Ligament Stretch Syndrome The Toilet Bowl of Adrenal Exhaustion by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Many people suffer from stressed-out, tired adrenal glands, a very common problem.  The typical symptoms can include fatigue, headaches, pain and aches, inflammatory conditions (problems that end in “-itis”, bronchitis, dermatitis, colitis, etc.), low blood sugar, rashes, swellings, allergies, asthma, or numerous others.  Low adrenals often cause, underlie, or aggravate many health problems.

Of those many people with worn-down adrenals, a significant group has a condition known as “ligament stretch syndrome”.  This problem gets its name from the effect it often has on the joints.  When the adrenal hormones are so low that they leave the joints and ligaments (tissues that hold the bones of joints in place and allow for their determined range of movement) undernourished, a person will fail a test from Applied Kinesiology, the chiropractic specialty that developed muscle-testing as a health analytic method.  The doctor tests the muscle strength in an arm or leg, then gives a quick tug on the arm or leg tested.  On instantly re-testing, the muscle strength is greatly reduced.  People of good adrenal health don’t weaken after such a small quick jerk across the joints, only the ones with “ligament stretch syndrome”.

If you have ligament stretch syndrome then you score below the typical and common low adrenal patient.  At that point you really have hit the toilet bowl of adrenal gland exhaustion, decreased function, and reduced hormone output.  Any of the typical low adrenal health conditions exist for the ligament stretch patient, but special patterns of symptoms tend to be found.  As a “ligament stretch syndrome” patient you may have some of these following described symptoms, usually not all of them.  Fatigue can be present and can be extreme; like your engine never really gets going.  Because the joints are poorly kept up with hormones, you could feel that you can’t do normal physical or athletic activities.  The result is new pain and a sense of injury.  “I can’t play racquetball, or I’ll hurt a wrist or ankle.”  “I can’t work out, or I’ll hurt my back or knee (or whatever!)”  These migrating multiple pains could cause you to be so careful of physical activities, so that both family and friends begin to think you're losing it.  You may consider that you've become a hypochondriac, but all of the pains and symptoms that are real; the little things that shouldn’t cause pain, could make you miserable.  And your injuries don’t heal well.  The ligament stretch syndrome patient often has multiple areas of pain, multiple areas of chronic injury.

You may feel constantly mis-aligned or out-of-adjustment.  But this is the patient who complains that chiropractic adjustments don’t “hold”.  Even worse, adjustments may have caused pain (a great adjustment doesn’t hurt a patient, not usually, unless ligament stretch syndrome is present).  So some feel a need for an adjustment, but what’s the use?  I feel I need one, it might hurt me, so I can’t have one...what a hassle!

A terrible hopelessness affects many of these patients.  They feel that they can never get well.  It’s a hopeless type of depression.  Their inflammatory conditions can be horrible.  Patients with fibromyalgia (the horrible pain in joints and muscles) almost always have “ligament stretch syndrome”, as do people with severe auto-immune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.  Headaches can be of the more severe types, often migraines.  Poor immunity and frequent colds or infections can result.

What a mess!  These patients are the doctor’s and chiropractor’s nightmare:  non-recovery and constant severe complaints.  Until the research uncovering ligament stretch syndrome was made, these patients had no likely hope of health.  And they are magnets for medications and the prescription pad: pain killers, anti-inflammatories, migraine drugs, arthritis meds, even anti-depressants.  Some "self-medicate" abusing alcohol or other substances.

The treatment for this condition is specific.  The patient must take the correct adrenal nutrient, often trickling the dose every waking hour, at first.  The adrenals must be “kick-started” in this way or they usually won’t “wake-up” at all.  The average patient will complete this hourly dosage in one week;  some will take longer, and some shorter.  When they pass the ligament stretch test, they’re off the hourly adrenal.  Now they’ve graduated up to terrible adrenals, still lower than most patients with low adrenals!  (At this point adjustments become painless and more helpful.)  And still more adrenal repair needs to be done.

If you have this problem, you must learn all the information on low adrenals and low blood sugar, and do everything possible to help them repair, and eliminate all things possible that tear them down.  Diet, stress management and supplementation are positioned at the top of the list of useful things.  Watch our videos on YouTube to learn in detail about adrenals:  Energy, Blood Sugar is the one that explains adrenal health, disease and recovery in detail.

With the breakthrough of understanding the diagnosis and treatment of this condition, some of the most tortured patients that ever cross a doctor’s door can be miraculously helped, brought to a high level of physical and mental health and well-being.  Severe asthma, pain syndromes, allergic, headache, migraine, auto-immune patients can most frequently be brought "back to life".

Testing for whether this problem exists is easy and fast.  We test/screen it on every new patient.  Because when it is present, if not treated first, we'll be banging our heads on the door of failure. 

If you sense that this information sounds like you, do yourself the greatest health favor ever, and have it checked.  If it tests positive and you do the things that reverse it, you may likely find the light of health shining on you in ways you've forgotten or lost hope of attaining.

Subluxation, Nerve Malfunction & Resulting Degeneration/Arthritis Effects on Your Health by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Your health is something natural.  You get it.  Somehow your body can turn a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into its cells and tissues.  It can heal a wound, rebuild itself, fight off an infection.  Scientists can observe that life is intelligent, responding appropriately to changes both inside and out.

Your nerve system is the one in charge of all of that. Of the trillion cells that make up your body, one out of every 15 cells is a nerve cell, whose job it is to carry information that senses and controls and coordinates all of life’s functions.  It is most crucial that your nerve system function properly, and has no interference to its electrical signals.

Certain things are needed for a healthy nerve system:  adequate rest and sleep, exercise, proper nutrition including correct minerals in your blood.  And other conditions that generate interference to nerve signals must be handled.  Subluxation is the chiropractic word for the nerve malfunctions, the "short circuits" that occur when the joints of the spine (or other joints) are displaced (sometimes minimally), and damaged (in the soft tissues:  ligaments, cartilages and spinal discs).  The result is a lack of healthy nerve signal transmission, resulting eventually in pain and in diseases from failing organs, because all your organs need healthy nerve signalling to function and do their jobs.

You have probably subluxated your spine multiple times in your life.  Falls, accidents, improper posture, sports injuries and lifting improperly are a few ways that a spine can get subluxated.  Some infants begin a sick life with subluxations from the pressures of the birth process itself.  You could try to live a life so inactive, never at risk of injury, that you’d never risk a subluxation.  But that wouldn’t be fun, and your muscles would be so weak for lack of exercise that they wouldn’t hold your spine in alignment, so you’d end up subluxated anyway.

You will hear my patients talk about their severe and chronic illnesses that were cured with effective chiropractic care:

Headaches Throat  conditions Bronchitis

Colitis, Constipation Migraines Laryngitis

Liver abnormalities Bladder infections Neck Pain

Shoulder, Arm, Elbow pain Gall bladder trouble Urinary tract disorders

TMJ (Jaw) pain Hand or wrist pain Digestive disorders

Chronic female pain Muscle spasms Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Stomach pain Infertility Nervousness

Tendonitis Ulcers Decreased sex drive

Fatigue Numbness Hiatal Hernia

Low  back pain Dizziness Thyroid illness

Cardiac Illness Sciatica Depression

Asthma Immune deficiency Leg pain, numbness

Eye & Ear disorders Lung disease Skin Rashes

Knee problems Foot pain & many others

When you realize that subluxation causes dangerous interference to nerves and disrupts health, you can understand this broad range of conditions.

Subluxations are caused not only by physical trauma or misuse of your body.  Emotional stress, chemical, dietary, and organ aggravations result in nerve malfunctions and subluxation.  Some subluxations are true pinched nerves (especially spinal ones).  Others are nerve interferences to the many nerves within and around your joints (jaw, knee, hip, shoulder, wrist, etc.) that have problems (“proprioceptive nerves”) that carry vital signals to and from the brain.

Your subluxations can sometimes be seen visibly as misalignments.  But mostly they are not visible to the naked eye.  The pinching, stretching, or irritation to nerves is their first ill-effect.  Weakness or tightness and spasm of muscles adjacent to or served by those nerves often occurs.  Inflammation, pain and numbness can be one result.  Changes to the blood flow can cut off the lifeline to organs and tissues, because all arteries and blood delivery are controlled by correct nerve signals.  Resulting control errors of organs, and organ illnesses and breakdown, immune inadequacy and failure causes numerous diagnosed illnesses, whose causes are listed as “unknown” to medical science.

Spinal subluxations start in Phase 1 with spinal vertebral misalignments, some loss of normal spinal curves and nerve short-circuits and malfunctions.  Pain and other organ illness symptoms will start in Phase 1.  This is most commonly the phase of spinal malfunction in young people.  It demonstrates no degeneration yet.

Phase 2 Subluxation-Degeneration occurs when years of uncorrected subluxation have caused malformations and disc loss in your spinal vertebral joints.  Bone spurs (malformations and distortions that can look like a bird’s beak) on the vertebrae represent the beginning of pathological joint fusion.  Your spinal motion worsens; your spinal discs shrink and narrow, degenerate and begin to die.  This is the phase of degeneration and “arthritis”.  It has numerous names:  Osteoarthritis and Degenerative Joint Disease are two of them.  In Phase 2 the nerve problems worsen, as symptoms and illnesses will also do.  When I see your x-rays in Phase 2, I will grade your degeneration as to how far through Phase 2 they are.  For example if the area of your spine is 60% “gone” I will grade it as Phase 2.6.  It is important to know that you can slow and improve degeneration (Arthritis) of your spine with precision Chiropractic which restores motion where there is none, and state-of-the-art nutritional supplementation.

Phase 3 occurs as degeneration is finalizing and the spine has reached permanent joint fusion and chronic health failure.  At each Phase, 1, 2, and 3 the person gets worsening mobility in the spinal areas affected, and worsening health ill-effects from the increasingly short-circuited nerves to the areas muscles and organs of the body those nerves go to and from.

Detecting the location and specifics of your subluxations is the job of a doctor of chiropractic.  Using my Advanced Applied Kinesiology, the chiropractic specialty which developed muscle-testing as a diagnostic method, I can identify your subluxations accurately.  X-rays and other testing methods may be used to provide valuable information on your nerve and organ function.

My Advanced Applied Kinesiology's methods correct by application of precise chiropractic adjustments, in which the spine is restored to improved motion and position. This provides the amazing and precise method of correcting your subluxations.  It is a fact that how chronic (how much time you've had them) and how severe your problems are, the more work it takes to correct.  The process could be compared to straightening teeth, which also requires the correct amount of time and treatment.  Follow-through to complete the corrective phase of treatment is the best course of action.  When you are fully aware of the facts of subluxation-degeneration, doing a half-baked or temporary fix, only to have a problem return and worsen again, would not make the best sense to you.

By combining for you the most advanced chiropractic methods with nutritional and natural health expertise as I do in my clinic, stupendous results and my many “miracle” cases are made possible. 

I feel that people with nerve and spinal problems who haven't gotten to receive the benefit of high quality chiropractic and natural health care is like experiencing life before there were flush toilets or like a life without modern dentistry.  Sort of primitive, not so healthy and not very fun!

It is vital for you to understand the importance of nerves and your spine in your health, the integral role they and your glands play in running your entire well-being, and the importance of correcting subluxations that are quite universally sustained by all of us, to enjoy your life as optimally healthy.

It's So Noisy In Here... I Can't Hear Myself Heal by Dr. Arlo Gordin

You've been in a place so loud that you realize you can't hear yourself think.  Or you can look on TV and notice between the BS ads (especially the ones selling you drugs with Unthinkable Side-Effects, followed by the ones for lawyers for you to get back your damages from suffering Unthinkable Side-Effects from drugs you took) and you realize that your head is supposed to be filled with that noise and get you to slavishly BUY those questionable products and services.  Yes, it seems that your world can get so noisy it is a challenge to think.  But think we must; it is the intelligent person's mandate.

I have been taking care of my patients' nerve systems for many years now, and have come to realize that my thinking about your nerve system, your subluxations (nerve system "short circuits", See my article on Subluxation & Nerve Malfunction) has been updated.

Here's the way I fix your nerve system now, and what I observe about it.  Every short circuit in your body is a source of nerve system "noise".  The bigger ones (such as a neck or low-back, a bad knee problem, a carpal tunnel wrist/hand pain) will generate a lot of nerve system static or noise.  The smaller ones, like a muscle injury, a small sprain or a minor annoyance problem generates less "noise" in your nerve system.  The nerve system acts a lot like a complex computer system with a screen.  If there is too much interference, static, or noise in signaling the monitor will display an image that isn't really clear...is that image a woman?  is it a horse?  or is that a boat?  Can't really make out what it is...

Similarly your nerve system is in the business of carrying signals and getting clear communication back and forth to run the show of your health.  Of the trillion cells in your body, 1 out of every 15 is a nerve cell.  That system of nerves is trying to get a clear "image" of all its transmission.  But often it just can't.  It seems apparent to me now after the many patients that I've successfully treated, that the amount of nerve noise, all of it added together from problems (subluxations) greater and smaller, dictates the quality of the imaging your nerve system can generate.  So now this understanding helps you and me to get the product we are seeking: Health.

For example, I have many patients who come to me with their health displaying some sort of problem (symptom).  Maybe it's a single problem, like a bad painful knee that won't let you move well.  More often it becomes a list of problems including a couple off the top of their heads, but after filling out a more comprehensive history form questioning of many types of symptoms, it turns out they've listed 12 or 16 complaints (to their surprise!)  When I examine them it is SELDOM that only one problem point is found, there are often many.  Some leg muscles won't give any strength, and arm and hand muscles, and neck muscles.  Most patients didn't know they had these weak muscle areas displaying subluxations and nerve short circuits.  The weakness may not be directly related (it seems to them) to the problem areas they complain of as painful or malfunctioning, or the symptoms of their organs that seem to be working poorly.

But it turns out it is the SUM of all of those short circuited areas that makes up the accumulation of the nerve noise that keeps your system from receiving crisp clear images and delivering neat and accurate commands.  The noise becomes just too great.  It becomes the defined level of nerve system stress that your control system operates with, and the level of distortion that your nerve system operates with and the burden of miscommunication that scrambles your health balance and wrecks or diminishes your senses of well-being.

That's why in the Ligament Stretch Syndrome patient (See my write-ups on Adrenals and on Ligament Stretch Syndrome) my Chiropractic goal as we kick-start their adrenals up from comatose to get up to terribly poor function, is to adjust the subluxated areas to QUIET DOWN the levels of nerve noise.  That is one essential part of getting the adrenals to Un-Stress to succeed in waking them up.  Get the nerve noise level DOWN.  Now the body can hear itself think!  And begin properly the process of controlling healing.

Most of the time (and after Ligament Stretch Syndrome has been "graduated" by those who had it) the Chiropractic adjustments' purpose is to correct and heal the damaged areas that are sourcing the noisiness into the system.  As they are adjusted, and as the ligaments that hold them heal, the noise level continues to be less and less.  As the system "quiets down", the body gets clear signaling.  The image on the screen, if you will, can be actually seen!  The signals coming from an area about its status arrive intact.  The signals carrying orders out on the functional control of that area, or, for instance, the activation of a strong muscle to do its job and contract, now arrive with full force and accuracy, and the area responds properly.  When all has recovered and healed, then the noise levels should be QUIET.  Does that mean that new problems and the wear and tear of living and of operating your body actively will not result in new subluxations, and from them increase the noise and static in your nerve system?  No, unfortunately life tends to accumulate such things.  The reason Maintenance Chiropractic has been shown to reduce illness, extend life, reduce the occurrence of severe (and deadly) ill health events is because it CATCHES these things when they are new and smallest, eliminating them and keeping the nerve system's noise DOWN.

The beauty of Advanced Applied Kinesiology and the comprehensive checking technique I have developed is that subluxations and Nerve Static sources are tested throughout the body.  Spine: Neck, Mid, Lower Back, Pelvis and Hip system.  Head, Neck, Jaw, Shoulders, Arm and Hands. Hip multi functions, Leg Front and Hamstrings, Knee, Ankle, Foot and Toes.  Torso, Glands, Organs, Digestion and Elimination.  All that and more tested on you and EVERY one of my new patients!  That means all the major potential short circuits and sources of Nerve System Noise checked for you.  And corrected.  Result: You get Quieter Nerve, Spinal Cord and Brain function.  Result: Control of your body goes IN.  Result: our weekly fare of new "miracle" health restoration cases.  (Today I took in a new patient who had seen 26 doctors in 8 years, and never had his symptoms leave for a day!  I found all the sources of his noisy nerve system, and I can virtually guarantee that in short order his unrelenting pain, fatigue and fogginess will be GONE as the noise is eliminated, and his glands restored to working again.)

Can you picture the effect when it is so Quiet inside you can hear yourself Heal?

Getting Old? by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Every day in my practice there’s some recital of the lament, “I’m just getting old.”  Although aging seems as inevitable as the advance of time, the effects of it are surprisingly able to be more under your control than conventional “wisdom” dictates.  I’d like to relate some telling examples to you.

A patient M. G. comes in complaining (among other problems) that his right knee always hurts if he walks, exercises or bends it much.  His “regular” doctor said he was just getting old.  I asked him if the left knee, which doesn’t bother him, was any younger than the bad right one?!?  The “bad” knee needed the hinge joint adjusted so it was working straight, and the cartilage (medial meniscus: the cartilage pad inside the knee joint) adjusted back into position.  Now the right knee doesn’t bother him anymore.  Did it get younger?  By the clock and calendar it was the same age, just as old.  But it wasn't acting old anymore thanks to the application of our approach.

My patient K. H. 51 years old tells me she’s exhausted, frequently depressed, overweight and menopausal.  She knows she’s just getting old.  We put her on a simple (and fun) nutritional program and adjusted her.  No more depression, lots of energy, 30 lbs. lighter, and no longer in menopause.  Are her glands younger?

Clock and calendar say no, her body and experience tell her yes.

A patient tells me her back is worsening, it can’t be fixed, she’s tried lots of therapy and treatment, and nothing lasts.  She was told her spine is degenerating; she’s just getting old.  We found her exhausted adrenal glands, did the special 1-week New “Adrenal Wake-Up-Call” Nutritional Treatment and now her back is pain-free and staying that way.  Is her spine younger?  And why is my spine, which is older than hers not degenerated?  Is there something more going on that determines how old you are and feel than just the passage of time?

My patient explains that his stomach isn’t working, he has an ulcer, can barely enjoy eating anymore, has no energy, pain all over.  He’s really getting old!  Adjustment to the spine nerves and stomach (Hiatal Hernia:  where the stomach traps part of itself in the diaphragm breathing muscle) and nutrition to heal the ulcer.  No pain, eating perfectly, energy up, the long list of horrible complaints GONE!  Is his stomach younger now?  Not by measurement of time, but by experience it is.  This is what people are seeking when they want "Anti-Aging Medicine" (Note I am also board certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine).

The answer is YES YES YES.  In each case the aging that was taking place in the organs, joints and tissues was REVERSED.  The tissue was made young and workable again by the body itself.  It just needed some very accurate help to be able to do it.  Advanced Applied Kinesiology and competent Nutritional Care and my patient training on what you need to know are some of the key elements that head up my Anti-Aging philosophy, approach and success.

We know that scientifically our bodies constantly repair and replace themselves.  The cells are constantly rebuilding.  Scientists know that virtually every cell and organ we own is fully replaced in seven to ten years.  But will the replacement be an improvement or a sloppy slide into a worsened and unhealthy state?

The passage of time alone is not the single issue of health and getting old.  It is the passage of time OVER AN UNCORRECTED PROBLEM that causes that area to worsen, spiraling down, down, down and resulting in the degeneration of tissue, and sometimes worse.

Can you imagine the pleasure I derive with you when we together turn back the hands of time?  It’s indescribably satisfying!

Adrenal Gland Problems: Still a Poorly Understood Secret by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Many of my patients have been told they have an Adrenal Gland Problem.  But many haven’t ever gotten the results they wish.  You may have taken (many!) adrenal nutritional supplements, but the problems that are caused, worsened or complicated by your adrenal malfunction or exhaustion still persist or even get worse!  Why?  Because adrenals respond to many things in life: what you eat, your emotions, pain and more.  Just taking some nutrients usually is not enough to get the job done.  It takes more, and most doctors don’t know or help enough to get that “more” achieved.  And since precision chiropractic is often so essential, many doctors aren’t equipped to do the job.

You often may need to repair your adrenal glands as a first priority in order to get healthy. You have two of these little guys, one on top of each kidney.  They put out a number of essential hormones for health, and they respond to, and can be damaged by, a number of life’s less desirable but often not easily avoidable occurrences. They also, like your other glands, tend to get less healthy and productive just with age.  Their hormone output drop with increasing years, and can plummet from shocks or stressors, including biochemical ones.

These adrenal hormones release into your bloodstream.  They include: A. The blood sugar hormone that keeps your energy up between meals. If it is low, fatigue, headaches and other symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) result. B. The anti-inflammatory/anti-pain hormone “cortisone” that keeps your body from pain, as well as from inflammatory and auto-immune illnesses.  These include illnesses whose names end in “itis” (inflammation of) such as colitis, arthritis, dermatitis and bronchitis.  C.  The salt balancing hormones that tell your kidneys to not lose all your essential mineral salts into your urine.  Reductions in these play a role in such things as abnormal swellings of the body, and heart and energy malfunctions, D.  Adrenaline which gives you bursts of energy in “stress” situations, and E. Estrogen for the post-menopausal woman that helps her stay more hormonally balanced.  The adrenals make the only source of estrogen (female hormone) in the body after menopause.

Because of the profound effects of these hormones, if they are out of balance, big problems are the result. Temporarily they may be pushed into high gear by stress or incorrect eating, which later eventually leads to their burnout.  Burnout of the adrenals underlies a great many health problems, and worsens symptoms in the areas of your body that you are already weakened from birth (genetics) or from other insults and causes.

Overeating carbohydrates (sweet or starchy foods including sugar, breads, cereals, etc) will cause an insulin reaction. Generally at the same time all the ill effects of over-secreting insulin occur, the adrenals will be burnt out on the rebound blood sugar crash that follows. Not balancing food properly, overeating carbs, especially ones that arrive fast as sugar in the blood, is one factor that wears out adrenals.  Because insulin reactions to meals badly chosen in type and quantity, are the leading causes of 1) overweight  2) placqued and clogged arteries 3) heart attack and stroke (these two are the leading causes of death), eating better may be one of the best things you could do for yourself and your adrenal glands.  Refer to eating "40-30-30", balancing protein, carbohydrate and oil intake in the right proportions when you eat and when you snack.

Fatigue is a frequent effect of worn-out adrenals.  Because their hormones regulate the fueling (blood sugar supply) of cells, and especially those of the brain, underfueling results in low energy, worn-out-ness. Depression is another effect that may occur to an individual with an underfuelled brain and nervous system.  Many other symptoms of a worn-out energy system and poorly functioning nerves also can result. The reason so many symptoms are possible with poorly regulated blood sugar is because it is the fuel for the brain and nerves, and they are involved in every pain and physical feeling you experience, as well as controlling and regulating EVERY body function.  Sleep problems are also often a result of burnt out adrenals.

Your adrenals are also known as your “Stress Glands”.  Mental and emotional stress, worry, anxiety over love, money, family, any of the usual (or unusual) sources, will eventually burn out the adrenals, and cripple their hormonal output. The man who figured this out (Hans Selye) was recognized by the Nobel committee. He also discovered that other types of stress besides emotional can burn them out. Physical or chemical stresses can also cause adrenal burnout.  Ongoing pain, nerve system stress and malfunction, stimulant drugs, overdosing on caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol are on that list.  Despite the fact that some of the highest accolades  in science were awarded for this understanding, and it was broadly written about, few medical physicians give much thought to, or have approaches for assisting adrenals to repair or function.  This comes as no surprise since most medical physicians are not trained or comfortable to practice nutrition or life-friendly direction.  They are trained more with a prescription pad in one hand, and a scalpel in the other.  As such they are happy to write scripts for pain-killers, anti-inflammatories, and even the hard-to-quit and side-effect ridden medication "cortisone" much more freely than well-informed sense would allow.

If you have a chronic inflammatory disorder, generally medicine or drugs are merely symptomatic treatment.  Colitis, laryngitis, vaginitis, (notice the “itis” endings) are usually medically incurable, but just forever treatable, but only to reduce the symptoms. Chronic pain, fibromyalgia, torn up joints and arthritis are common effects with adrenal components. Now it is finally made its way to common medical understanding that inflammation is a basic factor in arthritis, and also in heart attack and strokes.  The drug industry’s anti-inflammatory drugs do not treat causes, but only symptoms. Headaches and migraines similarly have important adrenal (and blood sugar) components. Asthma and allergies have vital adrenal underpinnings. If ongoing medication is your recommended course, with no real end in sight, you could think then about strengthening your adrenals and fixing whatever else is actually causing the problem, not just spray painting over the symptoms with medications.

When your adrenals are weak, the things that are harming them are generally winning, and those that could help them are losing.  If you want to turn that around, you must try to discard or minimize the harmers, and bring on and support the helpers.  Stress factors should be handled, chronic pain corrected, imbalanced eating repaired, to name a few possibilities.  We do know how to guide you in getting these handled.

One great helper that can be instituted is to take adrenal support NUTRIENTS.  Generally this can be done with supplements into which several adrenal support substances are combined.  The right supplements should be prescribed, and the correct dose as well.  Many adrenal supplements flood the market and the labels look great.  But the actual effects are often not successful, and some, which contain “whole adrenal gland” even from “grass fed cows” have hormone content that sabotages your adrenals’ repair.  Our supplements don’t have hormone content for that reason.

Adrenal rebuilding, although not an overnight process, is a cornerstone of many health miracle cases in our office.  Chronically ill, pain-ridden, fibromyalgia and many times profoundly sick people have been restored to normal healthy lives. Migraine sufferers, headache sufferers, asthmatics, people with chronic pain, to name a few.  Although many require effective chiropractic treatment to areas of the body get the adrenals restored. To get many very sick and beleaguered patients to well often takes being effective in adrenal restoration. 

This is a critical arena of health to understand well and to apply.  It is not likely that it could be done adequate justice in only a page or two of writing.  I would refer you to our health class (in my name on YouTube and on drarlogordin.com), “Energy and Blood Sugar”.  In that seminar a much more comprehensive discussion of this subject is covered, and the specifics of solution explained. 

Our current lifestyles present great stresses on our adrenals. It is no great surprise that many of us have poor adrenal output, nor that many chronic patients have really burnt out adrenals.  If you fall into either category, one of the best things you could do is help your adrenals rebuild.  While doing so, do strengthen your blood sugar handling system, and reduce your risks for numerous health problems. Adrenal dysfunction causes many problems that reduce function and happiness, many nasty and “incurable” diseases, as well as those that are the leading causes of death.

Far better to support life, live it healthily, without pain, inflammation, allergy, metabolic failure and actively to the fullest than to enrich the trillion dollar drug industry, and that only for the hope of short temporary relief.