Helps the Body Deal With Stress

The oldest form of hormone treatment
The adrenal glands are organs that lie at the top of the kidneys and are responsible for producing hormones that are associated with the body's fight-or-flight response. Animal glandular extracts have long been believed to enhance the functions of the same glands in humans.

Don't let stress get you down
The adrenals play a key role in our ability to manage stress. The general response to stress is divided into three parts: alarm reactions where the body prepares for fight/flight, resistance after the continued effects of a stressor, and exhaustion. This last step can result in stress-linked conditions such as ulcers, autoimmune disease and hypertension. Shrinking adrenal glands are a common side-effect of continual stress, and lead to reduced resistance to infections and allergies. Therefore optimal health depends on proper adrenal function.

Keep your hormones up
Adrenal is an abundantly rich source of enzymes, polypeptides, amino acids and other nutrients that act as hormone precursors to support the body's ability to adapt to stress.

The adrenal glands are a pair of half moon shaped organs that lie at the top of the kidneys. There are two distinctive parts, the adrenal medulla and the adrenal cortex. The adrenal medulla secretes the hormones norepinephrine and epinephrine, which are chiefly responsible for the fight-flight- fright response. The adrenal cortex secretes three different types of hormones: mineralocorticoids (e.g. aldosterone-effects sodium and potassium); glucocorticoids (e.g. cortisol and cortisone, which affect the metabolism of glucose as well as reducing inflammation and allergenic response); and 17-ketosteroids (which include the sex hormones and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)).

The adrenals play a key role in adaptation to stress. The general adaptive response is divided into three stages:
1. Alarm reactions, where the physiological changes prepare the body for fight/flight response (includes increased heart rate, breathing, blood glucose levels etc.).
2. Resistance, the continued effect of a stressor results in increased activity of the corticosteroids to increase the resistance of the body.
3. Exhaustion that represents the collapse of the function resulting in loss of potassium and cortisone.

The outcome of exhaustion results in conditions linked to stress, e.g. ulcers, cancers, autoimmune disease, hypertension. Pathologically, atrophying (shrinking) of adrenal glands is a common side- effect of continual stress, leading to reduced resistance to infections and allergies. Optimal health depends on the proper adrenal function.
The use of oral adrenal therapy was based on the work of the French clinician Emile Sergent in 1898. Harrower reviewed the early use of the adrenals in 1939. Contrary to the general misconception that the body does not absorb large polypeptides and proteins, there is ample evidence that not only do polypeptides and enzymes of very large molecular weight (albumin, lactoferrin, ferritin) get absorbed, but that these peptides are absorbed intact into the blood stream following oral ingestion.

Polypeptides
Glandular products provide important molecules (including enzymes, amino acids and polypeptides) that exert beneficial hormone or hormone-like actions.

• Alleviates stress-related disorders
• Supports normal hormone production
• Reduces inflammation and allergies
• Regulates mineral balance