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Article: Adrenal glands and the rest of you: an interview with Decker Weiss, N.M.D.(Interview)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Q. How can the adrenal glands affect blood pressure?
A. Well, there is the Western way, being a "type A" personality. People with a type A personality are stressed and put out more cortisol. This leads to putting on more weight, experiencing increased blood pressure, and things like that.
There is also the non-Western way, which is acknowledged by other systems of medicine. The adrenal glands may be hypofunctioning. One sign is a blood pressure "deficiency." An example might be a little old lady who might be tired and fatigued but might have very high blood pressure. That's the deficiency-type high blood pressure, and it is recognized more in Chinese and ...