Possibly you have been to a health care practitioner of some sort and when you mentioned you were feeling tired they might have said you have Adrenal Fatigue.

You’ve probably wondered what that even was or if Adrenal Fatigue even a real medical condition?

The answer is both yes and no.

Your adrenal glands are small glands that reside atop of your kidneys.  Their job is to release cortisol when there is stress in the body.  Cortisol gives you the extra energy to get through “the tiger chasing you” which is how we perceive our boss giving deadlines or our kid’s soccer schedule or both.  It also has to do with metabolism and glucose regulation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol

We are often moving targets in our daily life and we fuel up with venti lattes (caffeine, a stimulant) to get through our afternoons.

Over time, our adrenal glands can’t keep up with the demand placed on them.  Here is where the fatigue part comes in. You might start getting tired in the afternoons, soon you have trouble sleeping and then you notice your midback starts hurting.  You start getting more colds and you have higher inflammation which means more aches and pains. Worst of all weight gain.

There are complicated processes going on in the body that cascade into these symptoms and there are stages to all of these symptoms.  At any point things can get complicated and turn into more alarming conditions.

We can help get you back to great working order at any stage of symptoms.

Sometimes it as simple as the right supplements and lifestyle changes. Sometimes treatment for Adrenal Fatigue can be more aggressive in treatment, perhaps a series of IV nutrition.

So yes and no, Adrenal Fatigue is a series of symptoms lumped together to be called a condition.

Come in and let’s talk about it.