So, I'm currently sitting in the patient area at Stream Diagnostics, undergoing a glucose test (to be the subject of a future post) and was thinking how helpful patient blogs were to me when I was diagnosed with Graves Disease a few years ago (my thyroid was removed in 2013) so I decided to start one about adrenal fatigue to record my journey back to health.
Based on my first read through of Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Street Syndrome, I've identified fifteen behaviour changes I need to make, which seems much more than enough to get started with even though I know if I read it again there would be a bunch more. So in this blog I will tackle each one in turn and write a post about how it goes. Here is the list in no particular order -
Things to start:
- exercise daily
- meditate daily
- go to bed (lights out) by 9pm, so I can get 8 hours sleep
- scheduled unstructured time into the week
- do yoga
- take the supplements recommended by my doctor
- put salt on food
- drink water and add salt
- take annual vacations
- chew each mouthful of food 30 - 60 times before swallowing
Things to stop:
- drinking caffeinated drinks - tea, coffee, hot chocolate
- drinking alcohol
- eating chocolate
- staring at screens before bed
- eating fruit in the morning
- eating commercially prepared peanut butter
As I participated in FebFast, a charity event in which you give up alcohol for a month, stopping alcohol will be my first behaviour change post. I will also work through all the medical tests I have taken and what they all mean (as best I can).
Resources
Book: Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome by James Wilson and Jonathan V Wright
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