You may have adrenal fatigue and not even know it! Here’s how to find out if you are and what you can do about it so you can wake up feeling rested, have energy without relying on coffee and no longer crash in the afternoon. Today Jenn has Taylor Wessel on the podcast. Taylor is a nutritionist and coach that focuses on adrenal fatigue. She walks through what adrenal fatigue is, and some of the signs and symptoms of adrenal fatigue. She discusses the best testing options on the market and dives into adaptogens and the best ways to heal adrenal fatigue. Taylor gives helpful advice on the baby steps to take and how to really tune into your body to connect and find health. Tune in today to learn more about adrenal fatigue and how to find balance in your wellness. The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. IN THIS EPISODE:●   [6:51] Taylor shares her story about adrenal fatigue and hypothyroidism.●   [12:05] How did Taylor come into the nutrition field?●   [14:25] What is adrenal fatigue and what symptoms might you see if you are experiencing adrenal fatigue? ●   [19:25] What does the energy pattern look like when struggling with adrenal fatigue?●   [22:48] How do people know it's actually adrenal fatigue vs. just being tired? What types of testing is available?●   [26:27] Is Dutch testing a good option to test for adrenal fatigue?●   [27:34] What causes adrenal fatigue?●   [36:10] Where should people start with healing adrenal fatigue?●   [46:32] What adaptogens are the best options?●   [48:53] Any words of caution for people realizing they have adrenal fatigue?  KEY TAKEAWAYS:●   Adrenal fatigue is when your adrenals are over-processing too much stress, they can’t keep up, and they get tired. ●   Blood work is a snapshot for a single period of time, whereas a saliva test takes snapshots of different points in time. ●   Having something, especially with protein, 20g-30g of protein within 60-90 minutes of rising, tells your system that you're safe by balancing your blood sugar levels. This is key to keeping your blood sugar levels even throughout the day and helps with mood swings, feeling hangry, late-night snacking, and sleeping more at night. etc. QUOTES: “Stress can be coming from mental, physical, emotional, it can be environmental toxins, are you exposed to mold, do you have mold in your apartment, condo, or your home, what type of foods are you eating, are you eating a lot of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, what type of water are you drinking, are you being exposed to chlorine and fluoride which we should not be consuming, so there's a lot of different areas that stress can come from, especially in this modern world.” - Taylor Wessel“Cortisol, although it's our stress hormone, it’s also what wakes us up in the morning. Melatonin is what puts us to sleep at night and induces just this calm sensation where we can shut down upon the light trigger there, but cortisol we need it to be higher in the morning and that wakes us up. It's our wake hormone, it's our stress hormone but also our wake hormone.” - Taylor Wessel"We need to lay off the HIIT workouts, they create stress in the body...not every day needs to be this massively intense workout for it to 'count.' Because if we're always in that place, we aren't getting that recovery which supports our adrenal health." - Jenn Trepeck“Lean into more walking, yoga, pilates, doing self check-ins every single day. What do I actually feel up for? If there's a day where your completely exhausted and depleted and it's a matter of “Do I snooze a little bit longer and just let myself get that sleep or do I wake up and force that exercise”…the type of exercise that we do is real