Looking Beyond the Symptoms
Alyson Halpin Alyson Halpin

Looking Beyond the Symptoms

Looking Beyond the Symptoms…Why a whole-animal approach can become an important part of your pet's wellness journey

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When Survival Takes Priority
Alyson Halpin Alyson Halpin

When Survival Takes Priority

From a medical standpoint, "adrenal fatigue" is not an accepted medical diagnosis. While many people use the term to describe symptoms of exhaustion, brain fog, poor stress tolerance, and feeling "burned out," mainstream endocrinology generally attributes those symptoms to other conditions and to chronic stress to the adrenal glands becoming "fatigued." (This is different from Adrenal insufficiency, which is a real and serious medical disorder.)

This underlying story of chronic stress affecting hormones is very real. So I frame it in terms of stress physiology rather than adrenal fatigue.

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