated.
Your muscles are staying tense slightly, but they're still tense. And our breathing stays shallow and our cortisol stays elevated. Energy drains are in the background and you don't even realize it's happening. Presence, full presence interrupts the drain. I see this every day in life all the time. Think about this.
If you're sitting in traffic, are you mentally fighting it, checking your clock, rehearsing frustration, running. Worst [00:29:00] case scenarios about being late, you're gonna arrive more exhausted than the drive alone would've justified. Same road, same time, different internal state. Think of another thing. You might be sitting in a waiting room and when you're mentally elsewhere, time goes longer, the body tightens and patience grows.
And when attention settles into the body, your feet on the floor, your breath moving, your shoulders drooping. Nothing external changes, but your slowing energy loss, that constant state of looking to the future. Planning the next step versus being fully present in the moment is a really big deal. It doesn't require meditation or perfect conditions.
Presence can just be as simple as noticing the temperature in the room, feeling the weight of your body in the chair, letting one slow exhale, be [00:30:00] slightly longer than the inhale. Breathing in for four, exhaling for eight. Or allowing your jaw to unclench without correcting anything else. These aren't tasks, they're just signals.
And the signal is this, we're safe enough to be present right now, and that's why this message really matters because when we tell ourselves we are safe enough in the presence right now, our stress levels go down. Our body recalibrates. And in winter, especially when baseline stress is higher already and reserves are lower already, and presence suddenly is much more, becomes one of the fastest ways that you can stabilize your energy.
So if you wanna conserve your energy, get more present, not by doing more, but by stopping the silent effort of holding everything together and constantly pretending to think you can control what's gonna happen in the future. [00:31:00] Here's a quiet coaching moment, right? You don't need to change how you feel.
You don't even need to understand it, and you don't even need to improve it. Just notice what you're feeling without labeling it as a problem. And this often allows the body just to settle on its own. So if we allow a feeling to go through us without controlling it, thinking about it. That just naturally settles and conserves our energy and conserved energy restores faster than forced momentum ever will.
Presence isn't passive. It's corrective, and it's an action. When you're being present, you're doing something. I'm gonna say that again. So many forget this. When you are fully present in a moment that's doing something, your brain doesn't have to be four steps ahead of what's coming next, and that's corrective and in [00:32:00] winter it's often exactly what our nervous system has been asking for.
So I'd like to talk a little bit about reclaiming versus reinvention. This sounds a little weird, but it's gonna make sense in just a second. Okay. So Winter has a way of triggering the urge to try to overhaul everything because we're going inside, we're not as outside we, we tend to look for new plans or new systems or new identities, and as suddenly we just wanna figure it all out.
We wanna reinvent our world. That impulse makes sense because when our energy drops, our mind is looking for control. Reinvention feels like movement even when the body's asking to be more still or as we are talking about hibernate. But here's the thing, reinvention requires more energy, and winter is not a season of surplus energy.
So instead of asking, what do I need to change right now, winter invites a quieter, more accurate [00:33:00] question, and that is what's already working that I stopped doing or listening to. So reclaiming means going back to think about what's worked for me before versus reinventing, trying new plans, new systems, doing something else that requires a lot of energy.
Reclaiming doesn't demand momentum, it just requires clarity and maybe just a smaller plan of rhythm. And it happens through small, respectful adjustments, micro calibrations that reduce brain strain rather than creating pressure. This might look like. Realizing that your mornings feel better when you eat protein early, and going back to that without making it a have to.
Just remembering that or noticing that your body settles when you move midday instead of late evening, and just honoring the rhythm of moving more midday. It might also look like letting go of a commitment that made sense in the summer, but cost too much energy right now. [00:34:00] Nothing dramatic, nothing performative.
Just listening to the body. I see this again in occupations. Here's another example. Professionals who keep horsing early mornings when their winter energy peaks later, they tend to want, need to be getting up later than they were before in the summer. Or caregivers who tolerate constant availability instead of trying to find those small pockets of rest leaders who mistake constantly putting output for effectiveness and not missing the signals of fatigue and ignoring them.
Winter reveals where we've been tolerating strain instead of questioning it. And tolerations, as I've mentioned, is expensive. Tolerations drain energy because they require constant adaptation. The body keeps compensating, the nervous system keeps bracing. And over time, that shows up as irritability, brain fog, low mood, and a vague sense that [00:35:00] something is off.
Gently reclaiming is really about removing friction, not adding ambition, right? We're not creating something new to move forward. We're removing the friction and going back to what worked before. It's really letting go of what quietly exhausts you. It's returning to what steadies you, and it's choosing ease where ease is available.
Winter favors listening before acting. When you listen long enough, clarity organizes itself. It's not urgent, it's not loud, but it's reliable, and that clarity doesn't vanish when the season shifts, it'll carry forward, I promise you. So winter isn't asking you to become somebody new. It's inviting you to come back to what your body has been telling you all along.
And one of the quiet fears that people carry in winter is this idea that slowing down means that you're losing ground. That [00:36:00] if I don't keep pushing in the same pace that I've been all year long, something's gonna slip, that my momentum is gonna disappear and my edge is gonna dull. That fear makes sense in a culture that equates exhaustion with effectiveness.
But here's what the experience and physiology actually show. Energy that's respected compounds, energy that's ignored will fracture. And when winter is honored instead of resisted when something organizing beneath the surface, not dramatically, not loudly but intelligently, our sleep deepens when we prioritize it right.
Our blood sugar stabilizes when nourishment becomes regular. Our moods even out when movement supports circulation instead of punishment, like forcing the exercise and our focus will sharpen when energy leaks are sealed enough instead of ignored. [00:37:00] None of that looks flashy, but all of it matters. I see this clearly in people who've worked in high stakes environments such as medicine, leadership, caregiving, and education, and the ones who allow winter to be quieter.
Don't come back weaker in the spring. They come back clearer, more decisive, less reactive, and more grounded. Nothing in winter is wasted. Rest is not passive. It's active. It's doing something, and quiet is not empty. It's intentional. Slowness is not stagnation. It's preparatory. Just like the fields, like fallow to restore nutrients.
Your nervous system uses winter to recalibrate. To shed what's unnecessary, to strengthen what's essential, and when the process is supported instead of overridden. Future expansion requires so much less effort. Spring doesn't arrive stronger. When winter is ignored, it arrives stronger when winter is lived well.[00:38:00]
You don't have to manufacture readiness. You build it by listening now, by tending your energy, respecting rhythms, protecting what's vital and trusting that timing matters. That trust isn't complacency, it's wisdom earned through attention. And as we close, there's no assignment here today. No action. Step to implement.
Just one question to hold gently, not to answer immediately, but to return to. What's supporting my energy right now? Not what should not, what used to, not what works for everyone else, but what supports you in this season, in this body, and in this moment? Let the question lay. Curious rather than corrective.
You're not evaluating yourself here. You're listening. And listening is often the most restorative act we can do. And it's available to you at all times, so let the pace be [00:39:00] steady, let the care be quiet, and let the winter do what it knows how to do, and may you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled. And I'll meet you again next time.
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