Do you have so much to do but feel less and less effective at getting it done?
How about some of these symptoms:
- Mild depression or anxiety
- Multiple food allergies
- Sensitivity to fragrances and other smells around you
- Inability to focus on normal daily tasks
- Dry and or thin skin
- Low blood sugar
- Low body temperature
If so you may be suffering from Adrenal Fatigue.
Some Everyday Things You Can Do to Ward Off Adrenal Fatigue:
- Eat nutritious meals.
- Avoid sugary snacks and sodas. Eat foods that are lower in carbs and include a quality protein source. These foods will allow your blood sugar to not spike quickly.
- Eat raw fruits with the skins on and vegetables in many colors to replenish your body’s nutrient stores.
- Don’t be afraid to eat foods with healthy fats in them. They are food for the brain.
Drained Adrenals Causing Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome is Very Treatable
With natural remedies, giving your body adequate rest and a few supplements, a bit of planning and patience – everything in moderation – you will be well on your way to a natural Adrenal Fatigue Treatment 2nd to none!
Learn even more and watch our Video on: The Adrenal Glands.
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Adrenal Fatigue – What YOU Can Do About It
Adrenal fatigue is a collection of signs and symptoms, that results when the adrenal glands function below the necessary level. Most commonly associated with intense or prolonged stress.
You can do a bunch to help yourself by managing your stress, changing what you eat and when you eat and getting enough sleep.
What Are the Adrenal Glands?
The adrenal glands are small glands located on top of each kidney. They produce hormones that you can’t live without. Cortisol helps you respond to stress and has many other important functions. With adrenal gland disorders, your glands make too much or not enough hormones.
The Adrenal Glands – Beyond Fight or Flight
We all know they control your fight or flight response but how does this help or hinder us in today’s fast paced environment?
We are no longer being chased by tigers but to say we don’t have stress would be an understatement for most of us.
Managing stress is an important thing but not always easy to do.
What Do the Adrenal Glands Do?
The Adrenal Glands help your body keep an appropriate balance so we can feel good and be on top of our game when we need to:
- Throughout our workday
- During stressful personal situations
- Remaining calm in necessary battles
But what happens when we have too high a demand on our adrenal glands?
Adrenal Fatigue
What if we work ourselves into a situation where we depend on the fight or flight body management of our adrenal glands all the time?
You guessed it these glands become “fatigued.”
Hi – I’m Mary Howard RN with Powerline Health where we strive to help you in your busy life and give you a few extra tools to help you in your day.
3 Things About the Adrenals We Will Go Over Today
- 3 things your adrenal glands do for your body
- 3 things you can do to assist your Adrenal Glands
- 3 outcomes you will feel as a result
3 Things Your Adrenals Do For You
- They help you adjust to your environment – so, feeling of cold, hot, hungry or sleepy
- They help you with recovery after exercise
- Blood sugar, Cortisol levels and weight gain or loss
This 3rd one is something I have struggled with and thought maybe you have as well and that encouraged me to do some more research, practice on myself and share what I have learned both from my research and from my personal experience.
Common Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue
- Anxiety & and inability to relax – including the inability to sleep
- Mental Fatigue as well as physical fatigue and difficulty being able to focus – even on important tasks
- Inflammation with lots of soreness, inability to recover from an unusual amount of exercise & additionally causing weight gain
Ultimately over time, these things can lead the body to breakdown with disease or auto-immune disorders because we are not bringing the body back to a “normal” healthy state often enough to re-build and refresh the adrenals glands.
When the Adrenals Become Depleted, Unpleasant Things Can Occur in the Body
Where to Start so You can Help Your Adrenal Glands?
- What can we do about it?
- What are some of the 1st things we can do to manage our stress?
- How can this affect my weight gain or loss?
I had all these things going on and I asked my Naturopathic doctor – Dr. Petermann (Challenge Life Better YouTube Channel) and he gave me some suggestions to try.
The 1st Thing We Can Do to Help Our Adrenals
The 1s one being: Eat your last meal at least 3 hours before going to bed.
Adding to that, I try to be active for a while after that meal too – not just sit on the couch after the evening meal.
Just changing that – made an amazing difference! I started sleeping better almost right away.
Of course, removing things that continually stimulate your adrenals the last hour of your day is important, as well.
You actually do need to plan out enough hours of sleep just like you plan out any other thing in your life.
I have found 5 hours is really not enough, 6 hours is functional but for me 7 hours is optimal. On weekends I might get 7.5 and feel really good. Some people 8 hours of sleep is a good number but I have found I can’t stand to stay in bed that long. What is your optimal amount of sleep?
The 2nd Thing You Can Do To Help Your Adrenals
The 2nd thing that has helped my adrenals is intermittent fasting. We really don’t need more than 3 meals a day. (6 pm to 6 am is 12 hrs of fasting. Til 10 am is 16 hours of fasting)
Avoid Snacking – It Causes Insulin Spikes
Snacking and eating more than 3 meals a day causes the body to have frequent insulin spikes. Those insulin spikes cause the overproduction of Cortisol – a stress hormone that tells our body to “store fat.”
3. Not Eating 3 Hours Before Bed – Clean Up Receptor Sites
That is the other reason not eating 3 or 4 hours before bed works so amazingly. The body has time to work through the food we ate and now has time to clean up receptors in the body, repair muscle and tissue that has been damaged or overtaxed in the body during the day. Build muscle – those types of things.
Not Snacking Reduces Stress on the Body
Getting rid of sugar, sugary drinks and drinking more water doesn’t just give the body the ability to have fewer calories it also cuts out those insulin spikes so the body doesn’t need to work so hard. Not eating between meals cuts down stress on the body, reducing the stress on the adrenals, and stops the body from storing fat.
As this get’s easier for you to only eat caloric foods 3 times a day try moving into eating only 2 meals a day and you may find you feel amazing.
Nutritious Meals are Key to Adrenal Health
Be aware though – those 2 meals need to be balanced with vegetables, proteins, and fats. Keeping sugar out of your diet, as well as keeping bread & pasta to a minimum, you will feel so much better. The fewer carbs you eat at a meal – the more you lean toward fat and protein as your energy sources then the better you will feel. It also makes it easier to move to 2 meals a day.
I don’t recommend completely cutting out carbs from your diet because fresh fruit and root crop foods, like carrots and sweet potatoes, are very good for you.
Be Aware of YOU – Actively Reduce Stress in Your Life
The 3rd thing you can do for your Adrenals is: be aware of you:
- Long walks. Exercise often – even at the office get up and move around at least a few minutes each hour.
- Meditation – that can mean prayer, self-reflection or mindfulness while focusing on your breathing. Journaling is also a great activity.
- Just being present in the moment especially with family. Taking those few minutes on your commute from work to home to think about: how can I be a better parent or sibling… those things will make your day end so much better for yourself and those around you. You can do this on your way to work as well: What needs to happen to have the best, most productive day at my work or office? Who do I need to be on my “A” game for – to help the most…
- Start healthy habits – gradually replace unhealthy habits with healthy habits and be sure to stop and tell yourself you did well.
I hope that something I have shared with you was helpful in your day.
What kinds of questions do you have?
There are herbs that help to support the adrenal glands. Would you like to learn more about them?
Herbs That Support The Adrenal Glands
Do you struggle with Adrenal Fatigue?
Some of the symptoms of Adrenal Conditions
Do you struggle to feel a balance in your body?
Are you having difficulty sleeping, racing thoughts, difficulty concentrating on tasks?
Are you struggling to have enough energy and difficulty with your weight?
Herbs That Help the Adrenal Glands
Often these things can be adrenal glands that are out of balance.
When your adrenal glands are out of balance often your hormones become out of balance.
There are a few herbs that help to support your adrenal glands and we wanted to share a few of those with you.
Licorice Root
- Licorice can stimulating the adrenal gland, stimulating your body to have a healthy level of cortisol.
- Licorice Root can speed the repair of the stomach lining and restore balance there, as well.
- There are more than 300 different compounds in licorice, some of which have antiviral and antimicrobial properties.
Hawthorn Berry
- Hawthorn has a history as the herb to strengthen your heart – both physically and emotionally.
- Hawthorn Berries are known to be vasodilators, having some blood pressure lowering activity by relaxing of the blood vessels farther from the heart.
- Because of this it is also used to reduce anxiety.
- It seems to lower cholesterol by increasing the excretion of bile, reducing the formation of cholesterol, and enhancing the receptors for LDLs.
Fennel
Fennel is used for various digestive problems including heartburn, intestinal gas, bloating, loss of appetite.
- Fennel can relax your muscles — including your digestive muscles.
- Fennel can help regulate Blood Pressure.
- Fennel can also be useful to flush out toxins and sludge from our bodies, thus helping to cleanse the blood.
A Few Additional Herbs that Support the Adrenal Glands
Ginseng – helps with energy, blood sugar, memory and mood
Echinacea – Helps with anxiety and inflammation
Gotu Kola – Great to help with memory, focus and to fight fatigue
Ginger – helps with inflammation as well as improving Blood Circulation
St John’s Wort – Helps improve mood, fight depression and elevate certain neurotransmitters in the body.
