Hey, it's me again.
I want to create a video on how to test yourself for adrenal fatigue.
Again, this is not the definitive diagnosis for adrenal diseases.
I'm just teaching you this so you can get some clues and maybe some potential weaknesses
within your adrenals, but you go to your doctor to confirm it, okay?
That said there are several symptoms that go along with the adrenal function.
You can't get to sleep easily.
Maybe you're exhausted at 9:00 and if you don't go to bed between 9:00 and 10:00 and
you miss that cut off you start waking up and now you really can't get to sleep, maybe
11:00 or 12:00 and you're just wired.
And now it takes 90 minutes because you missed the wave.
Then you might get up at 2:00.
You might wake up feeling exhausted.
Those are symptoms of the adrenal.
You're tired in the day, especially an hour after lunch you're exhausted, you need a nap.
Yet at 2:00 in the morning you're very wide awake.
Achy.
You can call that whatever you want.
You can it plantar fasciitis.
That's inflammation of the feet.
You can call it fibromyalgia.
All that means is you're running out of the anti-inflammatory hormones and your whole
body is achy.
Brain fog, hard to focus, non sequitur, you go in a room, can't remember why you went
in there.
It's just not clear.
You're reading a book.
It doesn't really go in.
Low tolerance.
People are starting to get on your nerves.
You're edgy.
You go into a room and you see something out of order and your attention focuses in on
only that and not the rest of the room.
Breathing issues.
That has to do with two things, number one, going up the stairs, a flight of stairs and
your legs are getting heavier.
Or at night you can't get enough air.
That's a symptom of adrenal because your pH is actually too alkaline, not too acidic,
and that you're having breathing problems.
Sinus, the sinus does get congested with adrenal.
That's one thing.
You get allergies as well.
Decreased libido is adrenal.
Lastly, dizzy when you stand up.
Let's pretend that you're laying down like that on a table and then you lay for about
three or four minutes and you take your blood pressure.
Then you stand up and take the blood pressure.
That is the test to measure adrenal function.
It is called the Ragland's test.
Basically you just check your blood pressure lying down.
Wait, just relax for a few minutes, and then stand up and check your blood pressure.
Now normal blood pressure is 120 over 80.
Let's say it's 120 over 80 and when you stand up this blood pressure, the top number, that's
called the systolic, that should go up by 6 to 10 points normally.
With adrenal fatigue it will go down or it goes excessively too high.
It's really a simple way to determine your ability to adapt to gravity stress.
Now that's how you do the test, but here's the thing.
Let's get to the purpose of the adrenal and your adrenal gland.
Your adrenal gland is the survival gland.
It actually helps you cope with stress and helps you adapt your body to stress.
Standing up is a little bit of gravity stress and your body will then adapt and raise the
blood pressure to adapt for that position change.
Because if you did not adapt to that gravity stress there won't be enough blood flow in
your brain and you will pass out.
Thus, the symptom of dizzy when you stand up too fast.
You get that?
That's a good way to see if your body is adapting.
Another way you could run up the stairs, and if you get out of breath too fast from a little
run up the stairs we know that's an adrenal issue or heavy legs.
Some people will get up too fast and they can even pass out.
That's an injury and a weakness.
Because what happens, the adrenal gland has an outside.
This is all gland tissue, and they're both on the kidneys.
And it has an inside.
The adrenal gland is the only gland that has two parts, an inside and an outside.
The outside is all gland tissue, produces hormones.
But the inside is all nerve tissue.
I don't know if you knew that.
So it's all nerve tissue in there.
It has a kind of a double thing.
The nerve tissue inside the adrenal produces hormone-like messages and they're called neurotransmitters.
Adrenaline, noradrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, gaba, those are all neurotransmitters and
adrenaline is a stress hormone.
Adrenaline is there to help neurologically activate certain things, like if you being
chased by a tiger the artery has to open up to the heart, the lung has to open up.
I mean think about it.
They�ll even give people an EpiPen, epinephrine to help them breathe if they have an allergy.
They�ll even inject the heart with adrenaline to open up the blood flow.
In other words, this tissue on the inside is part of the adrenal system, of the stress
response.
It gets your body to adapt to stress.
If you wanted to know the name of that nervous system, I�ll just give it to you.
It�s called the sympathetic nervous system.
Another name for the sympathetic nervous system is the flight or fight mode.
You probably heard that tossed around but I want to explain what that means a little
bit more.
If you see a lion in the wilderness chase a zebra, the lion is attacking.
He's fighting the zebra.
The zebra is flighting, is running away.
They're both experiencing flight or fight.
It just depends on what end of the spectrum.
The lion is looking for supper and the zebra is looking to avoid being supper, and so it's
both a stressful situation.
One, is a starving situation.
�If I don't eat that animal, I'm going to be � I'm going to die.� It's a survival
thing.
Zebra, �If I get eaten, I won't survive.� That's what flight or fight means.
We all have this system inside our body.
But we're not being chased by tigers.
What we're being stressed out is the news, the media, other people, threatened financial
disasters, threatened stresses, losses, physical trauma.
You have a lot of other stresses, worry, that type of thing.
That type of stress is equivalent to physical trauma.
Basically in a thumbnail sketch if you�re suspecting that your adrenals are fatigued,
you can simply just check.
One test you can just basically check the blood pressure lying and standing, and seeing
if this blood pressure goes up 6 to 10 points.
If it doesn't, then we know there's some weakness within that system.
There's a lot of videos I have on what you do about adrenal fatigue.
But I wanted to explain just a way to test it.
Now in this next part I want to show you one more part or one more thing that happens with
adrenal and a very simple thing you can do to help with adrenal fatigue.
One of the problems with a burnt-out adrenal is that you start excessively thinking and
analyzing everything.
Let me demonstrate.
�Oh my god, how many calories is this?
Gosh, my wife is really irritating me.
John at work, he is just really something else.
My videographer, he�s taking way too long.�
When you're doing this excessive thinking I know it's hard to turn it off, but really
you have to realize what's happening.
You're losing or you lost your space.
The best thing, the easiest thing that you can do when you're stressed out is create
space.
What do you do?
You get outside, go for a walk, go for a hike, get out there and just get your attention
on something else.
Do it for an hour.
Do it for longer.
It's very therapeutic to add more space.
Because what that will do, that will chill out the adrenals, allow you to heal better,
versus going into the gym behind the treadmill and trying to watch that TV screen right there.
Yeah, you worked out, but you didn't get any more space.
You really have to balance out the entire day of activities for something that will
just get your attention going way out there, all right?
Hope that helps.
I�ll see you in the next video.