Modern lifestyles and work environments have been shown to increase pressure and stress in our day-to-day lives. How stressed are you? The team at Perpetual Wellbeing can assist you with a range of Stress Hormone Tests including an adrenal fatigue test.

Lifestyle, physical and psychological stresses put constant demands on the adrenal glands. When stressed, the adrenal glands produce a hormone called Cortisol. If too much cortisol is produced over a period of time, adrenal fatigue or insufficiency may be experienced.   Symptoms include fatigue, hypotension, and lowered resistance to stress, salt cravings, hypoglycaemia and lowered immunity.

Adrenal insufficiency frequently plays a role in conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, allergies, rheumatoid arthritis, post-traumatic stress syndrome, anorexia and most diseases for which corticosteroids are involved in the treatment. Assessing cortisol, DHEA and other adrenal hormone levels may help to identify these patients and will assist effective therapy.