They simply know they do not feel well or symptoms direct them to explore different ailments; we do understand that often symptoms denote numerous chances and sometimes overlap disorders. Do these symptoms apply to you? If you said “yes” to several of these symptoms there’s a strong possibly that you’re experiencing adrenal fatigue. If you said “yes” to half or more, your adrenals are exhausted.
What is adrenal fatigue?
Adrenal fatigue is just the allowance of migraines to affect and possibly take control over your lifetime. Stress is a significant issue in many people’s lives and all too often the individual has no clue how to take care of the stress. The end result is adrenal fatigue in addition to several other imbalances in the body, mind and soul of the person. What happens when your body gets stressed? Your adrenal glands are situated directly above the kidneys that are found in the trunk of you directly above your waist.
In this small gland is the most abundant hormone in your body – DHEA. Cortisol (often called the hormone of death) can also be found on your adrenal glands. The adrenals main objective is to be a pressure regulator. You’re traveling down the street and someone pulls out in front of you. You slam on your brakes, maybe say a few choice words, and are thankful that you avoided an accident. In the interim, you’d probably stopped breathing at the very least you took shallow fast breaths.
What is happening?
Your heart likely started racing and felt as though it would pop out of your chest and perhaps even your head began throbbing. What you probably don’t understand is that your cortisol also taken up to accommodate for the demand put on your adrenals. This is what we term flight and flight, and it’s beneficial when something like this happens. However, when our life becomes a continual struggle and flight setting, we can easily develop adrenal fatigue.
The adrenals kicking in for a sudden injury is supposed to be temporary. From the stressors already mentioned, it’s generally a mix of various stressors that create this syndrome for you. Because of constant stress to your body, your cortisol remains elevated and thus the symptoms start. It’s extremely probable that at precisely the exact same time your DHEA is falling, and if you’re 40 or older, it’s doing this naturally.
We know that hormones do decline with age, but when we’re stressed they will diminish more quickly. All this not only tears down your health but ages you faster both internally and externally. And who wants to age quicker! As a consequence of experiencing adrenal fatigue, many people reach for stimulants to get and keep them moving – coffee, sodas, pills, alcohol, chocolate, nicotine, etc.. They are concealing their problem and it continues to grow worse with no awareness because of the cover-up.
Cortisol
Here’s the significance of cortisol. When a stressor occurs the cortisol raises the blood glucose level in your body, working together with the pancreas to provide enough glucose to supply energy to your cells. Continuous increased blood glucose levels generates a blood sugar imbalance that can cause multiple physical disorders like diabetes. Cortisol is a strong anti-inflammatory agent. When injury happens to our body the cortisol is released to decrease the swelling and repair the injury. Too much injury produces too much cortisol.
There are a number of disorders associated with inflammation such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis. Cortisol influences most cells which participate in your immune system’s regulation. Chronic high levels of cortisol suppress the immune system enabling an individual to become more vulnerable to illness, particularly to viruses. Cortisol helps to balance your stress reactions, but if stress becomes chronic then it can’t keep the balance.
The end result can be weight gain that’s difficult to reduce, higher blood pressure, estrogen dominance that may result in uterine fibroids as well as breast cancer, and a lot more. So you can see how easy it is to end up in the throws of adrenal fatigue and suspect other ailments.
Take note
Personally, I believe, as do many health professionals, it is imperative to fix your adrenals no matter what illness or disease you have since the adrenals will always be influenced if there’s imbalance anywhere on your body.
- First of all know this. Traditional medicine testing can’t detect adrenal fatigue unless it is becoming acute. That’s why so many doctors tell their patients and you may have been among them to go home and relax or give them a prescription medication for anxiety to assist. That’s merely a band-aid strategy and resolves little if anything, and it certainly does not cure the issue.
- However, there’s a saliva test that holistic practitioners and physicians are using which has excellent effects in measuring your cortisol and DHEA levels. It’s called the ASI, or Adrenal Stress Index. Although nothing is ever 100% accurate, this has very substantial accuracy. The main reason is that your saliva is part of your cells and may relate to the laboratory technicians what is being consumed inside your body in addition to the degree of your hormones.
- Realize that all bodily ailments have emotional cores. We are multidimensional beings and it takes a balance in all four regions to be healthy. One tire on your vehicle can cause quite an imbalance if it loses enough atmosphere. So it is with your body and health.
- Remove your stressors. You may be laughing right now as you are thinking I do not know what your life is like and what you are going through. You may be surprised just how much I really do understand. And yes, you can become stress free. You see, I’m a recoveree of adrenal fatigue and was experiencing it for decades but did not know it. I gave birth to and raised five children, worked through these years, was driven to succeed in my job, started having large health challenges, divorced, experienced significant financial struggles for many years, found myself in a potentially damaging business arrangement where I eventually detached, etc.
- Most of us have our stories but you do not have to remain in them. I left my previous story and made a life free from stress and its impacts on me. You can do it too! The key is in how you respond to the stressors. There are quite a few different services and products listed on my site which may help you also.
- Get enough sleep! This can be a real issue for many men and women. So many come into our health shop begging for something so that they can sleep. 7-8 hours or longer are necessary for recovery and the adrenals fix most from 11pm – 1am. (some say the fix begins at 10 pm) So that means that you night owls may need to generate some changes. I needed to do this too. Melatonin, 5HTP, herbs, magnesium, hot baths, reading before retiring, working with a mentor to find out new strategies to respond to your anxiety, listening to gentle music, are all potential was to help you sleep.
Final note
Additionally it is crucial to wash your liver and digest your food well to sleep well. Guides for this are cited below.
- Exercise, but only moderately at first. Rule of thumb is to stop when tired.
- Supplementation – this is an individualized process – there’s no one protocol that works for everybody and what works for you can be toxic to another.
Note: When your adrenals are fatigued the instant craving is for glucose, yet ironically it’s the worst thing you could consume as it furthers the adrenal fatigue. Individuals who crave carbohydrates or sugar often realize that adrenal fatigue is a root cause of the cravings. Adrenals will be better served with organic vegetables, the darker and brighter the better, plenty of high quality protein to guarantee enough amino acids, lots of water and the addition of beneficial oils such as refined, organic extra virgin coconut oil.
This sort of coconut oil may actually result in weight loss and supply the good fats essential for the conversion of ALL hormones in the body. Since most people with adrenal fatigue have compromised digestion, it’s very important that they can digest food and supplement intake correctly and have a excellent intestinal flora balance. Note: Often less is best, at least to start. If your body isn’t functioning optimally, it could be necessary to introduce changes and supplements gradually in order not to”shock” the body or overload it. Needless to say, in the event of severe disease, it’s often beneficial to saturate the body fast to detoxify and guarantee recovery. Baby steps do best and understand that adrenal recovery takes time, from 3 weeks to up to two decades, according to the seriousness of your adrenal fatigue.
