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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

How to Fix the Adrenal Body Type - Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about how to fix the adrenal body type.


Your adrenals help adapt the body to stress—they have a lot to do with fight or flight. However, this system is meant to deal with short-term physical stress, not the chronic mental stress many people undergo now.


Trauma, chronic stress, or even surgery can lead to adrenal dysfunction. Adrenal dysfunction is also known as adrenal fatigue, adrenal burnout, or adrenal stress.


Top symptoms of adrenal fatigue or the adrenal body type:

• Low-stress tolerance

• Overthinking (especially at night)

• High blood sugar

• High cholesterol

• Fat in the liver and visceral organs

• Gastritis

• High blood pressure

• High pulse rate

• Asthma

• Inflammation

• Calcium deficiency

• Potassium deficiency

• Sodium deficiency

• Vitamin D deficiency

• Memory loss

• Brain fog

• Getting out of breath while climbing stairs

• Salt cravings


The best nutrients for adrenal burnout:

• Vitamin C (sauerkraut, bell peppers, leafy green vegetables, lemons, limes, and berries)

• Potassium (large salads)

• Sodium (sea salt)

• Vitamin B1 (unfortified nutritional yeast)


How to fix adrenal fatigue:

1. Decrease stress

2. Get on the keto diet with higher amounts of high-quality protein and nutrients that are good for adrenal fatigue

3. Exercise (high-intensity exercise and long walks)

4. Take adaptogens (ashwagandha)


DATA: https://www.researchgate.net https://www.ahajournals.org

https://www.endocrine-abstracts.org

https://jamanetwork.com



Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's talk about how to fix the adrenal body type.

0:03.8

Okay, so are we talking about adrenal fatigue?

0:06.4

Are we talking about some adrenal disease?

0:09.8

Well, the medical profession doesn't acknowledge adrenal fatigue.

0:14.0

They don't really think that it exists,

0:16.5

and that's totally fine because what are they going to do?

0:18.8

Just give you another drug, give you a steroid.

0:21.1

I think if you have adrenal stress,

0:22.3

adrenal burnout, adrenal fatigue,

0:23.7

whatever you want to call it,

0:25.0

I think you should use natural type remedies.

0:28.1

So the first question is where are the adrenals?

0:30.6

Well, they're located right above the kidney,

0:33.3

right on top of the kidneys.

0:34.6

Okay, you have two of them,

0:35.8

and they're little triangle glands,

0:37.8

and they have an inside and an outside.

0:41.0

The outside is called the cortex, adrenal cortex,

0:44.9

and then the inside is called the medulla, the adrenal medulla.

0:48.5

The main hormone that we're going to focus on

0:50.4

on the outside is called cortisol,

0:52.8

and then the neurotransmitter on the inside

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