My issue with people like Dr. Lam and other practitioners that have jumped on the 'adrenal fatigue' bandwagon and made use of its easily marketable treatment, they have no
REAL success stories. Their testimonials are flooded with fake names and claims. Sure, Lam's website provides excellent resources and information for adrenal fatigue and explains it rather well, but in practice the treatment his team provides is completely unrealistic, unfounded and, quite frankly, just a bunch of pseudo-science. Dumping copious amounts of supplements into your body, especially for those with complex and advanced adrenal fatigue like myself, would induce paradoxical or stimulating reactions due to the weak adrenal glands' inability to metabolise nutrients.
I actually had a 'free' consultation with Dr. Lam's wife on the phone a few weeks ago, but she seemed to be more of a nutritionist/dietitian and gasped when she heard that I had gained 50 lbs in two years. She passed me onto another member of the team. My issues weren't really discussed, I was just suggested a program of 'detoxing' and to prepare myself to flood my endocrine system with a variety of supplements. Really it was just a call to quote a price for my treatment. Dr. Lam himself actually charges a total of
$1,500. Absolutely not within my budget. I have scoured every Adrenal Fatigue forum to just find one success story from Dr. Lam, and I only found one story of recovery from mild adrenal fatigue with a few relapses along the way. The most desperate, sick people flock to these forums because of failed treatments from the likes of Lam and his counterparts.
I have never personally tried Vitamin C, but I can only assume that it would induce similar reactions to most other vitamin and mineral supplements I have experimented with. Marek Doyle, a well respected (and one of the very few) Adrenal Fatigue practitioners here in the UK wrote an article about Vitamin C. He emphasised that ascorbic acid (conventional Vitamin C supplements) is not actually Vitamin C:
"Contrary to popular belief, ascorbic acid is not vitamin C. Vitamin C is a complex of naturally occurring hormones, phytonutrients and enzymes in which ascorbic acid is the active compound. Vitamin C can only be found in nature in the presence of bioflavonoids, normally in a 2:1 ratio. Supplementing synthetic ascorbic acid without the necessary co-factors challenges the body to rob these additional substances from it's own stores just to metabolise the ascorbic acid; essentially, you solve one shortage but create another. Additionally, the low liver function that regularly presents with adrenal fatigue can sometimes result in sensitivity to supplements, including vitamin C. Using alternate sources of vitamin C, such as a mineral ascorbate or the fermented 'food form' product, should be considered here. Some individuals with very severe adrenal fatigue may only tolerate powdered amla berries or acerola cherries". Check out the rest
here.