Step 6 to Improve Your Immunity: Nutritional/ lifestyle support with focus on your adrenal glands

Improve Your Immune Function with Nutritional – lifestyle support with focus on your adrenal glands. When I see people with exhausted adrenals, they also have overtaxed thyroid glands and livers not working well. These are your major energy supplying system. They need to function well for optimal immunity.

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Your Adrenal Glands Are Important Energy Producers

When I see people with exhausted adrenals, they also have overtaxed thyroid glands and livers not working well. These are your major energy supplying system. They need to function well for optimal immunity. 

Today, you’ll hear about nutritional support for your adrenal glands, including lifestyle, supplements, and herbs that have been very helpful for people like you that come to me for help. 

Two Proven Lifestyle Tips to Improve Your Health and Reduce Underlying Conditions

1. Your first tip: have at least 3, better 4, small feedings a day at least 3 hours apart but no more than 5. Studies have shown that keeping your blood sugar stable throughout the day reduces the stresses on the body. People that ate frequent small meals also showed reduced number of heart attacks, strokes, and inflammation leading to high cholesterol or triglycerides. In other words, they were healthier. 

2. An addendum to the meal frequency suggestion is to start meals with proteins, fats and vegetables. The purpose of this is to introduce foods that slow the uptake of blood sugar into your body, so you don’t have a rapid sugar rise and then a crash. 

Nutritional Support for Your Adrenal Glands

3. Try brain boosting foods. 

A. L-tyrosine is an amino acid and a precursor to dopamine and component of thyroid hormone. If you need it, you will notice increased mental alertness and more energy. Usually 1000 mg is enough for a morning dose taken half hour before meals to prevent food interference is enough. Good brands are inexpensive, e.g., https://amzn.to/3exBeBL  & https://amzn.to/3h9Qzd8 

B. L-carnitine helps the liver supply energy to the muscles. A therapeutic dose is 2 grams a day; it usually comes in 500 mg tablets https://amzn.to/30h9zQh  or https://amzn.to/2OxZlFW  This is not a cheap supplement because of the purity standards needed. 

C. Organic cacao powder has a very high anti-oxidant content and contains a beneficial alkaloid to your body and delicious in smoothies. You’ll have to test out which brand you like the best: https://amzn.to/2CKBBf6, https://amzn.to/395obGv  or https://amzn.to/2ZCVLRc. 

Please test things out one at a time to see if you gain any benefit from them. Keep testing until you’re on the minimum to keep you going optimally. Some people just keep taking tons of supplements, even a cup filled with pills each meal, which is expensive and unnecessary. 

Adaptogens Can Transform Your Response to Stress

4. *Adaptogens* are a class of food that help calm the anxiety or stress down or improve your response to stress (and sometimes this topic is controversial). Here are my top few that I found very helpful (and notice if I stop them). Note that you have to take them for at least 3 weeks to notice an effect. 

A. Siberian ginseng or eleuthero. Aside from helping the body cope with stress, it acts as a stimulant to the nervous system and boosts energy levels. It stimulates the immune system, stabilizes blood sugar, improves concentration and reduces the duration and intensity of respiratory infections. https://amzn.to/3fCeba3  or https://amzn.to/2WIsvXp  

B. Ashwaganda, a nightshade which you may be allergic to. You can get it in tea or powder form (doesn’t taste that good, it’s an acquired taste) https://amzn.to/3eyFSiD  or in capsules https://amzn.to/2ZAqRZy.

It has a variety of uses, such as reducing inflammation and blood pressure while increasing the activity of your immune cells and thyroid gland. 

C. Maca root powder improves libido, fertility, mood, and symptoms of adrenal fatigue. https://amzn.to/3fEIJbs  or https://amzn.to/3fEIJbs  

D. Rhodiola rosea reduces cortisol output in times of stress and increases energy/enhances concentration. You might even want to rotate the different options in and out to help with effectiveness. Pill https://amzn.to/3h8DMIc  or powder https://amzn.to/39135sQ 

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Standout Quotes:

•  “When your adrenal glands are firing, your body is tearing itself down. It is not building itself up.”
•  “The more fat you have in your diet, the longer it takes to digest.”
•  “Your adrenal glands are your first responders in times of stress.”

Key Takeaways:

•  The adrenals are the core for the body’s operation and energy production. If the adrenals start to fail, other glands and organs that supply energy to the body will be will start taking over, which causes the body to feel tired of fatigued.
•   Anastasia recommends saving the sweets or fats towards the end of a meal because our system is already digesting food and blood sugar climbs slowly and stays steady at that point.
•  In times of stress, the adrenals are the first to respond. And when those go downhill, then goes the thyroid and the liver. Once the liver goes, then you can't detoxify your blood. And then the other things that supply energy in your body start to also go downhill.

Episode Timeline:

• 0:50 “Taking Care of the Ocean”
• 1:38 The Adrenal Glands
• 3:05 Fatigue
• 3:40 Three Main Energy Producing Organs
• 4:56 Dr. Anastasia’s issues with Supplement Nutritional Support
• 6:03 How Going long Hours without Eating affect the Adrenal Glands
• 6:45 Good Stresses
• 7:31  1.  Eat at least 3 better 4 meals a day
• 9:52  2.  Eat protein and fibrous foods first (vegetables)
• 12:16  3.  Adrenal support foods and supplements
• 12:52  L-tyrosine
• 14:19  L-carnitine
• 14:57  Cacao Powder – Organic
• 15:56  4.  Adaptogens
• 16:56  Siberian Ginseng or Eleuthero
• 18:10  Ashwaganda (nightshade, so careful)
• 19:43  Maca root powder
• 20:42  Rhodiola Rosea

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