Dr. Izabella Wentz

But there's also like positive stressors.

So you have a beautiful baby and that beautiful baby doesn't sleep, right?

So I know that was a stressor for me five years ago when I got into adrenal,

um dysfunction another time in my life um you got married and you moved across the country or you got a job promotion these are positive things in your life but but they can be a bit overwhelming um then there are kind of like hidden psychological stressors so maybe you had a history of um adverse childhood events something you happened in your childhood that was traumatic

you probably don't even have a recollection of it, but, um, or maybe you do, but it has shifted your, um, your HPA axis to be more, um, you know, more on high alert and kind of put you in that survival mode.

And you've got, you've got that on your plate.

So that could be something that people aren't necessarily aware of because it's not present day stress.

Their present life might be

perfectly peaceful then we think about like the physiological stressors so I'm always like what is in your life right now that could be causing your ancient genes to think that you're under stress let's like unpack modern life if you are not sleeping a lot if you are skipping meals if you are exercising over exercising right if you're eating foods that are inflammatory to you

Your caveman or cavewoman brain is going to say, holy cow, we must be in a war, in a famine, or being chased by a herd of bears or something.

Because why on earth would you be eating stuff that's inflammatory?

Why would you be starving yourself?

You must be in a famine.

So let me...

Let me help you out, you know, from an evolutionary perspective and let me shift you into this adrenal fatigue state so that we can conserve your energy, we can conserve your metabolism.

So these are some of the modern day stressors and sleep deprivation is probably the fastest way to get into this adrenal dysfunction state.

Oh my gosh, absolutely.

One of the key stressors is blood sugar imbalances.

So just eating too many carbs and too much sugar and then not enough protein and fat, this is a really, really big stressor for many people and being micronutrient deficient.

That's actually one of the key transformations as we focus on blood sugar balance and people will say,