How do I recover from adrenal fatigue?
Given the results from my recent Adrenal Stress Index panel, is it recommended that I cut out caffeine/stimulants? I normally just have one cup of coffee in the am and then Light Speed™ pre-workout. What supplements should I take for recovery of my adrenal glands?
Why is a Personal Trainer Talking About Disease Treatment – Disclaimer
Since this is on my site, before I answer your question, I have to cover my own legal behind by saying that what we are talking about here is adrenal insufficiency, not Addison’s disease. So everyone gets it: I am not talking about the treatment or cure of Addison’s, or any other, disease. I am talking about nutritional supplementation to bolster a sub-optimal health state.
The reason that I am talking about adrenal fatigue, and the reason that I screen my clients for it, and then make a recommendation as to how they can help themselves, is because adrenal insufficiency is a hurdle that stands between my clients and the achievement of their physical goals.
Though many doctors are aware of the syndrome, many are not. Some are willing to conduct the salivary panel, called the Adrenal Stress Index panel, while some maintain – incorrectly, in my opinion – that a blood test will detect the problem. Without going into a full discussion of the political battle surrounding “traditional” versus “alternative” care, I will say that, in my opinion, Addison’s disease, and for that matter, all disease, results from a sub-optimal nutritional state in the body.
Sub-optimal nutritional state means that, for whatever reason, the body does not have the nutritional reserve to meet the demands placed upon it by internal or external circumstances. Left untreated, disease ultimately results. In my opinion, traditional medicine, while very skilled at treating disease, needs to take a note from alternative healthcare and work on treating causative factors.
Therefore, my personal stance is that disease is the penultimate result of nutritional insufficiency, and as such, is fully preventable. To illustrate using another example: we didn’t just all of a sudden go through a huge recession because it just “happened”. There were plenty of warning signs along the way, if you knew what to look for. Disease, and the road thereto, is identifiable and preventable, if you know what to look for.
Since I am in the business of producing healthier, leaner, stronger, and or faster bodies, I feel it of significant value to screen, detect, and make recommendation for the treatment of sub-clinical, sub-optimal states of function in the human body. For just as there are warning signs of disease, so are there warning signs of less-than-optimal health…if you know what to look for.
