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With adrenal fatigue, you’re in that constant state of fight or flight from the stress that leads to all kinds of weight gain and storage of fat around the midsection of your body.

To combat this, what you should do is completely unplug and turn it off for around half an hour a day. Go for a walk, look at a tree, a bird, a cloud, or go outside at night and look at the stars.

Computers stress the body—in fact, all of those blue-light-emitting devices do. And people experiencing sleep problems because of adrenal fatigue should stay as far away from them as they can—especially near bedtime.

I’m sensitive to energy, and I don’t even like using my cell phone because I feel like it is microwaving my brain. I strongly believe computers, cell phones, tablets, and smart phones—that the stress of the blue light upon our system and the stress of this huge expanse of information we can never read or begin to study is stress in and of itself.

For people really having adrenal problems, you may even want to move that digital alarm clock across the room. You don’t even need that amount of light shining on your eyes at night. Plus, all it does is to remind you, hour by hour that passes, that you’re not sleeping.

You just watch the a.m. rapidly approaching, knowing you have to get up to an exhausting day. And that can cause more stress.

It’s ridiculously easy to gain weight as you age. There's no need to binge or try at all— it just happens.

Here’s why it is so easy to accumulate fat after 35.

It starts with a silent war waged between fat and muscle.

After thirty- five, your body fat rises 1 percent per year unless you take specifc action to build more muscle and fight the war.

Afer forty, you lose muscle mass gradually. By age fifty, you’ve lost, on average, 15 percent of your lean body mass. By seventy, it’s 30 percent loss per decade!

There's a name for age-related loss of muscle: sarcopenia.

Some of the decline is due to the loss of testosterone, the hormone that builds muscle and stimulates growth and repair. Some of the muscle loss is due to another hormone that belongs to the family of growth factors, myostatin, which is a powerful negative regulator of the size of your skeletal muscles, so you want to keep it low.

It turns out that myostatin may control loss of muscle mass in aging women, although the full story is still unfolding.

You lose fast-twitch muscle fibers first, the ones that put a spring in your step and allow you to jump and sprint. The fast-twitch fibers wane before you start to lose your aerobic capacity.

Old fat ages badly. Think of butter or lard sitting out on your kitchen counter for a few months. In other words, body fat is not inert. Aging makes you fat, and then your fat makes you age— it’s a vicious cycle that’s hard to break.

Not all fat is bad; brown fat in your neck and back keeps your body warm and your metabolism high. But white fat, particularly in your belly, where it’s called visceral fat, invades your inner organs, injecting them with inflammatory messengers like interleukin-6 and TNF-alpha. These cause the low-grade burn that makes you wrinkled and stiff.

While aging is inevitable, fat gain is not. I am going to share strategies and solutions that will help you break out of the cycle.

Intermittent fasting has incredible health benefits from improving blood sugar, insulin sensitivity and fat burning to autophagy, stem cell recruitment and deep cellular healing.

Doing a 16-18 hour fast a few times a week and even bumping this up to a 24 hour fast, once a week can have an incredible impact on your body's ability to cleanse, heal and regenerate itself.

You can also do a 3 or 5 day fast or a partial fast to further enhance the benefits of ketosis, autophagy and stem cell recruitment.

The most common question I get when it comes to any type of fasting is what are you able to drink to continue to get the benefits without "breaking" the fast.

In this podcast, I go over what you can drink when fasting! If you are intermittent fasting or doing an extended fast, there are certain things you can drink that will not impact your blood sugar, insulin or autophagy.

05:20 How many calories can you consume before slowing down autophagy?

06:18 Keep things moving in your body like a river

07:39 What teas are great to drink while fasting?

11:14 Does taking apple cider vinegar break your fast?

12:21 How does apple cider vinegar reduce cravings?

14:03 How fast do you metabolize coffee?

17:34 What is on the ‘maybe’ list?

19:37 Should you put collagen in your coffee to extend your fast?

20:50 What does stevia produce in our body?

--->To listen, go to the link in my story or go to Apple iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts and find the latest episode of the Dr Jockers Functional Nutrition podcast.

Embrace your body and your health.♥️

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
How much disease it has fought off.
How many times it could have failed but battled on,
how many ways it could have broken but did not.

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
And each day it has done this amazing job,
without your help,
without your approval,
your acceptance,
your kindness.

Each day it has soldiered on,
regardless of the constant stream of negativity,
pulsing its way from your brain to your cells.
Not good enough.
Not attractive enough.
Not the right shape.

Perhaps it’s time to see your body for what is truly is,
An amazing and mind-blowingly competent machine.
To get your soul to where it needs to be in this life.
To let you live.

I wonder if you know,
how much better you would be as a team.
I wonder.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I wish I Knew’: https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ

Art by The Ronald West Gallery

The human body is more aware of its conditions than what the brain tells us and we often misunderstand what our cravings actually mean. Common food cravings are associated with a nutrient deficiency guised as the brownie which feeds our need for a temporary and immediate mood regulator but not the innate health problem at hand.

1) Salty Food Cravings:

Craving salty foods can indicate that you are suffering from adrenal fatigue and possible trace mineral deficiencies (1). When your body is lacking in essential nutrients it can lead to chemical imbalances which alter the pH of your tissues. It can also increase inflammation and disrupt and create hormonal imbalances as in the case of the adrenal hormone aldosterone, which changes fluid viscosity leading to low blood pressure and the poor release of digestive juices.

2) Sweet Foods:

Blood sugar imbalances are most often to blame for those urges to eat something sweet. Diets rich in high glycemic carbs and simple sugars are addictive and cause insulin spikes which trigger the release of a feel good neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin. The spike later leads to a drop in these neurotransmitters. When serotonin levels drop, your brain craves a sugar high again.

3) Dark Chocolate Cravings:

Chocolate cravings may be a subtle, but highly important symptom to note of a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium deficiencies are one of the most common and overlooked nutrient deficiencies affecting an estimated 80% of Americans (8). Hundreds of physiological processes rely on magnesium to fuel muscle movement, hormone production, cardiovascular health, central nervous system function and stimulate digestive processes.

—->See article on 5 Food Cravings on DrJockers.com for more info on this topic!

Take note!!!!