The ability to handle both physical and emotional stress is essential to human survival.  Our body has a complete set of stress modulation system in place and the control center is the adrenal glands.  When this gland becomes dysfunctional, our body’s ability to handle stress reduces and adrenal fatigue manifests as a result.

Here is a list of adrenal fatigue symptoms:

• Tendency to gain weight and unable to loose it, especially around the waist
• High frequency of getting the flu and other respiratory diseases and these symptoms tend to last longer than usual
• Tendency to tremble when under pressure
• Reduced sex drive
• Lightheaded when rising from a laying down position
• Unable to remember things
• Lack of energy in the mornings and also in the afternoon between 3 to 5 pm
• Feel better suddenly for a brief period after a meal
• Often feel tired between 9 – 10 pm, but resist going to bed
• Need coffee or stimulants to get going in the morning
• Crave for salty, fatty, and high protein food such as meat and cheese
• Increase symptoms of PMS for women; period are heavy and then stop, or almost stopped on the 4th day, only to start flow again on the 5th or 6th day
• Pain in the upper back or neck with no apparent reasons
• Feels better when stress is relieved, such as on a vacation
• Difficulties in getting up in the morning
• Lightheaded
• Mild depression
• Food and or inhalant allergies
• Lethargy and lack of energy
• Increased effort to perform daily tasks
• Decreased ability to handle stress
• Dry and thin skin
• Hypoglycemia
• Low Body Temperature
• Nervousness
• Palpitation
• Unexplained hair loss
• Alternating constipation and diarrhea
• Dyspepsia

If you find you have many of these adrenal fatigue symptoms, you may be suffering from adrenal fatigue.  None of the signs or symptoms alone can definitively pinpoint adrenal fatigue, however, when taken as a group these signs and symptoms show a person who is under significant stress.

These adrenal fatigue symptoms are often the result of  severe or chronic excessive stress and the inability of the body to reduce and cope with such stress.

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