alopf.blogg.se - Signs of overactive adrenal glands

Aldosterone – which increase water retention and blood pressure.

Glucocorticoids –mainly cortisol, cortisone and also corticosterone, include controlling inflammation, helps control resistance to stress and with glucose formation.

Adrenaline and noradrenalin- the flight and fright or stress hormones.

Hormones produced in the adrenal medulla There are two parts the Adrenal gland, the adrenal medulla (the main part) and it surrounds the middle part of the gland the adrenal cortex. One of the main purposes of the adrenals is to help our body deal with stressors from different sources. ‘Ad’ ‘renal’ means over the kidneys! They are about the size of a walnut. The adrenal glands are our 2 glands that sit above our kidneys. More on these stages of dysfunction later in the blog. I say ‘dysfunction’, as the adrenal glands can be overactive, underactive, or fluctuate between the two. Almost everyone will experience some form of adrenal dysfunction at some time in their lives. Have you heard of adrenal exhaustion? Or Adrenal insufficiency? More and more commonly people are suffering from this syndrome now days.

This also led me to study naturopathy later on in my 20’s, which I now practice and am very passionate about!Īdrenal dysfunction or adrenal insufficiency Although, they really helped me on the road to recovery and I am very grateful they helped me. Or that it was triggered by digestive problems, stress and EBV (Epstein Barr Virus, it causes glandular fever which I had when I was a teenager). Now 23 years later, I look back and realise it was adrenal dysfunction, leading to adrenal exhaustion, but no one had really explained this to me, not even the naturopaths I then saw. I also had anxiety, which I thought at the time was normal. I would also get hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar levels) daily, even though I ate like a horse and had suffered a few mild panic attacks. Some days I found it even difficult to talk or think straight. I could function on a daily basis, but barely, as I dragged myself through days with no energy, intense cravings for sugar and bread, a cloudy / fuzzy head and IBS symptoms which kept me guessing what to eat every day and usually left me flat on my back with abdominal cramps every night.

I was told I had chronic fatigue by a naturopath when I was 22.