The loss of muscle mass and weight is a late stage finding of adrenal fatigue.
This is Dr. Lam, founder of DrLam.com and I want to talk to you about this very significant
issue that some people, and the good news is that only a small number of people face
it, in adrenal fatigue.
When the body enters the advanced stages of adrenal fatigue it enters what we call a catabolic
state. The body is trying to conserve energy, and what better way than to break down the
current muscles in order to generate energy for the brain and the rest of the body. At
this time, usually, the body is trying to slow down the G.I. tract as well. So the assimilation
of food tends to be problematic, and food sensitivity can become quite prominent.
Over time what people realize and experience is this is a gradual loss of weight; the muscles
under the arms can become flabby, the weight in addition to loss or slow losing weight
can also experience flaciddity, that means it's losing the collagen integrity of the
muscles, so you will find that doing push ups will be a little bit more and more difficult,
and sometimes even taking a breath, a deep breath will be problematic; because without
the proper muscle mass the expansion of the chest cage can be compromised.
So this goes along with many other symptoms of catabolic state, so when you have weight
loss for no apparent reason and all your doctors tell you everything is fine, you've been checked
out and screened for other more serious problems such as cancer, and nobody knows why and you
are unable to gain weight, then you have to think of adrenal fatigue in an advanced stage
situation.
Now remember, we're talking about advanced stages and most of the time, by the time sufferers
come to this stage, they are usually somewhat limited in their energy expenditure. They
can be housebound, they usually have multiple chemical sensitivities, as well as G.I. disturbances,
and a lot of heart palpitations and hypoglycemic episodes. So, you cannot just look at the
weight alone as a single symptom, it really forms a bigger part of the whole catabolism
picture. That of a body is breaking down its own integrity and its own framework, in order
to generate energy.
Now knowing this is very important because catabolism is a reversible state, but you
have to know what is going on first and then how to structure a stabilization phase along
with a recovery phase, and then plan a comprehensive program to reverse catabolism. If you don't
reverse catabolism it can end up quite devastating, and muscle mass loss is only one of the beginning
symptoms. Further symptoms can, as I said earlier, include the loss of the ability to
take a deep breath, etc., and, of course, bedriddenness - becoming totally bedbound
- can be the worst case scenario. You don't want to get there so if you think you have
loss of muscle weight for no reason and loss of muscle mass, please do think of adrenal
fatigue in advanced stages as one of the possibilities.
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where I have written over a thousand articles to help educate people. You can also call
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