House Call Highlight: Wired and Tired: Fixing Adrenal Burnout with Dr. Elizabeth Boham
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Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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House Call Highlight: Wired and Tired: Fixing Adrenal Burnout | ButcherBox and Paleovalley
You have likely heard the term “adrenal fatigue.” We commonly associate this term with the feelings of extreme fatigue, hormonal dysregulation, and other physical symptoms that can occur from chronic stress. More accurately, we can look to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis for the cause of these discomforts. If you have chronic stress, your adrenals get beat up, and your energy plummets and it becomes difficult to manage your life. You could feel tired and wired, all at the same time. All these are clues that you could have an imbalance of your HPA axis.
In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the signs of HPA axis dysfunction and how to support your HPA axis to reverse burnout. They also share patient cases that they have treated.
Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices Functional Medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the Functional Medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.
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In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:
- Symptoms of adrenal fatigue and HPA axis dysfunction
- Acute vs. chronic stress
- The stages of adrenal burnout
- Cortisol level testing
- The connection between your circadian rhythm and adrenal health
- Stress-causing and stress-reducing foods
- Why balancing your blood sugar is so important
- Effectively discharging stress
- Supplements to support the HPA axis
- Emerging psychedelic therapies
Additional Resources
Are You Suffering From Adrenal Dysfunction?
https://drhyman.com/blog/2017/05/26/suffering-adrenal-dysfunction/
Wired, Tired, and Stressed? How Understanding Your HPA Axis Could be the Key to Achieving Optimal Health with Dr. Zandra Palma
https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/04/16/bb-ep103/
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https://www.brucelipton.com/books/biology-of-belief
Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Kea Perot, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy. If you're a regular listener |
| 0:04.6 | to the podcast, you know that the chronic stress so many of us are facing can really disturb our |
| 0:09.1 | health. So it's no wonder that this conversation with Dr. Hyman recorded with Dr. Elizabeth Bohem |
| 0:14.6 | tops the charts of our recurring house call series. Getting a handle on the external |
| 0:19.4 | and internal stressors in our life can make such an impact on our overall health. |
| 0:24.0 | So we are re-airing this episode for those who missed it the first time, as well as for those |
| 0:28.0 | who can benefit from a second lesson. Either way, I have no doubt you'll take away more than one |
| 0:32.8 | important teaching now onto the episode. Hey everybody, it's Dr. Hyman here. I'm always being |
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