HPA Axis – Foundations of Neuroscience

Feeling burned out? HPA axis dysfunction is often the real reason. When your stress response system is out of rhythm, you can’t sleep, your energy tanks, your mood swings, and your body holds onto weight. It’s not that your adrenal glands fail — it’s that the entire brain-adrenal communication system is out of sync. Hi, I’m Phil, co-founder of Silver Fern™. Like many of you, I’ve lived through burnout. Tiffany (my wife) and I run a couple of businesses, raise 5 kids, live on a tight budget, and

HPA Axis dysfunction is a common problem I see in almost all of my patients - I take this as a sign our culture needs to desperately slow down! Here are 5 causes of HPA Axis dysfunction (adrenal fatigue): 1. Diets high in sugar and ultra-processed food! This puts constant stress on our body leading to inflammation across all systems - especially the gut! When the body perceives this stress, the HPA axis is affected! 2. Extreme fasting! We all have seen someone do it or tried it ourselves...and a