Michael Platt
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- Tags: adrenal fatique, adrenaline, easily irritated • Low energy between 3 and 4 p.m. • Difficulty staying on task • Being easily startled, Fatigue unrelieved by sleep • Difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep • Decreased ability to handle stress • Depression • Increased PMS in women • Increased symptoms when meals are skipped • Problems focusing, which causes palpitations • Anxiety attacks • Hypoglycemia • Weight gain, with memory lapses • Decreased tolerance

Adrenaline...we need it for survival, but is too much killing us?
Adrenal fatigue is a diagnosis used mostly in alternative medicine, usually among naturopathic physicians. The diagnosis is based on the theory that the adrenal gland, if underfunctioning, can fail to produce sufficient quantities of cortisol. Treatment often involves prescribing cortisol in addition to addressing diet, timing of eating, and amount of rest. I have two concerns about this diagnosis and its treatment. First, adrenal fatigue may actually be adrenaline dominance, a condition of adrenal overfunctioning rather than underfunctioning. Second, prescribing cortisol for a condition possibly already associated with a high cortisol level may have unintended consequences. Cortisol, if given inappropriately,...
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