Adrenal Insufficiency and Low Cortisol: Symptoms, Causes & Solutions
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 23 May 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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In this podcast, we're going to talk about adrenal insufficiency and low cortisol. I've talked a lot about the adrenal gland and cortisol, but I want to touch on a condition called Addison's, which is an autoimmune condition.
By the time you notice Addison's complications, over 90% of your adrenal glands are destroyed. This means you're not able to produce enough cortisol and other hormones. Symptoms of this are:
• Fatigue
• Weakness
• Weight loss
• Can't sleep
• Salt cravings
• Low tolerance to stress
Though cortisol helps the body respond to stress, it actually has over 200 other functions throughout the body. It helps regulate blood pressure, immune response, and insulin levels. In fact, it can help counter hypoglycemia.
What causes Addison's? There are three primary things:
1. Tuberculosis
Around 25% of the population has TB. However, it can remain dormant until later in life. I recommend 20,000 IUs of vitamin D to combat TB
2. Fungus
Certain funguses can cause cortisol levels to drop. This often goes unnoticed.
3. Stress and trauma
Both mental and physical stress can cause Addison's disease. Stressors can cause the adrenals to shut down or becomes overwhelmed. I recommend using acupressure to help the adrenal glands function properly. Just to the right of the belly button, use your thumb and middle finger to apply pressure. This will help relieve and extract stress.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Hi guys, today we're going to talk about adrenal insufficiency and low quartosol. |
| 0:50.8 | I have a lot of videos on the adrenal gland and cortisol. I put some links down below. |
| 0:55.4 | There's a lot of information on this, but I want to talk about a condition called |
| 1:00.1 | Addison's, which is an autoimmune condition and what causes that. |
| 1:05.0 | Now the interesting thing about this condition is that the gland, the outside of the gland, |
| 1:10.8 | you have the adrenal, you have two adrenals. You have an outside. the |
| 1:14.3 | outside of the gland you have two adrenals you have an outside and an inside and the outside of the gland |
| 1:19.1 | has to be about 90% destroyed before you really start seeing the major complications. |
| 1:27.0 | So by the time you have a full-blown Addison, that gland is pretty well destroyed. |
| 1:32.0 | And you're not able to output cortisol and several other hormones. |
| 1:37.0 | So there are a lot of different symptoms but the main are fatigue, weakness, weight loss, okay? |
| 1:44.8 | When you have high cortisol, you'll actually gain weight. |
| 1:47.9 | Low cortisol, you actually lose weight. |
| 1:51.0 | You can't sleep. Salt cravings like crazy. If you have low |
| 1:55.3 | cortisol, adrenal insufficiency, you need to be consuming a lot of sea salt and |
| 1:59.4 | you don't want to be consuming a lot of potassium, especially if you're not taking enough |
| 2:05.0 | sea salt. You need some potassium, but the more potassium you have, the less sodium you're |
| 2:10.1 | going to have because they work on kind of a teeter totter. So if you take |
| 2:14.3 | potassium you better be taking sea salt as well. Also you have no tolerance to stress. |
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