Re: You cannot fix 'af' without fixing the source. Synthetic vitamins will not fix the source.

 Adrenal or hpa distress is caused by several things. Improper gut function is a HUGE component. Stress kills your gut first.

And what controls your stress levels? The adrenal glands.  This is why people with adrenal dysfunction stress out so easily and "fly off the handle" over little things.

Plus, your immune system headquaters is in your gut. Why do you think people with "af" have food allergies? The adrenals don't react to food. It's the immune system.

The adrenals are a major part of the immune system.  And it is a lack of adrenal corticosteroids and epinephrine that allow allergic reactions to occur in the first place:

http://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1609260

Another way to look at this is to consider the fact that the partially digested proteins absorbed during leaky gut are merely antigens triggering the allergic response.  But other proteins including those we are exposed to though inhalation, injection, skin contact, etc. can also trigger allergic responses.  Is the gut responding to these antigens? Of course not, because the gut is not the regulator for allergic responses.  The adrenals are the regulator.

because you are depleted, you do not fully digest food. Unbroken down rpotiens leak through your sick gut wall, and cause systemic reactions of varying types.

The corticosteroids generated by the adrenal glands also regulate the body's inflammatory responses, including the inflammation that leads to leaky gut.  So focusing on adrenal health is just as important as gut health.  The body's systems are very interactive and interdependent.

THE ADRENALS DO NOT CONTROL IMMUNE RESPONSE!

Actually they play a major role in controlling immune responses.  For example controlling inflammatory responses, which is often in part an immune response.  But more importantly the adrenals regulate the production of antibodies.  The best example of this is with autoimmune conditions.  Most autoimmune conditions have been linked to microbial triggers, but the actual problem with nonspecific antibodies goes back to adrenal dysfunction.  The lack of corticosteroids leads to the overproduction of low affinity (nonspecific) antibodies also known as autoantibodies. These antibodies being nonspecific tag healthy tissues for destruction by the white blood cells by mistaking the healthy cells for antigens.  The gut has nothing to do with this.  

Many autoimmune conditions also involve inflammation, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, etc.  Again it is the adrenals, not the gut, that control the inflammatory processes in the body and thus the inflammation associated with these autoimmune conditions.

Actually the immune system itself is not a singular thing, but rather a multitude of things. The various white blood cells and cytokines, the adrenals, the thymus, the lymphatic system, SOD, peroxides, ascorbic acid, etc.  And yes the gut is also part of the immune system even though I have seen some people deny this.  But the gut does not regulate the immune system all by itself.