From:
Guy R. Schenker, D.C.
July, 1994


Dear Doctor,

You have two questions that desperately need answers. Since the NUTRI-SPEC staff has these questions called in repeatedly, and since I know that for every one of you that asks a question there are at least ten of you that have the same question but are reluctant to ask -- it is clear that these are major concerns of yours. To make matters worse, most of you who have asked the questions have attempted to find an answer from...

SOURCES OUTSIDE OF NUTRI-SPEC
WHICH HAVE LEAD YOU HOPELESSLY ASTRAY.

It is high time to get you back on track.

Question #1 generally goes something like this:

"WITH NUTRI-SPEC I AM DOING A GREAT JOB OF FINDING AND CORRECTING MY PATIENTS' METABOLIC IMBALANCES. BUT – A LOT OF MY PATIENTS ALSO HAVE WEAK ADRENALS. WHAT ELSE SHOULD I GIVE THEM ALONG WITH NUTRI-SPEC TO BUILD THEM UP?"


Question #2 is even more commonly asked:

"I LOVE HOW MY NUTRI-SPEC SYSTEM GIVES ME A WAY TO INDIVIDUALIZE EACH OF MY PATIENT'S NUTRITION PROGRAM WITH COMPLETELY OBJECTIVE, SCIENTIFIC TESTS. BUT -- I'VE BEEN READING SO MUCH ABOUT ANTI-OXIDANTS AND HOW THEY ARE SO IMPORTANT IN PROTECTING US FROM DEGENERATIVE DISEASE & PREMATURE AGING ASSOCIATED WITH OXIDATIVE FREE RADICAL DAMAGE. SHOULDN'T I BE GIVING MY PATIENTS A HIGH-POTENCY ANTI-OXIDANT ALONG WITH NUTRI-SPEC?"

The answers to these questions will surprise and please you.


"WEAK ADRENALS"

I can tell you everything you need to know about weak adrenals in a single word:

NOTHING.

"What?" You say. "Everyone knows how important the adrenals are in a person's reaction to stress. We have to have a way to treat the adrenals."

You are right; and you do. You are right, the adrenals are vitally important in the reaction to stress. And, you do have the most effective (the only effective) way to treat adrenal function nutritionally. You see,

TREATMENT OF THE ADRENALS IS ALREADY BUILT IN
TO YOUR NUTRI-SPEC SYSTEM.

Adrenal function is intimately associated with the oscillatory diphasic action of most of your NUTRI-SPEC balance systems. In other words, adrenal function is not something that occurs independently of the five fundamental NUTRI-SPEC imbalances --

THE ADRENALS ARE PART OF MAINTAINING
NORMAL FUNDAMENTAL BALANCE.

Thus, each time you find an imbalance in your patient you are actually finding evidence of some degree of adrenal function breakdown. When you correct you patient's imbalances (with proper diet and NUTRI-SPEC supplements) you are correcting all the breakdowns in metabolic function associated with that imbalance -- including adrenal function.

It is essential that you understand that...

ADRENAL DYSFUNCTION IS ALMOST NEVER A PRIMARY PROBLEM.

It is virtually always secondary to one or more underlying NUTRI-SPEC fundamental imbalances. What does the term "adrenal insufficiency" actually mean? It means that the adrenal activity of which that patient is capable is inadequate or insufficient to counteract the harmful effects of the underlying metabolic imbalances.

What does the term "adrenal stress" actually mean? To answer that, ask yourself another question -- adrenal stress in response to what? The stressed adrenal is an adrenal that is oversensitive or overreactive. It shifts into high gear at the slightest provocation. In fact, its activity may be far in excess of what is required to meet the stress demands of the moment. But what are these stressful demands that provoke this adrenal reaction? It is the stress of the underlying fundamental NUTRI-SPEC imbalances.

So, whether you are concerned with "adrenal insufficiency," or "adrenal stress," or even "adrenal exhaustion" (which is a stressed adrenal that has fought so hard for so long that it has now become an insufficient adrenal -- no longer capable of consistently mounting a defense upon stress demand) -- you are actually dealing with your patient's inability to maintain metabolic balance via the five NUTRI-SPEC fundamental balances. The adrenal involvement in any given patient may be either cause or effect. In other words, the adrenal may be one of the causes of the NUTRI-SPEC imbalances you find in a patient, or, the adrenal involvement may be an effect, resulting from the demand placed on homeostasis by the NUTRI-SPEC imbalances. In either case...

THE ANSWER TO THE ADRENAL PROBLEM IS THE DIET AND
SUPPLEMENTS ESSENTIAL TO RESTORE METABOLIC BALANCE...

per your NUTRI-SPEC test procedures.

Maintenance of anaerobic/dysaerobic balance is intimately associated with normal adrenal function. The adrenal medulla has anti-anaerobic activity. Anything done therapeutically for an anaerobic imbalance will also benefit an adrenal medulla insufficiency. The adrenal cortex, on the other hand, is anti-dysaerobic. This means that your anaerobic patients may have an adrenal medulla insufficiency &/or an adrenal cortex stress. Pause to consider that for a moment.

Similarly, your dysaerobic patients will likely have an adrenal cortex insufficiency &/or an adrenal medulla stress. One part of the adrenal can be insufficient while the other is over-reactive? Yes, it happens all the time.

YOU CAN BEGIN TO SENSE THE SHEAR IDIOCY OF THE DOCTORS
WHO LABEL FATIGUED, STRESSED OUT PATIENTS AS "WEAK
ADRENALS."

Worse than a gross over-simplification, this term reflects a complete ignorance of the role adrenal hormones play in maintaining fundamental balance.

All adrenal cortex hormones are synthesized from cholesterol (a sterol fat which has anti-dysaerobic activity.) Via its anti-dysaerobic activity the adrenal cortex is involved in both the immediate and prolonged immunological defense responses. Fatty acids of the immediate (anti-anaerobic) immune response are released from adrenal storage when needed. Sterol hormones (with anti-fatty acid, or anti-anaerobic activity) of the prolonged immune response are largely sterols, also released from the adrenals. So you see, adrenal fatty acid liberation alternates with the liberation of adrenal cortex steroid and corticosteroid hormones in the diphasic oscillation characteristic of homeostasis.

Glucocorticoids are anti-dysaerobic at the tissue level. They counteract the toxicity of excess or abnormal fatty acids. But -- glucocorticoids can also play an anti-anaerobic role in that they are extremely catabolic as they antagonize the anabolism of insulin and pituitary growth hormone.

Glucocorticoids suppress thyroid function and growth hormone resulting in hypoglycemia. But -- glucocorticoid permissive action is required before epinephrine and glucagon can stimulate liver release of glycogen. Therefore, both high and low glucocorticoids can cause hypoglycemia.

Excess corticoids result in low lymphocytes, low eosinophils, atrophy of lymphoid tissues, low antibody formation, and low immunity to infection. Notice that this low immunity is due to excess adrenal activity, not weak adrenals.

What you have just read in the last 4 paragraphs is a perfect example of what you don't need to know about adrenal function. You don't need to know it because your NUTRI-SPEC testing automatically sorts through it all for you -- determining which of the many adrenal functions are insufficient and which are in excess. Weak adrenals? The proponents of adrenal treatment protocols are hopelessly ignorant of the scope of adrenal function.

To summarize, adrenal function when looked at as a separate entity, can be very complex. There are so many conflicting adrenal functions and a myriad of possible ways that the adrenals can dysfunction. I defy any of the so-called nutrition authorities who claim to have a means of treating weak adrenals to specify exactly which adrenal functions they are stimulating, and how they can stimulate those without simultaneously inhibiting other adrenal functions. As a NUTRI-SPEC practitioner you should not be easily victimized by this weak adrenal treatment propaganda. The most valid, the most specific, and the most powerful way to analyze and treat adrenals is by defining where your patient stands with respect to anaerobic/dysaerobic balance.

Adrenal function is also a critical part of maintaining normal glucogenic/ketogenic balance. Rivici showed that the urinary surface tension increases in animals after adrenalectomy. Which of your NUTRI-SPEC clinical test results is common to both a glucogenic and a dysaerobic imbalance? An elevated surface tension. In other words, both your glucogenic and your ketogenic patients have adrenals which are exhausted in their attempt to maintain adequate glucogenic and ketogenic energy production. Fix the glucogenic or ketogenic imbalance and you simultaneously, automatically relieve the burden on the adrenals.

Is abnormal adrenal function a part of your sympathetic/ parasympathetic imbalances? You betcha. Your sympathetic patients have adrenal medulla stress and occasionally may have either adrenal cortex insufficiency or adrenal cortex stress. (Which one depends largely on what other NUTRI-SPEC imbalances they have concurrently.) Your parasympathetic patients always have some degree of adrenal medulla insufficiency, and they, too, may show either an adrenal cortex insufficiency or adrenal cortex stress.

Do your weak adrenal propagandists have an answer to the patient who simultaneously has part of the adrenals over-reactive and part under-reactive? Not a chance. Only your NUTRI-SPEC system gives you a viable means of balancing adrenal function.

The adrenals (particularly the adrenal cortex) can also be a factor in some of your acid/alkaline imbalance patients. The potassium excess acidosis pattern is frequently a case of adrenal cortex insufficiency. The potassium depletion alkalosis is frequently at least partly associated with an adrenal cortex stress. Correct the acid/alkaline imbalance along with whatever other NUTRI-SPEC imbalances exist and the adrenals will do quite nicely.

So -- what do you do for your patients with "weak adrenals?" You are already doing it -- by practicing NUTRI-SPEC according to objective indicators. Very few of your patients actually have weak adrenals. Those who do will have their adrenals strengthened by the proper NUTRI-SPEC regimen. Most of your patients whom you think have weak adrenals actually have adrenal stress -- but that too will be corrected only by taking care of their NUTRI-SPEC fundamental imbalances.

Having read this Letter,

YOU CAN CONSIDER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING
HOW TO HANDLE ADRENALS ANSWERED,
AND,
YOU CAN CONSIDER ALL YOUR PATIENTS'
ADRENAL PROBLEMS SOLVED...

with NUTRI-SPEC.

And, what about your commonly asked question regarding anti-oxidants? I wouldn't be surprised if (now that you know the answer to the adrenal question) you can begin to answer the anti-oxidant question yourself. For now, suffice it to say that the effective clinical use of anti-oxidants is also built-in to your NUTRI-SPEC system, with your NUTRI-SPEC supplements containing anti-oxidants in their most powerful combinations. I'll give you the complete story next month.

Meanwhile, to begin doing some real good for your patients' adrenals, take advantage of our SPECIAL for this month -- Oxygenic A-Plus and Oxygenic D-Plus, 2 bottles FREE with every 10 you buy.

Sincerely,
Guy R. Schenker, D.C.

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