March 23, 2015 Puzzle Piece
Opti-Adrenal is now in doctor's offices. Remember all OHS or Optimal Health Systems' products are pre-digested and are all whole organic foods. That means you get 300% more of the nutrients inside the cell. Glandulars are very hard to digest and without pre-digestion, you do not get good utilization. In formulating this product, we discovered glandulars have layer after layer that has to be broken down in several steps. This procedure takes several days in pure digestive enzymes to allow for complete break- down.
It is estimated that four out of every five visits to the doctor's office are stress-related? All stressors add together whether it is mental stress from a busy work day, physical stress from an intense training session, a slip or a fall, constantly being on the run, heavy metals, toxic halides, allergies/sensitivities or emotional stress from relationships with family, friends, insurance companies or the IRS. In this day and age, we are stressed out. Most of present day society is so stressed the digestive system can't break food down properly without pre-digestion, enzymes and proper probiotics. OHS pre-digested, organic products have resolved these issues beyond anything I have ever seen, tested and utilized.
Don't get the idea that stress is all bad. Stress is essential for overall health. It provides the mental and physical challenges required to stimulate positive adaptation by the body. One of the main keys to healthy adaptation is proper nutritional support. I have formulated four different adrenal products in my career of 44 years. All of them have worked well. However, nothing I have formulated before comes close to the same results as having all of the nutrients being pre-digested and in an organic whole foods form. It is important to have adequate amounts of raw nutrients to allow for maximum support for healing and repair. No other whole food product I have tested or utilized has anywhere near this much usable nutrition and synergistic value.
Why are our adrenals so important to the stress mechanism? Your adrenal glands are small triangular-shaped glands positioned on top of your kidneys that secrete specific hormones in response to stressful stimuli. The glands are made up of two parts: the inner medulla that produces the hormone adrenaline in response to stress and the outer cortex that produces cortisol. When adrenaline is produced, it triggers the breakdown (catabolism) of body-fat for fuel and acts by raising your blood pressure and heart rate to increase your alertness. Any of the stressors release adrenaline. This happens instantly by triggering the sympathetic fight or flight nervous system, which is a direct connection between your brain and adrenal glands.
Cortisol breaks down muscle tissue to provide fuel for your body. Like adrenaline, its job is to increase your blood sugar levels to provide energy to overcome the stressful event. Then the body should return to normal metabolism once the stress is removed. The problem is many of us feel stressed continually, which causes imbalance or even burnout of our adrenals through this flight or fight mechanism.
For some patients this causes over-production of adrenaline and cortisol, while for others the reverse can happen and they may feel sluggish or fatigued. It depends on which phase of adrenal decline a person is in. Adrenal stress also causes the thyroid to go underactive if excess cortisol is released. Many symptoms can be related to adrenal stress such as fatigue, emotional imbalance, decreased libido, poor sleep or inability to wake up, sugar cravings, dizziness, excessive sweating, poor weight balance, increased inflammation, poor memory, increased risk of anxiety or depression, reduced testosterone production, increased belly-fat, decreased lean muscle mass, poor blood sugar control or insulin resistance, and cognitive decline.
With all of this symptomatic expression, proper structural care, detoxification, removing as much stress as possible and Opti-Adrenal can be very restorative. If you start testing your patients, it is easy to predict 80-90 % of your patients may test positive for adrenal stress and most of them will have remarkable improvement with proper nutritional support.
Yours in Health and Wellness,
John W Brimhall, DC, FIAMA, DIBAK