Adrenal Fatigue Part III
Alright, aside from symptoms of adrenal fatigue, are there any testing that can accurately diagnose for more refined treatment?
You bettcha!
Historically the most common way to test someones adrenals would be through a morning corisol blood draw reading. Where this is very accurate it is not the most convientent, you get pricked by a needle, and you are only testing one time during the day.
What would offer more accuracy would be testing 4 times a day, though having a blood draw this often would be really inconvienant. Healthy adrenals should have cortisol levels high enough to get someone up in the morning and gradually decrease during the day until bedtime where it is not too high to prevent someone from sleeping.
The best way to measure these levels would be via saliva testing. A saliva test allows you to accurately measure in the convience of your own home or office saliva hormone measurements of both dhea and cortisol in the morning, afternoon, early evening and at bedtime. This in turn gives a very complete profile of how a persons adrenals are working throughout the course of a day.
An interesting note, one study revealed that 80% of breast cancer patients had a corisol profile exactly the opposite of healthy levels, i.e.- low in the morning and gradually increasing to high at bedtime.
In our practice we begin with QRA (quantum relflex analysis) a form of kinesiology to get a reading on ones adrenals. This goes off of the strong or weak premise. If they are week, we test them on what nutrients and at what dose will make them stronger. The same goes if they are overactive.
For more information on adrenal fatigue we recommend a great book adrenal fatigue by Dr. James Wilson, and information on saliva testing, ZRT has a great website at www.salivatest.com.