Weakness? Lack of Energy? Joint Pain? Appetite issues?

You may be experiencing symptoms related to HPA axis insuffiency or "adrenal fatigue."

On today's podcast, Frank discusses:

The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axisProper Structure/Function of the HPA axisFight or Flight ResponseHow to Start Recovering from Adrenal Insufficency

Show notes below!

Frank: (00:00)Have you been experienced in symptoms that you just can't wait? You put your finger on things that just don't make any sense. Like you know, you just have this weird sense of weakness or headaches or dizziness or depression or just feeling apathetic. Well, you might be suffering from something called adrenal fatigue. So stay tuned to this podcast where we're going to talk about adrenal fatigue and we're going to talk about what you can actually do about it because this plagues a lot more people than you can actually imagine. Hey everyone, and welcome to unconventional on this radio powerful and inspiring podcast set to revolutionize and disrupt healthcare. It's time to put you in the driver's seat and be the force of change necessary for the lifestyle you've always wanted. 

Frank: (00:51)Hey, what's going on everybody? It's frank and I'm here with unconventional wellness. And until on this week's episode we are going to talk about adrenal fatigue, but we, before we started that, I'm going to talk about what is the HPA axis in order to be able to help us understand the concept of adrenal fatigue. We Pr, we probably should do a really good Monica Washup, if you will, of what the HPA access actually is. Because this, this is what directly affects adrenal fatigue. It's super important that when it comes to considerations of how do we help ourselves get out of these funks that we're in and get ourselves out of these chronic illnesses and on the road to recovery, it's very important that we understand the structure and function of the human body because we need to know how to best support that structure in that function. 

Frank: (01:47)So we can make sure that we don't have these symptoms further on down the road because once we finally overcome them, that's when we have true empowerment. So let's start off by talking about the HPA axis. Okay. First of all, HPA is an acronym. Like most things in medicine are in the HPA stands for the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. The reason why it's an access is because everything is in line, right? So the pituitary gland, excuse me, let me take a step back. So the hypothalamus is in the base of the brain. The pituitary is very closely related to it. And then the adrenal cortex is all the way down on your kidneys in sort of like your middle back. Okay. But what that particularly does is what we really want to be able to dive into, it is a very amazing system. It's a nervous endocrine system or you'll hear like some folks will say it's like a neuroendocrine, um, junction. 

Frank: (02:52)So it's a dynamic system and it's really, really cool because you don't normally often see the nervous system being sort of like so intimately intertwined with the endocrine function of these different organs that w