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today i’m going to talk about some

simple home tests that you can do

to determine if you may have adrenal

fatigue

now i’m going to tell you right up front

medically they don’t recognize adrenal

fatigue

you know they do recognize that there

are adrenal dysfunction

diseases like addison’s disease where

your body’s not producing

any more adrenal hormones on the flip

side you have cushing’s disease which

you’re pumping out a lot of cortisol so

it’s a hyper

cortisol situation but my question is

why can’t you have

different problems in between you don’t

just wake up one day with addison’s

disease or cushing’s syndrome

they start at a certain point and

gradually get worse

but medically they don’t recognize these

in between conditions or shall we say

subclinical versions of these problems

and i think probably one of the reasons

it’s very hard to diagnose

because it doesn’t show up on a blood

test so since the adrenal glands are

intimately involved with the autonomic

nervous system i’m going to show you

several tests you can do at home to kind

of get a clue on what’s going on with

your autonomic nervous system i’m

talking about the sympathetic nervous

system which is the flight of fight and

then the parasympathetic nervous system

which is rest and digest and so first

let’s just mention the symptoms with

adrenal fatigue okay you have insomnia

that’s a big one you have dizziness when

you stand up too fast okay

you have brain fog

you have low tolerance to stress you

cannot tolerate stress as well as you

used to you might have low libido you

may have allergies or asthma

your immune system is poor you may get

sick

easily because your resistance is on the

low side you may have inflammation

because when you run out of the adrenal

function you lose that those powerful

anti-inflammatories

and then you end up with inflammatory

conditions so anything that says itis

is an inflammatory condition and you may

have poor focus because with the

adrenals you’re kind of scattered you’re

all over the place you’re solving

problems 24 7 and so it’s very difficult

to put your attention on one thing over

a period of time without shifting to

another topic so that relates to

completing things you might start a lot

of things but you just don’t complain

because you get distracted now the

adrenals are two little glands sitting

on top of the kidney deep inside your

abdomen

and they respond to stress they help

your body

respond to stress states so they adapt

all these different body functions

to a stress situation now the problem

nowadays is that a lot of people are

under a chronic stress they’re not

necessarily being chased by a tiger but

they are feeling like they’re being

chased by a tiger 24 7 because they have

mental stress and the challenge is if

you have all this mental stress without

the physical way of releasing the stress

you’re not running away from anything

you’re just sitting there

the stress can build up and it can

affect your sleep it can affect a lot of

different things so let’s go through

seven

home tests okay the first one is called

raglans very simple test

you need a blood pressure cuff and you

need a piece of paper and a pen okay

what you’re going to do is you’re going

to take your blood pressure lying down

while you’re relaxed and you’re going to

record that and then you’re going to

stand up right away and recheck your

blood pressure now normally the top

number called the systolic should go up

by 6 to 10

points

but with adrenal fatigue

it’s going to either

go down

or it’s going to go really really high

and i’ve seen it both situations so when

you stand up you should normally have

this certain amount of adaptation

and so if there’s no adaptation

mechanism like adrenals are weak your

blood pressure might crash down like i

know 10 points

20 points

i’ve seen it 30 points so you when you

stand up when your blood pressure drops

that much that is a major adrenal issue

so you can kind of get an indication of

how bad your adrenals are

by what happens to your blood pressure

so that’s one test okay the second test

is the iris test another name for that

if you wanted to know is called this

paradoxical pupillary response test

so you’re really looking at the

autonomic nervous system control as far

as the muscles that allow light in the

eye now if you ever look at the eye when

you go from a dark room to maybe a

bright light

your body’s going to restrict the excess

light going into the eye if you’re out

in the sun and you’re looking up

your

pupil is going to constrict okay so it’s

going to lessen the amount of light into

the eye so you’re first going to get

your eyes used to the dark okay for

maybe

i don’t know about maybe a minute or so

okay and you’re going to be next to a

mirror so you don’t want to shine the

light directly in the eye

shine it slightly to the side

and

when you shine the light into the eye

you’re looking with your other eye what

occurs with the eye that you’re shining

lighting to normally when you shine

light into the eye it should constrict

and the constricted pupil the little

black little hole in the center

should maintain that constriction for at

least 30 seconds okay but if the adrenal

glands are weak

because you have the sympathetic nervous

system and the parasympathetic playing

tug of war

on your eyes

then you’re going to notice that you’re

not going to be able to maintain that

constriction you can see a couple things

you might see

that the eye kind of goes up up and down

like

back and forth okay i’ve seen that or

you might see that

it’s constricted then within 10 seconds

it starts to vasodilate get bigger

so if it’s not maintaining this

constricted state while you’re holding

the light okay into the eye then there

could be some adrenal weakness involved

all right test number three is pretty

simple this one you’re just going to

hold your breath okay you’re going to

completely hold your breath you can put

your your um your fingers over your nose

and you can just hold your breath

normally if the adrenal glands are are

good you should be able to hold your

breath for at least 40 seconds

but

the worse your adrenals are the less you

can hold your breath you may find that

you’re only able to hold your breath for

10 seconds or 15 seconds or 20 seconds

and you’re gasping for air

that could indicate that the adrenal

glands are weak because if your body’s

in a stress state um you just cannot

hold on to uh air that long test number

four basically you’re going to just

observe how you recover after exercise

okay because

adrenal fatigue cases don’t

recover after exercise too well now you

can check your pulse rate before during

and after the exercise

and if the adrenal glands are weak the

pulse rate just will not come down it

kind of stays higher for a longer period

of time or you can just subjectively um

sense how you feel after you work out

normally if the adrenal glands are good

you’re going to recover after exercise

but if your adrenal glands are weak

it’s going to take a long time to

recover you’re going to be sore after

exercise it might take days before you

recover

so your recovery has a lot to do with

your adrenal function let’s go to number

five your ability to tolerate

stress and you are the best person to

judge for that the question is can you

tolerate stress can you be there

comfortably without being irritable or

flying off the handle

okay or breaking down if you can’t

tolerate stress that well

chances are your adrenals are not coping

all right number six your ability to

handle inclines like climbing up a hill

going upstairs

uh any any type of exercise where you’re

doing inclines is going to be pretty bad

if your adrenal glands are fatigued

because simply you’re stressing the

adrenal in fact you may find just by

standing up you get dizzy or you faint

so that’s just for adrenal function and

lastly number seven a really good test

to determine what’s going on with your

adrenals is just how long you sleep

you get up in the middle of the night

specifically around two o’clock a.m then

we know cortisol could be involved or

can you go to sleep

maintain a comfortable sleep and wake up

feeling refreshed that’s a real good

indication to

tell you if you have healthy adrenals or

not now the best next video for you to

watch is what to eat if you have adrenal

fatigue and i put that up right here

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