Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Why Your Anxiety Might Be Your Adrenals

13 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) asserts that adrenal dysfunction can present as anxiety in some people and as depression in others, and argues that diagnostic labels are limited—often used to match medications—so clinicians should gather detailed history and look for patterns to identify root causes.

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Some people have adrenal dysfunction and it, and it shows up as anxiety. Some people, it shows up as depression. So it's kind of zooming out and seeing what are the patterns that are showing up and, and looking for those roots. So the diagnosis aren't necessarily helpful to me. Those diagnoses, when people come and say, I have been given this diagnosis, that diagnosis, they're really helpful just to match a pill to an ill. They're not. They don't help you to decide what the root is. And so it's getting, it's gathering that history and looking for patterns.