You have likely heard the term “adrenal fatigue.” We commonly associate this term with the feelings of extreme fatigue, hormonal dysregulation, and other physical symptoms that can occur from chronic stress. More accurately, we can look to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis for the cause of these discomforts. If you have chronic stress, your adrenals get beat up, and your energy plummets and it becomes difficult to manage your life. You could feel tired and wired, all at the same time. All these are clues that you could have an imbalance of your HPA axis.
In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the signs of HPA axis dysfunction and how to support your HPA axis to reverse burnout. They also share patient cases that they have treated.
Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.
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@Scottlp2 you can eat steamed vegetables and potatoes.
I was just going to say this!! Medical Medium explains how to repair adrenals and he has helped millions! Strange nobody is talking about his advice when he’s helped freaking Tony Robbins!
@Leah Eschrich And we all know Tony Robbins has tons of energy.
@Merdo exactly! He had heavy metal poisoning and healed using medical medium advice!
@Leah Eschrich lets face it. Every single person in this world have some level of adrenal fatigue.
Very interesting topic. I don’t like it when the interviewer talks more or interrupts the guest because the presence of it does not make sense.
She is his family doctor and they are peers. It’s a conversation. If if you watch any of the medical interviews between doctors they all do this bc it’s a conversation.
Oh man, I’m suffering from this right now.
Don’t drink coffee it attacks the adrenals!
@Leah Eschrich I don’t drink coffee anyway, but I am eating processed foods at the moment. Cooking is too stressful for my body. I’m mostly bedridden.
This is my favourite subject because I have adrenal fatigue and low cortisol.
Don’t drink coffee! It attacks the adrenals!
Donuts are deep fried in fat! Fat and sugar is dangerous together
Loved the talk; she also reminded me of Myrel Streep’s daughter!
Wish I heard this podcast 4-5 years ago. It took my doctors 4 years to diagnosed me with adrenal insufficiency and only happen after I went to see a functional medicine doctor.
Thank you so much for this excellent conversation. You are one of the best YT doctors, Dr H. Take care.
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