5/19/2023 0 Comments Where's your adrenal gland![]() ![]() You can’t find its diagnosis and treatment described in medical textbooks or in peer-reviewed research papers. Why? The simple answer is that ‘adrenal fatigue’ is not an objective medical diagnosis associated with a ketogenic diet, nor is it one that can be made based upon a physical exam or by lab testing. However, a PubMed search of the same three words yields zero hits. If you google “adrenal fatigue ketogenic” at the time of this writing you get 371,000 hits. And the equally casual recommended treatment from internet nutrition gurus is to add back more carbs to your diet until these symptoms go away.īut here is an interesting puzzle. In past decades, these symptoms have been casually called the ‘Atkins- or keto-flu’. Typical symptoms attributed to diet-induced adrenal failure are fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and slow recovery after exercise. If we can believe what we read on the internet, ‘adrenal fatigue’ is a common problem associated with low carbohydrate, paleo, and ketogenic diets. Leveraging basic physiology to prevent 'keto-flu,' 'Atkins-flu,' and 'adrenal fatigue.'
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