How to recover from Adrenal Fatigue

So you've wondered what is adrenal fatigue and you've ran the home tests or maybe your Naturopath has diagnosed you, OR maybe you just want to do what you can to keep your adrenals in tip top condition? I have been reading a fab book by James L Wilson called "Adrenal Fatigue - The 21st Century Stress Syndrome" and I recommend it.  I have had the copy for my library for way way to long and must return this book as there are others waiting for it, sorry if this is you.

Healing from adrenal fatigue really just involved leading a primal lifestyle - eating whole foods, avoiding foods that cause aggravation and embracing a lifestyle that involves rest, relaxation and connection.  I seriously could write you a blog that would take you three weeks to read on what to do to achieve this, but with the library fine pending I am lifting a review straight from the book by Wilson.  It's a lovely bullet pointy overview.  I hope you find it helpful. 

• Be in bed before 10pm (I call this PaleO'Clock).
• Sleep in until 9am whenever possible (yeh right).
• Look for things that make you laugh.
• Eliminate energy robbers from your life (people who drain you).
• Make your lifestyle a healing one.
• Do something pleasurable every day.
• Whenever you are not enjoying your life read this and find a way to deal with it.
• Notice one small thing every day that you are grateful for.
• Take your supplements regularly.
• Move your body and breathe deeply.
• Believe in your ability to recover.
• Use your mind as a powerful healing tool.
• Keep a journal and jot down your daily experiences.
• Eat the foods your body needs.
• Learn which foods disagree with you and eliminate them.
• Salt your food, salt your water.
• If you eat sweet things, combine them with fats.
• Combine starchy carbohydrates, protein and fat at every meal.
• Eat an abundance of whole food.
• Eat lots of coloured vegetables.
• Chew chew chew chew and chew your food.
• Take the power and responsibility of your own health into your own hands.
• Make the lifestyle changes needed to make you regain your health.
• Laugh several times a day.
• Enjoy your recovery.
• Consider taking 1,000mg of vitamin C complex with 200mg magnesium and pantothenic acid at 2pm daily to avoid the 3-4pm low.

and I would like to add:

• Focus on healing your gut as all heath starts in the gut.
• Make rest a priority, it is part of the cycle.
• Get out in nature.
• Meditate, nap or lie with your feet up for 20mins after lunch.
• Practice yoga.
• Remember "life is not an emergency".
• Take care of yourself first so that you can take care of others.
• Breathe fresh air.

Avoid these things

• Getting overtired.
• Caffeine, sugar, alcohol and white flour products.
• Coffee, even decaf.
• Staying up past 11pm (avoiding your second wind)
• Pushing yourself.
• Energy suckers.
• Being harsh or negative with yourself.
• Foods you are addicted too. (these tend to be what's making you ill).
• Foods you suspect and allergy or sensitivity to.
• Foods that make you feel worse, cloudy or pull you down.
• Never skip breakfast.
• Avoid fruit in the morning.
• Never eating starchy carbs by themselves.
• Do not eat foods that adversely affect you in anyway, no matter how good they taste or how much you crave them.

and I would like to add these to the avoid list:

• Over exercising.
• Becoming too hungry.
• Letting yourself become uncomfortable in anyway e.g. too hot, too cold, need the toilet and holding on.
• Grains. refined sugar, dairy.
• Household chemicals.
• Cosmetic chemicals.
• Fasting.

So there you go Fallsy, nothing too new really hey?  I hope you enjoyed!!