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Welcome to my new journey to share with you how to transform the WHOLE you from the inside out with The WHOLESTIC Method. My goal is to write more blogs and do more videos to help you become a WHOLE Athlete.
Today I want to share how the “PALS” impact your WHOLE health when they become dysfunctional or less than optimal from overuse. The “PALS” are your pancreas, adrenals, and liver. In Nutritional Therapy, we work on finding the root cause of your symptoms and finding out which nutrients your body is lacking with our functional evaluation. The WHOLESTIC Method eight elements are addressed in our 30-day individual transformation program in our Nutritional Therapy program.
Learn more about our The WHOLESTIC Method Nutritional Therapy Program here:
Nutritional Therapy examples on how blood sugar dysregulation and chronic stress can impact our hormone balance, immune system, and detoxification system:
Blood Sugar Regulation & Detoxification:
- Elevated cortisol- stresses the body and liver
- Liver- breaks down, recycles and neutralizes excess toxins including cortisol
- Undue stress on the liver with elevated cortisol and blood glucose- metabolizes glucose and puts into liver or muscles (stored as glycogen) or fat tissue (triglycerides) = stress to the liver to do this constantly/excessive the liver is too tired to do other jobs (over 500 duties!)
- Vitamin B6 is needed for all liver enzyme functions- contributes to liver detox pathways and getting toxins out of body
- Vitamin B2- riboflavin: production of cytochrome P450 phase one detox pathways contribute to other b vitamins
- Chronically high blood sugar causes build-up of free radicals and general catabolic state – body has to move to detoxify- robs nutrients the body needs to do natural housekeeping/detox process leading to nutrient deficiency and more free radicals the body can’t handle…using up antioxidants – creating more catabolism of tissues- can’t neutralize free radicals that are being created on daily basis (exercise!).
- Pancreas takes a hit if cortisol levels are elevated then the insulin receptors on the cells are not responding adequately to insulin (released by the pancreas to lower blood glucose levels- uptakes glucose into liver, muscle and fat cells). This leads to insulin resistance
- Insulin resistance adds extra strain on the pancreas as it now secrets more insulin in order to transport the glucose into the cells
Blood Sugar & Hormones:
- Any attempt to normalize hormonal imbalances is futile until blood sugar and adrenal issues are addressed.
- Blood sugar balance – glucose levels should be 70-90 fasting
- Take blood sugar fasted in morning then after meals then again 2 hours post meal for 30 days
Blood Sugar & Immune System:
- Every stress response dampens the immune response (priority is to adrenals to respond to stress)
- Chronic stress = chronic inflammation
- Chronic stress leads to chronic high blood sugar leads to reduces white blood cells which lower the immune system.
- Cortisol is the “emergency response” solution to a fire to treat inflammation …cortisol regulates inflammation and white blood cell count
- Cortisol increases the anti-immune and anti-inflammation response to deal with “emergency”
- Too high cortisol = from chronic stress lowers (adrenal fatigue) lymphocytes and other immune cells as well as lower secretory IgA
- Too low cortisol = from excessively high cortisol for too long of time leads to low/no cortisol being released to put out “fires” in emergency situations- as decreasing inflammation.
- Too low cortisol (adrenal exhaustion) – now the body doesn’t respond to inflammation requests from the immune system so lymphocytes circulate in excess as they are not being utilized by the adrenals cause inflammation to be unmanaged.
- Cortisol (hormone) is the manager in EMS as the “fire truck putting out a fire
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