Webinar 1. Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome (AFS) or Subclinical Adrenal Insufficiency.
1. What is Adrenal Fatigue (AF)?
2. Signs and symptoms of AF
3. The main adrenal hormones. Their role and functions in the body. The main anti-stress hormone Cortisol, its main effects under stress conditions.
4. Common causes of AF.
5. Stress as the leading trigger of AF. Types of stress. How does stress affect the body? The stress response from a hormonal perspective.
6. Stages of AF: alarm reaction, resistance reaction, adrenal exhaustion, failure.
7. The attitude of conventional medicine to the problem of AF
8. Diagnosis of AF. Laboratory tests. Serial salivary cortisol testing is the most objective assessment of adrenal function. Salivary cortisol: how to collect correctly and interpretation of results.
9. Additional diagnostics of AF.
10. Paradoxical reactions. Causes of paradoxical reactions in the final stages of AF.
11. Clinical signs of early stages of AF. Clinical signs of late stages of AF.
12. Women and adrenals. What is the ovarian-thyroid-adrenal axis. How do adrenal hormones affect thyroid function and how do sex hormones affect thyroid function and vice versa.
13. AF recovery protocol. Non-pharmacological and pharmacological methods of correction.