A patient on thyroid medication still feels exhausted. McCall McPherson explains that prolonged thyroid problems overtax the adrenal glands, which then can't recover with thyroid treatment alone. He recommends AdrenaSol, a supplement with bovine adrenal extract, to let your adrenals rest and repair while thyroid medication works.
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Energy is one of those things I feel like we get constant questions around. Coming in as the patient, even as a Hashi Girl here, where the energy was so low. Obviously, when you start working with modern thyroid clinicians and you get on the correct medication, it's a game changer. But there's those bouts of energy that we are always battling. And you and I talk about it all the time. We're like, we don't go anywhere without this supplement. You've had me on it for years.
Right. I absolutely do. So. I always tell my patients there's different cogwheels for energy production in our body, and as much as I wish that people could come in, we could simply fix their thyroid and send them on their way. We could do that in our sleep. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. We have multiple energy systems that are often worn down by the time people come to see us after years and years of thyroid dysfunction. A couple of the most common: number one is your adrenals. So your adrenal glands pump out stress hormones—cortisol, epinephrine—that could be because you're emotionally stressed. on your drive to work, or you're going through some difficult things in your personal life. But it can also be you're working out a lot, or it can be low thyroid function. And when you have low thyroid function, your adrenals compensate and they upregulate the production of these hormones. They try to do both systems' work. And I always tell people, look, like, anytime you're working, overworking, you're using, abusing, overusing a system, eventually it gets tired, right? And a lot of the symptoms Of low adrenal function mimic hypothyroidism. They're fatigue, brain fog, loss of motivation, loss of stress resilience, physical, emotional, whatever it is, craving salty snacky foods to get you through your day. And even if we fix your thyroid, the vast majority of people, at least that are in Modern Thyroid Clinic, have persistent thyroid symptoms until their adrenals are fixed. And so AdrenaSol is our solution for that. It has micronutrients and minerals and things that nourish your adrenals, that help them restore, repair, so that over time their function gets better and better. But it also does have some cow adrenal glands in it, and cow adrenal gland essentially takes the workload off of your adrenals so that they don't have to work and overwork. They can function and repair, and it supplies your body with the hormones and things it needs to feel like it has good adrenal function, the same way that we give you Thyroid hormones to make you feel like you don't have a thyroid issue and address the confounding issues that develop because of that. So, Adrenasol is life-changing. Honestly, I was talking to one of my patients yesterday about it, and she's like, but is it really that life-changing? I'm like, you have no idea. When your adrenals are wearing you down, you don't get to experience the true manifestation of an improved thyroid function. So when both are appropriately addressed, it synergistically amplifies the effects and creates More energy, more clarity, more endurance, more motivation, more oomph, better stress resilience. It has a lot of other health benefits.
