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Adrenal Restoration: From Fatigue & Stress to Performance

Adrenal Restoration: From Fatigue & Stress to Performance

Adrenal exhaustion and feeling Burned Out is very common in our modern-day lifestyle. Most of us live a lifestyle or experience environmental factors that put the adrenals into stress.

Stress is our body’s natural way of responding to any perceived threat. When we feel threatened, our bodies respond by releasing hormones that rouse the body for emergency action. A stressful event can trigger the “fight or flight” response, causing hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol to surge through the body.

When stress is the norm, we might run into 'adrenal fatigue'.

Supporting a balanced response to daily stressors is important for maintaining overall health of our bodies and minds.

Recommended herbal formulas to restore adrenals health:

•  OS-25 Adrenal Restorative
•  OS-Gin
•  Adaptogen R3
•  AdrenaVen

The key Herbs: Ginseng - Siberian Ginseng, Eleuthero | Licorice | Cordyceps mushroom | Ashwagandha

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Signs & Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue

The most common signs are:

•  Feeling ‘burnt up’, worn out, fatigue, energy drops, feeling like running on low battery
•  Lack of motivation and excitement
•  A rising need for stimulants and uppers such as coffee, energy boosters, sugar - that in turn do not provide the boost as before.
•  A need for rest.
•  Typically in winter: lower back pain, feeling cold
•  Compromised sexual function. Feeling tired immediately after sex
•  Compromised ability to execute projects. Post-phoning tasks and projects Difficulty to concentrate, to be sharp and alert

Lifestyle recommendations to restore adrenal health

Sleep

It’s not just how many hours of sleep you get - It’s WHEN you get your sleep: Switch your sleep cycle to getting sleep in the early night and wake up / work from the early morning. One typically needs 6-8 hours of sleep, but the 4 most critical hours to sleep according to Ayurveda, are between 10 Pm and 2 am. Try to get get to bed around 10 pm or the latest before midnight. If you need extra hours to work, it is much healthier to get up early morning like 5 am than to work into the late night.

Nutrition: Avoid stimulants

The 2 most common stimulants that weaken your adrenals and kidneys are coffee and sugar.

• Try to minimize sugar kicks and try to keep it to 1 cup of coffee a day. Avoid relying on a 2nd or 3rd cup of coffee as a boost, as it actually weakens you if your adrenals are weak.

• Add more B and C vitamins to your diet.

Lifestyle: Try to minimize noise and stimulation.

• Try to reduce a state of constant "on alert” mode Some examples:

• Turn off or minimize notifications on your mobile phone. Avoid the constant interruptions and instead, check your updates/messages/notifications altogether every 1-2 hours. Avoid living an ongoing "high alert” mode.

• Avoid TV Ads - these are stimulants that bombard your attention and therefore weakens your adrenals. Switch to watching media ‘on-demand’ without ads. Meditate - Even for a few minutes a few times a day. Take 5-10 minutes of meditation break to center yourself.