Is Stress Making YOU Fat, Tired, & Sick?

YOU are a combination of 100,000,000,000,000 cells! These cells are not only dependent upon the foods you consume for proper nourishment, but they also rely on hormones for optimal expression and function.

Hormones are the chemical messengers that tell your cells what to do. What are your hormones saying?

Stress plays a major part in your hormonal balance. More specifically, your adrenals glands, two tiny glands that sit atop your kidneys, can become exhausted due to chronic stress.

There are two types of stressors, internal and external. Your body does not know the difference between the two. When there is stress, there is hormonal shift. Where there is chronic stress, there is Adrenal Fatigue.

External Stressors

• Mental/Emotional: fear, excitement, worry, anxiety, lack of purpose or meaning in life  
• Physical: fractures, muscle injuries, nerve compressions, postural imbalances

Hidden Internal Stressors

• Parasites, bacteria, fungi, and viruses
• Pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, chemicals, metals
• Maldigestion, malabsorption, blood sugar dysregulation
• Improper Diet (eating wrong for your Metabolic Type)
• Alcohol and narcotics use
• Pharmaceutical drug use

Chronic known and hidden stressors cause a shift in the hormonal pathway favoring increased stress hormone production (cortisol) and the reduction in the sexual/reparative hormones (DHEA). Physiological consequences can include:

• Weight and fat distribution in the midsection
• Compromised immunity (frequent infections)
• Poor muscle development
• Thyroid/Ovary malfunction
• Ovarian hormone imbalance (PMS, hot flashes, loss of period)
• Blood sugar/insulin dysregulation
• Poor quality of sleep and mood (insomnia, awaken unrested)
• Reduced memory and learning capacity
• Macular Degeneration
  
• Compromise detoxification (liver and kidneys)

If the stress is chronic enough, eventually your body's normal Steroidal Hormone Pathway becomes shunted to another less desirable hormone pathway. The normal Steroidal Hormone Pathway needs to be re-established. Our protocols are designed to accomplish this. While most doctors attempt to merely balance hormones, our protocols  not only accomplish hormone balancing, but also re-establish the proper Steroidal Hormone Pathway necessary to become and stay healthy.

Don't Guess...Test!

Test Kit 205: Functional Adrenal Stress Profile

This easy-to-use test kit requires the collection of four saliva samples throughout a single day. You will receive readings for the following hormones:

• Cortisol (morning, noon, afternoon, nighttime)
• DHEA-S
• Estradiol
• Estriol
• Progesterone
• Testosterone
• Melatonin