Fight, flight, cortisol, and your adrenals
The walnut-sized adrenal glands are above the kidneys. They are involved with producing and distributing 50 hormones. When kicked in by the sympathetic nervous system’s “fight or flight” stimulus, the adrenal glands crank up the cortisol.
That comes in handy with real life acute dangers that come and go, but enduring suppressed stress chronically will deplete the adrenals, creating a hormonal imbalance.
Tiredness, mental fogginess, and mood swings are all common with adrenal fatigue. The immune system becomes compromised and allergies, infections, and even chronic autoimmune diseases can take over.
Sugar and caffeine are craved often for quick energy bursts and mental stability. Add white flour pastries to those misguided attempts at boosting energy and you’re compromising your immune system even further.
You may also have difficulty waking up and struggle groggily through the day, then when it’s time to sleep, you become energized. Adrenal fatigue also leads to other hormonal imbalances that affect sexuality, emotional moods, and thyroid secretions.
These symptoms are all too common and interchangeable with other ailments. Regardless, one’s overall health will only improve upon adopting natural remedies for adrenal fatigue that don’t involve pharmaceuticals.
Avoiding or reversing ENERGY (adrenal) issues
- Handling stress is the foundation for adrenal health. Whether it involves changing lifestyles, leaving jobs, abusive relationships, getting involved with a “fight club”, or practicing yoga.
- Of course, meditating can be the ultimate stress reliever. It can be practiced in addition to your other choices. Now let’s get into what you shouldn’t and should put into your mouth.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=slILB–WCdshttp%3A - Stay away from fast food restaurants and don’t grab processed foods when you grocery shop. Quit the donuts and other pastries while minimizing coffee intake. Excess caffeine directly stresses the adrenals physiologically.
- Do some juicing and consume organic foods. A juice fast could jump start the nutritional dietary changes. Here’s is an inflammation lecture that chats about this!
- Make sure your vitamin D blood levels are above normal. Stress-caused excess cortisol negatively affects vitamin D absorption.
- Mg! Make sure your mineral intake is high, especially magnesium. Mg Oxide. More info here.
- There are plant foods that you can combine to give you complete proteins if you’re a vegetarian. If not, at least avoid factory farm meat products. If you’d like a WHOLE FOOD SUPPLEMENT, ask me about Juice Plus!!!
- Adaptogenic herbs that holistic nutritional experts recommend include ashwaganda, Siberian ginseng, maca, rhodiola, licorice root, schisandra, and astragalus root. The first three are considered the most valuable for rebuilding a damaged adrenal gland system. You can kick it up a notch by choosing the adrenal support supplement with adrenal animal grandulars.
Work on dealing with life in a more positive and productive way.
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