Handling Stress and Adrenal Fatigue Symptoms

Most people think of stress as either physical or emotional components that we commonly see such as the death of a love one, a toxic relationship, employment difficulties, and financial difficulties. Stress actually comes in different ways, and as a ramification, how the body handles it falls on the adrenal glands.
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This Dr. Lam, founder of DrLam.com here to talk to you today about the inability to handle stress and adrenal fatigue.
The key hormone responsible for this is cortisol. At first in early stages of adrenal fatigue the cortisol rises to handle whatever stress you throw at the body, and usually that is successful; but over time if stress is unrelenting and unresolved, the body's ability to produce this hormone to overcome stress becomes compromised; as adrenal fatigue advances the ability to handle stress decreases, and stress can be very, very problematic.
Now, inability to handle stress can be as I said earlier from life-threatening events, to even minute events. But what are they? Well sometimes you may not think of but lets say a car ride, going on a trip to visit your friends, opening a refrigerator door with the cold air blowing at you, being exposed to sunshine, for a longer period of time than even a few minutes for those that are weak, and inability to intake food such as pizza. Intolerance to dairy products, for example.
These are not things that you commonly thought of as stress, but to a body that is weak, this is severe, severe stress in many cases. People you will find will crash when exposed to these small, minute stresses. So, the important thing to understand is that stress comes to the body in different ways and shapes. Yes, the big stresses that we all know is obviously of tremendous insult, but you need to pay attention to the small stresses as well because it is these stresses that indicate to you how well your body is accomodating, how strong the adrenal really is, how much nutritional reserve is there.
Oftentimes in clinical practice we try to help people build up their nutritional reserve so that in times of stress the body can dip into these reserves and use tools and nutrients to help itself; and if you deplete these nutritional reserves then the body will find itself unable to handle stress.
Now, it is very important to understand that repleting or replenishing nutritional reserve does not mean you are stimulating the body. You can stimulate the body but not necessarily help the body to replete this reserve level. So for example, if a baby is sick, the baby needs fluid, but fluid can come in the form of water or milk or comes in the form of soda drinks. You want the baby to get the good fluids like milk and water as necessary to replenish the nutrients, but you don't want the baby to be on a soda diet where all they get is empty calories.
So the concept is very important to understand, stress, what is it? How does it really affect the minute stresses will indicate what is really going on in the body, and your ability to handle stress depends on how sensitive your body is. If you are sensitive and in tune with your body then over time you can train your body not only to sense the stress but also to be prepared on how to deal with it. If you don't pay attention, and you don't spend the time to understand your body, then even when a stressor comes, you may not know until it really becomes overwhelming. So, understanding that stress and the inability to deal with it is an important and significant indicator of adrenal health is very important.
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[@Medietos]

Thank you so much Dr Lam, for pointing out clearly that things can be stressful and that the ability to handle stress depends.

[@rosemariemarotta4188]

I am no longer able to manage heat AT ALL...it's actually scary.. I was wondering for some time why..and now I know...this condition is so much more debilitating than anyone can imagine.

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I made a video on this topic. You can check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boCse4J-gpd_mLc&t