Owning vs. Renting an E-Bike: Which Suits You Best?
Anyone who regularly travels around urban areas will no doubt be aware that e-bikes are continually growing in popularity.
Your adrenal glands produce hormones critical for your health, including a number of undiscovered hormones as well as adrenaline, cortisol, and hormones that in turn regulate the production of sex hormones such as estrogen and testosterone. Medical research and science are only at the beginning stages of understanding what role the adrenal glands really play in our bodies and how they affect our health. The primary trigger for your adrenal glands is stress, which causes them to produce extra amounts of hormones such as adrenaline.
This is an excellent survival mechanism built into your body for short-term emergencies, as the additional hormones are likely to help you get through whatever crisis is occurring. If the stress continues over a long period, however—for example, if you’re going through a bankruptcy, a divorce, breakup, betrayal, the death of a loved one, or some other cause of severe emotional turmoil—your adrenal glands may eventually become weakened from being on continual “hyperdrive.” Undergoing a very substantial amount of stress in even a relatively short period can also overstrain the adrenals; a common example is childbirth, which requires an enormous amount of adrenaline.
In fact, medical communities are unaware that overstrained adrenals are one reason for postpartum fatigue and depression—these struggles are often the result of adrenal glands becoming so exhausted after the process of childbirth that they lose the strength to produce enough of the right hormones at the right times to keep the mother strong, vibrant, and happy. When your adrenal glands become overextended, they have the equivalent of a nervous breakdown and behave erratically.
Some alternative medicine doctors believe that when the adrenals partially “burn out,” they simply stop producing the full amount of hormones needed. That’s an oversimplification of the complex role these glands play in reacting to moment-by-moment emotional and environmental changes. What really happens is that instead of operating in a rock-steady manner that creates precisely the right amount of hormones for each new situation, exhausted adrenals may produce too little or too much hormone—something like the massive mood swings in someone with bipolar disorder. For example, a temporary bout of depression can result when out-of-control adrenals wildly overreact to a situation and flood you with too much adrenaline. The excess adrenaline may in turn burn away your brain’s neurotransmitter chemicals.
One of those neurotransmitters, out of many, is dopamine. All neurotransmitter chemical compounds are vital to your feeling stable and happy, so a lack of them can leave you feeling depressed. It’s this variable behavior producing adrenal extremes on either the low or the high side at any moment that characterizes genuine adrenal fatigue.
While alternative doctors don’t grasp all the nuances of adrenal fatigue, they’re way ahead of some mainstream doctors who don’t even recognize that this illness exists. The truth is that adrenal fatigue has been with us since the start of the human race. What’s changed is how pervasive it’s become—thanks to our fast-paced and stress-filled times, as well as the explosion of pathogens that started in the 20th century, plus toxic heavy metal exposure, which is rampant. Because of the Quickening, over 95 percent of us will undergo adrenal fatigue multiple times in our lives.
Adrenaline plays a vital role in dreams (when you’re running in a dream, for example, your adrenals become stimulated and release the hormone), so in extreme cases of adrenal fatigue, some people are unable to dream enough for the needs of the mind, soul, and spirit.
Book an onilne Healing Session or Healing Retreat with Healer Omar Botha
Anyone who regularly travels around urban areas will no doubt be aware that e-bikes are continually growing in popularity.
Ready to check out the best trails in Lithuania for hiking, mountain biking, climbing or other outdoor activities?
Seeds are small, but pack a huge nutritional punch. Despite their small size, these superfoods have a lot to offer in terms of nutrition.
Have you or someone you love been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or psoriatic arthritis (PA)?
With delicate, white floral bouquets atop long branches, the anise plant lends a lovely look to any yard or wild field. Related to fennel and Queen Anne’s lace, anise (Pimpinella anisum) is originally native to the eastern Mediterranean region.
Why Men Need More Platonic Touch in their Lives. In preparing to write about the lack of gentle touch in men’s lives, I right away thought, “I feel confident I can do platonic touch, but I don’t necessarily trust other men to do it.
To pull fresh produce out of storage in the middle of winter is to be transported back to the long, warm days of summer. Root crops are some of the easiest to store, whether you have a root cellar or an unheated garage or basement.
Remembering What We've Forgotten We Knew. When I lived on the Isle of Lewis, every morning when I woke up and opened the shutters, I looked out onto the silhouetted form of a sleeping woman in the hills to the east of us.
DW Esperanza Resort is designed to help guests relax, escape, and be pampered. Resort offers stuning natural beauty, superb accommodation, acclaimed dining and entertainment.
Berries have been shown to be some of the healthiest foods on the planet. It seems new research is constantly being published and berries are being recognized and analyzed for their health giving properties.
Psychotropic Drugs: The Hidden Danger Of These Common Pharmaceuticals. Are You At Risk? Psychotropic drugs and medications often used to treat anxiety, depression, and insomnia are mind-altering drugs.