#11 - AMA #2: the Nothingburger — results from Peter’s week-long fast between two weeks of nutritional ketosis — and answering questions on all things fasting
The Peter Attia Drive
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Is There a Dutch Test for Adrenal Fatigue?
The biggest thing that one should take away from really if you want us to understand the adrenal thing is people talk about this idea of adrenal fatigue. I've probably seen it twice in my life meaning patients whose adrenal glands are so dysfunctional that you actually have to give them steroids corticosteroids and we can measure how much adrenal output is being produced but to do that you can't look at cortisol because cortisol or its inactive sister cortisone represent a fraction of the total adrenal output. You have to instead look at cortisol metabolites like tetra hydro cortisol tetra hydro cortisone to truly measure that. There was no change in any supplement or medication that I took during
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