The adrenal glands greatly affect the quality of life that each individual wants to and can experience. This is why you should always seek to strengthen all the cells/glands in your body. Your body is your transportation while you are on this journey in the physical world. Disease and weakness locks you away from life, while health and vitality make you more a part of it. Enjoy your adventure into health. It’s more rewarding than you can imagine.

Let’s look at some other problems that can arise when the adrenal glands are weak and the diet is predominately acid forming.

FEMALE IMBALANCES

Women are especially hard hit in the area of adrenal weakness. One of the first indicators of this is low blood pressure. With underactive adrenal glands, blood pressure starts out below 118 systolic and eventually can swing the other way, creating high blood pressure, or it can keep getting lower.

Another indicator of adrenal weakness for women will be trouble with the menstruation cycle. In this situation a female is likely to begin her menstruation early in life, at anywhere from three- to twelve-years-old. (Yes, I have known of three-year-old females menstruating.) She often has excessive bleeding and her monthly cycle is not on time. The opposite can also happen: women having sparse and infrequent periods. However, this is not as common.

Adrenal weakness in women can also manifest as fertility problems, lack of sex drive, frigidity, and vaginal dryness. If the adrenal weakness continues, she can develop ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, fibrocystic issues, a-typical cells, fibromyalgia, and breast, ovarian, cervical and/or uterine cancers.

The main issue, of course, is estrogen. Without proper progesterone and other anti-inflammatory steroids a woman becomes estrogen dominant. The estrogen levels in her body, especially ovarian estrogen, dominate without the counterbalance of progesterone. Most estrogens are acidic, especially ovarian estrogen, which breaks down the inner lining of the uterus each month. Of course progesterone stops this, and heals the inflamed tissue while repairing the damaged cells. Because of estrogen’s ability to break down the uterine lining, birth control pills are made from estrogen. Estrogen stimulates a woman’s natural menstruation cycle. With all this in mind, ask yourself: “Why does a medical doctor give a woman more estrogen after removing the uterus?” Also, with the above information, would estrogen build up bones or tear bones down? Yes, tear down. This is why estrogen replacement programs usually make the problems much worse.

MALE IMBALANCES

Now let’s take a look at the male issues, which spring from the same adrenal weaknesses. These imbalances would be prostatitis and prostate cancer. The same reasons apply: acid-type hormones like testosterone and androsterone dominate without proper steroids (like progesterone) counterbalancing the inflammation caused by these acidic compounds or hormones.

A lot of good romance is lost because of glandular weaknesses. This would include many other conditions that plague men, including erection problems, impotency, and premature ejaculation. Health brings it all back.

PROBLEMS COMMON TO BOTH

In both males and females with lower steroid production, from underactive adrenal glands, we also find lower back and pelvic weakness and deterioration. This also leads into sciatica and other lower extremity nerve pains, especially when the thyroid is involved. Since the thyroid/parathyroid affects calcium utilization, we begin to see bone loss, fingernail problems, and connective tissue issues, including varicose veins, hemorrhoids, macular degeneration, hernias, heart arrhythmias and aneurysms.

The adrenal glands also create neurotransmitters. When the adrenal

glands are weak, the nervous system can also be involved, causing anxieties, shyness, feelings of inadequacy, panic attacks, asthma, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, or any other neurotransmitter weaknesses, including blood pressure irregularities. It is shocking to see the huge number of reflex conditions that result from just one pair of glands that become hypoactive.

Add to this the fact that most people have thyroid and/or pituitary weaknesses as well, and the list of diseases that can result gets longer and longer. There is nothing mysterious about diseases when you begin to look at the overall picture.