Brandt Beal | Adrenal Fatigue: What It Is And Why You Should Care

Sure, we all know we have an endocrine system that regulates hormones in our body, but do we know what our adrenal glands do for our homeostasis and how critical they are to looking and feeling good?

The adrenal glands are two glands that sit on top of your kidneys that work harmoniously within your hormonal system, secreting hormones in response to messages sent from the brain. The glands are responsible for producing key hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline (which help regulate metabolism and helps your body respond to stress) and aldosterone (which helps control blood pressure) and small amounts of sex hormones like testosterone and estrogen. One of the most important hormones produced in the adrenal glands is Cortisol. Cortisol alone regulates how your body responds to stress and other triggers in the body. Additionally, these hormones regulate our physiology away from doing the maintenance and repair work that our bodies need. From these changes, the heart and lungs function more effectively. We become faster and stronger, more astute to our surroundings. Our blood even clots more quickly to stop bleeding from potential damage caused by the fight or flight signal.

 

However, these are acute actions. If they are never turned off, these changes create an accumulation of damage. This is what happens in Adrenal Fatigue. Poor lifestyle behaviors and constant excessive stress cause the adrenals to go into overdrive. Over time they lose their ability to properly regulate cortisol and either produce too much or too little of the key hormone. This can have a significant impact on how you look and feel.  Additionally, our bodies fail to perform the repair and maintenance functions that are required to keep cells calm and healthy. Poor Adrenal function, often called adrenal fatigue, lends itself to a cascading effect of health issues and symptoms. According to a 2001 study, as many as 80% of Americans are living with Adrenal fatigue.

If you suspect this is happening to your body, you might be experiencing:

●       Rapid Aging

●       Fatigue

●       Declining Mood

●       Irritability

●       Dry Skin

●       Food Cravings

●       Sleep Problems

●       High or Low Blood Sugar

●       Sexual Dysfunction

●       Hormonal Imbalances

Are you experiencing any of these abnormalities? Instead of wondering and guessing, when it comes to your health, knowing for sure is the most important. The body is a complex ecosystem, with every single person owning a unique genetic makeup.

INDUR

Prior to assume if you are a candidate for Adrenal fatigue or not, it’s best to get a big-picture perspective first – and that starts with our INDUR Transform and Ultimate testing packages. Our packages give you a comprehensive understanding of how your Adrenals are functioning.

When you take our test, we cover DHEA, Cortisol, Pregnenolone, Progesterone, Glucose, Estradiol, and Testosterone in the outcome. If these biomarkers aren’t above optimal (which is custom curated based on your individual body), we may recommend a follow-up home collection test that measures Cortisol production over a 24-hour period for a better Adrenal function perspective.

Our health advisors are trained experts in Adrenal function, having worked with thousands of clients through their Adrenal fatigue and back to optimal health.

How to Improve Your Adrenal Performance

After reviewing your adrenal related biomarkers and gaining insight into how your adrenal glands are functioning, you can take action.

The good news is that you can improve your adrenal function naturally. Keep in mind that adrenal fatigue doesn’t happen overnight, which means it also takes time and patience to correct the imbalance. In some cases, it can take years to set your adrenals back to optimal function.

Here are a few recommendations that INDUR Health Advisors give to improve adrenal function:

●       Implement an Adrenal-friendly diet

●       Go to sleep earlier (and more)

●       Leverage Adrenal-specific nutrients

●       Take adrenal friendly supplements

●       Increase your water intake

●       Eliminate stressors

●       Consider meditation or yoga

●       Take adaptogenic herbs

Adrenal function is a complex topic, one that is difficult to understand. Get your blood tested and determine if you are one of the many sufferings from adrenal fatigue and get a custom plan of action.

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Brandt Beal | Don’t Waste Your Money on Crappy Supplements

Supplements alone won’t make you healthy or build a great physique. Only exercise, smart lifestyle behaviors and nutrition do. And that will never change. Supplementation will never overshadow a healthy lifestyle, exercise, and diet.

That said, there are safe, natural substances that have been scientifically proven to boost strength, muscle endurance and growth, fat loss, general health and well-being, and more. But finding a supplement and supplement brand that you  According to Brandt Beal, CEO of INDUR,  “the supplement industry is notorious for doing anything to make a buck and doing very little to actually help improve someone's health.”  He are the issues he’s encountered with the supplement industry.

NO Oversight

In the US supplement companies operate with no regulatory oversight from the Food and Drug Administration. Companies can use any ingredient and dose they choose.  Virtually anyone can start a supplement company.  That’s scary considering you ingest supplements.

Marketing Gimmicks

Most supplements can’t deliver even one-tenth of the overblown, scientifically bankrupt promises made on their product labels, in their flashy, million-dollar ads, and by their squad of "sponsored athletes."

They’re in the business of selling sizzle, not steak, and their rallying cry is “there’s a sucker born every minute!”

 Poor Value

Supplement companies are notorious money-grubbers, and their products are typically marked up 6 to 12 times by the time they’re sold. That means you’re mostly paying for advertising, importer fees, retail markups, sales commissions, and wholesaler’s profits.

Lackluster Ingredients

Many of the ingredients in health and fitness supplements have never been scientifically proven to do much of anything, let alone deliver the benefits you’re paying for. Even worse, many popular supplement ingredients have even been proven ineffective.

Underdosing

Just having good ingredients isn’t enough -- you need to have good doses, too. And that gets really expensive, really fast. That’s why most supplement companies skimp and use small, inexpensive (and ineffective) doses, betting that you won’t know the difference.

Artificial Flavors, Sweeteners, and Junk

While artificial sweeteners, food dyes, and other chemicals commonly found in supplements may not be as dangerous as some people claim, there’s evidence that ingesting enough of them regularly can be harmful to your health.

How INDUR is Changing the Game

When Brandt Beal founded INDUR in 2017 he was determined to change the game. In a recent podcast this is what Brandt had to say. “Over-hyped, under-performing nutritional supplement and skincare products have been the standard. We have carefully researched, developed and selected products that are unlike anything you can find in your neighborhood nutrition store. You get exceptional value and quality since we cut out the middlemen and sell directly to you.

Having products that contain only proven ingredients that are backed by scientific studies at proven doses makes our job harder, and we don’t make nearly as much profit per bottle as our competitors, but it means our products represent a standard by which all others can be judged. And that matters a lot to us.

Brandt Beal | Nitric Oxide: Why You Should Care

At first glance, Nitric Oxide seems like something that should only concern you on a chemistry exam and not in everyday life.

But what you may not know AND why you should care, is that low Nitric Oxide (NO2) levels can be improved and the changes can have a dramatic effect on your body.

Low NO2 levels are often the result of cardiovascular problems such as poor artery health, a diet lacking in nitrate rich foods and low estrogen levels in both men and women. Estrogen plays an important role in endothelia function, so men with low testosterone (usually means low estrogen as well) and menopausal women with low estrogen are at risk for low NO2, even if you take supplements and eat a nitrate rich diet.

If some of these issues are hitting home or you have noticed low NO2 levels in your latest lab results, let’s talk about the benefits of increasing and then maintaining your N02.

Increasing low NO2 levels can help you in the following ways:

·         A Healthy Cardiovascular System

·         Improved Sex Life

·         Enhanced Endurance Performance

·         Increased Recovery Rates

·         Energy. Energy. Energy.

·         Stronger Muscles

It’s safe to say, we all want to improve our cardiovascular system, enjoy a better sex life and have more energy.  Those are no-brainers.  The question is, how do we do it?

Here are five ways that you can improve those low NO2 levels:

1.      Consume a Nitrate Rich Diet (What is that)

2.      Know Your Numbers. INDUR offers saliva test strips to help you monitor your levels.

3.      Exercise

4.      Optimize Estrogen Levels

5.      Utilize Supplements. INDUR offers Liposomal C, Grape Seed Extract and Nitro Benefits

Hopefully, this has given you some insight into the benefits of improving low NO2 levels. Our team here at Indur, is committed to helping you achieve great health.