Why Are Adrenals So Important in Fighting Disease and Cancer?

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Why are Adrenals so important in Fighting Disease and Cancer? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times Best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. John from Facebook asks, why are adrenals so important in fighting disease and cancer? Hey, it's J.J. and I've got my longtime pal and integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Leigh Erin Kenneally with me to answer this question. She runs the largest integrated medical clinic in North America and is visited by patients from all over the world. Right now she has got over 47,000 patients and she's been named one of the top 50 integrative doctors in the country. And her true passion is cancer. She wrote the Cancer Revolution and is a go to expert on integrative cancer treatments. We'll be right back. Stay with me.

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Well, first of all, let me explain your anatomy. Your adrenal glands sit on top of your kidneys like little hats, and they make over 100 hormones. They're your fight or flight. Unfortunately, in today's time, we are constantly bombarded with stress, which stresses our adrenals. We're either chased by our tiger or confronted by a tiger. So we all need to realize and help our adrenals. So our adrenal glands. How are adrenal glands affected? Well, stress from your job. Stress from anything that's going on in your personal life. Stress from eating sugar. Stress from eating, drinking too much caffeinated beverages because caffeinated beverages overstimulate the nervous system. Use of lots of sugar. Sugar raises your cortisol levels. Too much alcohol, too much stimulation, they deplete the kidney. The kidney is where the adrenals sit. Then also, if you have chronic infections like fungus, parasites, and viruses, they wear the adrenal glands down. If you have silver fillings, they will also put out toxins. So excessive exposure to toxicity and the toxins in the body will suppress the immune system. If you use lots of, you know, think about how you're cooking and how you're drinking. You've got to make sure the chlorine and fluorine, that's another toxin. Use of birth control pills and other hormone replacement. You want to make sure you're using biologically identical hormones. We're constantly exposed to nuclear power plants and EMFs. Those also are serious hormone disruptors. If you eat foods that are processed, like fried foods and processed foods, it's going to be a drain to the body. So all of these things are very, very important. So what kind of symptoms would you have if you have adrenal gland? Well, if you're constantly fatigued, if you wake up tired and you just can't make it through the day, if your sleep is erratic, sometimes you don't sleep enough, sleeping too much. If you crave salty foods, and if you just have a lack of, just depletion of energy and you're just exhausted, or let's say you go, go for exercise for 30 minutes to an hour and you just exhausted. You don't have a good sex strike. Your ability to handle stress. You get anxious and depressed really quick. When you're recovering from a flu or an injury or trauma, you don't recover quickly. You have a lot of anxiety and depression. You're just not enjoying life. Maybe you have hormonal symptoms like PMS or your menopause is terrible. And then if you miss a meal, you have you're you feel uneasy and jittery. Your your brain just doesn't work. You're less focused, you have memory problems, you're fuzzy. Maybe when you stand up you get lightheaded and your relationships are just everything irritates you. And also difficulty getting up in the morning is also you feel better after an evening meal. You just are not productive. You maybe have more allergies, you have restless legs in hand, you're anxious. Frequent illnesses, weight loss or weight gain is a problem. So you can see how the adrenal glands play such a vital function for every single system in the body, whether it's the respiratory system, the brain system, the lungs, the digestion, hormones, everything is seriously effective. So it's something we need to pay close attention to. Foreign.

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