Understanding the Power of Your Thoughts (Tip #1: Managing Stress for Adrenal Health)

Category: Adrenal Fatigue

The body cannot discern between imaginary stress and real life stress. Whether the stress is real or imagined, the body reacts in much the same way. As an example, think about how you feel in a scary movie. The physical response is the same as when you ARE in a scary situation. This has immense implications for your THOUGHTS affecting your physical health. Take time to think about how your thoughts increase the stress on your body and especially your #1 stress responder-your adrenal gland.

Action steps:
Work on recognizing when you are practicing negative self talk. Practice turning your inner conversation into a truthful, positive one.
Write down positive thoughts on a small card. Read it if you find yourself easily slipping into negative thinking patterns.

Lisa Hill MD

Adrenal Fatigue: When to Eat

Category: Adrenal Fatigue,Adrenal Fatigue Diet

In our busy lives, many choose to skip breakfast stating that they are not hungry. However, this creates a scenario where your body plays catch-up the rest of the day. It is important for everyone to eat before 10:00 AM, but especially those with low adrenal function. Ten o’ clock is when your stored blood sugar supply after the night’s fast will generally run out. Not eating will stress your adrenal gland further, pushing you into greater adrenal fatigue. Even a small snack is helpful if that is all you can manage. Eating regularly (every 3 hours), will help your body keep blood sugars constant throughout the day without overworking your adrenal gland.

Avoid Caffeine to Promote Adrenal Health

Category: Adrenal Fatigue,Adrenal Fatigue Diet,Health And Energy

Caffeine is a commonly used drug in America. In 1996, an estimated 85% of the US adult population consumed some sort of caffeinated beverage daily. One significant effect of caffeine is that it amplifies release of the adrenal hormone cortisol for many hours after it is consumed. Over time, this results in an overworked and eventually fatigued adrenal gland.

Most people consume caffeine to help them wake up and stay awake during the day. If you rely on caffeine as a pick-me-up, you may want to try tyrosine supplements and eat tyrosine-rich, protein foods in the morning to help you stay alert. Tyrosine can be purchased at almost any health food store in 500 mg capsules. Try taking one capsule first thing in the morning to help you get up. If no improvement is felt, you may want to increase your dose to two or three capsules per dose. This can be repeated at about 10 am (between meals) and 2 pm to improve focus and energy, if needed. Taking B vitamins with the tyrosine is helpful. Too much tyrosine will make you jittery, like too much caffeine does.

Guest post by Lisa Hill MD

Isocort Review

Category: Adrenal Fatigue


My thoughts:

One of the most common things I hear from adrenal fatigue sufferers is that they can’t seem to get the initial energy needed to get started implementing some of the steps in my adrenal fatigue treatment. In particular its difficult to begin the steps necessary to begin lifestyle therapy. Having suffered through adrenal fatigue myself, I fully understand this.

Thats why I recommend Isocort for medium to severe cases of adrenal fatigue. Its an over the counter adrenal supplement that has a very good effectiveness rate. It provides your adrenals with just enough adreno-cortical to boost your overall energy levels and make you feel like your old self again.
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Qi Tonic

Category: Adrenal Fatigue


The folks over at www.asianhealthsecrets.com just released an article on a little known Chinese herb called Astragalus. Here is an excerpt from their website:
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Adrenal Fatigue Comparison

Category: Adrenal Fatigue,Health And Energy

Hunting around on the web today, I came across a great comparison of the different symptoms for the different adrenal imbalances. Its a very helpful chart that you can find here.
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Adrenal Fatigue Questionnaire

Category: Adrenal Fatigue

This is a very common questionnaire by Dr. Freudenberger used to determine whether you have a condition referred to as “burnout”.  Burnout has been classified by Dr. Wilson as a type of adrenal fatigue that is caused by lifestyle.
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Ginseng For Adrenal Fatigue

Category: Adrenal Fatigue

Ginseng has always been considered as a powerful healing agent. For centuries it has held esteem as a healthy remedy for a variety of ailments such as pain relief. As an adaptogen ginseng is an herbs that that helps strengthen the body’s immune, endocrine and nervous systems by stabilizing them under abnormal conditions.
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7 Simple Mistakes That Are Making You Tired Everyday

Category: Adrenal Fatigue,Health And Energy

While we all occasionally get tired, feeling exhausted chronically is not normal and may be a cause for a closer examination of your lifestyle. There are plenty of everyday lifestyle decisions that contribute to the feeling of fatigue and constant tiredness. Here are 7 of the top reasons:
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6 Tips For An Effective Adrenal Fatigue Diet

Category: Adrenal Fatigue,Adrenal Fatigue Diet,Featured Posts,Health And Energy,Popular Posts

adrenal-fatigue-diet-happy-coupleRegulating your adrenal glands is very important, especially since this is the part of the body which is responsible for different hormone production which in turn affects many facets of your health. This includes you energy levels. So to make sure you keep your hormones levels where they should be and your adrenal glands fully productive, here are some useful tips for a more effective adrenal fatigue diet:
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