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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video I want to  talk about the adrenal glands now I have a lot  

of different videos on different aspects of the  adrenal but I don’t think I have a video just  

on the basics of what the adrenal glands do now  they’re two glands right on top of the kidney  

right down here and they are stress gland so the  body will respond to physical and mental stress  

with the help of the adrenal gland so the adrenal  glands basically adapt the different parts of your  

body to a stress so it can cope for example if  you’re being chased by a tiger the adrenal gland

will produce hormones to activate more blood  flow to the muscle increase heart rate increase  

blood pressure mental acuity so you’re all set to  prepare yourself for flight run away or fight okay  

so the adrenal gland is very unique because it is  an outside in an inside the outside is all gland  

tissue the inside is not gland tissue it’s nerve  tissue it’s interesting so you have this gland  

wrapped around a nerve bundle and the nerve bundle  makes neurotransmitters and probably because of  

its location it can have quick access to the  heart and different organs because it’s right  

in the center of the body but it makes adrenaline  noradrenaline which is a pre adrenaline hormone  

and also makes catecholamines which are things  like dopamine serotonin GABA all the different  

neurotransmitters are made there and it’s part  of the sympathetic nervous system which again is  

the flight or fight mechanism it’s right inside  the adrenal now the outside has primarily three  

categories of hormones maybe four if you want  to classify them a little differently the first  

one is called glucocorticoids which is basically  cortisol and by the way all these hormones are our  

steroids that are made from cholesterol that’s  why you need a certain amount of cholesterol  

to make them specially under stress but the  glucocorticoids the name gives it away glucose  

okay they’re basically they’re hormones that  do influence blood sugars okay so that’s why if  

you have too much of that hormone you can end up  becoming a diabetic because it produces it turns  

basically things into sugar pretty quickly your  own muscle so it’s for it makes quick energy so  

if it has too much it’s going to trigger insulin  and you’re going to get all sorts of issues this  

is the one that I talked about producing belly  fat but really only through insulin because it  

increases insulin so insulin is the main core  main hormone that does it but it’s cortisol  

that can trigger it so cortisol affects stress  blood Sugar’s immune suppression now think about  

all the autoimmune diseases out there you know  where your body attacks its own tissue and then  

what’s the treatment for all of them steroids  prednisone what’s a steroid an adrenal hormone  

cortisol so your own body is supposed to produce  hormones to counter that and suppress stress in  

fact if you look at the remedy prednisone in what  conditions it treats all sorts of skin problems  

pain syndromes inflammatory conditions immune  conditions organ rejection type of hormone so  

everything with immune suppression so it affects  the immune system big-time if the adrenal glands  

are weakened it put makes you susceptible to  viruses so it’s really an important hormone it  

actually affects bone so if you have too much  of this hormone you can have bone loss controls  

vitamin D levels so you could be low in vitamin D  from the adrenal being stressed out so it does a  

lot ok so the next one is mineral corticoids that  would be a hormone that controls the electrolytes  

potassium calcium magnesium chloride sodium so it  really controls the electrolytes and the sodium  

fluid balance in the body and that’s one of  the reasons why people might get high blood  

pressure they give you a diuretic because  you have a sodium imbalance it’s affecting  

this hormone right here the name of it is called  aldosterone okay then we have androgens which is  

hormones females have androgens men have more  but the adrenal gland also produces androgens  

it also produces estrogen interesting so when a  female goes through menopause these renal gland  

literally has to work a little harder to back  up the loss of the ovarian function and that’s  

where it comes from then adrenal also then  you have DHEA which is kind of a precursor  

a hormone that turns into these other hormones  so if you’re low and DHEA which most people are  

as they age you lose your vitality you lose  your energy your ability to sleep but it’s  

really the adrenal gland so what do people do  they live on stimulants they start to try to  

live on coffee and things to wake them up 5-hour  energy drinks to try to wake them up the problem  

is the stimulants kind of stimulate adrenal keep  there going but then it kind of burns out over  

more and you become adrenal fatigue and you’re  tired and you’re cut now you can’t sleep and the  

last thing is make sure when you lead you have  enough potassium in the food because potassium  

is a calming mineral it relaxes the adrenal and  when you’re deficient in potassium everything kind  

of speeds right up alright thanks for watching  hi guys hey listen I created a pretty amazing  

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