What to take for adrenal support?

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I just made a reply on a similar posting if it might help https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3224914

What to take depends on what you need. You dont mention any adrenal testing. And there are several ways your adrenals can be "off".

Conventional Drs. only recognize realy high(hyper) or realy low low(hypo) adrenal output via a blood test for early morning or late morning. If its low they prescribe Rx cortisol, a daily replacement steroid hormone for what some people are lacking. This should not be used or confused with someone needing adrenal "support".

Non-conventional Drs recognize the need for adrenal "support" . This need is determined by adrenal levels thru-out the day via 4 times in 24 hours using the 24 hr adrenal saliva test. This test looks at levels in AM, noon, late afternoon and PM.

Stressed adrenals that need "support" will be "off" a little (high and low depeding on the time )and are corrected by long term herbs and vitamins.

If you look up adrenal adaptogenic herbs, you will find something like 5 to 8 of these. Vit c and b's also help. Supplement companies offer mixtures of these herbs and some are combined with non-Rx bovine desiccated glandular adrenal - cortisol (its weaker than Rx). When these work you can feel the stress levels mellow out - your adrenals stop overreacting to stress when supported.

Its trial and error as to what adrenal support works for you- different effects on different people. Aswagonada is popular and so is Holy Basil.

Clear as mud?

astroman said...
What to take depends on what you need. You dont mention any adrenal testing. And there are several ways your adrenals can be "off".

Conventional Drs. only recognize realy high(hyper) or realy low low(hypo) adrenal output via a blood test for early morning or late morning. If its low they prescribe Rx cortisol, a daily replacement steroid hormone for what some people are lacking. This should not be used or confused with someone needing adrenal "support".

Non-conventional Drs recognize the need for adrenal "support" . This need is determined by adrenal levels thru-out the day via 4 times in 24 hours using the 24 hr adrenal saliva test. This test looks at levels in AM, noon, late afternoon and PM.

Stressed adrenals that need "support" will be "off" a little (high and low depeding on the time )and are corrected by long term herbs and vitamins.

If you look up adrenal adaptogenic herbs, you will find something like 5 to 8 of these. Vit c and b's also help. Supplement companies offer mixtures of these herbs and some are combined with non-Rx bovine desiccated glandular adrenal - cortisol (its weaker than Rx). When these work you can feel the stress levels mellow out - your adrenals stop overreacting to stress when supported.

Its trial and error as to what adrenal support works for you- different effects on different people. Aswagonada is popular and so is Holy Basil.

Clear as mud?

Sounds good! One of my biggest problems is that small stressors completely overwhelm me when they never used to. I used to THRIVE under pressure..not so much anymore. I've never taken a test so I will now, hopefully this will make me feel better!

There are two approaches to naturally easing stress with vitamins/supplements/herbs. They do work off each other too and are tied together, some people benefit from both, some dont. This can take a while to figure out.

1) Supporting adrenals - as already mentioned:
I had a good site saved that listed quite a few adrenal adaptogens and explained what they do/how they work and how strong a reaction with (most) people. Sorry cant find it now.

I would suggest goggling adrenal adaptations, and then buying the smallest quantities of whatever you decide to experiment with to see what works with YOUR body..

Some can actually have opposite effects on some people. There are 4 or 5 slightly different Ginseng's with different prefixes, Asian, American, Siberian ect - they feel different too.

2) Supporting nuero brain chemistry (for lack of a better term):
The herbs Valerian root, Lavender, Passion Flower can calm the nuero system, but also encourages sleepiness in some. Any Magnesium that ends in "ate" calms muscles and nuero; mag oxide does nothing.. Niacin (a B vitamin) also has calming properties, but is more related to stimulating amino acids in the brain like GABA. There is also GABA, 5-HTP, , and a hand full of other Amino acids that work in the brain. Some amino acids are for muscle, so you need to read up on them.

Its not a good idea to combine amino acids with caffine though, unless you want a lot of energy. Example:The amino acid taurine (from animal protein), can be calming to some, buts its super energenic when combined with caffeine - both are in the Red Bull drink.

have fun