THE ADRENAL TYPE WINDOW OF VULNERABILITY: OVERDOING IT ALL

The problem with your system, oddly enough, is that in a way you're too steady, too powerful, too balanced. Like a diesel truck, once you get going you like to keep going. Once you start eating, you don't like to stop. Once you lose your temper and start shouting, you like to keep on until everyone around you is thoroughly cowed(adrenal hormones are the instigators of 'fight or flight' reaction, and on the whole,fight is your preference) Once you get into a project at work, you hate to come home- and once you start partying and drinking, you hate to quit. Your system is given to excess, and because you are so strong you think you can take anything. You almost can-but not quite. Remember the movie North Dallas Forty about professional football? It gave almost a textbook illustration of adrenal types driving themselves on and on, to and past the point of exhaustion and collapse, absorbing and ignoring punishment. The adrenal type we last saw taking a fast-food break was having a double burger and, in her heart, looking rather askance at the thyroid who had just ordered coffee and a Danish. The A-type was thinking that her T-type colleague was having something unhealthy, just as a 'pick-me-up, whereas she, the A-type, was having something healthy and nourishing. This is just an amusing self-delusion; nothing could be further from the truth. The hamburger is just as much an adrenal stimulator as the carbohydrates and caffeine are thyroid stimulants, and the A-type is doing exactly the same thing to her body with meat and salt as the T-type does with coffee and sweets. Both are using their own chemical pathways to get the brain/mind effect they want. The desired effect of arousal with calmness is the same-only the stimulant they use is different. In both cases, they are using food to stimulate the dominant gland. But whereas the thyroid type stimulates the thyroid, which then collapses into fatigue and exhaustion, the adrenal type stimulates the adrenals, which keep on pumping out the power and creating more and more appetite. In each case the punishing effect on the body is disregarded while yot concentrate on the way the food makes you feel. This is truly the drug effect of food. To con: