Boost Immunity Step 5: Reduce Stress Tips to Improve Adrenals
You probably have heard of these two little glands that are perched atop your kidneys. So small yet so powerful, your adrenal glands. https://scientifichealer.com/stress
These glands are there to help push you past what you normally can do in times of stress. They secrete stimulant hormones like adrenaline, cortisol and other similar steroids to push your system into overdrive.
High levels of stress hormones are not meant to course through your body day and night. Here is the really important fact: while your adrenal glands are secreting their hormones, your body is tearing itself down. It cannot heal, or at least heal well.
The sad fact is in a modern fast-paced society like the USA, 2/3 of its citizen have failing or failed adrenal glands. All the buzzing, dinging of devices, driving in traffic, the current pandemic and now the curfews happening across America to protest the horrible acts by police has further send our adrenal glands into overdrive.
You might ask how do I know my adrenals are failed.
Here are some of the symptoms of insufficiency (could also be Addison’s disease).
- When you stand up, especially if you haven’t eaten in a while, you feel light-headed.
- When you sleep 8 or more hours but can’t wake up easily, especially if you are normally a morning person, and or feel tired until about noon or so.
- Low blood pressure
- low blood sugar or hypoglycemia
- salt cravings,
- darkening of your skin, weight loss and decreased appetite.
This also causes serious issues with your immune system and hamper brain function, leading to forgetfulness and confusion.
What is the solution to improving adrenal function and hence your immunity?
First, the fastest way to helping yourself is to take steps to relieve the stress in your life and then add practices into your life that will help get you there more quickly.
I have used these often because I am one of those that has a tendency to overthink and stress out over things. I have high expectations of myself and often bite off more than I can chew. I also feel the moods of others and until I recognized they were not my moods, I took on that stress too. I couldn’t stand up without my body shaking uncontrollably sometimes. Often I felt like I was going to faint. This is when I got the sickest.
Here are some stress busting methods:
- Improve posture
- If you have someone you feel safe with, give and get hugs.
- Have more fun. Get into the moment after a mini meditation and do something you really enjoy, a hobby, a hike or call a good friend and chat about fun stuff.
- Put on a comedy and laugh a lot. look up jokes and humor and make a collection of your favorite
- Meditate (https://scientifichealer.com/wakeupbrain)
- Take a walk or do some yoga.
- Music. Listen to gentle music, not ones with loud and angry words, but something that inspires you and makes you feel happy or want to dance to.
These are 7 of the 26 tips in my stress busting guide that I have available. To get the balance of these tips, get it here: http://scientifichealer.com/stress
Standout Quotes:
- "When you're in that high stress hyper alert state, your body is tearing itself down. And when it's tearing itself down, it's very difficult for it to heal. The thing that's really critical for advanced societies where we have all kinds of dangers and beeps and telephones and honks, cars honking and stressful traffic and stressful bosses, that those adrenal glands don't get a chance to settle down very much.”
- “One of the first signs that you'll get that your adrenals are stressed out and are starting to fail or have already failed, is your lack of the ability to get up in the morning and also that you feel tired even after a good eight hour stretch of sleep.”
- “One of the signs is when you stand up out of a chair or off of a couch or even from the floor, when you stand up, you'll feel like lightheaded and a little dizzy. You’re thinking to yourself “ooh, I must have low blood pressure”. While you do you do have low blood pressure, but it's because your adrenal glands are insufficient to help keep the blood pressure up when you stand up.
- “In your mini meditation is to sit up straight. And when you straighten your spine up and pull your shoulders back, it is an immediate stress reduction on your body -your adrenal start to calm down, especially if you're in an expanded state. Because you're telling your mind, I am safe.”
- “If you focus on three things in your brain, counting breath and an image is so long as you focused on those three things. So we're just focusing on posture and breathing and an image, even imagining yourself smiling or smiling those three things, it blocks out all other inputs. You are not going to get even pain signals in your body, you're not going to get the stress signals, you are creating a relaxed state.
- “Some people do Transcendental Meditation. That's the meditation where you sit still and focus on a candle and chant, that also does a lot of people good. Even though your thoughts might wander, but keeping focused on those, those three things that chanting the focusing on the candle and your posture.”
- “Those adrenal glands are super-duper important; they need to function in order for you to heal. And if you they are not firing, then your body is basically slowly devolving. Or if they're firing too much, and you have too much cortisol all the time, then your body is tearing itself down instead of repairing itself.”
Key Takeaways:
Your adrenal glands function in two ways. It produces stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline into your body to help it move when you're fatigued, or when you simply can't longer, or when you're terrified.
Adrenal glands are located approximately one inch above the waist and two inches from the spine. These two microscopic glands are tiny and sit directly on top of your kidneys, located towards your waistline, in your back. And many people may rub their hands together and send positive thoughts to their adrenal glands to assist in calming them down.
The adrenal glands make steroids. They help you get up in the morning because while you sleep, your Melatonin is there, keeping you calm and your body and brain shut down. And the adrenaline wakes you up in the morning.
The unfortunate reality is that around two-thirds of Americans have failed or failing adrenal glands. And some of the symptoms that indicate they are in that condition are frequently caused by Addison's disease. And while this is an autoimmune disease, you can also become highly stressed out due to your adrenal glands being continually on high alert.
Additional symptoms that you may encounter include low blood pressure, low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia. Occasionally, you will notice the darkening of your skin, particularly here or behind your armpits, in the folds of the axial sections of your body. You'll see a decrease in hunger and possibly weight loss.
It was a common belief that you couldn't relax your adrenal glands. If you were on high alert for weeks, it would take an excessive amount of time for it to dissipate from your body. The reality is that a new study has established that this is untrue. And we do have strategies for calming your adrenal system and bringing you out of your hypervigilant state.
Please take a few nice, deep breaths and concentrate on them. You are simply thinking in the present time as a result of your concentration. Therefore, by focusing on your breath and posture, you may divert your attention away from past troubles and future concerns.
Another excellent approach to relieve stress is giving and receiving hugs if you feel secure or affectionate toward someone. The human touch is crucial for destressing.
Even phoning a buddy you enjoy and laughing with them, putting on a comedy, or watching a hilarious movie can suffice. In the 1960s, a Robin relative brought this to public light when he cured himself of a condition the doctor had given up hope by watching Laurel and Hardy films all day and laughed so hard that he said laughter is the best medication meditation.
Exercise can be as simple as taking a stroll; it does not have to be rigorous; simply taking a walk or performing some simple yoga, stretching, or something similar can assist release the stress. If you've ever seen a stressed-out tiger, they'll get up and walk in circles until they calm down. That is how animals normally behave when they are worried; they pace and pace until they finally settle down. They are walking off their stress.
Listening to soothing, lullaby-like music, not rap, not aggressive music, but soothing, soft music, old classical, easy-breezy pop, that sort of thing; whatever you prefer from the 1940s is very pleasant.
When your adrenal glands calm down, your body begins to rebuild itself. Much like when you're in a stressful sleep and tossing and turning, you want to get into a deep, restful sleep where you're dreaming of going into that profound sleep where your heart beats very slowly and destresses an organ.
Episode Timeline:
[00:51] The Importance of a Functioning Adrenal Glands
[01:48] Anatomy of the Adrenal Glands
[02:42] Functions of the Adrenal Glands
[03:00] Signs and Symptoms of an overworked Adrenal Glands
[03:19] The Addison Disease
[04:31] Other complications related to Adrenal Gland Failure
[06:08] How COVID contributes stress to Adrenal Glands
[07:33] The Essence of Meditation for Adrenal Healing
[08:07] Deep, Focused Breathing Exercises
[09:21] The power of warm, genuine hugs
[09:52] Do what you love
[10:35] How Physical Activities benefit Adrenal Glands’ health
[11:48] Transcendental Meditation
[12:52] Healing powers of soft, relaxing music.
[13:54] Anastasia’s Free destressing tools on her Website
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