They're never ever fall into that adrenal failure criteria, but they'll have dysfunctional adrenal fatigue primarily driven by HPA — brain, poor brain adrenal communication by
chronic stress and it's our job as the functional medicine doctor to figure out
where that stress is coming from, nutritionally, diet-wise, obviously all the emotional and lifestyle
stressors, and then even bigger, the internal infection, toxicity
stressors.
However, when
stressors are long term and even moderate intensity, the allostatic response increases in magnitude to the point
where it is no longer a positive, anabolic entity but a negative, catabolic entity that contributes to or creates virtually every
chronic illness we see in our practices today.
Since January 2018, workers may be entitled to WSIB benefits for
chronic mental stress
where the
chronic mental stress is caused by a substantial work - related
stressor such as an incident of workplace harassment.