You cannot climb out of bed in the morning and in the afternoon you get hit by an incredible fatique?
Even a ton of coffee does not really help you?
Try this strange trick, in order to stay fit and powerful all day long. It is plain and simple! All you need are three simple ingredients and one of them is a glass of ordinary water!
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Do you suffer from Adrenal Fatique?
Your adrenal glands are two so-called endocrine hormone glands which set their „product“ directly inwards, into the bloodstream.
They are located on the kidneys. Once you find yourself in a stressful situation your adrenal glands produce adrenaline /epinephrine, norepinephrine and the stress hormone cortisol.
This hormone is better known as „Fight or Flight“ mechanism. This is a holdover from the Stone Age, in which you had to decide very quickly in stressful situations, whether you flight or fight (probably futile) against a saber-toothed tiger or something else.
Your body was and still is designed to deal with short-term stress. If your stress (whether physical or mental) never really ends, lots of problems will occur!
It’s just like a frog being put into a pot and every hour the temperature is raised by 2 °. The frog will not notice anything, until it is eventually cooked.
According to that you can consider yourself being the frog. Drawn into a slow process of continuous stress, (subjectively probably even considered as not very stressful at all) perhaps even considered as normal.
Just the way a modern life is meant to be. This slow but steady long-term stress might slowly put you down.
How exactly this mechanism works and how coffee might affect it, you can read in more detail in this article:
https://bernd-stoesslein.de/warum-sie-keinen-kaffee-trinken-sollten/
Here is a list of six common problems and possible symptoms of weakened adrenal glands:
- You feel totally down every morning and need masses of caffeine to get into gear?
- You feel yourself often burned out or overstrained?
- You cannot fall asleep and you wake up several times?
- You are strangely moody, especially emotional and / or often frustrated?
- You often suffer from fatigue (especially in the afternoon and between 3 and 5 p.m.)
- You get sick very quick and stay ill very long?
If you have at least one of these questions answered with yes, then you might also suffer from weakened adrenals (adrenal fatigue).
To prevent this symptoms and to support your adrenal health, I recommend the following to you.
Drink salt water with lime juice
Strange? Maybe, but definitely effective!
So, first thing in the morning, after getting up have a glass of water (0.33l) with freshly squeezed lime juice and a quarter of a teaspoon of Himalayan salt! (Every other colored salt will work as well).
Three ingredients with positive properties:
- Optimize your acid-base balance
- Regenerate your adrenal glands
- Increase your energy levels
- Fight „Adrenal Fatigue“
Why a lime might make you happy
In German there’s a proverb: “Sauer macht lustig” Which literally translated means: “ Sour makes you happy”
But in fact it isn’t very funny for your body being in an acid state for too long.
Why a balanced acid-base balance is important for your health you can read in this article:
http: //bernd-stoesslein.de/ionisiertes-wasser-teil-1-von-3/
The fantastic thing about limes or lemons is, that they taste very sour, but their pH-Value is alkaline!
Here are 6 positive properties of limes / lemons:
- Clean your blood
- Clean you liver and your kidneys
- Support you with vitamin C to strengthen your immune system
- Support you with Calcium, Phosphor and important B-vitamins
- Might help with digestion and pyrosis
- Might palliate flatulence, diarrhea and blockage
You can give half a lime in your salt- Himalaya-water. The other half can easily stored in the refrigerator (even up to two weeks!) After that it will loose its flavor.
If you do not buy individually packaged lime then make sure that no mold has formed under the plastic package!
Pay attention to the 4 or 5 small lines emerging from the stipe. The higher the number of lines, the higher the mineral content of the fruit.
Special thanks at this point to my Strength Coach, Wolfgang Unsöld from Your Personal Strength Institute, Stuttgart, who has given me the positive benefits of lime juice and Himalayan Salt in the morning. Each of his clients gets this special drink, no exception!
Why your salt should have a color
Colors make everything more beautiful and much more healthy!
From now on only use colored salt variations. It does not have to be Himalayan Salt all the time.
Here are 7 of the healthiest and most delicious types of salt and its colors:
- Himalaya Salt
- Black Hawaiian Sea Salt, enriched with active coal
- Green Bamboo Hawaiian Sea Salt
- Alaea Red Hawaiian Sea Salt
- Persian Blue Salt
- Viking Smoked Salt
- Australian Murray River Salt
Stay away from ordinary cooking salt (Sodium Chloride). You should also get rid of “good” ingredients such as iodine or fluoride in your salt! At least if you want to keep a clear mind.
Why this might be useful and why you should descale your brain you will learn in this article:
Just buy a good and cheap Himalayan salt. If you like it a bit more exotic, I recommend practical small portion sizes, from Hawaii. Incredible taste by all three of them!
Why (colored) salt is healthy
Probably you’re asking yourself one question while reading this article: “ Wait a second, isn’t it unhealthy to consume a lot of salt ?”
Well, it is! But only if you stick to industrial proceeded salt (with additives)!
Natural, colored salt is very healthy and even relieves your adrenal glands by fighting „Adrenal Fatigue“.
With your adrenal glands being overstrained and “burned out” all the time it’s hard for them to produce a sufficient amount of aldosterone!
So if your aldosterone level drops, you may also have your sodium blood level lowered and salt is excreted through your urine.
In order to compensate or prevent this loss it is beneficial to have a quarter teaspoon of colored salt in a glass of water enriched by freshly squeezed lime juice! Just the right thing if your cortisol and sodium levels are low.
At this point you should notice that the body doesn’t always require a high cortisol level! The most beneficial time for a high cortiso level is in the morning and right before/during you workout (up to approximately a one hour workout routine).
A permanent increase in cortisol level may in fact have a negative effect on your muscle growth!
Drink your „lime salt water“ only in the morning. Timing is everything. And more is not always better!
You are what you eat or: Can you eat stress?
Do you suffer from Adrenal Fatigue and may already be under constant stress?
Then you might want to have a look at your eating habits and avoid what might increase your stress levels.
To be durably fit, I recommend in addition to lime salt water the following:
No Sugar
One of the urban myths par excellence which unfortunately still too often sticks in the minds of many people is that sugar (such as, Dex … energy ….) increases your mental efficiency!
There is a direct interaction of low blood sugar level and Adrenal Fatigue:
When simple sugars will in fact almost immediately be absorbed by your body and increase your attention span explosively, it will go down after about 20 minutes just as quickly as it rose up and you will be more down than before!
This process is very stressful for your adrenal glands and therefore you should avoid consuming simple sugars in order to increase your cognitive abilities!
How and when you can use simple sugars usefully, especially maltodextrin, you can find out in this article:
No alcohol
Alcohol is basically a true muscle toxin!
Avoid drinking alcohol and don’t get fooled by studies*, which want to tell you that a glass of red wine a day can replace physical training. Come on, don’t be ridiculous! You would need about 1300 glasses of red wine a day !!!
*Here’s the study: Improvements in skeletal muscle strength and cardiac function induced by resveratrol During exercise workout Contribute to enhanced exercise performance in rats.
Link (in english): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22473781 [1]
In this article, there is a nice and simple analysis of why this is nonsense.
http://examine.com/blog/can-red-wine-replace-exercise/ [2]
Red wine may be healthy, but it will not work miracles! At this point I would like to point out that you should always question all studies!
Don’t start drinking in order to be cool or for relaxation! This will only lead to further adrenal fatigue. In addition to that you will get dehydrated by the alcohol and your B-vitamins are flooded out from the body.
Last but not least your testosterone levels decrease by alcohol consumption and you will get 7 kcal of energy from 1g of alcohol!
Less Coffee
If you go for coffee, get a freshly ground coffee, of which you you know where it comes from and what’s really inside.
Here again goes the old saying of Paracelsus: „The dosage makes the poison.“
I would recommend two cups a day! Preferably early in the morning and before your workout.
By the way, the most expensive coffee in the world is the „cat coffee“ called „Kopi Luwak“, which is secreted by a somalian cat after it ate the beans. Did you know that?
Birds of a feather flock together
Bums with bums, managers with managers, strength athletes with strength athletes, etc. Birds of a feather flock together!
You get automatically attracted by people with common interests. Surely you have realized that some people are within your way of thinking and others are totally not!
But this doesn’t mean that a way of thinking is always a positive one. Nowadays it’s common to be surrounded by people who put you down or you are forced to surround yourself with negative individuals.
In German ther’s a proverb: „Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing“. Literally translated this means: I’ll sing the song of the man who gives me bread”! Which means it might often be the case that you’re forced to spend time with negative people, for example during work etc.
But in the end you do have a a choice with whom you surround yourself! So get rid of people who spit their poisoned venom by telling you negative things and tearing you down to their level.
Surround yourself with positive people who lift you up and give you strength!
Even if your circle of „friends“ may be shrinking by such eliminations in its size, it will only gain quality!
Conclusion
Boost your energy level with a glass of fresh lime and Himalaya Salt in the morning to cure or prevent adrenal fatigue.
Stay away from ordinary cooking salt, especially with additives like fluoride and iodine!
Use only naturally colored salt for your kickstart drink in the morning, as well as for your meals.
Surround yourself with positive people and an anabolic environment!
Lift heavy, but smart!
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Literature:
[1] J Physiol. 2012 Jun 1;590(Pt 11):2783-99. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.230490. Epub 2012 Apr 2.
Improvements in skeletal muscle strength and cardiac function induced by resveratrol during exercise training contribute to enhanced exercise performance in rats.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22473781
[2] Can drinking wine really replace exercise? Posted by KamalPatel on Jan 30, 2015
http://examine.com/blog/can-red-wine-replace-exercise/
More useful links:
http://empoweredsustenance.com/adrenal-fatigue-recovery/
http://keinfitnessstudio.blogspot.de/2014/08/beforenafter-tipp-17-trink-salzwasser.html
