Re: Adrenal Fatiuge doesn't mean what a lot of folks think it does ....

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this sentence SHould say

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you have 'adrenal fatiuge' cuz your Adrenal's cortisol production does NOTE get

high enough to meet the requirement the brain/body NEEDED and TOLD it to (Via

increase in the HPA Axis brain stress hormones...

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> i was on another forum and realized that even some of the sr folks didn't even

know what " Adrenal Fatigue " meant according to the DR who actually 'coined the

Name " Adrenal Fatiuge " and wrote the first book on " Adrenal Fatiuge " . EG) DR

WIlson.

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> a lot of the confusion is becuz the DR who coined the name AF decided to not

use Big medical words when he wrote his ground breaking book.... even his

website/blog contains contradictions in Terminology...

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> the Distinction of what " Adrenal Fatigue " really means, is important cuz a lot

of people think High cortisol or NOrmal cortisol saliva test results mean you

don't have " Adrenal Fatigeu " ... and if they have almost all the symptoms of AF.

they think that means their tests MUST be wrong,, cuz those symtposm MUST have

low cortisol...

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> ya get the picture.. wrong treatment choices based on the wrong assumptions..

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> DR coined the Phrase " Adrenal Fatiuge "

> and he does NOT Define AF as " LOW Cortisol "

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> DR WIlson' defines " Adrenal Fatigue " as 2 things:

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> 1) the adrenals are unable to produce the total amount of homrones that the

BRAIN is telling them too

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> 2) people with " Adrenal Fatiuge " (who can have either HIGH Cortisol or low

cortisol), feel Fatigued

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> THOSE 2 things are why DR WIlson caused this stress-system probelm by

the name of " ADRENAL FATIUGE "

> EG) the DOctor who invented and " coined " the NAME " Adrenal Fatigue "

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> any other Definition you think AF might mean ??

> is not what DR WIlson was thinking of

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> re_read his website FAQ and other pages..his blog etc. and you can see he

states this Plainly a few times...

> but clearly not enough to make it clear to hypot/af folks who are feeling so

sick tho.. the DR Should be clearer.

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> here is a pretend-example

> of what DR WIlson meant when he coined the name " Adrenal Fatigue "

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> i am making numbers up here to " paint a picture "

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> ok, pretend that Normal range of cortisol is 20 - 110

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> and lets say Your cortisol test result = 100

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> you have a " Normal " cortisol test result....

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> but then later,, if your brain needs to handle some Big stress,, the brain

tells your adrenals to increase cortisol production to 900,, but your adrenals

can only produce 890 ?

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> you still have " Adrenal Fatigue " even tho your Cortisol Lab Test = 890 = HIGH

/above Normal range..

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> you have 'adrenal fatiuge' cuz your Adrenal's cortisol production does does

get high enough to meet the requirement the brain/body NEEDED and TOLD it to

(Via increase in the HPA Axis brain stress hormones...

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> and it is actually the chronic increase of our Brain-stress hormones

> that cause many of the 'famous' symptoms of " Adrenal Fatigue " !!

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> (CRH and Vasorpessin from the hypothalamus increase the Pituitary's

> POMC and MSH and Beta Endorphins and ACTH

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> where CRH and Vasopressin and ACTH all tell the adrneals to amek more cortisol

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> basically

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> -Carol

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> Conventional Medicine is starting to admit that AF exists

> but they call it by 2 other names:

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> 1) RELATIVE Adrenal Insufficiency

> or

> 2) FUNCTIONAL ADrenal INsufficiency

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