Also, probably the most powerful supplement for adrenal support is Cortrex. It's the primary ingredient in most adrenal support cocktails. The best brands for this product are Thorne and Pure Encapsulations. To recover from my worst state, I would take Cortrex in the morning to fire up the adrenals, then take ashwaganda at noon and at night to calm things down. This method worked for me, but with much trial and error.

The information in these three links may help NT members to decide about the differences between adrenal insufficiency, which is a treatable medical condition with various causes and adrenal fatigue.

In my opinion adrenal fatigue is, at best, an unproven diagnosis. See the first link below.

Adrenal fatigue does not exist: a systematic review

Adrenal Insufficiency and Addison's Disease

Adrenal Fatigue Myth vs Fact | Hormone Health Network

Kiwi, why don't you elaborate on behalf of everybody, seen as this is a thread of people suffering from post concussive symptoms, including cognitive dysfunction and difficulty concentrating.

Let me start:

Here is a 1hr 10min webinar on treating adrenal fatigue:

(Acubalance Dan Kalish Fighting Adrenal Fatigue - YouTube)

Also, here is an article written by an MD on "Why Convential Medicin Rejects Adrenal Fatigue"

(Why Conventional Medicine won't tell the Truth about Adrenal Fatigue)

This key point in this article is the Disease Continuum, that is, there are many degrees to an illness. Conventional medicine validates adrenal insufficiency based on measurable test results. This article suggests that due to inadequate laboratory methods and/or detection limits, adrenal insufficiency is a static illness.

"Adrenal Fatigue is advanced by natural medicine professionals to denote a mild form of adrenal insufficiency where regular laboratory tests are normal but a person is symptomatic"

"Modern medical practice relies heavily on laboratory tests and other diagnostic procedures in mechanized fashion to confirm the presence or absence of disease. Any other approach is considered unscientific. The importance of taking a detailed history and recognizing the uniqueness of each body as the key foundation of arriving at any diagnosis is quickly becoming a lost art, replaced by the overreliance on laboratory tests. This works rather well for acute illness, because the clinical presentation is dramatic. For chronic conditions, this laboratory reliance model is less than ideal. Most, if not all, chronic conditions evolve through a sub-clinical state as mentioned above. In this state, symptoms are present but all relevant laboratory results are within normal limits."


To oversimplify the entire article, conventional medicine only recognizes the extreme end of the illness scale, which is adrenal insufficiency/addisons disease. It fails to recognized the build up to this point, which is known as adrenal fatigue.

Basically, if you wait until you've reached the point of adrenal insufficiency to show up, its far to late and you will need to undergo high risk hormone replacement. However, if you address adrenal fatigue, you can correct your problems and conventionally diagnosed symptoms through natural medicines, diet and lifestyle. Seems to me like its dangerous, ignorant and ill advised to ignore adrenal fatigue.

Yes, I understand that there is controversy about the adrenal fatigue subject. But I feel that this injury has greatly impacted my hormonal balancing. I don't know if adrenal fatigue should be considered "real" or not, but it seems to have applications to people that have had head injury and their systems were knocked out of whack.

Thanks Hains for the info. Is there a reason why you like the Dr. Kalish's methods vs. some of the other doctors on the internet that claim to treat adrenal fatigue?

Did you get his testing done?

As far as diet, I would be interested to have that PDF you mentioned. I feel like I eat very healthy - mostly vegetables, lean chicken and fish, low on carbs and processed food, no sugar, no caffeine, no alcohol. Perhaps my carb intake is not low enough.