Microblog: Fasting Is Not the Culprit for Adrenal Insufficiency

I’m not an endocrinologist but I do know that when people blame fasting for adrenal fatigue, I’m sorry but that’s misinformation on so many levels.
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☝🏼The term “adrenal fatigue” is outdated. We now know that the endocrine system includes the adrenals byway of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis.
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➡️Our adrenals are impacted by many factors. Too many to list here and so I’ll share several graphics to show the complexity of hormones and the endocrine system.
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❓How do you even know it’s the adrenals? Which part? The adrenal cortex? The adrenal medulla?
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⚠️If you’re already adrenal insufficient and you start extending fasting (24+ Hrs) AND undereating OR eating ANY carbs, have POOR gut health (you can’t breakdown foods to absorb cholesterol to even create hormones like cortisol to manage your stress), then yes, maybe EFing isn’t for you.
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⁉️But what if you worked on the gut, ate no carbs and managed stress levels with meditation, breathing, etc.? Do you still think extended fasting is the issue?
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💡What we do know is that what puts our adrenals under chronic stress are:
- Refined carbs
- Coffee and alcohol
- Work and emotional stress
- Digestive issues
- Nutritional deficiencies
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🕳We also know that elevated cortisol causes insulin resistance and we know that dark rabbit hole (slide 3). One thing this also does is cause poor mineral absorption by…