You have gas, bloating, indigestion, constipation or diarrhea, fatigued and stressed. How are your gastrointestinal problems and your adrenals connected?

When there are so many possible lab tests and areas to work with on a patient; why have we started working on the adrenals first on most people? Well as you will see in the chart below we can impact so many areas such as metabolism, nervous and muscular healing, detoxification capacity, inflammation balance, endocrine function and nearly everybody's concern : weight and fat distribution.

The medical model for adrenal function is that it is totally normal or totally failed- there exists no in between. But in the real world the in between consists of a host of people condemned to multiple prescriptions of sometimes devastating consequence and being told there are no lifestyle changes you can make that will improve your condition at all.

 Mayoclinic.com says "Unproven remedies for so-called adrenal fatigue may leave you feeling sicker, while the real cause — such as depression or fibromyalgia — continues to take its toll." What is so funny about this statement is not that they feel adrenal fatigue is not real but that they then refer to conditions which are diagnosed without any tests to validate their existence. There are no tests for fibromyalgia except a collection of symptoms and an accumulation of recognized tender points. Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

Even if the salivary testing for adrenal fatigue was a farce (and I do no think that it is). And it was used to motivate a patient to make nutritional and lifestyle changes which resulted in healing of the body and mind. Would it not be better than saying - "here take this cancer drug for the rest of your life to suppress your immune system because nothing else will do any good " ?

Fortunately we get choices with our health and we can choose which story we wish to believe.

Our basic mission is helping people get healthy and stay healthy so they can have the best life possible. In addition to the amazing chiropractic work with Koren Specific Technique we have been studying functional medicine very hard for the last 2 years. Functional medicine does not imply that we practice  the profession of medicine but is a generic term for using lab testing to get a road map to help someone improve their health naturally. Within this last month we have been exposed to a model of functional medicine which we are adopting and really is as simple as 1,2,3.

How about a stronger immune system, better hormonal balance and emotional " compounded interest". This is what appreciation does for us and the following chart shows that vividly. There is also a simple daily exercise that will help you have a bit of Thanksgiving everyday.