As you know, carbohydrates, protein, fat, these basic food groups that enter our body by the way of our daily meals is broken down by the body to generate energy. If you have adrenal fatigue, your body may not be able to tolerate carbohydrates.

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This is Dr. Lam, founder of DrLam.com. Today we are going to talk about the body's ability or inability to take carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates can further be broken down into two parts, one is simple carbohydrates and the second is complex carbohydrates such as vegetables high in fiber, that slows in its ability to release sugar. Simple carbohydrates are like pasta, rice, as well as bread or potatoes, that has a tendency to release sugar into our system by breaking down into simple carbohydrates with rapid speed.

The question is if you take complex carbohydrates, usually it takes longer to break down and simple carbohydrates can be faster, but in some people they can not tolerate simple carbohydrates; and in fact if you take in a carbohydrate like pasta the body tends to go into a mode that is almost like a food coma.

We call it the food coma because soon after you take the carbohydrate, like pasta, then the body releases insulin; and when the body releases the insulin that causes the sugar to be low, and if it has overshot its low mark then you can have a very lethargic type response. This usually lasts for an hour or two and then the sugar comes back to normal levels.

This type of carbohydrate intolerance is a sign of pre-diabetic and metabolic imbalances. So, it is an early sign that only the body can tell you. The body is trying to tell you that the sugar mechanism is not quite well in check, so if you cannot tolerate carbohydrates and you have lethargy or heart racing or anxiety or extreme fatigue after you take carbohydrate it is a sign that something is wrong.

Now, oftentimes even though your body may be metabolically deranged, and carbohydrates cause intolerance, the body is able to handle it. Well this is what happens when you are young, and that is why young people can take a lot of soda drinks, they can take a lot of cake, a lot of bread, nothing happens to them because their body is able to put out the required insulin.

Now as you get older, this problem becomes more significant if your body's pancreatic output starts to be compromised. Now on top of that, if you have adrenal fatigue, the cortisol becomes a problem because cortisol usually helps to regulate blood sugar in addition to insulin. So if your insulin is not working properly and your cortisol is supposed to kind of compensate for that and the cortisol is not compensating for the weakness in the pancreas, then they have both hit at the same time; meaning not only do you now have a pancreatic issue to deal with, but an adrenal issue to deal with; so both regulate sugar in different ways and if both are not working then the body's inability to tolerate carbohydrates is going to be very significant.

As I said earlier, some people's symptoms can be fatigue, some people anxiety, some people can be nausea, some people can even vomit, some people have brain fog, these are all very subtle signs, simple things, but if you don't pay attention you miss it; but if you pay attention and put the whole clinical picture together with the rest of the body then you will see a picture emerge.

It is a picture that the pancreas is working overly hard, the adrenals are also working hard, and both of them are having difficulty. That is why inability to tolerate carbohydrate is important, seldom recognized, and often passed over as an insignificant symptom. If you know the physiology you understand that this is an important sign of adrenal fatigue that you should pay attention to.

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