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let’s talk about how to fix the adrenal

body type okay so are we talking about

adrenal fatigue are we talking about

some adrenal disease well the medical

profession doesn’t acknowledge adrenal

fatigue they don’t really think that it

exists and that’s totally fine because

what are they going to do just give you

another drug give you a steroid I think

if you have adrenal stress adrenal

burnout adrenal fatigue whatever you

want to call it I think you should use

natural type remedies so the first

question is where are the adrenals well

they’re located right above the kidney

right on top of the kidneys okay you

have two of them and they’re little

triangle glands and they have an inside

and an outside the outside is called the

cortex adrenal cortex and then the

inside is called the medulla the Adrenal

medulla the main hormone that we’re

going to focus on on the outside is

called cortisol and then the

neurotransmitter on the inside that

we’re going to focus on is called

adrenaline and the entire adrenal system

relates to something called Fight or

Flight and that relates to its purpose

which is to adapt the body to a stress

State now what does that mean adapt the

body to a stress State well it’s quite

interesting that you have an entire

system that adapts your body to this

very interesting condition or state

which is during stress whether you’re

attacking something fighting something

or you’re running away from something

okay you have a system to help you

survive so what this system does through

all of its different adaptations is to

prepare your body to survive during a

stress mode and of course this was

designed to be more short-term not

long-term like we experience nowadays

with sustained chronic mental stress our

bodies were designed to handle a bit

more physical stress so you need more

blood flow to certain muscles you need

more heightened energy in your brain to

focus in on certain things and solve

certain problems relating to survival

you need quick energy as in glucose

energy and you don’t need energy to

certain body systems like reproduction

like the immune system

like your digestion so that’s the

function of the adrenals and these

hormones go through almost every cell in

the body and start to change certain

things to adapt the body to prepare for

this stress situation so what’s the

significance of that well

if you’re under chronic mental stress

okay or you have major losses in your

life or you have surgeries or traumas

which by the way all these stresses

accumulate over time and then they

create situations where the adrenals

become dysfunctional to a certain degree

and I’m not even talking about a disease

I’m talking about like a subclinical

problem with the adrenal at first you

have a higher level of these hormones

and then over time you start developing

like cortisol resistance just like

insulin resistance where now the

cortisol doesn’t work but you have high

levels of cortisol and symptoms of low

cortisol it makes it really confusing

but let’s go through the symptoms that

someone might experience if they have

adrenal fatigue or adrenal dysfunction

number one their tolerance for stress is

lowered they can’t tolerate babysitting

a room full of small children at a

daycare center for more than eight hours

they can’t tolerate a slow driver in

front of them for a period of you know

two and a half hours where they’re on

the freeway for some reason that bothers

them they definitely can’t tolerate

incompetent people or people that are

considered more stupid or people that

make maybe stupid decisions they just

have a low tolerance for that unless

they’re an environment where everything

is logical and perfect they get

impatient they become irritable and they

have sometimes even anxiety and anxiety

is like worry and an inability to decide

on something because there’s a chronic

problem the moment someone decides and

solves a problem the anxiety is less now

it can also affect excessive thinking

analyzing things especially when you’re

trying to sleep you know in the middle

of the night you’re solving all these

problems and just keep going and going

and going

that’s an adrenal symptom and because

the adrenals the cortisol is another

name for that is called glucocorticoid

you actually turn protein into glucose

so you’re running your body on glucose

and that’s something that your adrenals

basically cause your liver to make more

sugar to run on sugar fuel because it’s

quick energy the problem is

stress really equals sugar and even

though you’re not eating sugar you’re

getting a lot of sugar in the

bloodstream and that can cause blood

sugar problems and even believe it or

not diabetes and what’s happening with

all the sugar is that it’s going to be

converted to cholesterol not the

friendly type also you’re getting

conversion into fat on the liver fat in

the visceral organs right here because

that’s a survival mechanism to hold fat

in the midsection in fact in really

extreme examples I’ll show you in this

book right here siba a collection of

medical illustrations volume 4 endocrine

system

see this is an adrenal body type right

here you can see the person’s holding

fat right here and then the body is

extracting protein from the glutamus

Maximus and putting it right into that

that part right here and then taking

muscle from this extra muscle here

called the quads putting that right in

that midsection right here so there’s

all these physiological things that

happen throughout the body which I’m

going to get into another thing that

happens with the adrenal is they get

hyper acidity gastritis and this is why

some people can experience ulcers from

stress because the stress activates this

acidity which then Burns a hole right

through your stomach the blood pressure

goes up with adrenal okay you have

increased pulse rate you can have the

symptom of asthma and because you get

cortisol resistance cortisol is normally

an anti-inflammatory but now you have

have the opposite of that which is a

deficiency of cortisol in the cell and

this is why a lot of people with adrenal

problems develop inflammation that won’t

go away they start developing all sorts

of inflammatory disorders and problems

within the immune system in fact if we

just look at inflammation where that

comes from

it comes from the healing response it

can come from an injury it can come from

the immune system but the immune system

controls inflammation in the body

regardless of where it comes from but

the unique thing about the adrenal

system is that it’s shunting energy away

from the immune system and this is why

the white blood cells which is your

entire immune system is suppressed

during stress and cortisol this is why

they use cortisol or prednisone as a

treatment with immune overactivity type

inflammatory conditions so in other

words when you go through stress and you

have high levels of cortisol your immune

system becomes paralyzed okay and you

can even develop in that state

autoimmune diseases and so many people

develop an autoimmune disease right

after a stress event or a major loss so

any condition that involves inflammation

is a condition that involves the adrenal

glands you’re also losing certain things

like calcium you’re losing potassium for

sure and initially you’re retaining

sodium but then eventually when the

adrenals burn out you’ll lose sodium so

you’re losing these electrolytes and a

little uh point about potassium is when

you start losing potassium the pH

changes in the body to a more alkaline

state so anytime you’re looking at a

loss of potassium that’s associated with

an alkaline state so when people are

burnt out they’re not more acidic

they’re more alkaline and that affects

their breathing they tend to get hypoxia

or

breathing problems they can’t breathe as

well they accumulate a bit too much CO2

and not enough oxygen I mean even if you

look at someone that is in a panic state

right they’re breathing and they’re

they’re breathing like crazy they

basically are getting too much oxygen

and not the right balance of CO2 because

CO2 is needed in a certain amount to

help them absorb oxygen but they have

this imbalance of air and they’re just

suffocating

when they’re under a panic attack or

even in an anxiety state if you take a

look at someone that’s in anxiety look

at their breathing it’s not regular it’s

like

it’s kind of like it’s not balanced and

this is why regulating the breath can

correct an anxiety state really fast and

even take someone out of a panic attack

especially if they breathe through their

nose and they breathe slowly in and they

breathe slowly out another thing that’s

interesting with the adrenals is vitamin

D you tend to lose vitamin D very easily

with an adrenal situation and so the

need for certain nutrients especially

vitamin D goes up as you lose the

adrenal function

now if we talk about cortisol cortisol

is very similar in function to vitamin D

they act in similar ways they’re both

anti-inflammatory and so any condition

that you have that has a problem with

cortisol I would recommend using vitamin

D as a remedy okay so that conclude any

of the anti-inflammatory conditions like

back pain or knee pain or any of that

stuff versus a shot of Prednisone so

here’s the picture of the adrenal body

type an exaggerated picture like I said

the midsection no butt weakened thigh

muscles you can have memory loss brain

fog but at night everything becomes more

active especially around two o’clock in

the morning where you’re you wake up and

you’re thinking about problems things

like that in fact with classical adrenal

problems you’re more awake at two

o’clock than you are in the morning when

you’re trying to wake up climbing up a

flight of stairs you get out of breath

easier and you might possibly even crave

salty things like chips things like that

now when you go to sleep at night

there’s a four waves of sleep that you

go through okay and there’s really deep

levels of sleep called the Delta wave

sleep and you have the superficial ones

which are called REM so when you go to

sleep the purpose of sleep is just to

get rid of a lot of toxins in the brain

and metabolites that are generated

through the day which are kind of

byproducts of metabolism also you’re

getting kind of a Rejuvenation of

neurotransmitters when you’re sleeping

and so sleep is necessary for the

recovery of stress yet stress inhibits

sleep so it’s definitely

a catch-22 cortisol just messes up the

adrenal circadian wave because

everything is backwards with the

adrenals the lowest point of cortisol is

that two o’clock or 2 30 a.m right and

the highest point is at 8 A.M in the

morning so with adrenal fatigue you’ll

see it’s just the opposite you’re very

awake at too but you really want to

sleep like seven or eight o’clock in the

morning but you have that’s when you

have to get up I had this adrenal

problem so bad in my 20s and 30s as well

mainly in my late 20s I started to get

better actually at 28 but here’s the

thing it would take me until 11 o’clock

AM to finally wake up in my head now of

course my diet wasn’t helping because I

would be living on carbs but boy did I

have adrenal problems big time I would

wake up at 2 2 30. there was one night

well multiple nights but I remember one

that I didn’t even sleep one minute I

laid there all night long listening to

my wife Karen saw logs it was torture I

remember it was like seven or eight

o’clock and I’d get up and I didn’t even

sleep one minute I was like this is

driving me crazy you talk about stress

like just not sleeping I mean it’s it’s

terrible here’s a question how can

someone know what’s wrong in the body in

relationship to the adrenals is there a

task that can be done is there a blood

test is there a saliva test

the problem is

um those aren’t really good testing

because these hormones travel on the

Circadian wave and so if you just check

one blood test or one saliva test with

your cortisol you’re just getting a

snapshot of what’s happening at that

period of time to really know what’s

going on you have to check it every four

hours which is a real pain in the butt

okay so there is a saliva test that you

can do that and I’ve done that and

that’s good but it’s it’s kind of a pain

in the butt to do and also takes time

and it’s a little expensive I’m going to

show you a way better test that’s

Dynamic that’s inexpensive virtually

free and it really tells you the

function of the adrenals versus a very

static test and that is the problem

nowadays with testing just about

anything they use static tests they do

CAT scans MRIs which is fine to measure

like tumors and masses and stuff like

that but that doesn’t check the function

of something whether it’s the

gallbladder or the digestive system them

or the hormone flow it doesn’t look at

that the first one is called the raglins

test and all you need is a blood

pressure cuff okay that’s all you need

so that’s the expense of it and you

check your blood pressure laying down

while you’re relaxing okay and you’re

checking the top number and the bottom

number you have the systolic top number

and the bottom number is the diastolic

you’re primarily interested in the

systolic number that’s the top number

only okay so you check your blood

pressure line down and then you stand up

and you check the blood pressure that’s

all you have to do and just record it

okay the difference between the systolic

and the diastolic is that the systolic

is measuring the sympathetic nervous

system the contraction and the diastolic

is measuring the parasympathetic it just

so happens to be a 50 50 split of

sympathetic

and parasympathetic and what’s

interesting about the adrenals is it has

no parasympathetic innervation

okay so in other words it only has an on

switch sympathetic and no off switch and

I think this is one of the reasons why

when you go through stress it’s

sometimes it’s hard to turn it off

because we don’t just have an off switch

on your adrenals there’s no

parasympathetic involvement so you’re

looking at this systolic number right

now normally when you lie down and stand

up there’s an adrenal adaptation that

increases the blood pressure in the

pulse rate to be able to push the blood

up into the brain or you would literally

pass out have you ever like stood up

real quickly and felt dizzy well that is

a failure of the adrenal system to pump

the blood pressure and blood up to your

brain fast enough so you don’t pass out

there’s a severe condition called pots

which I’m not going to get into but

that’s a severe adrenal problem so

anyway when you lie down and stand up

that top number should go up a certain

amount like six to ten points

if it goes up a lot more or it drops

down there’s an adrenal dysfunction okay

usually if it goes up too fast it’s

usually more of an earlier sign of

adrenal fatigue where your adrenals are

overreacting and then when it starts to

go down I’ve seen this all the time

where the systolic just drops white down

by 10 points and the person feels really

dizzy this is just the lack of adrenal

gland function the adrenals are weak

they can’t adapt to stress so if they

were to run upstairs

boy they would feel very very weak and

they we just wouldn’t have the endurance

and that’s one good test is can you do

an incline easily or not

people that have good adrenals can but

they can go incline they can do rock

climbing they can they can run up a hill

no problem with no side effects at all

but the simple Dynamic adaptive stress

tests raglan’s test is a good clue on

what’s going on with the adrenal so

that’s number one

number two evaluates your CO2 tolerance

and remember I talked about breathing

and oxygen and your pH being off well

that relates to adrenal fatigue and this

test is going to measure your tolerance

to CO2 so you see you have oxygen and

then you have CO2

and as you know you need oxygen it takes

a little bit of CO2 for oxygen to go

into the cells but you can’t live off

just CO2 there’s going to be a sensation

of anxiety if you have too much CO2 and

not enough oxygen in fact if you

suffocate someone they’re going to go

immediately into anxiety and then panic

attack so here’s what you do breathe

through your nose step one okay you’re

going to breathe in

breathe in and breathe out three times

through your nose okay on the fourth

inhalation you’re going to take it as

much air as you can

okay and then what you’re going to do is

you’re going to have a timer and you’re

going to time in seconds

what is the time of exhalation you’re

gonna breathe out slowly okay after this

very large inhalation if at the end of

the exhalation where you can’t have any

more air come out equals 20 seconds or

less this means that you don’t have a

very good tolerance to CO2 this is a

poor adaptation this means you have

adrenal fatigue if your number is

between 20 and 40 seconds this is like

average if the seconds are between 40

and 60 seconds this is kind of like a

little bit above average but not quite

great but if you can do this between 60

and 80 Seconds you’re Advanced or even

over 80 Seconds you’re an elite athlete

and this brings up a really important uh

thing about exercise the more fit that

you can get your body the more capacity

you can handle stress in life and that’s

one important reason why you should get

in shape and start exercising all right

so what does the adrenal need to recover

the most important vitamin okay is

vitamin C for the adrenals why because

both cortisol and adrenaline and these

other neurotransmitters in the inside of

the adrenal need Vitamin C as a

precursor very very important if you

don’t have enough vitamin C you’re going

to have all sorts of problems and

probably the fatigue that you get from

scurvy which is a severe vitamin C

deficiency is probably a similar thing

you’re experiencing an adrenal fatigue

but if you look at this image right here

I have a picture of ascorbic acid which

most people think is Vitamin C but

really it’s just the shell it’s the

artificial or synthetic part or one part

of the vitamin C complex in nature you

never see just pure ascorbic acid you

have the whole ball of wax the whole

complex and this is why it’s so

important to get a vitamin C from a food

extract the best source would be

sauerkraut make sure it’s raw you can

have like like 700 milligrams that’s 7x

what you normally need with vitamin C

sauerkraut also bell peppers uh any of

the leafy green vegetables lemons limes

berries are loaded with vitamin C

another really important nutrient is

potassium okay you get that from large

salads

people that don’t have a lot of salad or

vegetables and have adrenal fatigue boy

they have a hard time winding down you

see potassium is kind of like a

physiological tranquilizer it calms

things down and if you ever hear your

pulse rate pound in your ear when you’re

trying to sleep that’s a potassium

deficiency potassium is going to help

you relax when I don’t consume enough

salad for example to get my potassium my

sleep isn’t that great I’m kind of on

edge but when I do have enough potassium

from salads and things like that I feel

better I just feel calm so potassium is

necessary and then with those vegetables

also comes magnesium which is also good

for the adrenals but mainly potassium

now sodium is also needed in most cases

if the adrenal glands are really burnt

out you need more salt sea salt but

unfortunately people get it from the

wrong Source potato chips corn chips

things like that you want to get it to

Salt your food more sea salt that can

help as well some people when they

consume C so they can breathe better

because the the pH kind of normalizes

from either one extreme to back to

normal the other nutrient that’s really

important with the adrenal is vitamin B1

now vitamin B1 is probably the most

important nutrient not necessarily just

for the adrenals but for the entire

autonomic nervous system especially

starting in the brain stem itself right

back here

and that goes right through the adrenal

system so you have a lot of connections

between those two but um if you’re

deficient in B1 uh boy you’ll have a

problem with breathing and boy will you

have a problem with stress so B1 can

very quickly within minutes just calm

you down and make things do better with

within the autonomic nervous system from

just a different angle so what is the

plan and protocol for the adrenal

there’s a lot of things that can be done

number one

um find the source of stress that you’re

going through and do whatever you can to

fix it

very important and then with that change

your viewpoint on just

life in general just keep a more relaxed

viewpoint on things I did a video on

this very important just to go through

life with a bit of a Carefree Viewpoint

just a relaxed Viewpoint because

unfortunately when people under a lot of

stress they get really serious and that

doesn’t help them so you really want to

just change the way that you look at

things and even wherever you’re holding

your tension you want to relax that all

right number two yes you want to be in a

ketogenic diet but you want to add a

little bit more protein okay make sure

it’s high quality protein

you want to make sure you get enough

potassium so that’s the big salads you

also want to get enough vitamin C like I

said from the big salads that can give

you the vitamin C as well and of course

we want that sea salt as well and the B1

nutritional yeast is a really good

source get the unfortified version

that’s the tweak on the keto and then

the next thing is to start to exercise

in a way that builds up your capacity to

deal with more stress combine that with

long walks aerobic that flushes out that

adrenaline in a cortisol for the day as

well as um higher intensity exercise

with short duration lots of recovery so

you can build up your Fitness that is

probably going to be one of the most

successful things that you can do for

stress to counter stress because it’s

impossible to eliminate it because you

live on planet Earth and the last thing

is to add these adaptogens I like

ashwagandha the best but that herb boy

it just

it just makes you feel chilled out it’s

a really good effect for people that are

under stress and you should just try it

if you’ve never tried it before it’ll

just kind of mellow you out and and help

and just take it as needed all right so

now you have a plan to actually fix the

adrenal body type but if you haven’t

seen this video on how to change your

viewpoint on stress and be calm during

stress I put that up right here check it

out