Do you know how stress is really
affecting your life and your body?
Well stay tuned and find out if you may
be suffering from adrenal fatigue.
Thanks again for tuning in to 2nd Act TV
we're here in our studio and Paige
Valdiserri is back joining us again
Paige I'm so glad you're here stayed
over ... here again yeah we can't get you to leave can we
we're laughing because we we've
had some great bonding time and had a
conversation yesterday that actually
prompted our discussion today I'm you
know, was kind of describing how it's
gosh I'm just I can't think right now
we're trying to prepare for an interview
my brain fog you know lots of stuff
which I've been attributing to menopause
and you said to me you know have you
ever had your adrenal glands checked and,
no!
So tell us, what is what are the adrenal glands
what do they do and what is adrenal
fatigue? so we'll start out slow with
what are Adrenal Glands...
our adrenals sit on our kidneys and
they're about the shape of a walnut and
they weigh less than a grape so you
wouldn't think that something that
small and that weighs that least could
be that powerful but what people don't
realize is how important the adrenals
are to everyday life now I have to say
that I'm not a medical doctor but
through my personal experience my
experience with my patients and clients
working with integrative doctors and
being a caregiver for my husband I've
learned so much about this and I can
tell you that Dr. James Wilson was I
think the first person who really came
out and did a lot of research about
adrenal fatigue so these small glands
that sit on top of our kidneys function
our stress level and these adrenals
don't know the difference between good
stress or bad stress so they fire all
the time so here we are midlife we've
had all this time and think about all
the different stressors that's happen in
your life changing events that happen
even fun active things that happen in
your life, because it's still stress yes
because if I said you Silke guess
I have free first-class tickets to go
to New Zealand because we talked about
that yesterday but we have to leave
tomorrow you would be stressed right
totally stressed right because there's
so many things that you have to get done
and get packed the adrenals are firing
just the same as if I come in and said
Silke so-and-so who who you knew just
died yesterday so they don't know the
difference between good and bad stress
so they fire the same way so the time we
get to middle age our adrenals are taxed
and for some of us more than others for
me my adrenals are my Achilles heel I've
always had adrenal fatigue because of
the climate that I grew up in you know
my environment was emotionally
physically difficult in many different
ways which we've talked about before so
for me my adrenals were getting taxed
very young ... with these adrenal glands
that unless we're aware of that we
attribute a lot of illness perhaps to
something or we look somewhere where
there is no answer so how do you how do you
test the adrenal glands yeah how do most
doctors do that? How do you initiate that sort of treatment?
Well, what I have found is you're going to
find it more with an Eastern holistic
integrative doctor more than a strict
Western doctor so there's a couple
different ways you can do it by blood
you can also do it by spit test yes I said
spit test where you have vials and you
spit at different times throughout the
day in the evening because it's tracking
what your cortisol levels are ... yeah I've
heard about that they test hormones like
that too sometimes ... yeah yeah and there's a
direct connection between if you have
adrenal fatigue or if your adrenals are
really you know laxing you know as we as
women get into para menopause and
menopause what's supposed to help us
during that time is strong adrenals I
don't know about you but for all the
women that I have worked with, who've been
my clients patients and even myself by
the time we get to this point with the
life that we're in right now the
adrenals are very weak so if they're
weak they're not going to be there to
help us transition over to the phase of
menopause so that can really complicate
you know our symptoms our
signs our hormone levels all of it ... well
now you you know automatically ask me
about Silke you know have
you know have you checked your adrenal
glands when I mentioned fatigue
brain fog what are some other symptoms
of adrenal fatigue that our viewers
might okay well that's me ... okay so if you
have a difficult time waking up in the
morning and I mean without coffee if you
if it takes if you really don't wake up
until about nine or ten o'clock
that can be a sign, if come around you
know midday you have ... meaning you're awake but
you're not awake ... yeah you're awake
you're physically you've woken up
but you're not really awake and present
gotcha and I stress without coffee and
believe it or not caffeine and coffee
are the worst things for adrenals ... hmm
so that's one thing, if
middle of the afternoon between like the
two three four o'clock slump that's
another sign if you're craving you know
salty and sweet together that's another
sign if after you eat if after you eat
your dinner you start to get energy back
that's another sign for for adrenal
fatigue if you're waking up at different
times of the night that could be another
sign as well if you have difficulty
remembering where your keys were or if
you washed your hair two days ago or
where you put a piece of paper that
could really be adrenal fatigue but here
you ... we all have that that's something we're
you know everybody said well that's just
normal aging that's just a yeah that's
which it can be part of that process but
we don't yeah but unless you check the
adrenals you don't know and the
interesting part about the adrenals is
you know the old saying steal from Peter
to give to Paul if your adrenals get so
fatigued like mine have been because of what
I've done in the world the trauma that
I've worked with what happens is the
brain it'll talk to the brain and the
brain will say okay today this is what
you need to remember you need to
remember this this and this for your job
but as far as where you put your keys or
where you put X Y & Z that's not the
important part so the brain and the
adrenals speak to each other about this
is what you need to remember today the
stuff that's really not that important
let's just put on the back burner
and then that can keep continuing
and lethargy if you're really
fatigued and it doesn't matter if you're
eating you know multiple times during
the day if you're still really fatigued
you just feel like you're just drained
that's another sign of adrenal fatigue
well I bet a lot of people say yes
that's it just thinking that that's
normal and it's not normal ... no and you
know there are other symptoms too
lifestyles you know worse things are
having to eat processed food processed
food not good for you, caffeine coffee
chocolate ... even cocoa the high ...
like the raw cacao you know I'm not sure
about that one
I just know the regular ... let's not rule
that one out yet ... yeah, tell me about it
... another thing is too
is look at your lifestyle if you're a
single parent you're a candidate for you
know for adrenal fatigue if yeah if you
move to another state if you move to
another country and you have no support
systems
that's one if you're a caregiver that's
adrenal fatigue if you have been working
in a career or a job that you just don't
like are you having a lot of tension or
problems at work that's another thing so
basically what you're seeing a theme of
is stress stress stress stress ... well
cumulative stress that's that you know that
you keep continuing to have and again
each person's body is different so for
me my adrenals have always been weak so
as I've aged and I've had you know
life-changing events different traumas
illnesses illness is a big thing too
that's tax my adrenals so I've had to
make sure that I support my adrenals 110
percent everyday ... so it's like our
viewers are oh gosh this is me I don't
but I really don't know a doctor right
away I don't know how to get tested, but can
we take some action to to what can we do
to see if perhaps we can turn this
around is there a lifestyle change
eating change, what are your
recommendations there I know you're not
giving medical advice ... yes yes right so
you know again if you want to get them
checked you can go to an integrative
holistic doctor and also who does them
as holistic chiropractors
okay so you can get spit test done there
as well but in the meantime you have to
stay away from the processed foods I
know people love their coffee so what I
tell them is all right let's wean you, do
half decaf half straight do that for a
couple weeks and then wean down wean
down, wean down in the middle of the
afternoon when people start to feel that
slump they'll grab the Red Bull the
energy drink those are horrible for your
Adrenals .. yeah that I know yeah very bad and
I've met so many people especially my
first responders who you know they work
out hard and they have a fatigued
adrenals and what I say to them is
working out hard is the worst thing to
do for adrenals if you want to exercise
it's walking it's low you know what's
the word I'm trying to say ... low intensity
cardio
thank you low intensity cardio doing
mild yoga, meditation because you
have to remember if you're constantly
stressing this out and you go into the
gym and you're pumping iron and you're
running or playing tennis for eight
hours a day ... I know people like that ... so
do I so you have to be careful so if you do
that you know your adrenals are going
excuse me the only way that I'm going to
get my you know your attention is to
start to fatigue more and more and
different parts of the body will start to break down ...
that's really interesting ... there's also
a connection between how the adrenals
work with the thyroid gland so if you
have thyroid issues you should also
be looking at the adrenals, so if there's
anyone out there who has you know hyper
thyroid or hypo then also get your
adrenals tested as well ... that's really
really interesting I mean I've you've
provided some clarity for me ... well good I hope ...
no I really appreciate it, I want to
talk more about this and some other ways
of dealing with stress you know on
another segment I'm pretty sure I'm
going to get you to stay over ... yes yes I
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