Adrenal Fatigue Treatment
Have you been struggling with digestive problems, body aches, and fatigue? You may be dealing with adrenal fatigue, an imbalance of the endocrine system.
Conventional medicine diagnoses your endocrine system as either normal or failing, without looking deeper into the root of the problem.
Functional medicine, on the other hand, observes and treats the gray states in between “normal” and “failing”, addressing not just the symptoms, but the root causes of those symptoms.
When you’re overwhelmed with constant stress, your adrenals can become worn out from constantly creating cortisol. The outcome is adrenal fatigue. Your natural cortisol rhythm winds up sporadic — or some cases, your body creates too much cortisol, sometimes not enough. Your adrenal glands make a variety of hormones that are essential to life.
Both conventional medicine and natural medicine physicians recognize adrenal insufficiency as a condition diagnosed through blood tests.
Adrenal Fatigue Symptoms
When adrenal fatigue is present it can result in general tiredness and/or lethargy. In severe cases it can be extremely debilitating, to a point where a person can hardly get out of bed. Many people go un-diagnosed, especially by conventional practitioners who usually don’t look at the adrenals as being a potential trouble-source. People will just simply live with symptoms of adrenal fatigue and prop themselves up with extra coffee, sodas or other stimulants.
Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue
How We Help
Your adrenal glands sit on the top of your kidneys and produce a variety of crucial hormones, including cortisol. Often called the stress hormone, cortisol helps regulate your immune system, blood sugar, and “fight-or-flight” stress response.
Cortisol levels can affect the levels of other hormones like progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), causing the symptoms of adrenal fatigue.
When a patient presents with symptoms of unexplained tiredness, a functional evaluation will be performed by the practitioner, to help to determine whether adrenal fatigue is the cause.
Before your therapy begins, we will measure your baseline hormone levels with a blood test to determine which hormones are deficient and which you need replenished. Then, together, we will craft a custom adrenal fatigue treatment plan.