David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts |  Adrenal fatigue is caused by adrenal insufficiency that occurs when the glands cannot adequately meet the demands of chronic stress.
In adrenal fatigue the adrenal glands function, but not enough to maintain normal, healthy homeostasis. Their output of regulatory hormones has been diminished by overstimulation. This overstimulation can be caused either by a very intense single stress or by chronic or repeated stresses that have a cumulative effect. | | People suffering from adrenal fatigue often have to use coffee, colas, and other stimulants to get going in the morning and keep themselves going during the day.
With each increment of reduction in adrenal function, every organ and system in the body is more profoundly affected. The body does its best to make up for underfunctioning adrenal glands, but it does so at a price. Many people who feel fatigued and exhausted eat more to provide additional energy. Thus, adrenal fatigue also can promote obesity and its inherent risks. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Herbs: Those with CFS often have adrenal fatigue or weakness. Licorice can tonify the adrenal glands are as it works to increase levels of Cortisol in the body. Take 1,000 mg two to three times daily, and take the de-glycyrrhizinated form if you suffer from high blood pressure. Ginkgo biloba improves circulation and improves memory. Take 60-120 mg twice a day of a standardized product containing flavone glycosides and 6% terpene lactones. | | Ginseng improves mental and physical stamina and is a wonderful herb specifically for adrenal fatigue. It also improves circulation, balances blood sugar, and is an antioxidant and antispasmodic. Combine m tsp of each loose herb or 1 ml of a tincture. Place 2 tsp of the mixed loose herbs in 1 cup of hot water and steep for 10-15 minutes before drinking. You can also take 4 ml of the combined tincture two to three times daily.
Liver tonic formula: The liver is responsible for breaking down the chemicals, hormones, and toxins we ingest or make within our body. | | Gotu kola also calms the nervous system, supports adrenal fatigue from daily stress and acts as a mild laxative. Whether used topically or internally, gotu kola hastens recovery periods and reduces scar formation. Drink an infusion of 1 tbsp of the whole plant per cup of water, or take 2 ml of a 1:1 tincture or 60 mg in capsule form three times daily.
Horsetail: This is a slightly sweet, cooling, and astringent plant, closely related to ferns. The early spring stems are used to make medicine, as the mature plant contains higher levels of potentially irritating silica. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  According to the Materia Medica, licorice root is also used for urinary tract irritation, adrenal fatigue and exhaustion, immune-deficient states, allergies, liver disorders, and detoxification. The Japanese use a licorice preparation to control hepatitis, not surprising since the Materia Medica suggests that it is particularly good for conditions in which the patient needs immune system support and has abnormally high liver enzymes (mononucleosis, hepatitis). It is also a wonderful herb for chronic fatigue syndrome. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
See book keywords and concepts |  This is another sign of adrenal fatigue which has an indirect effect on your digestion and immune functions.
18. Do you hit an afternoon 'low' between 3 and 4 p.m.? - At around 3.00-3.30 in the afternoon you start to feel like you have been drugged, and this is usually the time you reach for chocolate or a sugary snack. This reflects two things: that you have adrenal fatigue (and this influences digestive energies) and that you are feeding your intestines the wrong food.
19. Have you lost muscle tone? |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts | | Herbs: Those who have chronic fatigue syndrome often have adrenal fatigue or weakness. Herbs that tonify the adrenal glands include licorice, which stabilizes levels of Cortisol in the body. Take 1,000 mg two to three times a day, and take the de-glycyrrhizinated form if you suffer from high blood pressure. Ginkgo biloba improves circulation and memory. Take 60-120 mg twice a day of a standardized product containing flavone glycosides and 6% terpene lactones.
Lifestyle modifications: Identify stress triggers and learn to manage them through relaxation, meditation, and, if need be, counseling. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts | | This state sometimes is called adrenal fatigue, maladapta-tion, or dysfunction.
Adrenal dysfunction can be caused by the following conditions: (1) an excess or inadequacy of Cortisol, DHEA, ACTH, and/or CRH, (2) relative imbalances of these hormones and releasing factors, (3) a loss of sensitivity of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland to the normal inhibiting effects of these hormones, and (4) depletion of energy reserves and a general loss of adaptation ability. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  Copper toxicity can cause liver problems, adrenal fatigue, allergies, and osteoarthritis.10 Other sources of copper include birth control pills, intrauterine devices, fungicides, and pesticides, all of which contain copper as a main ingredient. A thorough analysis from a health-care practitioner, including assessment for nutritional status and heavy toxicity, can determine whether copper detoxification or supplementation is needed. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts | | I also use it for patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome, jet lag, and adrenal fatigue.
Dosage and Safety
Tincture (1:4): 60-100 drops, three or four times per day.
Decoction: Add 1-2 tsp. dried powdered root to 12-16 oz. of water.
Decoct slowly for 20-30 minutes, steep 1 hour. Take up to three cups per day.
Fluid Extract (1:1): 20-40 drops three times per day.
Safety Issues: In rare cases, eleuthero can cause overstimulation in sensitive people. In the past, eleuthero frequently has been adulterated with Periploca sepium. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |  Other contributing factors may be the lack of oxygen and enzymes, the inefficiency of the digestive system, congestion of organs such as the liver and kidneys, congestion of the elimination systems of the lymph and colon, and adrenal fatigue. When toxic wastes are stored in the body, the cells become less efficient at producing energy. What energy is produced must be directed toward survival as a first priority. Therefore, less energy is available for muscle movement and activity. Intestinal toxemia sets in. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
See book keywords and concepts | | This is a sign of adrenal fatigue, and could also be a sign of food intolerance itself.
9. Do your symptoms get worse if you skip meals or eat too little? - Do you have to drive yourself with snacks, colas, and coffees just to keep from collapsing? This is a measure of stress that is indirectly related to your digestive health.
10. Are you constantly tired even though you are getting enough sleep? -Despite getting a good night's sleep, do you still feel tired when you wake up?
'Refreshed' is a foreign word to people with adrenal fatigue. | | If you sometimes feel a little woozy or even like you are going to pass out when you get up too quickly from the bed or a chair, this is a sign of adrenal fatigue, which has an impact on your digestive system's ability to work properly.
17. Do you find it difficult getting up in the morning? - Three alarms and you still don't feel awake enough to lift your head off the pillow. This is another sign of adrenal fatigue which has an indirect effect on your digestion and immune functions.
18. Do you hit an afternoon 'low' between 3 and 4 p.m.? - At around 3.00-3. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Most people reading this understand that term -- adrenal fatigue, adrenal exhaustion.
Mike: Right.
Lucille: Well, being that menopause is a natural process -- and I don't believe that nature has a design flaw -- our adrenal glands are the post-menopausal backup system for hormone production. And by the time a modern-day woman was getting to the crone years, the wisdom years, they were adrenally shot. They're stressed out from our modern-day society being so stressed out -- utilizing that fight or flight, not just for times of sheer danger, but just --
Mike: But chronically. | | And so those two things -- our environment and adrenal fatigue -- were two things that I thought, "That's how you identify and treat the cause." That's what I was able to do, and that's why I wrote the book "Creating and Maintaining Balance: A Woman's Guide to Safe, Natural Hormone Health."
Mike: "Creating and Maintaining Balance." Now, is this in distribution right now?
Lucille: The best place to get it is on Amazon.com.
Mike: Okay. Excellent. Now, everything you just mentioned -- this is great information. |
Byron J. Richards
See book keywords and concepts |  Any person feeling the effects of wear and tear, poor mood, stress intolerance, sleep problems, and increasing aches or pains is now into the realm of adrenal fatigue. The adrenal glands have been working overtime, trying to keep up with the wear and tear of life. And, finally, they can't. Tolerance for stress has been depleted. The person now enters the zone of ongoing inflammation, a serious turning point in health. The hallmarks of this poor condition are no energy to exercise, feeling worse after moderate exercise, and/or persisting fatigue that is difficult to overcome. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Experts have long known that intense or prolonged stress cause adrenal weakness, causing insufficient Cortisol production. This adrenal fatigue could then, in turn, overtax the pineal gland until it no longer produces enough melatonin to control the body's internal clock. Compounded together, the results include the sleep disturbances, chronic fatigue, and chronic pain associated with both CFS and FMS.
Based on this research, one key to preventing both CFS and FMS is keeping your physical and emotional stress to a minimum. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  The appropriate treatment should be undertaken only after this determination is made. If adrenal fatigue is suspected, the patient should be evaluated by a physician with experience in recognizing and treating adrenal fatigue and issues of the relative Addisonian state. It is very important to make sure that full-blown Addison's disease is not the problem, since it must be treated vigorously (Ehlert et al. 2001; Tsigos et al. 2002). In most communities, a qualified internist or internal medicine subspecialist will begin the investigation. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  Sodium inside cells lowers mitochondria energy and kills cells, increases toxic wastes, lowers electric charge, and imposes anaerobic left-spin environ, with attendant viruses, spurs adrenal fatigue and severe migraines (strong adrenals help rid excess Sodium, as do antagonists B3 or Lithium orotate), severe depression, suicide, and cancer in those with over 1000 ppm.. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts |  If stress becomes chronic and long-term, which it does in many of our lives, our feedback loops become degraded, and we experience "adrenal fatigue"— the result of racing through life with a constantly aroused sympathetic (fight-or-flight) nervous system. Just ask the person who is stuck in freeway traffic when he's late for a meeting or the person working on an assembly line with increased quotas despite recent layoffs of personnel. When the stress response does not automatically turn off, our hip-pocampal brain cells become weakened. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Nutritional Supplements: Nutritional supplements speed recovery from adrenal fatigue, prevent some of the damage caused by adrenal dysfunction, and, by helping to improve such things as motivation, energy and mood, in many cases are necessary for recovery to occur. | | Wilson JL. Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome. Petaluma, CA: Smart Publications, 2001.
69. Vermeulen A. Adrenal androgens and aging. In: Genazzani AR, ThijssenJH, Siiteri PK (eds.). Adrenal androgens. New York, NY: Raven Press, 1980:27-42.
70. Bonney RC, Scanlon MJ, Jones DL, Beranek PA, Reed MJ, James VH. The interrelationship between plasma 5-ene adrenal androgens in normal women. J Steroid Biochem 1984;20:1353-55.
71. Rotter JI, Wong L, Lifrak ET, Parker LN. A genetic component to the variation of dehydroepiandrosterone. Metab Clin Exp 1985;34:731-36.
72. | | However, because of a wide variation in what is considered to be normal levels, many symptomatic patients may not show irregularities, since in most cases of adrenal fatigue, the cause is a functional lack of adrenal reserve, as opposed to outright Addison's disease. | | Nevertheless, on routine blood screening we may see the following in adrenal fatigue:
• Serum Na low normal
• Serum K high normal
• BUN high normal or elevated
• Eosinophils high bohydrate. Non-starchy vegetables should be eaten 6-8 servings per day. Fruits and grains should probably be avoided at breakfast because these foods can lead to pre-lunch hypoglycemia. In fact, bouts of hypoglycemia should be avoided as much as possible. Eating smaller meals more frequently, while being aware of the glycemic indices of food, is necessary if hypoglycemia needs to be managed. | | The charts below give some typical herbs, nutritional supplements, and hormones used, and the rationale for their use in both the resistance phase and exhaustion phase adrenal fatigue.
Herbs: Adaptogenic herbs help with a variety of conditions, ranging from the body's ability to handle stress to increasing red blood cell and white blood cell count in patients who are immune compromised. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
See book keywords and concepts | | This reflects two things: that you have adrenal fatigue (and this influences digestive energies) and that you are feeding your intestines the wrong food.
19. Have you lost muscle tone? - If despite the same levels of activity you appear to have less muscle relative to body weight, this reflects that your body may not be healing and repairing itself as well as it should - and this will affect your intestinal lining before it affects your muscles.
20. Have you got high blood pressure? - Stress raises blood pressure by a number of mechanisms including elevated Cortisol levels. | | Especially when combined with the rest of life's stressors, the pain in your intestines also increases the risk of adrenal fatigue - a very real problem that is largely misunderstood by the medical world, which tends to believe that the adrenal glands are in perfect working order unless you have Cushing's Disease (overactive adrenal glands) or Addison's Disease (underactive adrenal glands). Furthermore, an elevated level of Cortisol diminishes SlgA levels and impedes repair of your intestinal lining. |
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