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Modern life surely does take a toll on the human body. The amount that we have to try and pack into any given day is often overwhelming and we find ourselves sleeping less and working longer hours as we try and balance our jobs with our family responsibilities and our dwindling social life. One of the first things to go is our exercise regime and we make this situation worse by turning to convenience foods, in the mistaken belief that we do not have time to prepare a good diet. Lack of exercise and poor nutrition will lead to additional stresses and strains on the body and it’s hardly surprising that things start to go wrong. Not surprisingly, adrenal fatigue is a very common condition, even though it is poorly diagnosed and linked to the adrenal glands, very small organs located near the kidneys, of which we ask a great deal. After some years of unhealthy lifestyle habits and crazy schedules, the telltale signs of failure start to creep in.
We have to remember that our body was basically “designed” over the centuries to function according to basic primitive needs. All we needed to do, primarily, was to eat, sleep and fight if needed. Today, of course, we place an amazing demand on our bodies by eating processed, nutritionally deficient foods, ingesting toxins and failing to recharge our bodily batteries by sleeping adequately. We should be resting even more and demanding nutritional excellence, if we are to survive, this way.
It’s hardly surprising that chronic fatigue sets in. The adrenal glands are not able to help us handle stress or regulate our blood sugar. The stress hormones overrun our nervous system, thyroid and brain function are impaired and our immunity is vulnerable. We are unable to regenerate our adrenal glands due to lack of sleep; with such a poor diet, food sensitivities result in hormonal imbalance and an inability to stop inflammation and fend off attacks.
For a majority of people, symptoms may not be chronic enough to warrant further investigation. They may just feel as if they are run down, but attribute this to their “hectic lifestyles,” something that they just have to live with. When they get low energy, they don’t recognize this as a warning sign and think that they can combat this with a “quick” junk diet, or a hectic thirty minutes in the gym, just putting additional stress and strain on their adrenal glands.
Pregnolone is one of the most important elements for building hormones in the body. When we are rundown and overstressed, the body uses pregnolone to make cortisol to handle stress. As the body becomes more stressed, additional cortisol is stolen from testosterone or DHEA, aggravating an already serious situation.
What’s the answer? Essentially, slow down, make sure that you go to sleep and wake up in harmony with the cycles of the sun, eat only a very highly nutritious diet and exercise regularly. Easier said than done?