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"When that happens, your adrenals respond more slowly to the danger signal. Instead of catching the rapidly rising blood sugar early, they go into action late. Think of the adrenals as a volunteer firefighter who has been working overtime for three months. He is totally exhausted. The alarm bell rings at three in the morning." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"Aside from pancreas problems with diabetes, there is usually significant weakness in the adrenals. In my clinical experience, there are almost ten times more problems with adrenals when people are on a high-sugar diet. Hypothyroidism is also a common tendency. Hypogonadism, i.e., low testosterone, in men is not unusual and there are herbs to improve that condition. Additional herbal and nutritional support is given for these issues according to the individualized needs of the client. CLIENT RESULTS You have read the theory, formulated out of thirty-five years of clinical experience." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Because the adrenals work in sync with the thyroid glands, it is important to make sure that both the thyroid and adrenal glands are working optimally. This will help you not only feel and look better, but you will have more energy and handle stress without falling apart. This is the basis for the natural hormone makeover. Support hormones naturally, and then "support the supports" with vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that control and regulate hormones." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The more vigilant, time urgent, overly concerned, and fearful we become, the more Cortisol is secreted from our adrenals. Over time, chronic Cortisol overload leads to subtle magnesium depletion. Perhaps this is the reason that Cortisol is called the "aging hormone." So, when you combine poor soil concentrations of magnesium salts, the inadequate magnesium in soft drinking water, an overabundance of "dead water" in plastic water bottles (some which also leach plastics into that water), and lifestyle stressors that diminish magnesium, it's no wonder that many of us are deficient." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"It can also serve as a precursor to the sex hormones—both female and male—as well as to the electrolytes, the salt and water hormones of the adrenals. It is highly individual in its response, but it is a major reactor that we didn't know about some years ago. The effects of DHEA have been well-researched; it has an anticancer, antiviral and antidepressive effect in animals. People have improved through the use of herbs, vitamins and minerals, which have probably been supporting the functioning of this hormone in the body, among other effects." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Cortisol deficiency may result from a primary weakness of the adrenals, or less commonly from a failure of the pituitary gland to release sufficient amounts of ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, a hormone that stimulates the adrenals to secrete Cortisol). Individuals with mild degrees of Cortisol deficiency may experience fatigue, weakness, recurrent episodes of "low blood sugar," heart palpitations, inability to gain weight or unexplained weight loss, and poor tolerance to stress. Some patients report that exercising makes them feel "wiped out." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Some people place the adrenals here because the fight-or-flight mechanism is associated with survival. The Hara or naval chakra is just below the belly button and is orange. It corresponds to the immune system, lymphatic system, kidneys, urinary tract, uterus, and sexual potency and drive. Issues of sex, money, and control are in this chakra, and the corresponding endocrine gland is the adrenal. This chakra is often associated with reproduction, but it is really more about how one relates as a sexual being. The third chakra is the solar plexus, which is in the middle of the belly and yellow." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"When our adrenals tire, we tire easily, gain weight, are susceptible to colds, and become easily irritated. Adrenal deficiency is so common that it has been dubbed The Twenty-First-Century Syndrome. Although growing awareness of this deficiency is relatively new to the West, adrenal fatigue has been known for centuries in China, where traditional treatments emphasize supporting the kidney to improve energy and sex drive. In China, middle-aged women routinely take herbs such as ginseng and licorice, which are important adrenal adaptogens, or adrenal supports." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Think of the adrenals as a volunteer firefighter who has been working overtime for three months. He is totally exhausted. The alarm bell rings at three in the morning. Instead of leaping out of bed, he vaguely hears the alarm, struggles to focus, finally recognizes that it is the bell ringing rather than his dream, stumbles out of bed, gropes for his boots, walks to his truck, slumps at the wheel, then finally gets mobilized to turn the motor on and get to the fire. He used to leap from his bed, drop his feet into his boots in an instant and be out the door before the bell had finished ringing." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"To support her adrenals, she took an adrenal extract and pregnenolone. Mary did well on her new regimen. Her energy bounced back almost immediately. Initially she had some hot flashes, but increasing the estradiol lotion fixed that. Her thyroid blood test, though within normal range, was on the low side of normal, so I put her on a low dose of active thyroid hormone. Her irritable bowel symptoms improved and her migraines stopped. Natural Cortisol in a very low dose (2.5 to 5mg/day) was added three months later for a short time (three to four months) to address fatigue." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"It also affects the pituitary gland, the thyroid, adrenals, and sex hormones and stress reactions." Food Addiction_ Food addictions and food cravings often mask food allergies. Dr. Hyla Cass describes her experience treating patients suffering from food addiction as follows: "Some time ago, a psychologist who specializes in eating disorders began to send her clients to me because she had heard that antidepressant medications worked for these patients." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"When the ovaries decrease their production of estrogen and progesterone, the adrenals have the ability to produce hormones to compensate for this. Poor diet and lifestyle choices put stress on the adrenals, creating an imbalance in body chemistry and contributing to the uncomfortable symptoms that we associate with menopause. If you are a woman who has menopausal symptoms, adopting healthier habits can help to even out these imbalances. If you are a man and the woman you love is going through menopause, you can help by understanding that she is experiencing a profound physiological change." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"The organ with the highest levels of vitamin C is: (a) Heart. (b) adrenals. (c) Pancreas. (d) Bones. 6. Vitamin C: (a) Raises blood cholesterol. (b) Has no effect on blood cholesterol. (c) Lowers blood cholesterol. (d) Raises homocysteine. 7. Vitamin C: (a) Is found in fish and chicken. (b) Does not leach out during cooking. (c) Is rapidly depleted if not present in the diet. (d) Is found in dairy products. 8. Supplemental vitamin C is best if: (a) It is ascorbated and timed-release. (b) Taken as ascorbic acid powder. (c) Taken without bioflavonoids. (d) All of the above. 9." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "Many different kinds of stress cause the release of vitamin C from the adrenals. More vitamin C is needed during extreme hot and cold temperatures and with exposure to heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, or mercury. Lysine Vitamin C Carnitine Vitamin C is needed to transform the essential amino acid lysine into the amino acid carnitine FAT Carnitine Mitochondria Carnitine is needed to transport fatty acids to the mitochondria for energy production Figure 2-5 Vitamin C and carnitine are needed for burning fat." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"When the stressful event ends, your adrenals send the message back to your hypothalamus to tell it to stop producing extra Cortisol and adrenaline so that your heart rate, breathing, and perspiration levels can subside to normal. That's how the stress response is meant to work: it gets turned on when needed—and then it gets turned off quickly." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In addition, when the adrenals are chronically overworked and are straining to maintain high Cortisol levels, they lose the capacity to produce DHEA in sufficient amounts. DHEA is necessary to moderate the balance of hormones in your body. When DHEA is produced at optimal levels, it functions to promote the loss of body fat. Double-blind clinical trials have found 100 mg per day of DHEA to be effective in decreasing body fat in older men. Conversely, when the body's DHEA levels are insufficient, body fat is more difficult to budge." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"By supporting stress-hormone production, the adrenals keep inflammation to a minimum. However, 1 don't advise anyone to use adrenals as substitutes for prescription medications such as prednisone (cortisone). Rather, they're an excellent supplement if you're coming off prednisone and other steroids, helping to ensure that the adrenals do not become "lazy." You may also need adrenal support if you have allergies or asthma. Women can benefit from adrenal glandulars during menopause, when the ovaries quit producing hormones and the adrenals have to "take up the slack." - Mark Stengler, N.D., The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies (Get the book.)

"Cortisol deficiency may result from a primary weakness of the adrenals, or less commonly from a failure of the pituitary gland to release sufficient amounts of ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, a hormone that stimulates the adrenals to secrete Cortisol). Individuals with mild degrees of Cortisol deficiency may experience fatigue, weakness, recurrent episodes of "low blood sugar," heart palpitations, inability to gain weight or unexplained weight loss, and poor tolerance to stress. Some patients report that exercising makes them feel "wiped out." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"These tissues manufacture testosterone from precursor hormones that are made in the ovaries and the adrenals. In other words, the ovaries and the adrenal glands are responsible for producing all of a woman's testosterone, either directly or indirectly. The adrenal glands also produce androstenedione. Andro-stenedione is converted to estrogen (estrone) in the body fat and to a lesser degree in some other tissues and organs including the muscle and skin. For some women, this source of estrogen is adequate to counter some of the menopausal symptoms, and they have an easier time." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Thyroid glands work closely with all of our glands, particularly our adrenals. Thyroid and adrenal glands are vital for the normal function of all of our sex hormones and affect our weight, energy, mood, bowels, sugar levels, muscles, and immune function. They maintain our energy and stamina, particularly as we age. This chapter will introduce you to these glands: what they do when they're working right, how to 177 recognize when they're not, and how to support them in the short run and over the long term." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"With stress, one sees increases in the secretion of catecolamines, especially from the adrenals, resulting in an increased glucose release from the liver into the blood stream, and glucocorticoid or steroid hormones secreted by the adrenal glands and growth hormone produced by the pituitary gland. Extreme stress for months at a time has been known to trigger the onset of a diabetic physiology. In the U.S., 62.5 percent of adults with diabetes reported having hypertension (source: CDC). Hypertension is part of the basket of symptoms seen in Syndrome X, discussed below." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"It is a huge factor in caffeine users' complaints of fatigue, poor sleep patterns, exhausted adrenals and blood sugar abnormalities. Thus it is perhaps the main cause of chronic fatigue rampant in America. Think about that the next time you pass by a Starbucks! Can I eat frozen foods? Freezing destroys 30-60% of the enzymes in fruits, so eating them frozen is not really ideal. However, during the transition period, a frozen banana can satisfy the urge for ice cream. It tastes wonderful in a smoothie." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "She further explains that over the long haul, the weakened adrenals leave you feeling colder, which is why older people have to wear sweaters even in the summer. By allowing the body to heal itself via raw diet, you gradually regain the extreme cold tolerance of your youth. You should actually eat raw to feel warm! Eighty percent of all blood in the body is moving through the capillaries, only 20% through the arteries. If the arteries are clogged by cooked food remnants, the blood doesn't circulate efficiently." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Under times of stress and fatigue, the adrenals need all the help they can get. Oatmeal is a too-often overlooked ally. STROKE MODERATE TO SEVERE • Aspirin as Emergency First Aid For some time now, heart patients and those with high cholesterol have heard doctors' advice to take low doses of aspirin to help thin the blood and prevent clotting and heart attack. Not receiving as much attention in the medical and consumer press is the idea that similar benefits may accrue to people at high risk for stroke." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"If you are excited, your adrenals pump out more adrenaline, which must tell specific receptors to get your heart to beat faster. The usual theory, called the Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR), is that two molecules that match each other structurally exchange specific (chemical) information, which occurs when they bump into each other. It's rather like a key finding its own keyhole (which is why this theory is often also called the key—keyhole, or lock-and-key interaction model)." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Because your adrenals are reacting late, your blood sugar has risen even higher and your body releases even more insulin in an attempt to get that sugar out of your blood and into your cells. The result is that the peaks and valleys in your blood sugar level get steeper and the interval between them gets shorter. Your blood sugar curve starts to look like this: Time Ironically, adrenal fatigue—which is caused by your body's over-reaction to sugar—means you need more sugar more often because you drop into the lower danger zone more and more frequently." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"Consider also that fats are energy expensive to digest, more so than sugars, and that digesting excessive amounts taxes the adrenals and the pancreas. You wouldn't overeat nuts or seeds if you were out in the wild and had to crack their shells by hand. It would be too much trouble. You wouldn't even find them except in the fall season. But they can be very easy to overeat once shelled. Likewise, if you were eating fresh fruit, it is unlikely you would eat five mangoes at a time. Most fresh fruits are 90-98% water." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Your Functional Medicine practitioner will know how to balance your adrenals before treating your thyroid with medication. Rebalance Your Sex Hormones: Self-Care Plan These two hormone-balancing foods should be included in your diet: • !" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"What's worse about this anaerobic stress is that most of our adrenals are already taxed by every day stresses. This leads to double the stress on our body which is just downright unhealthy. When I lifted weights, afterward I not only felt weak, but I craved sugar—a signal that my adrenals were on overload and needed more fuel. I used to think that this was how I was supposed to feel after a good workout. Maybe you feel this way too, but it's just not the case." - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"They all contain toxins that the body tries to violently expel, if it has the reserve capacity to do so, by enlisting the adrenals to pump out epinephrine, norepinephrine and a variety of steroid hormones. Boutenko explains this: These hormones stimulate our sympathetic nervous system, which is why we feel awake at first. They also force our heart to beat faster and to pump larger amounts of blood through our body, which makes us feel warm. This feeling doesn't last long, and we pay a high price for it. After 10-15 minutes, our body gets exhausted from performing extra work." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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