Adrenal Fatigue

Fatigue is one of the most common complaints among adult patients. If you also have symptoms such as:

· Fatigue
· Anxiety
· Allergies
· Frequent infections
· Arthritis
· Dizziness
· Lightheadedness
· Depression
· Reduced memory
· Difficulties in concentrating
· Reduced sex drive
· Insomnia,
· Need for coffee or stimulants to get going in the morning,
· Cravings for salty, fatty, and high protein food
· Increase symptoms of PMS (women)
· Pain in the upper back or neck with no apparent reasons
· Inability to lose weight after extensive efforts
· Food and or inhalant allergies
· Dry and thin skin
· Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
· Low Body Temperature
· Heart Palpitations
· Unexplained hair loss
· Alternating constipation and diarrhea
· Dyspepsia



You may be suffering from adrenal fatigue.

Our modern lifestyles contribute to incredible amounts of stress. Especially our American lifestyle of more and more work hours, cramming phone calls in between appointments and on the road, working long hours on the computer. We are constantly on the go from sun up to sun down and then some. The onset of this disease can creep up on you. Adrenal fatigue has so many symptoms which many doctors don’t recognize as coming from the adrenal glands. Patients are told that they are stressed and need to learn to relax more. We are told that stress is hard on us, but I think it is largely underestimated how it can affect every system in our bodies.

Maintaining a balance of stress and rest along with being able to adapt well to stressful situations is the key to survival. Underlying emotional issues can be responsible for an ongoing underlying stress level. Undetected infections can also be contributing to the issue, genetic tendencies may also be involved. Many things may be involved in the underlying imbalance. With Wholistic Kinesiology, we can sort through all these possible contributing elements and begin to restore balance and adaptability to the body.

If you have many of these signs and symptoms, it is time you consider adrenal fatigue as a possible cause once you have ruled out other organic pathologies. There are several tests available to evaluate the health of the adrenals. Experts agree that saliva tests will reveal the most information on the adrenals, however using Muscle Testing techniques can reveal the myriad of underlying issues that might be leading to your adrenal problems. Using this approach has many advantages to the expense and snapshot approach revealed through blood, saliva and urine tests.

Using Wholistic Kinesiology® techniques we can evaluate how well your adrenal glands are functioning and devise an individualized program for restoring your health and balance.

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Combining the Best of Both Worlds

The Line has been drawn and it needs to be erased. Where is it written that you can’t combine natural medicine with allopathic medicine?? It is very rare that you run into a practitioner on either side and get a balanced viewpoint about the other. With all the talk about integrative medicine, there really doesn’t seem to be movement on either side to really do this. I believe it’s up to us as patients or warriors in the battle of preventive health to call the shots and demand that both sides begin to bury the hatchet.
I recently had a brush with death at the hands of a medical intervention. I was infected with a rare and slow growing bacteria in the hospital when there for a routine appendectomy. I eventually had to return to the hospital to get medical intervention again, as I was unable to get on top of this infection through natural means. I was on three different antibiotics. My doctor asked if I was taking any natural supplements and asked me to stop. I refused. They were helping me avoid a yeast infection, reducing the inevitable gas and bloating that occurs with these medications and keeping my energy up. I know not to combine medications with certain supplements, so I am confident in what I was doing.
Really, I am a self proclaimed medical basher, but I learned a few things through this experience. One very important lesson is that there is a place for both philosophies and they can be used together very effectively. So many people are frightened by their medical doctors into not combining the two because they don’t have any knowledge of natural medicine, and natural health practitioners are equally as guilty of believing that all procedures and medications given by the MD’s are bad, poisonous, dangerous and completely unnecessary.
It’s time for a new paradigm and a blurring of the lines between the two disciplines. We need to start demanding what we want as consumers of health care. It is up to us to make choices and to vote with our feet. I propose the following bill of rights for us medical consumers that want more out of our health care professionals.


Patient bill of rights:
1. We demand to be listened to, we demand that you take your time and really understand our complaints and feel our pain.
2. We reserve the right to choose our own course of medical care with your expert advice to help guide us and we don’t want to be bullied into procedures or medications that we don’t fully understand.
3. We demand to have every procedure or medication or supplement explained to us in a manner and in language that we can understand. We need to know the risks, outcome and goals of each.
4. We want to be given choices, where a noninvasive, less expensive procedure will suffice let us be given the choice.
5. We demand health care providers that will refer us out to others more competent when they are not the right one to take care of our needs. We want practitioners that put our health above their egos.


Using Natural Health Care with modern Allopathic Medicine: What would that look like?
How about a combination of the two that really covered all our needs. What if we could go to a natural health care practitioner that took care of our needs for preventative medicine. They would check us for nutritional deficiencies that would later lead to disease processes. They would make sure we were getting the proper supplements. Our diets, and lifestyles would be evaluated and we would be counseled on ways to improve our chances of remaining well. We would be evaluated, and corrected for structural imbalances that could lead to further injury later in life. We would have basic vital signs measured to be sure there were no signs of dangerous medical conditions impending. We would also see on occasion a medical practitioner that would do a more detailed physical and include occasional blood work to evaluate our path to optimal health. When such an occasion arose for emergency medical intervention, we would be referred to the appropriate health care provider. If medication was absolutely necessary, our natural health care provider would be well enough informed to counsel us on nutritional supplements to reduce the side effects and not interfere with the medication. What a concept! Let’s demand that now, it’s up to you!!
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Gallbladder Blues

Gallbladder imbalances are rampant in our society, largely because of over consumption of trans-fatty acids, fried foods, and hydrogenated fats. In addition, hormone imbalances can throw off the functioning of the gallbladder. The results are some of the following:

· Pain in the shoulders (especially the right one)
· Dry skin despite consumption of EFA’s and fish oils
· Joint pain and arthritis
· Hormone imbalances
· Fatigue
· Memory problems
· Prostate hypertrophy
· Immune system weakness
· Pain between the shoulder blades
· Pain in the webbing between the finger and thumb
· Pain under the right ribcage
· Burping and belching
· Indigestion and bloating
· Inability to digest fatty foods
· Failing eyesight
· Depression or other mood imbalances
· Allergies to pollen, dust and animal dander

If you suffer from some of these problems, your gallbladder may be the culprit.

What is your gallbladder and what does it do? Your Gallbladder is a small hollow organ situated under your liver. Its main job is to concentrate the bile produced by the liver. Bile is released in response to fats in the diet and acts like a soap to break up the molecules of fat. These fat molecules are then digested by the enzymes secreted by the pancreas. These molecules are the source of our anti-inflammatory agents, hormones, joint lubrication and cell membranes. The fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K are absorbed correctly when the gallbladder is functioning well. Without absorption of these vitamins, we end up with eyesight diminishment, skin problems, thickening of the blood, greater risk of cancer and osteoporosis in addition to those issues listed above.

Many people take essential fatty acids, such as fish oil and flax seed oil, in order to prevent heart disease and inflammation. If your gallbladder is underfunctioning, this is not only a waste but also may aggravate the problem.

Gallstones
Gallstones are common--they occur in approximately 20% of women in the US, Canada and Europe--but there is a large variation in prevalence among ethnic groups. For example, gallstones occur 1 ½ to 2 times more commonly among Scandinavians and Mexican-Americans. Among American Indians, gallstone prevalence reaches more than 80%. Women tend to have more estrogen which increases the amount of cholesterol that is deposited in the bile and increases its viscosity. Gallstones are mostly made of cholesterol. If the liver does not secrete enough bile acids and lecithin, some of the cholesterol also does not dissolve. In either case, undissolved cholesterol sticks together and forms particles of cholesterol that grow in size and eventually form gallstones, which further blocks the flow of bile.

Gallbladder disease or imbalances will only be recognized by allopathic medicine once they become serious or life threatening, and then their only remedy is to remove the offending organ. This increases the imbalance and creates more problems in the body. In natural medicine, we can evaluate and prevent this imbalance by maximizing function of the gallbladder with herbs and supplements that tone and strengthen it. This can alleviate those symptoms listed above. It is also possible to dissolve gallstones and thereby eliminate the need for surgery. Imbalances in the gallbladder can be detected easily and painlessly by using Kinesiology.

Dr. J A Dunn
Wholistic Kinesiology Institute