You Don't Have Adrenal Fatigue. So What's Really Going On? — Muscle Maven Radio Episode #24
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Back by popular demand, Ashleigh brings on Dr. Ralph Esposito, naturopathic physician and hormone whisperer to talk about a subject that's important to the fitness community but largely misunderstood: adrenal fatigue. While many of us have suffered the symptoms and perhaps even been diagnosed, our understanding of the mechanisms behind our adrenal system is often flawed, as is our approach to supporting our adrenal health. Ralph walks us through what's really happening when we "think" we have adrenal fatigue, discusses many lifestyle and supplemental factors that can help us improve and manage chronic stress and fatigue, and we talk about whether or not it's even possible to address these issues with young, healthy, type-A athletes, or whether they need to learn the hard way that rest and recovery is as important as training.
Dr. Ralph Esposito is a New York based naturopathic physician, acupuncturist and functional medicine practitioner specializing in integrative urology, men's health and nutrigenomics. He has designed education modules for health professionals specifically on urological conditions, male and female hormone dysfunction, hypogonadism, exercise, men's health and sexual dysfunction. He's an adjunct professor at New York University where he lectures on integrative medicine. Currently, Dr. Esposito serves as a medical consultant and research analyst.
Show Overview:
Minute Breakdown:
6-19 Catching up with Dr. Esposito including his more recent research on sleep and fasting and some especially compelling herbal supplements for hormone health and support
19 – 30 We talk about his experiments with fasting and why, despite evidence of its benefits, it is not ideal for everyone
30 - 46 Ralph explains why you don't have adrenal fatigue, even if it feels like it. What's being diagnosed is really a chronic stress and fatigue issue as a result of over work, over training, over stress, and poor lifestyle factors. We talk about Addison's disease, and what the two different challenges look and feel like
46 - 56 Ways to address chronic stress and fatigue – and we dive into the psychology of it, why it's so difficult for Type A, ambitious people to address the obvious lifestyle factors that are keeping them from optimal health and performance
56 - A discussion on some adaptogens and herbal supplements that can help with chronic fatigue; why we tend to discount or mistrust herbal remedies; how to make sure you're getting the good stuff
Follow Dr. Esposito on Instagram @dr.ralphesposito and learn more at drralphesposito.com.
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| 0:00.0 | August 1st to August 4th, the one-ton challenge, and you're back yard four days to find a one-wrap max of the snatch, clean, jerk, squat, deadlift, and bench press. |
| 0:13.0 | You're going to add them all up, find your one-ton total with the goal for men being 2,000 pounds and ladies, 1200, the leaderboard goes live on Thursday, August 1st, and shuts down on Sunday, August 4th. |
| 0:29.0 | If you're going to be at the CrossFit Games, make sure you come and hang out with us, the one-ton challenge live at the CrossFit Games Friday, August 2nd, from 5 to 8pm in the Fit Aid lounge. |
| 0:41.0 | It's going to be so much fun. West Kits is in the House, Morgan King, Katie Cork, Savage Barbell, Woop, Fit Aid. |
| 0:49.0 | So many cool companies, Rom-Watts, going to be in the mix. We've got a stacked lineup of incredibly strong people that were bringing straight to you. Make sure you get over to live.1tonchallenge.com, register for the leaderboard, get your name in the mix, free downloads, making strong people stronger. |
| 1:05.0 | That's a killer ebook with a starter kit on how to get strong, and how to dominate the one-ton challenge. |
| 1:11.0 | It's been awesome. Week 1 is in the books with all the new shows, Jason Calipa on Mondays, Ryan Fisher Tuesday, Shrug Wednesdays, Thursday, the Muscle Maven, Friday. |
| 1:22.0 | Friday? That's our boy Dr. Sean Pasty, who's laid it down last week, and then Sunday the Barbell Live with Travis Mash, Strongest Man in the World. |
| 1:31.0 | Best coach of weightlifting right now. Friends, I appreciate you being here. Thank you. We'll see you after the show. |
| 1:39.0 | Good morning, Shrug collective family. I hope you're having a fantastic summer getting Jacked in tan. I am your host for Muscle Maven Radio. My name is Ashley Van Houghton, aka The Muscle Maven. |
| 1:53.0 | I brought back a friend of the show today because when I first had him on, it was really popular in a really informative episode. |
| 2:01.0 | He has plenty more to say that I think will be relevant to you guys. Back with me today is Dr. Ralph Espizito. He is a New York-based naturopathic physician, an acupuncturist, and functional medicine practitioner specializing in integrative urology and men's health. |
| 2:17.0 | In addition to his other work, he's also designed education modules for health professionals specifically on urological conditions, male and female hormone dysfunction, hypogonatism, exercise, men's health, and sexual dysfunction. |
| 2:31.0 | He's covering it all, really. He's an adjunct professor at New York University where he lectures on integrative medicine, and he's currently serving as a medical consultant and research analyst. |
| 2:42.0 | He is also a fantastic source of information on Instagram, so definitely give him a follow. I'm so glad that I have him on my short list to ask questions to, and he's always fun to chat with because really who's more fun in conversation than a New York Italian who's getting DMs about erections all day. |
| 2:59.0 | Right? He's a national treasure. |
| 3:02.0 | But today's conversation is actually about a topic that is relevant to everyone. I think it's actually kind of deeply misunderstood, but a huge part of our community of fitness people who we work hard, we work out hard, sometimes we're burning the candle at both ends. |
| 3:17.0 | We don't always place the right emphasis on recovery and those kind of simple, unsexy lifestyle factors as much as we should. |
| 3:26.0 | The topic, of course, is adrenal fatigue. While many of us have suffered the symptoms that we think are adrenal fatigue or maybe even have been diagnosed, I think that generally our understanding of the mechanisms behind our adrenal system can be flawed a little bit as is our approach to addressing our adrenal health. |
| 3:47.0 | So Ralph is going to walk us through what's really happening when we think we have adrenal fatigue. |
| 3:51.0 | We're going to discuss all the lifestyle and supplemental factors that can help us improve and manage chronic stress and fatigue, which is most likely what we're actually dealing with. |
| 4:01.0 | And we talk about whether or not it's even possible because I'm always asking these existential questions, whether it's even possible to address these issues with young healthy type A athletes. |
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