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Beyond the “Adrenal Fatigue” Label
A patient looks you in the eye and says, “I think my adrenals are shot.”
Do you order a cortisol panel? Recommend an adrenal supplement? Focus on stress? Or step back and ask what else could be driving the fatigue?
In this episode, I walk through Elena's case: a 43-year-old experiencing exhaustion on waking, an afternoon crash, wired nights, weight gain, irritability, changing menstrual cycles, and workouts that now leave her depleted. Her symptoms may sound like “adrenal fatigue,” but that label does not explain why her health changed or tell us what to do next.
We build her clinical…
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