Stress hormones can cause female and male hormone problems,
weight gain, and chronic illness. How can this be true?
Cortisol, epinephrine, and other stress hormones can drain
you bodies health, vitality and even contribute to
infertility unless you learn how to control these stress
hormones.
What you eat and how you handle stress can drive you body
into blood sugar instability, weight gain, sleep
disturbance and exhaustion that lead to weight gain and
chronic illness.
Adrenal glands are stress handling glands that produce a
variety of hormones that help you handle all types of
stress-mental, emotional or physical. The adrenals function
to keep your body in a dynamic balance during whatever
external or internal changes or challenges you face.
They control fluid balance, blood sugar balance,
inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses, and immune
system response. You can see why the control indirectly
your looks and weight.
The adrenals produce steroid hormones which are the
hormones that determine overall strength, and stamina. They
are the backup to the sex hormones, and so are vital for
everything from fertility to pregnancy to menopause and
include anti-aging hormones. Adrenal glands produce their
variety of hormones and release them directly into the
blood stream , where they are carried to virtually all the
cells of the body. Adrenal health is the key to health and
anti-aging.
A healthy diet will help balance blood sugar and hormone
levels, help with adrenal fatigue, prevent energy and mood
ups and downs, and promote proper weight.
What is a proper healthy diet? You have heard about the
Mediterranean diet and it is probably the best place to
start and then modify to your preferences.
Eat every two hours, always add protein to your meals and
snacks, eat real whole, fresh food, salt your food with sea
salt and drink plenty of water.
When you eat every two hours you relieve the stress
handling hormones of the task of keeping your blood sugar
levels normal between meals that gives them a break.
Epinephrine and cortisol are responsible for this,they also
cause weight gain so you do not want an excess in you blood
stream. Eating frequently, but only the right foods keeps
you blood sugar levels normal without the addition of
stress hormones. Avoid dead, junk foods. These foods
cannot rebuild a healthy body. They are missing nutrients
and rob the remaining nutrient stores from your body. Avoid
trans fats they interfere with the functions of the cell
membranes. Minimize fruit and fruit juices, drink pure
water as your primary beverage or decaffeinated green and
herbal teas. Low salt diets contribute to adrenal fatigue,
so use sea salt on your food it looks and taste like
regular salt but contains trace minerals that have been
refined out of regular salt.
What to eat? Seven or more servings of vegetables and
fruits should be you daily goal. Vegetables and fruits
should be fresh not frozen or canned. Eat a natural source
of protein, organic meats, vegetable protein including
peas, beans, lentils, and nuts. Eat organic grains in
their whole form and as sprouts in bread. The majority of
your diet should be proteins, fats and vegetables next
complex carbohydrates such as whole grain breads, and
grains. Fruit should be the smallest and the last
category. There is no room in a healthy stress free diet
for margarine, vegetable shortening, commercially prepared
foods.
Relax and consider yourself blessed to know what you know
about health and apply what you know to live a long stress
free life.
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Kathy Wright is a beauty and wellness expert, author,
speaker and CEO of B&P Company the manufactures of
Frownies Beauty patch and skin care line. Read other
articles written by Kathy at http://www.frownies.com/tips
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