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Adrenal Stress Test (saliva)

Stress can have a profound effect on your emotional and physical well-being and causing symptoms including weight gain, depression, skin issues, digestive problems and many more. Continued imbalance of stress hormones can wear your body down, triggering chronic fatigue.

What Causes Stress?

Factors that may contribute to stress include negative dietary and lifestyle habits (including over-consumption of stimulants such as sugar and caffeine), excessive exercise, injury, bereavement, marriage, divorce, debt, attitudes such as perfectionism, obsessive-compulsive behaviours, shyness, insecurity and also perhaps isolation and loneliness.

Millions of years ago, our bodies were designed to react quickly to danger, just like wild animals, on constant alert to fight or run if threatened. Known as the ‘fight-or-flight response’, this is crucial for the survival of all animals – including humans.

The fight-or-flight response is incredibly clever and thoroughly efficient, providing everything your body needs to react swiftly in dangerous situations. Once the threat is out of the way (you’ve either won the battle or escaped the attacker), the adrenal glands stop pumping out hormones and your body returns to normal.

The only problem is that evolution is lagging a little behind modern-day life. These days, many of us live under chronic stress but this stress comes from deadlines, traffic jams or children having tantrums, rather than from spear-wielding attackers or sabre-tooth tigers. The body can’t distinguish between late trains, missed appointments, spiralling debt, family disputes and the truly life-threatening stress that it is geared up to challenge. So it reacts in exactly the same as way as it has always done – fight or flight.

Because stress as we know it today is almost continuous and comes without the natural release that either fighting or fleeing might provide, its effect on the body can be extreme, given that reactions designed to last for a five- to ten-minute period are operating for hours or days on end.

The importance of balanced stress hormones

  • Maintain emotional and physical energy
  • Strengthen your immune system against colds, coughs, flu and possibly more
  • serious illness
  • Improve metabolism, help reduce fat storage and control appetite
  • Slow down the aging process, decrease PMS and menstrual difficulties
  • Help with mood swings
  • Prevent osteoporosis
  • Maintain healthy blood pressure levels and lower LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol levels

What this test measures:

Your adrenals are responsible for the production of major stress hormones, cortisol and DHEA. These hormones are not released constantly throughout the day but are secreted in a cycle called the circadian rhythm, with the highest values being in the morning and the lowest at night. This test shows your pattern of cortisol over the day.

Who should take this test?

Anyone with any of the following symptoms should take this test:

  • PMS or periods have stopped before they should have
  • Cravings, weight gain or loss, fat around the middle, hungry all the time
  • Increased number of minor infections and viruses (e.g. thrush, cystitis, colds, flu)
  • Poor concentration and memory, insomnia, depression, loss of libido
  • Headaches, moods swings, anxiety, panic attacks, nervousness and/or irritability
  • Chronic fatigue, low energy
  • Digestive disturbances (diarrhoea, constipation, bloating, stomach aches/pains)
  • Increased sensitivity to food, alcohol intolerance
  • Skin problems (eczema, psoriasis)
  • High blood pressure
  • Low libido

Test ProcedureWe will organise for the lab to send you the test kit

The instructions are detailed so please read carefully before proceeding.

Six saliva samples are collected over one day at specific times which need to be adhered to. Please perform the test on a day when you will be available at these times to produce the samples.

The test results will be returned to your nutritionist.

The test results will be interpreted by your nutritionist at the consultation and then a personalised diet and supplement programme will be tailored to your needs.

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Our Testimonials

I have been looking after my health with help from Dr. Glenville for many years. However, I would point out that there appears to be a dearth of information for the over 60′s. I would like to continue learning with Dr. Glenville as I have discovered that there is indeed life after the menopause.Marie
Just sending you this note of thanks. After a hair mineral test for both of us, you devised an eating plan of vitamins and minerals that we needed. Since then we had ICSI treatment and had a little girl. After her birth, I followed your programme again because I wanted another baby. This time we conceived naturally. So thank you very much for all your help. We would not be a family without your help. I am positive that with your help ICSI worked for us the first time, so thank you for that too. Susan
I have not felt healthy in almost 20 years. I am healthier, no longer hungry all the time, have lots of energy and feel more optimistic than I have in years. I feel like a new woman, I have lost inches of weight and discovered a love of exercise all through your teachings. Thank you so much. Mary
I would just like to let you know that I have been following the ‘lose your belly’ plan for two weeks now with great success. Not only have I lost weight and my flattened my belly, but I notice a big difference in my skin and hair. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.Irene
I am the lady with high FSH (50+, age 41) who had a baby following your diet, after being told I had a less than 1 per cent chance of conceiving. My husband and I want to pass on our heartfelt thanks to you for helping to bring our baby son into the world. We really cannot thank you enough for the tremendous difference you have made to our lives in helping this ‘high FSH’ lady have a baby, so long hoped for.Heather

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