To be quite honest I’m not 100% sure that it’s adrenal fatigue I have. The reason I say that is because I have not been diagnosed by a doctor. I just “think” my adrenals are exhausted. Lol I pretty much know i’ve fatigued my adrenals. Between taking jack3d, working out like I was some kind maniac and not getting enough sleep for almost 6 months, I did it. I did it to myself. I can’t blame no one else but myself. I remember when I first started feeling the symptoms AF (adrenal fatigue). It felt horrible. I panicked. I looked in the mirror and I felt like my life was a dream. I felt like I was high on marijuana (something I absolutely hate. All of a sudden I was having flashbacks of when I was in high school and trying weed for the first time). The thing was that, I was not high. I did not smoke or ever planned on smoking weed the rest of my life. I could not believe this was happening to me.
WHY ME?….
The answer was simple: I had been an absolute idiot. I had not managed my stress properly. Heck, I never knew was stress was. Many things affect give you stress, and the worse part is that all stresses are additive and cumulative. That is, the number of stresses, whether or not you recognize them as stresses, the intensity of each stress and the frequency with which it occurs, plus the length of time it is present, all combine to form your total stress load.
Although it is impossible to exactly quantify the total stress load, your body does it every day, minute by minute, making instantaneous adjustments as these stresses change. It is when the body becomes unable to make the appropriate changes to these stresses that adrenal fatigue begins. The worse the overload relative to the ability of the body to respond, the worse the adrenal fatigue. Each person has a different capacity to handle the total stress load, and the capacity of each person varies over time and events.
One of the commonly overlooked sources of stress and resistant adrenal fatigue is chronic or severe infection. Adrenal fatigue is often precipitated by recurring bouts of bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, sinusitis, or other respiratory infections. The more severe the infection, the more frequently it occurs or the longer it lasts, the more likely it is that the adrenals are involved. Adrenal fatigue can occur after just one single episode of a particularly nasty infection, or it can take place over time as the adrenals are gradually fatigued by prolonged or recurrent infections. If there are other concurrent stresses, such as an unhappy marriage, poor dietary habits or a stressful job, the downhill ride is deeper and steeper. The reciprocal is also true; people suffering from low adrenal function often have a propensity toward respiratory illness. The next chapter will show you who is most susceptible to adrenal fatigue, and why.
The crazy thing is that basically anyone is prone to having some kind of AF through out their life. Specially if you consume loads of caffeine, don’t get enough sleep and work night shift. Your body was not designed to work out as much as we think is healthy now days. You can’t work out 6 days just so you can be under 10% body fat and be healthy at the same time. Eventually the stress you have put on your body will catch up to you.
How I plan to fight my AF (Adrenal fatigue)
The short answer to that is: To Rest. Along with good sleep (which could be considered “rest’ too). Resting and relaxing is actually way harder than I thought. I don’t do any type of physical exertion. I don’t lift weights or do any type of cardio. The cardio I can deal with out. But lifting weights I miss. The crazy thing is that I seem to get more muscle definition when I stop working out. Is like somehow I need to stop lifting weights. My body is asking me for a break and when I give it to it. It starts to produce a nice amount of testosterone, which in turn defines me nicely. Specially around the shoulders where I would always work out.
The reality is that it is really tough to not work out. I constantly have to remind myself that “I’m doing this to get better and that later in the future I can always work out again. but the focus is to heal my body that way I can feel better. There’s no point in looking good when I don’t feel good.”
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