Adrenal fatigue is a term applied to a collection of nonspecific symptoms, such as body aches, fatigue, nervousness, sleep disturbances and digestive problems indicates the Mayo Clinic. At Optimum Health adrenal fatigue is a term used to refer to a person dealing with prolonged periods of stress, anxiety and panic leading to overworked/fatigued adrenal glands. The groundwork for the concept of adrenal fatigue is actually taught in medical school as the flight or fight response.
Adrenal Fatigue Can Start as the Fight or Flight Response
Adrenal fatigue starting as the fight or flight response makes a lot of sense when you really stop and think about it. First, let’s think about a scary movie scene where a person is running in the woods trying to get away from the bad guy. The camera usually flashes one scene after another all around the woods as the person is trying to pay attention to all parts of the woods as they do not know from which part the bad guy is going to jump. Fight or flight is much like this. Your body sends most of your nutrients and blood flow to your arms and legs to allow you to run away from or fight the bad guy. Your body begins to create extra hormones like adrenaline, cortisol, DHEA and insulin
In this situation, your mind switches to surveillance mode so you can pay attention to everything to be get the first indication of the bad guy appearing. This means that you don’t focus on any one thing and this can make you appear to have ADD or ADHD.
While running from the bad guy, do you think you will want to stop to sleep, urinate or eat? No, because the fight or flight response causes you to postpone these normal body functions as long as possible though you may grab something to snack on as you run. During the fight or flight response, your adrenal glands are pumping adrenaline as fast as they can and this is what leads to adrenal fatigue.
With prolonged states of the fight or flight response, the adrenal glands can become overworked. The adrenal glands may even get stuck functioning at maximum capacity and become fatigued. In the natural health world, we call this adrenal fatigue.
Adrenal fatigue is not a diagnosis as only physicians diagnose. Adrenal fatigue is simply a name we use to refer to this situation. We have to have some way to state what we are talking about! Since the traditional medical world tends to ignore the reality of this situation, they simply treat the symptoms and ignore the root cause.
In the natural health world, we believe adrenal fatigue is a serious situation affecting many people today due to the stressful lives that we lead that make us feel like we are running through life. What is needed is to begin understanding adrenal fatigue so that we can address the cause and stop just treating the symptoms. In every case that we have dealt with at Optimum Health, we sooth and nourish the adrenal glands and all symptoms subside.
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References:
http://adrenalfatiguesolution.com/stages-of-adrenal-fatigue/
https://www.drlam.com/articles/adrenalexhaustion.asp