Let’s take a brief look at these three stages: The 3 Stages of Stress (the General Adaptation Syndrome) These neuropeptides start the first of the three stages of stress, causing a response followed by a quick resolution, or a continual cascade of hormonal stimulation leading to widespread changes in the body. We call this system the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis. Fluid and electrolyte balance, heart and cardiovascular system, and many other alterations take place at biochemical and cellular levels.ĭeepak Chopra mentions in his book called Quantum Healing that every single thought a person has will start a cascade of change to the hormone system. You not only become progressively more tired, your immune system slows right down, sex drive diminishes or goes out the window, changes occur to the way your body metabolises fats, carbohydrates and proteins. With each tiny increment of reduction in adrenal function, every organ & system of your body becomes more profoundly affected. This means that too much physical, emotional, and/or psychological stress can deplete your adrenal glands, and cause a decrease in the output of one hormone, particularly cortisol.

Your body produces adrenal hormones continually and precisely, and these amazing glands are super responsive to even the smallest of changes in a person’s environment. These small glands, the size of small walnuts, produce over 40 hormones, and the most important ones in terms of exhaustion and stress are adrenalin, cortisol, aldosterone, and the steroid hormones such as the oestrogens and testosterone. The adrenal glands are a pair of small pyramid shaped hormone-producing glands which live on top of your kidneys, they are very close to the major artery of your body, the aorta, where they can produce immediate responses by delivering hormones rapidly in to the circulatory system.

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Is it really ‘all in the head’? In fact, it is more likely in the back above the kidneys. It is difficult to assess just how many people in this NZ suffer from poorly balanced adrenal hormone control, ‘because the blood tests all come back normal’. Medical practitioners commonly view adrenal exhaustion as ‘depression’, and prescribe likewise. Non-Addison’s hypoadrenia (adrenal fatigue) is not something that severe that they considered it a medical emergency in fact, modern medicine does not even recognise it as a syndrome.

This condition was first recognised in 1855, it is life threatening and the person has to take corticosteroids for the rest of their lives.

Conventional Western medicine recognises only really one form of adrenal insufficient hormone-related disease, a condition known as Addison’s disease.

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