Dr. Izabella Wentz

And then if this progresses long enough is where most of my clients that I've worked with end up with the chronic fatigue, with the Hashimoto's, with the autoimmune conditions is they'll have flatlined adrenals.

So these are people that are waking up tired.

And they're going to bed tired.

And they're sleeping like I was, you know, 11, 12 hours a night in some cases and feeling unrefreshed.

And they're like, well, people tell me to exercise.

but I feel worse when I exercise.

People tell me to fast, but if I fast, I feel awful.

If I, you know, if I get more sleep, I just, you know, I'll try to sleep for 12 hours and I'm still tired.

I sleep less and I'm still tired.

And they are just, you know, they're really stuck in that state where their body, just every little stressor can be so overwhelming.

Like even things, positive stressors can be too much for them.

I love recommending tests.

I do a lot of them myself.

And if I had my way, I would have everybody do various functional medicine tests.

The adrenal saliva test can be incredibly helpful for figuring out what your cortisol pattern looks like.

Then there's also the Dutch profile, which goes a little bit deeper.

It's a urine test and it can

You could look at how your body metabolizes the various stress hormones and how much it's putting out.

The tricky part is I've been recommending this for 10 years now.

And then people will say, I went to my doctor and I asked my doctor to test my adrenals.