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In the late 1970s, while working as a chiropractor and naturopath in Fergus, Ont., James Wilson began noticing patients with circadian rhythms out of whack.
They had trouble waking up in the morning, needed caffeine to get through the day, and felt a drop in energy mid-afternoon. Their second wind came at 11 p.m., revving them up for three hours.
Their deepest sleep, work permitting, was between 7 and 9 in the morning. They felt tired and unable to concentrate.
Their condition improved, Wilson says, when he treated their adrenal glands, boosting the hormones involved in regulating the body’s daily rhythms and dealing with stress.
His diagnosis was based on the pioneering work of the late Montreal endocrinologist Dr. Hans Selye. Modern life, Wilson concluded, is so relentlessly stressful that adrenal glands get overworked, burn out and produce lower levels of hormones needed to cope with stress.
Wilson says he coined the term “adrenal fatigue,” calling it the “21st century stress syndrome.”
