Feeling cold in your hands and feet is a common complaint in people with adrenal fatigue.
This is Dr.Lam, founder of DrLam.com. In this video, we will talk about the reasons why
people can feel cold.
Now, one of the most common reasons that the temperature of the body lowers, which leads
to cold hand and feet, when everybody else is warm, is the low thyroid function. Now
remember thyroid is the organ that controls the basic metabolism of the body. So if thyroid
function goes down, or slows, then the body will feel colder than normal. And this is
very common and is a classic sign of hypothyroidism along with dry skin and fatigue.
Now, you can also get cold hands and feet from other problems as well, including some
autoimmune conditions as well as some other type of situations. Now if you do feel like
you have cold hands and feet when everybody else is normal, and it's beyond what you feel
is normal occurence, then you should see your doctor to get it checked out. Now if your
thyroid is normal, or if you are already on thyroid medication but you still feel cold
hands and feet, then you have ask why.
1 of the reasons is because your body's ability to take in thyroid may be compromised. Number
2, the thyroid dosage may not be sufficient. Number 3, you have things that are blocking
the entry of thyroid replacement into your cells, causing the body to not get the metabolic
step up that it's supposed to be.
Now there is also another situation which can cause cold hand and feet. It's that when
your thyroid is perfectly normal, but you have symptoms of hypothyroidism. And the symptoms
of hypothyroidism includes as we said earlier, cold hands and feet because the body is being
driven to slow down under the control of adrenal glands.
In other words, if you're in adrenal fatigue, the body tries to slow down and when the thyroid
slows down, then you will have symptoms of subclinical hypothyroidism. In another words,
you may not be hypothyroid in laboratory tests, but symptoms wise you feel like you are hypothyroid
and cold hands and feet is one of them.
So if you do feel like you have cold hands and feet, your thyroid test is normal, and
your doctor says there is nothing wrong with you, then you have to think whether adrenal
fatigue is part of the reasons or not. Are you under a lot of stress? Are you under a
lot of strenuous pressure at work or at home or relationship issues you cannot deal with?
Do you have this problem for a long time? Do you have hormonal imbalances in your menstrual
cycle if you're a woman? Do you have libido that is low in both sexes? These are all signs
that you also look for along with a low body temperature as well as cold hands and feet.
In fact one of the very interesting thing is that if you have low thyroid function because
of adrenal driven events, then even if you put in thyroid medication meaning replacement,
like T4, T3, or combination, you will continue to feel cold because the body continues to
slow down despite your best efforts. So if you feel cold in your hands and feet for no
apparent reason, if this continues despite thyroid replacement. If there are no other
possible structural issues that can cause this problem, then do think of adrenal fatigue
as a possible symptom etiology.
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