What Is Adrenal Fatigue?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
9. Why Doesn’t the Medical Community Think Adrenal Fatigue Is Real?
Most mainstream health professionals, including professional members of the Endocrine Society, do not recognize adrenal fatigue as an actual medical condition. A number of scientific studies have discovered no correlation between perceived feelings of fatigue and measured levels of adrenal function. For example, one study found no difference between salivary cortisol levels of patients who felt fatigued and those who did not.
Doctors may discourage patients from pursuing treatment for adrenal fatigue for a variety of other reasons. Some fear it to be a misdiagnosis of an underlying, more serious illness causing similar symptoms. Others simply may never have heard of it, since it is not something they learned in medical school.
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