Tired: Could it Be Adrenal Fatigue?

Tired? Many people complain of this on a daily basis. They have trouble getting up in the mornings. It interrupts their lives. Their friends and family do not understand. They wonder if it is depression. Maybe it is. Or maybe it is adrenal fatigue.

Adrenal Fatigue? What is that? Most people have not heard of it. Unfortunately, also most doctors do not recognize it, either. This is why a lot of times it goes untreated and patients can suffer for years.

Adrenal Fatigue is a health disorder that can affect anyone, in any walk of life, who experience persistent or severe emotional stress. This could be an ongoing stress and is especially true for people who are constantly on the go, who are constantly striving, who are constantly trying to keep their goals, who are constantly pushing themselves. But Adrenal Fatigue can also be caused by an unexpected emotional stress or trauma, for example: when one looses a love one, when one is involved in an accident, when a love one becomes sick, when one looses their job or any other big stress that one can not control.

The main four symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue are:

Tiredness for no reason

Having trouble getting up in the morning.

Needing coffee, salty foods or sweets to keep one going.

Feeling run down and stressed.


But what does Adrenal mean? It describes the glands that sits over our kidneys (the adrenal glands). They secret more than 50 stress hormones that we need for our bodies to function properly. Some of their functions includes: processing hormones that our bodies uses for energy, fluid and electrolyte balance and fat storage.