Dr. Izabella Wentz

getting off of those foods helped me get rid of the acid reflux but then I still had the brain fog and the fatigue and somebody brought up adrenal fatigue and I was like well this I googled it and this was 10 plus years ago I'm like that doesn't exist it's like you know clearly this this reputable site that says it's not a thing so I just kind of went on and looked for other things and finally the 15th person brought up adrenal fatigue and I was like oh

Okay, well, maybe this is a thing because I have all the symptoms and I tried the interventions and I got better.

Holy cow, my brain works.

I'm waking up early in the morning.

I don't need 11 hours of sleep.

I'm sleeping eight to nine hours, waking up refreshed.

I don't have that anxiety.

I don't have the panic attacks.

I'm not hangry anymore.

I'm sleeping and it's a refreshing type of sleep.

And so that was over 10 years ago.

And that was part of my healing journey where I was like, wow,

I feel like myself again.

Turns out I'm actually a calm and relaxed and happy person.

I'm not like anxious and exhausted all the time, right?

Okay.

Usually people start off with that heightened stress response where they'll release a lot of cortisol throughout the day.

And typically I think of like, you know, rock stars in a hotel room, like you just have all this energy and you feel like you just drank a whole bunch of Red Bull and you're, you can't sleep, you're wired, you're like on the go, you're doing tons of things, everybody around you is...

too slow, not smart enough, like they just don't get it.

And so this is how people usually feel in the high cortisol state, very like irritable, and they're kind of jumpy, right?