Since the term «adrenal fatigue» was coined in 1998,
the theory of adrenal fatigue has gained enormous popularity and is now believed by millions of people all over the world.
That is the basic
theory of adrenal fatigue.
According to
the theory of adrenal fatigue, when people are faced with long - term stress, their adrenal glands can not keep up with the body's need for these hormones.
Not exact matches
He also challenges the free radical
theory of aging and the
adrenal / cortisol
theory of fatigue.
One
of the
theories of the prevalence
of chronic stress and symptoms like
adrenal fatigue and the hormone dysregulation that comes with that and the mental health issues that come with that is our disconnection from nature.
At this point I hope you can begin to imagine the potential health ramifications
of what is often called «
adrenal fatigue»: daily compromised immunity, continuous stress hormone release, being «on edge» generally, exhausted sex hormones (remembering my admittedly pet
theory of why male endurance athletes often suffer from diminishing testosterone production and consequent receding hair).
Ari Whitten talks to us this week calling into question the existence
of adrenal fatigue and his
theories behind
fatigue.
Selye's work was then used as support for the
adrenal fatigue theory, and the idea that low cortisol (i.e. burned out
adrenals) specifically is the fundamental cause
of chronic
fatigue and other symptoms that can emerge with chronic stress.
I'm about to show you the summary
of all
of the 79 studies that have been done on this topic over the last two decades, but first, let's just keep in mind the basic predictions
of the «
adrenal fatigue»
theory.
As you're about to discover, the actual evidence does not support any
of these five basic predictions
of the
adrenal fatigue theory.