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Denver Chiropratic Center

1780 South Bellaire Street
Suite 710
Denver, CO 80222
Tel: 303-300-0424
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Are you having problems with any of the following?

• Trouble losing fat
• Fatigue / lack of energy
• Difficulty sleeping
• Moodiness or irritability

All of these may be related to imbalances in the adrenal hormonal system. The adrenal glands make cortisol and DHEA, two hormones that are crucial to your health and well being. These hormones help are central to your body’s ability to respond to and recover from stress.

Cortisol is a catabolic hormone that breaks down tissue and mobilizes energy in your body to respond to stress. It’s often called your body’s main stress-response hormone. DHEA is cortisol’s counterpart. It’s involved in repair and recovery so you can meet the next demands of the next bout of stress.

This system is ancient and evolved when humans faced two main sources of stress – lack of food, and danger from large predators. These stresses were often followed by long periods of recovery. Today however, we face chronic stresses that don’t relent, and this can easily overwhelm the adrenal system.

Common sources of stress can overwhelm your body and cause disruption in your cortisol / DHEA levels. These stressors include overworking, financial problems, injuries, illness, and over exercising. In addition to these stresses, lifestyle stressors include eating processed foods, skipping meals, using too much caffeine, taking prescription medications, and poor sleep habits.

The daily cortisol rhythm

Your cortisol levels should follow a predictable pattern within a specific ideal range throughout the day. Your cortisol levels should peak when you wake up and slowly decline throughout the day.

An overwhelmed and over-stressed adrenal system responds in a predictable way. First, cortisol levels rise higher than the ideal range. This is sometimes referred to as Stage 1 adrenal burnout. Some of the symptoms can include difficulty losing fat, fatigue, and trouble sleeping.

As the process continues, DHEA levels may drop, and then cortisol levels may drop below the ideal range. This is called Stage 2 Adrenal Burnout. Accompanying symptoms may include more severe fatigue, moodiness, food cravings, and insomnia.

The good news is that this process can be disrupted and reversed. The first step is evaluating your adrenal hormonal system with a simple saliva-based lab test called the Functional Adrenal Stress Profile. We provide you with the lab kit and complete it at home by providing 4 saliva samples collected throughout a single day. The kit is then sent to the lab and the results come back to our office.

Using your results and the detailed health and lifestyle history, we work together to create a healing program. Treatment programs vary based on each patient’s unique situation, but each program reduces or removes sources of stress so the adrenal system can rebalance itself.

Our Natural Treatment Programs support a healthy adrenal system with:

• Dietary changes
• Supplement Programs based on lab results
• Exercise, lifestyle, and stress management advice

Case Study

This is a true case story. The patient’s identity has been changed, but the details have not. Read the entire case study here or dowload it here.

This is a true case story. The patient’s identity has been changed, but the details have not.

Andrea, at the time she came to see, was a 23-year-old triathlete. She had just finished her competitive season. Her primary health complaints were trouble sleeping, irritability, and the fact that she was about 12 pounds heavier than she thought she should be. No matter what she did, she could not drop that weight.

Her initial consultation revealed chronic digestive problems, including indigestion, occasional diarrhea, and trouble with nausea during races. She also had a series of minor injuries from her sport that were annoying her.

In addition to a Functional Adrenal Stress Profile, I suggested that we order a digestive pathogen screen. I suspected she had H pylori (primarily because of the race nausea). Since the digestive system, if not functioning properly, can be a huge source of physiological stress, we weren’t going to get anywhere with Andrea’s case if she had latent digestive infections.

I’ve cropped out all the identifying data in this scan, but here are the relevant results. Her cortisol levels were high in the morning (often correlated with infection, particularly in digestive system). She also had high morning cortisol. The total cortisol and ratio between cortisol and DHEA were also high, but not high enough to be a primary concern. Andrea’s DHEA was actually really good.

Her digestive lab report looked like this:

As you can see, Andrea had a blastocystis hominis infection. Infection with Blastocystis can produce the disease Blastocystosis. The most frequently described symptoms of Blastocystosis are abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea.

Also present was H Pylori. H. Pylori is a bacterial infection of the stomach that can cause ulcers and is linked to stomach cancer. I have noticed a fairly reliable correlation between patients with race nausea and H. Pylori.

We started by evaluating Andrea’s diet. She was consuming a lot of soy products. Soy is one of the most allergenic food of all, so we cut that from her diet. We also cut out wheat, which contains gluten. I wasn’t sure if Andrea was gluten intolerant or not, but in order for her gut to heal, we needed to err on the safe side. We kept her away from processed foods and got her cooking for herself most days of the week.

I referred Andrea to a local medical doctor for two different courses of antibiotics to eliminate her infections. We also started her on an adrenal supportive supplement program.

What was going on in this case was simple – the digestive infections and damage from her diet were a huge source of stress in her body. On top of her training, her body was struggling. The process of correcting her digestive system and balancing other stresses in her life took about 6 months.

Here’s how her follow-up Functional Adrenal Stress Profile looked.

As you can see, her morning cortisol and evening cortisol came down. Her night time cortisol was still a little high, but we were able to address that with a cup of herbal tea and a promise to turn off the TV at 9:00.

Andrea naturally dropped the extra fat she had on her, and raced without injuries the following season. She stayed on an Adrenal Support program and we test her adrenals in the middle of each season just to stay on top of her recovery. She’s now 26 and racing at a high level in Ironman triathlon events.

Get Started Now

To get started, contact our office to set up an initial consultation and purchase an Adrenal Stress Profile kit. We can work with out-of-Denver patients over the phone.

The information found on this website is not intended as medical advice. The information on this website is not intended to provide you a diagnosis or a plan of care. If you are not feeling well, please consult either us or your health care provider. If you are presently being treated by another provider, do not disregard that provider's treatment plan because of anything that you read on this website. If you have any questions, please call or email us. Your well-being is our primary concern.