Are You ‘Adrenal Fatigued’ or Is It BS

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 774 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (or HPA axis) is a complex subsystem in your body that organizes and responds to threats (and perceived threats). The concept of “adrenal fatigue” has become popular in some functional medical circles, but it’s a misleading term for describing what’s really happening in stress-induced change to the HPA axis, which does not involve the adrenal glands. Dr. Tom Guilliams, an expert on stress and the HPA axis, discusses adrenal fatigue and adrenal testing, including the limits of the four-point salivary cortisol test and the DUTCH test. Adaptogenic herbs can be helpful, but the most high-impact actions for your health may still be addressing intense stressors. Learn the four root causes of stress to your HPA axis in this episode. https://drruscio.com/?p=32572

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:26.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.2	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now, let's head to the show.
0:40.4	Hey, everyone.
0:41.2	Welcome to Dr. Ruscio.
0:42.3	This is Dr. Ruscio.
0:43.2	Today I'm here with Dr. Tom Williams, and we are going to be talking about adrenal testing for lack of a better term.
0:50.0	And as the audience knows, I've been critical of the whole term adrenal fatigue, as I think a growing number of clinicians and researchers are.
0:58.5	And Tom had written a great paper and a book, actually, on this from a number of years ago.
1:03.3	And I've been wanting to have this conversation for a little while.
1:05.9	And finally, here we are.
1:07.3	So Tom, welcome to the show.
1:08.5	And thank you for being here.
1:09.8	Thank you for having me.
1:11.4	I enjoy it.
1:22.1	So tell us a little bit, just kind of in brief about your background and then how you got into your research into, again, for lack of a better term, adrenal fatigue.
1:29.7	So I live in central Wisconsin and actually received my PhD at the Medical College of Wisconsin. So I've been a Midwest Wisconsin boy for a long time.
1:33.7	Received my PhD in the mid-90s in molecular immunology, actually molecular biology.
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