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<b> Three pillars of health-based Foundation for your overall <Santé / b>
Let's start with a discussion about your health in the context of the three main body systems:
- The hormone / immune system,
- The digestive system
- And the system detoxification.

These three systems are your pillars of health "because the health of your body other systems such as cardiovascular and nervous systems, depend on the strength of these three main systems.
The first pillar <b> True Functional health: your hormone and immune Systems> / b>
Any person wishing to assess the overall health using an approach of functional diagnostic medicine can begin with a simple, inexpensive saliva test that measures the functioning of the adrenal gland.
Because the adrenal glands are among the first organs to show signs of stress, a test of saliva 24 hours will measure how stress can affect your immune system by detecting changes in hormone production and balance. The saliva samples to submit to a functional laboratory are subjected to a sophisticated analysis to measure hormone levels of cortisol and DHEA. The levels of both hormones produced by the adrenal glands, decrease when your body is under stress.
saliva test measures the free, bioavailable hormone activity, which determines how hormones actually do their work in cells. In addition, the hormone Saliva reflects more accurately the effectiveness of your tissues and cells are agreeing to the hormones in your body and if you take through the skin (in creams, gels or patches) or by mouth. Because most blood tests do not measure the "bio-available" hormone levels, they underestimate significantly hormones are delivered topically and orally. the results of urine tests in the same limit. If you depend on levels hormones measured in blood and urine, you may have too much cortisol and DHEA in your system and do not know.
<b> causes Stress and adrenal "exhaustion of adrenaline / b>
Adrenal stress is a collection of signs and symptoms that occur when the adrenal glands do not function effectively. Most often associated with prolonged or intense stress, it can lead to adrenal exhaustion. The term "adrenal exhaustion" refers to fatigue is not relieved by sleep. With the depletion of adrenal you can not have any obvious signs of physical illness, but you live with a general feeling of illness, fatigue, or "gray" feelings. People with adrenal fatigue often have to use coffee, colas and other stimulants to go in the morning and keep going during the day.
This syndrome has been known by many other names in the past, as non-hypoadrenia Addison hypoadrenia subclinical, neurasthenia, neurasthenia adrenal, adrenal apathy and adrenal fatigue. Although the depletion of adrenal affects millions of people in the U.S. and in the world, conventional medicine does not yet recognize as a distinct syndrome. After all, this is not a readily identifiable entity like chickenpox or a mole on his arm.
Adrenal stress can also occur during or after acute infection or chronic, particularly those of the digestive and respiratory (eg, bacterial overgrowth of undigested food and baking and invasive fungal infections of the intestine, Candida antibodies, antigens food, celiac or gluten sensitive enteropathy, or the barrier function of the mucosa). Common respiratory infections, including influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia

What are the causes <b> adrenal exhaustion? </ B>
Adrenal results exhaustion when your adrenal glands can not adequately meet the demands of stress. The adrenal glands mobilize your body's response to all types of stress (whether physical, emotional or psychological processes) through hormones that regulate energy production and storage, heart rate, muscle tone, and others that allow you to cope with stress. Whether you have an emotional crisis as death of a loved one, a physical crisis such as major surgery, or any other type of repeated or constant stress in your life such as deadlines work, family or financial stress, the adrenals have to respond. If they do not want, or if their response is the lack of experience, you have some degree of adrenal exhaustion.
adrenal exhaustion can cause havoc in your life. In cases severe adrenal gland activity becomes so diminished that you can have trouble getting out of bed for more than a few hours a day. With each reduction in adrenal function, every organ and system in your body is more profoundly affected. Changes in your carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism, fluid balance, heart and cardiovascular system, and even libido. To offset declining adrenal hormones happens, many other changes occur at the biochemical and cellular. Fortunately, your body is doing its best to catch operating under the adrenals, but it does so at a price.

<b> Do you have symptoms of adrenal stress? </ B>
The symptoms most often adrenal stress and ultimately exhaustion of the adrenal, fatigue, depression, inability to lose weight, cravings for sweets, decreased libido, insomnia, poor memory, anxiety, PMS, weakened immune response, recurrent infections, unexplained nervousness or irritability, and joint or muscle pain. As these symptoms become obvious to you, inside your body begins to physiological changes.
To help you understand the importance of adrenal stress how your case may be, to This simple questionnaire to determine if you might be in a state of adrenal stress.
1. Do you have trouble falling asleep? Yes or No
2. Do you have trouble staying asleep? Yes or No
3. Do you feel tired upon waking in the morning? Yes or No
4. Have you wake up in the middle of the night? Yes or No
5. You often have nightmares? Yes or No
6. Do you feel tired much of the day? Yes or No
7. Do you suffer from depression? Yes or No 8. Do you suffer from pain? Yes or No
9. Do you feel mentally and emotionally stressed? Yes or No
10. Do you have sugar in the blood? Yes or No
11. Do you eat later than 1 hour of awakening? Yes or No
12. Do you eat less than 3 to 5 meals balanced throughout the day? Yes or No
13. Do you often skip meals? Yes or No
14. Do you need caffeine to get you in the morning? Yes or No
15. Do loud noises bother you? Yes or No
16. Have you caught easily? Yes or No
17. Do you suffer from allergies? Yes or No
18. Do you suffer recurrent or chronic allergies? Yes or No
19. Do you take thyroid hormone medication? Yes or No
20. Do you take hormones either by mouth or a gel or cream on the skin? Yes or No
22. Do you suffer from mental confusion? Yes or No
22. Do you suffer from chronic headaches? Yes or No
23. Do you suffer from frequent dizziness? Yes or No
24. Do you have a recent history of fainting? Yes or No
25. Do you easily upset? Yes or No
26. Do you take sleeping pills? Yes or No
27. Do you take antidepressants? Yes or No
28. Get less than 30 minutes 5 days a week? Yes or No
29. Do you feel badly after exercise? Yes or No
30. Do you often get a "second wind" (High energy) late in the night? Yes or No
31. Do you spend less than 20 minutes outside every day? Yes or No
32. Do you find that interferes sunlight your eyes? Yes or No
33. Do you have hypertension? Yes or No
If you answered "yes" to at least four of these questions you may be suffering from stress or exhaustion of adrenal and adrenal advantage to have your adrenals tested.
<b> Phase 1 of "adrenal exhaustion / b>
Whatever the source of stress, whether physical illness, the nutritional deficiencies, emotional stress or at home or the initial reaction of the work your body is the same: The adrenal glands make more of the hormones stress cortisol and DHEA.
This first stage is called adrenal exhaustion hyperadrenia, or over-activity of the adrenal glands. It is the attempt of the body and keep up with the demands imposed by stress. Normally, when the stress dissipates, the glands have the time to rehabilitate and prepare the next stressful event. However, if stress levels remain high due to problems such as chronic illness or deadline at work, your body will remain locked in step 1 of adrenal stress. If your levels of stress hormones remain elevated for extended period of time, the ability of your adrenal glands to recover and rebuild its production of cortisol and DHEA is decreased.
Another way of looking at this is to think about your supply of the adrenal hormones such as a savings account. If you still withdraw money savings and not replace it, eventually you will not be able to recover financially. Adrenal fatigue and other symptoms of stress are signs that the reserve of your body has been discovered and your adrenals are depleted. If the stress continues, your high cortisol and DHEA-down and you begin to enter Phase 2 of the exhaustion of the adrenals. A good example of a person experiencing ongoing stress can being a young mother and wife who has many responsibilities in a day. She has to get up earlier than anyone to prepare breakfast and lunch for children (and perhaps for her and her husband). It must be showered and dressed in time to drive children to school. When she finally gets them there, she went to work. At work, she has time and a boss to answer to, all the time, she watches the clock. Three hours and about it covers everything in the office, then headed out to pick up the children and go home. At home, it is time to prepare snacks, homework assistance, and prepare dinner. Six hours and her husband entered the house in anger because of a situation at work and she growls and children. After having a precipitate and aggravated dinner, she cleans the kitchen, help with children complete their homework, gives them their bath, folds into bed, and so on. Its own bed does not come soon enough. It falls on the bed and, before long, it is time to do it again. No wonder she feels exhausted. It did not have time to recover from the stress of the day before another day of the same comes to her.

<b> Phase 2 <Exhaustion of adrenaline / b>
You may be genetically strong adrenals and be able to maintain high levels of stress for many years. Or you can enter in step 2 faster when you are physically and emotionally drained, day after day. Finally, if you continue to experience excessive stress, you enter phase 2 of the exhaustion of the adrenals. As a transition period, it usually takes between 6 and 18 months to go from stage 1 to stage 2. Meanwhile, the stress response of your adrenal glands is gradually weakened and compromised. Under such chronic stress, adrenal glands term "burnout." At this stage, they become so tired, you can no longer maintain an adequate response stress. You fall asleep exhausted but can not sleep at night. You wake up in the morning exhausted and can not wait for your first cup of coffee, Double espresso. lunch and the food that you think will give you more energy than zombies leads to 2 hours. You get home late night and everything you want to do is go to sleep. If you continue this line of activity, you can proceed to Step 3 of exhaustion adrenal hypoadrenalism.

<b> Stage 3 "adrenal exhaustion / b>

In Step 3, Your adrenals have been exhausted their ability to produce cortisol and DHEA in sufficient quantities. Now it is becoming increasingly more difficult for your body to recover and restore the proper level of cortisol and DHEA to maintain a reasonable level of function in your body. Because cortisol keeps your mood and your energy levels, constant fatigue and depression to low base stand. As cortisol and DHEA levels decline, you have depressed mental function, poor memory and mental confusion. Without intervention at this stage of adrenal exhaustion, you could possibly experience adrenal insufficiency.

<b> adrenal exhaustion Can Affect Your sex hormones? </ B>
Because all of your hormones are linked by biochemical pathways, stress-induced cortisol and depletion of DHEA directly affects female hormones, progesterone and estrogen. The predominant male hormone, testosterone, is it also affected. Male hormonal symptoms such as mood swings, irritability, food cravings, sweet headaches, menstrual cramps, and infertility may be related to the inability of the adrenals to cope with stress. Symptoms of menopause sweats nocturnal hot flashes may also be related to the health of the adrenal glands. Many women feel an emotional rollercoaster with their female hormones, but few care providers understand the role of the adrenal glands play in the production of female hormones and balance.
Testosterone levels in men also suffer as a result of the low production of adrenal cortisol and DHEA. Because hormone levels sex as cortisol and lower DHEA levels drop, the sex drive for men and women decreases.

<b> Bone Loss, pain, and <Inflammation / B>
When cortisol levels are due to Dr. abnormal chronic stress and exhaustion of the adrenal, bone loss can occur as well. This is because too cortisol blocks absorption of minerals. If you take calcium supplements to help protect against bone loss and your cortisol is high, your body is not easy to absorb calcium. It may then precipitate or excretion of your bones and joints of your deposit. This can cause arthritis or deposits in blood vessels, it can increase the risk of hardening of the arteries. In addition, because cortisol is necessary to reduce
The following diagram illustrates the three stages of adrenal exhaustion. It shows that, with continued over-stimulation adrenal glands (constant stress), your body moves further into the various stages of adrenal exhaustion to Do you find yourself in the adrenal insufficiency.

<b> the role of digestive enzymes </ b>
Digestive enzymes are protein molecules found in the digestive tract. They break down components of food so they can be used by your body for energy and cell reproduction. The main production sites of digestive enzymes are the oral cavity (mouth), stomach and intestine hail. Enzymes are secreted by different glands: the salivary glands in the mouth, the glands of the stomach, pancreas, and glands the small intestine.
An inability to digest food proteins is an example of a deficiency of enzymes resulting poor diet. Without sufficient enzymes, your body can not break the foods you eat for use in the production of energy or other processes necessary for your body to sustain life.
If you have low levels of digestive enzymes, you will not be able to completely use the food you eat. All the food you do not digest because of the lack of enzymes become toxic to your body. These partially digested food provide fuel supply for harmful microorganisms such as yeast, bacteria and parasites. Health maintenance enzymes are abundant in the first and lightly cooked fruits and vegetables, and should be part of your daily food intake.
Digestive enzymes are present in many foods you eat fruit and raw vegetables, for example. When you cook fruit and vegetables, many of these enzymes are destroyed in the process of heating and help reduce the production of your own body digestive enzymes. When they decline, other enzymes needed for proper immune function and more than 4000 biochemical reactions can be drawn from the bloodstream through the digestive system. This leads to the depletion of enzyme is not directly related to digestion.
If you have exhausted your supply of digestive enzymes by poor eating habits, you can improve increasing your intake of fruits and raw vegetables or use of dietary supplements law. They will help you stay in an anabolic or state reconstruction. additional enzymes will help you digest protein, fats and carbohydrates that are essential to maintaining stable blood glucose and overall health. Consult your healthcare professional functional diagnostics on appropriate diets and supplements that will give your digestion back to health.
You see how enzymes are involved in every process in your body? Depleting your enzymes depletes you of your optimal health!

Dysbiosis <b> and digestive problems hidden </ b>

Dysbiosis is an imbalance in the bodies healthy or "good" bacteria that populate your digestive tract and intestine. A positive test may point to indican and dysbiosis as digestive enzyme deficiencies.
Dysbiosis can be caused by parasitic infections, bacterial overgrowth or yeast called invasive Candida. Hidden or subclinical inflammatory conditions may also interfere with digestion and cause a positive reading on the test indican. Subclinical refers to subtle problems that are often overlooked because they do not cause obvious symptoms until months or years later, eventually.
Several causes of chronic health problems such as digestive disorders are subclinical (hidden) and functional tests require sophisticated diagnostic to reveal them. Food intolerances are a common cause of inflammation hidden in the gastrointestinal tract. For example, some people are sensitive to grains that contain gluten molecules found in wheat, rye, barley and oats. Others react lactose present in dairy products or even sugar. These types of hidden food reactions are frequently observed in people with disabilities chronic digestive. Symptoms such as gas, bloating, nausea and stomach cramps are good examples of reactions caused by intolerance specific food.
A health practitioner is not trained to diagnose digestive problems can subtly suggest taking an antacid for treating the symptoms instead of seeking the cause of the disturbance, removing the substance, or recommend enzyme treatment. Salivary testing practices are now available to determine these types of food reactions. Parasitic infections are another example of gastrointestinal problems often undiagnosed, which can be identified by stool analysis done at home, then sent to a laboratory for analysis.

Those Nasty Parasites <b> </ b>
Parasitic infections are not only in the Third World. Many people think of parasites as a problem that was eliminated in the country industrialized world. But as more people travel to and from other countries, the world is shrinking. And with this trip, the parasites appear everywhere. Fortunately, recent improvements in methods of diagnostic tests to enable health professionals to identify high levels parasitic infections using a simple test stool away.
Parasites are usually acquired by self-inoculation, which means they are most often spread your hand to your mouth. This can occur from eating in restaurants where the staff has poor hygiene and you eat contaminated food, or salad bars and buffets where food is left sitting long enough to attract airborne bacteria and other customers. handling money, shaking hands with people, and using public toilets are so many ways that you can be exposed to potential parasitic infections. The key to reducing the risk of infection is washing your hands frequently, especially before and after you eat and use the toilet.
When more people are exposed to the same pathogen, or infectious organism, a person may be able to fight, while another may become infected. This was widely regarded with various bacterial organisms, including E. coli outbreaks. The bacterium E. coli, the most often found in products of beef and fresh produce, has caused serious digestive diseases and, in rare cases, been fatal. Although many people are exposed to the same contaminated meat or produce, some react more severely than others. This difference in sensitivity SIGA is a reflection of the mucosa of the first line of your body's immune defense discussed earlier.
When you have a strong mucosal immunity (normal SIGA), the lining of your digestive tract is able to defend against pathogens. Studies have shown that if you have reduced immunity mucous membranes, you will have a reduced ability to fight effectively against pathogens. For example, an autoimmune disease that you may have, it is difficult your body fight against bacteria or viruses that simple you are exposed to every day. It can leave you more likely to have a reaction severe common cold. In some cases this can lead to life-threatening pneumonia.

<b> detection of infectious organisms </ b>

To fight against the weakened immunity and parasitic infections, it is useful to know new technologies and tests that have been created to detect infectious microorganisms. A new test is called "test of the stool antigen. It is very effective for determining parasitic infections Acute and chronic previously undetected with the test methods obsolete. Bacterial overgrowth of undigested and yeast and invasive fungal infections of the intestine are also common causes of digestive stress. These too may require additional testing, as a culture of yeast, Candida antibodies, antigens food, gluten intolerance or celiac enteropathy, or mucosal barrier function
digestive tract infections are very common and can be clinical (symptomatic) or subclinical (without symptoms). Many patients who seek care from a health professional has diagnosed or more functional gastrointestinal (GI) infections. Some have active gastrointestinal symptoms, other have general complaints such as fatigue, aching body, headaches, cognitive problems, dizziness, brain fog, and / or general malaise.
Even more disturbing than having a primary gastrointestinal infection is the tendency of invading microorganisms to transform in different stages of their life cycle, and migrate to tissues and organs sometimes removed from the digestive tract. For example, Cryptosporidium parvum can sometimes be found in the lungs and the conjunctiva (white part) of the eyes and Helicobacter pylori has been localized in the oral cavity and even the prostate. These steps, including cysts can remain dormant in the tissues, and can be difficult to detect. Therefore it is extremely important screening of gastrointestinal infections using both microbiological and immunological tests.

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