adrenal gland

That's what I sp- that's what I do.

'Cause you just wrote a book, uh, last year, which was The Power of Your Thyroid and the Adrenals.

Um, and just to let you know that there has been amazing feedback.

Um, one person said, "Such a valuable resource.

I wish I would've kept it from my office days.

I actually had it on the wall in my office, the pyramid with all your hormones in it, thyroid at the top, ovaries at the bottom, testes in the middle, okay? Adrenals on the way up, halfway up.

Let me see.

Did I draw it? Not draw it? Okay, I'm gonna do it, and remember, I flunked art, okay? I'm gonna show you this, okay? And then I had to...

Now, when you face a real threat, when something is coming against you, your brain signals two specific glands that sit right on top of your kidneys.

And these glands are called the adrenal glands.

Adrenal is A-D-R-E-N-A-L.

Now, these glands are stimulated to release hormones called cortisol and adrenaline.

That is where the name adrenaline comes from, actually.

Now, I'm going to give you an analogy so they can understand what I'm talking about in nature, because it's so obvious in that picture.

Look at an antelope that is being chased by a lion.

Adrenaline floods its body.

And when you have low thyroid function, your adrenals compensate and they upregulate the production of these hormones.

They try to kind of do both systems work and always tell people, look, like, Anytime you're working, overworking, you're using, kind of abusing, overusing a system, eventually it gets tired, right? And a lot of the symptoms of low adrenal function mimic hypothyroidism.

They're fatigue, brain fog, loss of motivation, loss of stress resilience, physical, emotional, whatever it is, craving salty snacky foods to get you through your day.

And even if we fix your thyroid, Most people, the vast majority of people, at least that are in modern thyroid clinic, have persistent thyroid symptoms until their adrenals are fixed.

And cow adrenal gland essentially takes the workload off of your adrenals so that they don't have to work and overwork.

They can function and repair.

And it supplies your body with the hormones and things it needs to feel like it has good adrenal function, the same way that we give you thyroid hormones to make you feel like you don't have a thyroid issue and address the confounding issues that develop because of that.

So adrenosol is... life-changing.

It's not like the steroid hormones like male and female of, you know, building up body mass and those kinds of things.

But your body has a certain way of, of producing this, and there are two, um, two organs, two tissues, uh, uh, uh, glands r- that sit on top of your kidneys called the adrenal glands, and these produce different substances, cortisol being one of them.

And those are produced, they go into circulation in your body, and they really affect just about every tissue in your body.

And cortisol has a range somewhere between, you know, eight and 30.

So again, this is one of those hormones in conjunction with cortisol that if you had a motor vehicle collision and you had, you know, a major cut or maybe you were, you had an accident cleaning up some stuff around your yards and you cut a major artery, your body would try to conserve that blood in your system by increasing the blood pressure so that you could still deliver blood to vital organs, and it would start to hold on to salt in your kidney and water in your kidney to try to preserve that blood pressure.

So it serves a purpose.

But in some individuals, um, their, the glands, and again, these, this is another hormone produced by the adrenal glands that sit on top of your kidneys, these glands produce too much of it, and sometimes that's one of the glands, two glands that you have, um, that in a, a certain part of it or maybe it's, like, both of them.

But in this setting, these would be individuals that have high blood pressure that's a little bit more difficult to control.

... and, and I have so many people like, "Check my liver," and I'm like, "Well, first of all, you're getting labs done.

There's a lot you're getting done to check your liver." But if we check that area, another thing we can say is that if you're coming in with adrenal fatigue, well, in the West, we get all crazy at separating different systems, right? But in the East, we can look at the roots of adrenal and renal, and renal means kidney.

Adrenal means on top of kidney.

So in Eastern-

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[upbeat music] Hi, and welcome to the Supplement Ingredient Series.

Today, we're talking about bovine adrenal gland, one of my favorite supplements to help you with stress and energy.

Bovine adrenal gland is a glandular supplement.

Glandular supplements have been used for over 100 years.

Indigenous people even used to eat organ meat because they knew it helped supply the body with nutrients they needed in order to function.

When you supplement with bovine adrenal gland, it's very possible that you could notice an improvement in your energy by having less afternoon crashes.

Afternoon crashes could be a result of dysregulation of your cortisol, which can directly affect your energy, your mood, and your sleep at night.

When you start taking bovine adrenal gland, most people notice an improvement in their afternoon crashes, their sleep, and of course, their energy throughout the day.

It will help the body kind of take in a little bit more that way.

You're not sleeping in that stage, right? So we're, you know, typically up every couple hours or so and pretty sleep deprived, so adrenal support can be really, really helpful in that timeframe too.

Doing, like, some healthy adrenal cocktails or things along those lines can be really supportive as well.

That's super helpful.