3 important at-home tests to check your adrenal and thyroid health

There are three important at-home tests you can do to check your adrenal and thyroid health. These tests will help you to understand the state of your nervous system's balance between sympathetic and para-sympathetic. Thyroid and adrenal health are contingent upon this balance.

The first, is to measure your blood pressure with a blood pressure cuff at a time when you are at rest, in the morning. If you have restful times in the afternoon or evening, you want to do it then as well. Calm yourself when you do it. Take some deep breaths. You do not want to do it just after you exercise. Optimal blood pressue is somewhere around 110. The systolic is the top number, and it should be somewhere between 110 to 130 at the top. At the bottom, you want it to be somewhere around 70-90.

If you are consistently up over 130 at the top, and over 90 at the bottom, that is a sign that your body is in adrenal/thyroid hyper-function and your nervous system running in a sympathetic way. If your numbers are low and you have really low blood pressure, this is that you have adrenal/thyroid hypo-function. When you have adrenal/thyrid hypofunction, you may feel dizzy when you go from sitting to standing. This is when your adrenals are not producing enough hormone because you are not getting the signals from your brain. The brain is basically saying, "Hey, we need to rest. We need to heal. We need to recover". When your brain is saying this, you are unable to activate your sympathetic nervous system.

You want to be in range and balanced.

The second test if orthostatic hypotension. Orthostatic hypotension is postural blood pressure. When you are sitting, your blood pressure is lower than when you are standing. When you are standing, your body is preparing for movement, therefore your blood pressure should go up. The idea is to check your blood pressure when you are sitting or lying down and then again when you stand up. When you do this, you should expect your blood pressure to go up at leat ten millimiters. For example, if was 130 it should now be 140. Also, you can see how you feel from going from sitting to standing. Do you feel dizzy? If you do it is a sign that your body is not getting enough oxygen or glucose.

The third test is your pupillary constriction. So what you can do is take a light (pen lights work well), and come at your eye from a 45 degree angle towards your eye as you are looking straight ahead at the horizon. The natural response it that your pupils should constrict and get smaller. The test is that they should be able to shrink and hold the constriction for 20 or more seconds. One failure with this test is when the pupil constricts and then all of a sudden it starts moving and getting larger, and larger, until it quickly becomes very big and dilated. This exposes a level of dysfunction between the brain and the adrenals. This failure exposes a level of fatigue and cell danger response going. Another failure with this test is when the pupil will not constrict at all. This happens when a person's body is so tapped out that they can't get a sympathetic nervous system response and the pupil just will not constrict. This can also help to discern what people actually are referring to when they say, "I am so sensitive to light."", or "I have a headache."

The 3 Important At-Home Tests to Check Your Adrenal Thryoid are:

1. Blood pressure three times a day

2. Blood pressure from lying down to siting to standing

3. Light checking your pupillary constriction response