Welcome to our last part of our four-part series on adrenal fatigue stages.
Today is talking about stage four adrenal fatigue which is adrenal failure.
What exactly is adrenal failure?
Well, when adrenal weakness began,
you went through the first stage which is alarm response.
Then you go through the second stage which is the resistance.
Then you go through adrenal exhaustion,
and if that doesn’t reverse itself, then oftentimes the body continues to deteriorate.
What we find is that the symptoms become more severe.
For example, you can go into a catabolic state and continue to lose muscle mass.
The electrolytes become imbalanced. The blood pressure continues to stay low.
The blood sugar has become very poorly balanced. Sleep becomes so severely disrupted,
the person is not able to really get good rest, and so standing up you can have postural symptoms
including the heartrate going fast, pumping.
This almost clinically looks like some form of an Addison’s crisis,
and this is where the body really starts to get to a point where it is crying out for help but it does not know what to do.
It’s almost like the body’s in the last strive and in disarray.
So most of the symptoms,
most of the circuits that’s regulating the NeuroEndoMetabolic system is really in a dysregulated state,
and so this is a medical situation that you have to see your doctor
because this is well beyond anything nutrition therapeutics can do
in terms of helping the body because the body needs to have a reset.
Oftentimes people will find themselves in the hospital.
They may need IV therapy. They may need hormones.
The endocrinologist is oftentimes involved to stabilize the body.
So this becomes very severe now.
The good news is that this happened to very few people,
but what we found interesting is that even when they get to this point,
sometimes steroids that your doctor uses may not even help
and the lab continues from the conventional perspective, come back normal.
So this is where people can be kind of caught in kind of a no man’s land.
Despite extensive workup heroic measures,
things don’t necessarily work well.
So they kind of become in a very low state of survival.
They don’t necessarily have a survival issue
because they’ve been handled from the medical care perspective
to make sure that the vitals are stable, but they just can never get out of this kind of rut so to say.
And how is that different than someone with like an Addisonian crisis?
Well, Addisonian crisis is a very classic medical condition
that the endocrinologists and the regular doctors have a way and protocols to help support the body
by way of even steroids which is most commonly used.
It can be tested if you have Addison’s disease.
It can also be tested,
but when you come to this type of situation with kind of a borderline Addisonian type picture,
somehow the body does not necessarily respond, and so this is a very tricky situation.
So the symptoms that you’re talking about is kind of like people with blood pressure that are very labile.
They go up and down with very little… and to extreme blood pressures even.
People with electrolyte issues like their sodium to potassium kind of goes up and down also.
The body becomes very brittle.
That’s the best way to describe it.
If you look from a far, it’s just so sensitive.
It’s almost like you have a door that the hinges are not working well.
So you touch the door a little bit and the whole door falls down,
and so this becomes a very fragile body, very brittle body.
Most people, by the time they get to this point
are homebound, couch bound.
They need ambulatory help.
So it’s definitely something that needs medical intervention,
either in the hospital or through intensive outpatient therapeutics.
So that is adrenal fatigue stage four adrenal failure.
If you think you’re in this stage make sure you get medical help right away.
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