Adrenal and thyroid hormones have an accountability partner relationship. Both settle down with each other. When one goes up other has to go down.
Primary function of our adrenal gland is to enable our body to adapt. These little pea sized glands produce norepinephrine also called adrenaline, cortisol and DHEA, when your body is in danger. They prepare your body for fight or flight but our modern lifestyle keeps us stressful all day. Your adrenals take this as a treat, although you aren’t in any real danger.
When you continue to push your fatigued bodies, your adrenal glands get overwhelmed which leads to adrenal fatigue. And now see what happens when your adrenal gland is so stressed or in a fatigued situation, it cannot produce cortisol. It sends an enzyme to progesterone to convert it into cortisol. So there is now a rise in cortisol level.
So what happens next? When your cortisol level goes up, your estrogen also goes up but now you don’t have enough progesterone to balance estrogen.
You see the relationship here, how adrenal fatigue gets you into an estrogen dominant situation. When estrogen levels are higher our thyroid hormones goes down as excess estrogen forces the liver to produce more of a hormone called “Thyroxine Binding Globulin (TBG).” As its name implies, TBG binds to thyroid hormone in the body, reducing the amount of free/usable thyroid hormone in the body.
So you see how your burnt out adrenals affect your thyroid. You can fix this chaos now – get in touch with me.
