Dr. Izabella Wentz

And there's published literature around it.

And same with like leaky gut 10 years ago.

It was like, it doesn't exist.

And then it's like, you go to PubMed and there's like intestinal permeability.

So basically, you know, you just have to use the right terminology, I think, for them to get it.

But it's, you could call it burnout.

You can call it adrenal fatigue.

I call it adrenal dysfunction.

because I feel like it rolls off the tongue a little bit easier than hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis dysfunction.

And it's a little bit more of an updated term to reflect the mechanism of what's going on as far as we understand it these days.

So it could be psychological stress.

So you're going through graduate school and you are waking up three times throughout the week at 5 a.m.

to go to do your exams.

That can be incredibly stressful.

You have a really annoying boss who is just a jerk.

That could be incredibly stressful.

You have a lot of family drama.

That's

um currently stressful and people people recognize these kind of stressors i know one of my books somebody wrote a review that was like i didn't need to do anything that she recommended i just quit my you know job and my whole life got better i didn't have you know autoimmunity anymore and i was like amazing like if you could recognize there's this like one thing in your life

that's causing you stress and get rid of it, that can be a big game changer.