Platt Wellness Blog — ADHD

By considering adrenaline as equally powerful as other hormones in daily life, adrenaline can be used to tweak the body’s chemistry to live a more comfortable lifestyle.

When I opened Dr. Platt's book (The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones), I found all of my life's agonies described on the pages in front of me. What makes me this way and how to fix it, all right there in black and white.

The brain uses more sugar per weight than any other part of the body. However, the creative brain requires much more sugar than a “normal” brain because it is more active. Because of this, the body continuously pours out adrenaline to raise sugar levels for the brain via a process called gluconeogenesis.

Dr. Platt explains that the catch-all health disturbance of adrenal fatigue is diagnosed by low salivary cortisol, which is actually indicative of adrenalin dominance.