How to Fix the Adrenal Body Type - Dr. Berg

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let’s talk about how to fix the adrenal body type okay so are we talking about adrenal fatigue are we talking about some adrenal disease well the medical profession doesn’t acknowledge adrenal fatigue they don’t really think that it exists and that’s totally fine because what are they going to do just give you another drug give you a steroid I think if you have adrenal stress adrenal burnout adrenal fatigue whatever you want to call it I think you should use natural type remedies so the first question is where are the adrenals well they’re located right above the kidney right on top of the kidneys okay you have two of them and they’re little triangle glands and they have an inside and an outside the outside is called the cortex adrenal cortex and then the inside is called the medulla the Adrenal medulla the main hormone that we’re going to focus on on the outside is called cortisol and then the neurotransmitter on the inside that we’re going to focus on is called adrenaline and the entire adrenal system relates to something called Fight or Flight and that relates to its purpose which is to adapt the body to a stress State now what does that mean adapt the body to a stress State well it’s quite interesting that you have an entire system that adapts your body to this very interesting condition or state which is during stress whether you’re attacking something fighting something or you’re running away from something okay you have a system to help you survive so what this system does through all of its different adaptations is to prepare your body to survive during a stress mode and of course this was designed to be more short-term not long-term like we experience nowadays with sustained chronic mental stress our bodies were designed to handle a bit more physical stress so you need more blood flow to certain muscles you need more heightened energy in your brain to focus in on certain things and solve certain problems relating to survival you need quick energy as in glucose energy and you don’t need energy to certain body systems like reproduction like the immune system like your digestion so that’s the function of the adrenals and these hormones go through almost every cell in the body and start to change certain things to adapt the body to prepare for this stress situation so what’s the significance of that well if you’re under chronic mental stress okay or you have major losses in your life or you have surgeries or traumas which by the way all these stresses accumulate over time and then they create situations where the adrenals become dysfunctional to a certain degree and I’m not even talking about a disease I’m talking about like a subclinical problem with the adrenal at first you have a higher level of these hormones and then over time you start developing like cortisol resistance just like insulin resistance where now the cortisol doesn’t work but you have high levels of cortisol and symptoms of low cortisol it makes it really confusing but let’s go through the symptoms that someone might experience if they have adrenal fatigue or adrenal dysfunction number one their tolerance for stress is lowered they can’t tolerate babysitting a room full of small children at a daycare center for more than eight hours they can’t tolerate a slow driver in front of them for a period of you know two and a half hours where they’re on the freeway for some reason that bothers them they definitely can’t tolerate incompetent people or people that are considered more stupid or people that make maybe stupid decisions they just have a low tolerance for that unless they’re an environment where everything is logical and perfect they get impatient they become irritable and they have sometimes even anxiety and anxiety is like worry and an inability to decide on something because there’s a chronic problem the moment someone decides and solves a problem the anxiety is less now it can also affect excessive thinking analyzing things especially when you’re trying to sleep you know in the middle of the night you’re solving all these problems and just keep going and going and going that’s an adrenal symptom and because the adrenals the cortisol is another name for that is called glucocorticoid you actually turn protein into glucose so you’re running your body on glucose and that’s something that your adrenals basically cause your liver to make more sugar to run on sugar fuel because it’s quick energy the problem is stress really equals sugar and even though you’re not eating sugar you’re getting a lot of sugar in the bloodstream and that can cause blood sugar problems and even believe it or not diabetes and what’s happening with all the sugar is that it’s going to be converted to cholesterol not the friendly type also you’re getting conversion into fat on the liver fat in the visceral organs right here because that’s a survival mechanism to hold fat in the midsection in fact in really extreme examples I’ll show you in this book right here siba a collection of medical illustrations volume 4 endocrine system see this is an adrenal body type right here you can see the person’s holding fat right here and then the body is extracting protein from the glutamus Maximus and putting it right into that that part right here and then taking muscle from this extra muscle here called the quads putting that right in that midsection right here so there’s all these physiological things that happen throughout the body which I’m going to get into another thing that happens with the adrenal is they get hyper acidity gastritis and this is why some people can experience ulcers from stress because the stress activates this acidity which then Burns a hole right through your stomach the blood pressure goes up with adrenal okay you have increased pulse rate you can have the symptom of asthma and because you get cortisol resistance cortisol is normally an anti-inflammatory but now you have have the opposite of that which is a deficiency of cortisol in the cell and this is why a lot of people with adrenal problems develop inflammation that won’t go away they start developing all sorts of inflammatory disorders and problems within the immune system in fact if we just look at inflammation where that comes from it comes from the healing response it can come from an injury it can come from the immune system but the immune system controls inflammation in the body regardless of where it comes from but the unique thing about the adrenal system is that it’s shunting energy away from the immune system and this is why the white blood cells which is your entire immune system is suppressed during stress and cortisol this is why they use cortisol or prednisone as a treatment with immune overactivity type inflammatory conditions so in other words when you go through stress and you have high levels of cortisol your immune system becomes paralyzed okay and you can even develop in that state autoimmune diseases and so many people develop an autoimmune disease right after a stress event or a major loss so any condition that involves inflammation is a condition that involves the adrenal glands you’re also losing certain things like calcium you’re losing potassium for sure and initially you’re retaining sodium but then eventually when the adrenals burn out you’ll lose sodium so you’re losing these electrolytes and a little uh point about potassium is when you start losing potassium the pH changes in the body to a more alkaline state so anytime you’re looking at a loss of potassium that’s associated with an alkaline state so when people are burnt out they’re not more acidic they’re more alkaline and that affects their breathing they tend to get hypoxia or breathing problems they can’t breathe as well they accumulate a bit too much CO2 and not enough oxygen I mean even if you look at someone that