Why chasing the adrenal fatigue myth keeps you stuck, and what your system actually needs instead.

Let’s get this straight.

Adrenal fatigue is a myth — but your body’s breakdown isn’t.
It’s not a diagnosis. It’s not in the literature.
And your adrenals? They’re not tired—they’re following orders.
Orders your brain and nervous system issued because the way you’ve been living is unsustainable.

This isn’t personal failure.
It’s physiology doing exactly what it’s built to do: enforce boundaries you’ve ignored.

But I feel exhausted all the time…

Of course you do.
You’re wired, tired, foggy, brittle—and one Netflix doom-scroll away from collapse.

But the real story isn’t that your adrenals gave up.
It’s that your entire system adapted.
And now it’s waving a giant red flag:

“I can’t keep living like this.”

What’s actually going on with the adrenal fatigue myth

Your brain and nervous system decide how much stress hormone to release—not your adrenals.
Your adrenals are just obedient little factories at the end of the line.

If your cortisol is low, it’s not because your adrenals are “sleepy.”
It’s because your command center changed the orders—on purpose.

Why? To:

• Conserve energy
• Protect your tissues
• Force you to stop

This isn’t failure.
It’s boundaries—biological ones—you refused to set.

Why the adrenal fatigue myth won’t die

Because it’s:

• A tidy scapegoat for messy exhaustion
• An easy marketing hook for supplement stacks and saliva tests
• A way to say burnout without confronting the systems—personal and cultural—that caused it

It’s not just me saying this. Even peer-reviewed research agrees: “Adrenal fatigue” doesn’t exist — and chasing it as a diagnosis can delay finding the real cause of your exhaustion.

It’s easier to say, “I need adaptogens,” than, “My life is unsustainable.”

The better frame: capacity beyond the adrenal fatigue myth

Your system has thresholds.
When you blow past them—through stress, blood sugar swings, over-training, under-eating, broken sleep, or constant output with no recovery—your body downshifts.

Not because it’s broken.
Because it’s brilliant.

So what do you do?

1. Regulate first

Breath. Rhythm. Blood sugar. Light cues. Body temperature. Sleep integrity.
These are your real levers—not 14 bottles labeled “adrenal support.”

2. Rewire gently

Build tolerance for calm. Track your nervous system patterns. Learn to feel safe in stillness.

3. Reclaim vitality

Once the foundation is stable, your system will automatically produce what it needs—no “boosting” required.

TL;DR

Your adrenals aren’t tired.
They’re protecting you from your own damn pace.

Stop blaming your glands.
Start listening to your system.
And please—retire the “adrenal fatigue” myth like the 2005 wellness relic it is.

If you’re ready to stop chasing myths and start building real capacity, work with me and let’s rebuild your system from the ground up.