Critical Health News...If you’re gaining weight, feeling dizzy when you stand up, craving salt or not falling asleep even though you’re tired, you may be dealing with a health challenge both alternative and mainstream practitioners call “Adrenal Fatigue” (AF). You would be in good company. Although it’s impossible to know the full impact and incidence of the crisis, according to Dr. Kerry Saucer writing in the book “Exhausted & Drained? It's NOT Just in Your Brain”, estimates are that millions of Americans suffer some degree of AF. The adrenal glands, two tiny pieces of tissue sitting atop the kidneys (renals) play an especially significant role in maintaining the movement of fluid through the circulatory system and can be thought of as a center for blood pressure monitoring and control. They accomplish this important job by constantly monitoring blood oxygen and carbon dioxide. When the former drops and the latter builds up, a hormone called “aldosterone” is secreted. In response, blood pressure (or the force of movement through the circulatory vessels) is adjusted, redirecting blood flow to the legs and arms and away from the skin, digestive and excretory systems. Aldosterone is our salt-retaining hormone. Excesses of aldosterone leads to high blood pressure and low potassium. Deficiencies of aldosterone, on the other hand, can lead to low blood pressure and a racing pulse, the desire to eat salt (salt-craving), dizziness or light-headedness when standing up, and heart palpitations. This can occur when chronic aldosterone secretion, in response to long-term stress, causes a depletion of this important mineral modifying hormone and may be an important cause of adrenal fatigue. According to Dr. Ted Friedman, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA Medical School, over half of his AF patients suffer from low levels of aldosterone. Read More "app.getresponse.com/click...zqvdZ&mc=FM&s=xatLnW&u=BN