Stress Culprint
The Stress That Kickstarts Adrenal Fatigue Can Be:
Physical: Lyme, Epstein Barr Virus, Herpes, or any other form of chronic viral/infection.
Are you an adrenaline junkie ? Excessive exercise , marathons, triathlons take a toll on the adrenal glands. Emotional: Any type of trauma , Trauma with a big T ( standing for big events ) like sexual abuse, an accident, the death of a loved one , or trauma with a small t regarding smaller issues like if your mother didn´t pay attention to you as a child at a given moment or just the stress of traffic and work related issues.
Feeling unworthy, not good enough, pushing yourself to over-achieve all the time.
Toxin overload : Pesticides , herbicides, dirty chemicals in the air , xenoestrogens, antibiotics, prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, EMF´s , living near factories , or power towers.
Spiritual: Unmotivation , feeling a lack of purpose or direction in life.
Nutritional : Running on caffeine , carbs and high-sugar foods can stimulate repeated cortisol release, setting up the adrenal fatigue pattern.
Chronic gut issues like constipation, diarrhea, bloating, IBS, “leaky gut” and unaddressed food sensitivities can also cause adrenal fatigue.
Whatever the trigger, if the resulting hormonal imbalances are not corrected and the stress continues, your adrenal glands may end up completely and utterly taxed and worn out. Then the very hormones meant to give you energy and keep you alive if you’re under threat, can start to compromise your health. And eventually, they become depleted.
Let´s talk about pregnenolone, the “mother of all hormones” She works as a precursor hormone to help produce “baby hormones” : testosterone , estrogen, progesterone and DHEA , When your body is struggling to keep up with stress, It cries to mommy making her produce more cortisol instead of progesterone , This reaction is known as the “pregnenolone steal”Here´s how the story goes we get a cluster of hormones wreaking balling our bodies, the immune system is compromised, gut disbiosis screams mayday! Mayday! Parasites and opportunistic bacteria conquer the body. Symptoms are all over the place, it feels imposible to understand what’s going on. This is the exact recipe for disaster.This is very much the case when estrogen, insulin and adrenal hormones don’t play nice.
And it is more common than you may know.How Stress (Cortisol) Steals Your Other Hormones
Normally pregnenolone works as a precursor hormone to help produce testosterone, estrogen, progesterone and DHEA (which has anti-aging benefits). When your body is struggling to keep up with stress, it diverts an important hormone called pregnenolone to making more cortisol instead of progesterone. This reaction is known as the “pregnenolone steal” – see the chart below:
