Adrenal Insufficiency and Low Cortisol: Symptoms, Causes & Solutions – Dr.Berg

hi guys today we're gonna talk about adrenal insufficiency and a low cortisol I have a lot of videos on the adrenal gland and cortisol I put some links down below there's a lot of information on this but I'm going to talk about a condition called Addison's which is an autoimmune condition and what causes that now the interesting thing about this condition is that the gland the outside the glad you have the dream you have two adrenals you have an outside and an inside and the outside of the gland has to be about 90% destroyed before you really start seeing the major complications so by the time you have a full-blown Addison's that gland is pretty well destroyed and you're not able to output cortisol and several other hormones so there are a lot of different symptoms but the main are fatigue weakness weight loss okay when you have high cortisol you'll actually gain weight low cortisol you actually lose weight you can't sleep salt cravings like crazy if you have low cortisol adrenal insufficiency you need to be consuming a lot of sea salt and you don't want to be consuming a lot of potassium especially if you're not taking enough sea salt you need some potassium but the more potassium you have the less sodium you're gonna have because they work on kind of a teeter-totter so if you take potassium you better be taking sea salt as well also you have no tolerance to stress you're highly irritable and your body just doesn't have that cortisol to counter stress cortisol is a fascinating hormone it helps the body to respond to stress all stress states it has like 200 different functions but this is one of them right here in different organs and different situations also it helps your blood pressure when the cortisol is low your blood pressure will go low when the cortisol is high your blood pressure tends to go high it also will slow the immune response so it's an a good anti-inflammatory it suppresses the white blood cell and this is why in autoimmune conditions in factions and all types of pain and arthritis itching allergies they use prednisone or cortisone shots because that suppresses the immune system and the next one encounters insulin so think about this right here okay so we have our blood sugars right here we eat some food okay insulin kicks in right here and pushes down the blood sugars now it's not really good to have excessively low blood sugars so chorus all comes in there to help your survival because that would be a stress and will start to elevate this pledge sugar to keep it up through here by releasing sugar and turning protein into sugar that's what it does so it actually prevents encounters hypoglycemia it brings the blood sugars back here the problem if it's too high okay it'll actually raise your blood Sugar's way over here and kind of nullify insulin to some degree and keep your Sugar's high and then creates more insulin production and you go become a diabetic but when you have a low cortisol you don't have this countering effect so you can end up with hypoglycemia so you have a lot of problems with that now what causes Addison's well several things number one is TB tuberculosis okay that's a big one I don't know if you knew this but 25 percent of the population has TB and 90 percent of them actually have no symptoms this bacteria lies dormant and it can kind of be getting reactivated later in life so only ten percent of this group have the symptoms and the most common symptoms chronic cough blood in the mucus fever night sweats weight loss and the primary target for TB is the lungs but it can also go in other places as well in fact the number one cause of death from infections is from TB when you have TB you usually are always have low vitamin D so taking vitamin D is one of the best remedies to deal with TB and I would recommend taking at least 20,000 IU's maybe 30,000 maybe even 40,000 that would be a very good thing to do also when you have honest UNS you're also gonna have low vitamin d2 so vitamin D can act like cortisol so it's not even really considered a vitamin it has hormone qualities and it acts like cortisol so vitamin D is really vital for anyone with an adrenal insufficiency or a little chorus all situation also taking B vitamins especially b1 very important for stress and that brings up another cause of Addison's is stress or trauma could be physical it could be mental stress a sudden loss but it's usually some type of huge shock to the system where the adrenal glands can shut down now the other thing is when you're taking prednisone over a long period of time that weakens the gland and then you can actually end up with with that condition also if you are taking prednisone or cortisone for a period of time and you stop taking - suddenly that can actually induce this condition - funguses can also cause honest ins and the last thing I want to mention if you have adrenal insufficiency or low cortisol you need to be consuming a lot more sea salts okay way more than an average person because you're losing the salt and you're always craving salt because you need to solve to keep the volume the fluid there you need to salt for your electrolytes and your body there's many many purposes for that alright and the last thing I want to show you is a great technique and I'm going to teach you that can help you with your stress so let's kind of roll right into it alright we saved the best for last okay so what we're going to do these points are a problem for everyone the adrenal glands are deep very deep on top of the kidney deep in the abdomen okay so we're not we there's no way we can contact the adrenals however there's a lot of acupressure points around this there's a lot of nerve points around the adrenals in this area and in Chinese medicine there's acupressure points go right along the side we're gonna be kind of tapping into that and releasing a lot of the stress in this area around the adrenals so her belly button is right here okay so we're gonna just go right to the right of it her right and down about an inch and we're gonna press down in here now this is I'm showing you how to do it on someone else but we're going to show you how to do it on yourself so I like to take my thumb in my middle finger again I'm not flipping you off and I'm gonna press down in here to her tolerance and I'm actually trying to find some tenderness this isn't too bad so if I don't feel any tender so I'm going to kind of sneak up a little bit and I'm gonna do all these points up on this line about an inch off the midline okay so we're gonna come in here press in here and I'm going to go to the left and to the right a little bit just to kind of find these stress pockets you can't see them if I can find these yeah there's a couple right here and then once I find it I'll just hold it for a little bit until it releases and what I'm doing is I'm extracting stress from this area of your body and this produces some really cool effects relaxation sleep like I've had people had the best sleep in their life so this is a really important area of the body that like no one works on so now as I'm coming up to the right side you do have the gallbladder on the right side but that's kind of tucked through this area you're not going to it's not going to be a problem when you press on that you just have to press to the tolerance of the person so you're not going too deep because it could be sore again work that's why I'd like to have you do this on yourself so you can adjust the pressure so you're not you know going too deep so some people say well is it dangerous to press in your abdomen I'm like no why would it be was it dangerous to press in your muscle in your thigh I mean you have a layer of fat okay and you also have I didn't mean to say that everyone has like a layer of fat and then organs are tucked in there with a lot of connected to and I've been doing this for like 29 years and it's not a problem it's pretty safe get in there but like you massage your muscles but how many times do you work on the the muscles in the urine and your in your abdomen like rarely and some of the organ like the kidneys and the liver points I mean people never work on these points but I'm coming through here right up through in here on this side and I do find some some tension I'm just going to press on that a little bit until it releases and of course I'm going a little bit faster than I normally would because sometimes I'll spend maybe two or three minutes just on the right side how does that feel does it feel uncomfortable yeah okay good so now I'm going to go to the opposite side and press on that now if the person has low back pain what you do is you press on the exact opposite side on the front BAM gone so you want to find out where it's hurting on the back like just draw a line right through it and press in the front it gets rid of a little back pain like that so on every one you're gonna find like one or two points that are really really tight and then you'll work on those more aggressively so I'm gonna press in here and just kind of work that out and and some people it would be very very tender so you want to go kind of light on them some people have a lot up they have a huge belly you can still do this but you will because you're working on the superficial points more than anything that connect because an acupressure point you know an acupressure point is okay an acupressure point is an area on the surface of the skin that kind of connects on the inside you have all these electrical circuits so it's kind of like a switchboard I can press this point and it can affect inside does that make sense are you sure are you good so it's working so so a lot of these are nerve points kind of you could look at like nerve points because they really are so acupressure points our communication channels if you if you take a look at the nervous system being the freeway the acupressure points are the side roads so they're just other forms of communication that you can affect like right through and here this is a good one and you if you think about that last time you were stressed I will guarantee you have a lot of tension in your abdomen after that and you'll feel like why is it so hard on them because you have the adrenaline the adrenals pumping a lot of hormones and then it tightens up all the muscles you start working on that it gets rid of stress so what we're doing now is we're handling she's sleeping now we're handling physical stress that is stuck in your body for years I mean probably what 30 years 35 years now you have some people that have never experienced stress in their life and I'm like if you live on planet Earth and other people have experienced a tremendous amount but if I keep doing this and I'm just holding these pressure points like I'm trying to keep a broad content I'm not like digging it like like looking how wide my thumb is okay I have huge thumbs so that comes in handy so but if you have this little tiny thumb that could be it's like sticking a little thing and there it's gonna could irritate the area so you want to keep a broad contact almost like take your two fingers and kind of separate them out and press in there and okay good good so now you ready for a nap okay good so let's bring the next person up thank you very much okay so just relax your arms right here where's your belly button right there okay so we're gonna just start and again one inch off the midline taking my two fingers and you can use your thumb or several fingers to equal the size of the thumb if you even if you don't have a thumb like mine and come right in there and we're just gonna work out he has some tension in here have you ever experienced trust before okay it's a new concept for people but right through there so we're just gonna press in there and again I'm watching the eyeballs to make sure they don't pop out cuz I don't want to press too hard and then so each time I do this I might do it a couple times a week or maybe once a week each time I do this I'm gonna feel like less and less tension to the point where I go right in there and like there's nothing there's no resistance so that's the goal so it if you can do it on yourself I would do it every night before you go to bed I'm going fast for time but I wanted to see if there's any let's see right through in there that's a ton of a tight spot right there okay now I'm gonna do the opposite side if the right side is not sore chances are the opposite side will be sore it's always going to be one or the other so if you find that there's like one or two points that's all that you find that's constantly sorted those are the points that you're going to focus on so that's this kind of an example now let's say he was going to do it to himself he'd used this torture I mean treatment device and it has these longer prongs and the shorter ones you want to use the long one you'd want to have him grab the tool and now we're going to position this this little thing right on this point okay so I want you to kind of press just like like I like you felt me doing it and tell me if you can feel the same kind of pressure yeah feel that well yeah just start start with one point and just press in in there does it feel similar yeah okay and the reason why it feels similar is because I developed this tool after my thumb for myself because like I was the last guy to get treatments I never got treatment so I'm like I'm gonna do it myself so I developed this device that mimics my hand because we're gonna show you the neck points as well and we just come in here and then he would before it goes to the bed right he's in his bed he puts this point on there let's and try to actually get through all of it without falling asleep but by the time he gets all the way to the top I mean so many times I'll wake up and I'm like oh wow where's that device it's right next to me I almost rolled on it like I literally fall asleep but while I'm doing this because it's releasing a lot of stress is it creating any effect on you yet yeah yeah it's interesting how it gives people so much relief I get I think because you have a kidneys in there you have the solar plexus which are all these nerve connections you have all these connections to the adrenal points you have the gall bladder the digestion you probably have you heard of the flight or fight mode have you heard of the fight okay it's called the sympathetic nervous system that's like this stress mode then you have another system and I'm going to give you this big word it's called in Tareq and that's part of the system that's below your awareness that actually runs all your digestion and that's really another system that we're tapping into right now we're actually stimulating it to relax a lot of stuff that's going on in your gut nerve wise can affect your head like if you ate the wrong thing and you feel bloated you're gonna feel funky in the head how many of you experienced it yeah so your digestion can affect your mood big-time there's a connection so when you release the tension in your gut especially if you have like IBS or irritable bowel syndrome or inflammation that creates like spasms it gives you a lot of relief in the head now when we come up to these points right through in here like on his right side it's a little sore right yeah so now you just the pressure so it's just right for you he's hitting something called the phrenic nerve that goes right to his diaphragm up to the right neck he's gonna release all the right neck tension so the more he does this point here he's going to have like less tension on the right side up here even like headaches will go away on the right side shoulder stuff so anything right here will remember side right here if he does the other side he'll actually rule that releases the other side here okay how does that feeling really good okay good so now he'll do the other side here take your belly button and just go right to the side of it and you want to go see how I'm rocking left and right and you just find the spot find the sweet spot where it's like ooh that's a little thing that's smarts and you just now don't do this with a knife okay don't do that with a sharp object use it the massage tool that I'm just joking delayed humor here but you know you want to use something that's kind of like a dull point and okay and then you just kind of inch up a little bit little sore so this is something he would need to do every single night and to the point where there's no soreness and he would find that his ability to relax like recently I saw this so I was watching this movie it was Lincoln I mean here's a guy who his dad beat him growing up his mom died I think his sister and his brother died and then his first why our first love died and then his several of his kids died I mean like can you imagine how many losses this guy had right and then he becomes the president which is a no-stress job I mean he was I think I'm 53 he was like 53 he looked like a grandfather he was look old so stress believe it or not does age you I'm gonna put some years give you some gray hairs especially if you have kids so this basically kind of pulls the stress out so you can go back in the life and recharge and start over again because you don't want to just keep carrying the stress around your home life might as well kind of have a blank slate clean it out because our bodies are sponges and we'd pick up stress I think he's actually asleep did you fall asleep did you fall asleep yeah see it worked and he did it to himself I didn't do anything yeah so this is a really amazing so a lot of you guys watching already have the tool because I actually hear the success if you don't have this tool you need to get it because I fly everywhere I go I travel I bring it with me and the plane I do my neck points because you sit on these these these little I mean you flew to California right and you're trying to lift your neck get this thing out sit back and just kind of just like I love it people like where did you get that can I borrow that and like now I'm like I'm gonna keep it on my neck so it's good for that and also for jet lag because you can actually work on these points and kind of rejuvenate yourself okay then we come to this point come to this point right go right through in here got a little sore yeah yeah and then he's gonna work on that and then what'll happen is you're gonna feel like you're gonna take layers of this stuff off and it could take a while and if you had like a fight with your spouse you could find that you can like put the stress back in but at least you have the tool to pull it out no you have the tool as not as a weapon but as a therapy to help yourself so you can sleep so you're not thinking about it all night long or you can throw it in - yeah it's plastic it won't break don't worry about it I'm just kidding you don't want to throw it on your spouse okay good so now tell me just sit up for me for a second face the camera how do you feel a little light-headed but I feel a lot better yeah do you feel like stress more stress-free yeah a little more relaxed yes that is the goal thank you we did it okay appreciate it and if you haven't already subscribed click the red button below and that little bell icon so you can be notified of all the new videos that I'm gonna be releasing and I have some very cool and interesting videos coming up in the next coming weeks plus in addition to that you'll be notified of the live Q&A sessions that I'm going to be doing throughout the week and you don't want to miss those as well so stay tuned for more great content

Channel: Dr. Eric Berg DC

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Length: 22min 57sec (1377 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 12 2020