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let’s talk about adrenal fatigue and

answer the question will adrenal fatigue

actually cause you to gain weight or not

but you also have to understand why you

would get weight gain with adrenal

fatigue and how it all works so the

first thing you need to know is that the

medical profession does not acknowledge

adrenal fatigue as a medical problem

okay they don’t recognize it I don’t

know why not because there is a

condition of hyper cortisol ism okay

that’s high cortisol so the adrenal

gland has an outside and an inside the

outside makes cortisol this is the

stress hormone so there’s a condition

called Cushing’s syndrome okay from this

book I’ll show you right here the civic

collection of medical illustration

volume for endocrinology by Frank

knitter so as you can see right here

there’s a condition called Cushing’s

syndrome this is high cortisol hyper

cortisol ism okay too much cortisol but

here’s the thing do you one day just

wake up with this condition no it starts

at a certain point and it gradually gets

worse and worse and worse and worse just

like you have instant resistance

pre-diabetic and then eventually a

diabetic so the cortisol being high

there’s always a beginning point and it

could be subclinical where you start

developing symptoms yet it’s not a

full-blown problem yet and that’s the

way I look at adrenal fatigue because

you can have a series of stress events

over the years and start having more and

more problems with fatigue to the point

where it becomes magnified as a

full-blown Cushing’s syndrome problem so

here are the symptoms with a full-blown

Cushing syndrome

case okay a lot of visceral fat so

you’re gonna see more belly sagging fat

but not necessarily kind of like a

superficial love handles as much or

superficial fat all over its gonna be in

the midsection mainly and I think the

reason why is because cortisol is a

stress hormone and if you think about

during

dates your body would want to store fat

closest to the organs the vital organs

the liver the heart things like that

number two high blood pressure the three

round face red cheeks fatigue lowered

immune system susceptible to viruses

anxiety Buffalo Hump okay

fat on your collarbone also you have

thin skin because cortisol is a very

destructive hormone it’s called

catabolic so it starts to break down

proteins and you’re gonna see it in your

your skin the skin is just very very

thin decreased libido then we have low

potassium and you also have high sodium

so you’re gonna retain fluid and low

vitamin D levels okay now there’s a lot

of other symptoms involved but these are

the main ones also insomnia that’s

another one as well other than that you

can be perfectly fine and a lot of

people have a lot of these symptoms so

they may not have a full-blown Cushing’s

syndrome but they might have something

that’s not quite as severe and that’s

adrenal fatigue so if we come back to

the question can adrenal fatigue cause

weight gain it really depends on how

chronic it is okay now high cortisol can

come from many things stress it could

come from a tumor and your pituitary it

could come from a virus it could come

from major loss of a loved one so it can

come from many different things but if

you have chronic stress that can

definitely create adrenal fatigue so it

really depends how long you’ve had the

stress or if it was a short-term thing

and your diet there’s one thing about

having high cortisol causing the fat but

then what about the diet are you eating

really good to maybe counter some of

that effect because the more stressor

you are the healthier the diet should be

but in theory people will tend to eat

what when they’re stressed they eat

carbs right so that makes things worse

and then also what is causing this

stress what is triggering this thing

you locate the actual cause of the

stress and fix it and sometimes you

can’t so you have to maybe improve it

slowly over time but there’s always

something you can do to improve this

situation so really the weight gain

depends on several factors so here’s

another question that I think it’s

really important is why with someone

with adrenal fatigue or high cortisol

actually gain weight in the first place

well the cortisol is a survival hormone

and it needs to release quick energy

okay so what it does is it releases

stored sugar from your liver and your

muscles so it just dumps this sugar okay

so that’s one thing that it will do and

then this sugar then gets converted into

fat later okay

especially if you don’t need the sugar

because we’re not being chased by a

tiger anymore we’re sitting in a desk

we’re not as mobile or stressed and so

all the sugar can easily then be

converted to fat around your gut so

cortisol gives you quick energy releases

sugar but it also does this other thing

it will make new sugar it’s called gluco

neo Genesis now where does it make sure

you’re from your own muscles so it

converts your muscles into sugar which

then turns into fat okay and what muscle

does it primarily go after your thigh

muscle and your gluttonous Maximus so

you start losing your thighs and your

butt

so all this turns into sugar then

converts into fat around the midsection

so that’s why you would get weight gain

in the midsection but now how does this

actually work well high sugar stimulates

insulin okay and insulin will do two

things

insulin is a fat making hormone but it

also prevents the burning of fat so if

here you are in this chronic stress

states okay we’re not even talking about

eating sugar just being in stress and

your body is not going to be able to get

you in the ketosis because of

highest cortisol and the high sugar in

the high insulin so it’s gonna be really

hard for you to get in the state of

fat-burning if you have high cortisol

and we’re not even talking about your

diet at all and they also mentioned that

the cortisol receptors a lot of them are

in the midsection right here so that’s

where you’re going to gain the way as

the kind of a protective mechanism to

feed organs during stress dates and

because the vitamin D is low your

cortisol can be even higher because

vitamin D helps to regulate cortisol it

helps to keep cortisol in check this and

this is why a low vitamin D state can

also gain weight because the chorus all

goes up also your potassium is going to

be lowered okay right here and you’re

not going to be able to regulate that

insulin resistance when you take insulin

you make insulin more sensitive and it

can actually help to prevent it from

getting out of control so when you have

high cortisol there’s always a low

potassium low vitamin D high sodium

situation alright so now that you have

all the different pieces to this puzzle

which i think is very important starting

out with increasing your awareness of

what’s going on now the question is what

is the stress that’s triggering the

whole thing you have to look into your

life and find out what stress that is

even if there is a tumor somewhere what

could trigger the tumor alright so now

that you’re aware of everything now the

question is identifying the trigger what

is causing this high level of cortisol

it’s usually going to be something

related to stress and you have to kind

of scan your environment find out where

it’s coming from

and do what you can to improve it as

much as possible very important okay

next one is keto healthy keto this is

going to lower your stress because

ketones are a more efficient fuel

they’ll increase oxygen less waste

they’re a low stress fuel glucose is

very stressful and it creates the blood

sugar swings and it can really wear you

out

then intamin fasting it’ll been fasting

increases your cells tolerance to

so it actually makes your cells tough so

these these two right here are very very

important taking vitamin D can actually

help lower cortisol so that’s really

important I would take at least 20,000 I

use okay with that take vitamin k2

vitamin C is needed a lot of the vitamin

C in your body is stored in your green

or glands so you need about M and C to

support the adrenal and this can also

come from sauerkraut is a good source of

vitamin C and leafy greens and then

potassium from leafy leafy greens as

well as avocados because potassium can

help make insulin work better and help

minimize the insulin spike and also

almost forgot about it would be one very

very very important

all right so coming full circle will

adrenal fatigue cause weight gain it

really depends on your diet how long the

stress is been there alright have you

fixed the stress and use other factors

like nutrients and fasting and check out

this video on the adrenal body type if

you haven’t seen it before you

definitely check it out