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Foods for Adrenal Fatigue Recovery

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Finding the right balance of foods for adrenal fatigue was a helpful part of my recovery. Because of adrenal fatigue, I had severe hypoglycemia which meant I needed to eat every two hours. And I was drawn to foods which gave me a boost, including sugar and caffeine. Understanding how foods affect my body helps me to keep my adrenals feeling strong.

According to AdrenalFatigue.org, when your adrenals respond to stress your cell metabolism speeds up, burning many nutrients. With adrenal fatigue, the cells have used up much of the body’s stored nutrients, creating a nutritional void. Good quality food is the best source for replenishing these nutrients. 

When to Eat

Eating frequently is helpful for the balance between adrenals and  blood sugar. Basically, if you feel hungry, it’s too late. Your blood sugars are starting to drop and the adrenals are being stressed. Here is a quick guide for when to eat to support adrenals:

  • In the morning, eating soon after waking is important for people with adrenal fatigue. For me, and others with adrenal fatigue, eating before 10:00 AM can make a big difference in our energy.
  • For lunch, eating before noon, ideally between 11-11:30 AM is best
  • Between 2-3 PM eat a nutritious snack to sustain your body during the afternoon. Typically, cortisol dips between 3-4 PM. If you wait until 3:30 PM for a snack, most likely you will crave sugar or caffeine!
  • For dinner, eating between 5 and 6 PM is best
  • Late evening before bed, a small service of good fat and protein can help with sleep

What to Eat and Drink

For those of us experiencing adrenal fatigue, a good meal and snack combines fat, protein and complex carbohydrates (vegetables). This combination helps provide a steady stream of energy throughout the day. Sugary snacks or highly processed foods convert too quickly, and do not provide lasting energy. They can also cause sugar crashes, or hypoglycemia.

Salt

In most cases of adrenal fatigue, good salt is beneficial. Interestingly, cravings for salt can be an indicated of adrenal weakness. Unless you are one of the rare people with adrenal fatigue and high blood pressure, add some salt to your food 1. Sea salt or Celtic salts are preferred because they have more beneficial nutrients (and they taste good).

Proteins

Good quality protein such as grass fed beef, fish, free range chicken, omega-3 eggs, dairy from grass fed cows (and/or raw mild) and various plant sources (legumes, nuts and seeds) are beneficial in supporting adrenals. Try to avoid processed proteins such as packaged lunch meats and processed cheeses. Proteins generally have more nutritional value and are easier to digest when eaten lightly cooked or raw.

Vegetables

Vegetables are an important part of supporting adrenals. With each meal aim for 2 vegetable servings of a wide variety of vegetables, especially those that are naturally highly colored (bright green, red, orange, yellow or purple). Vegetables provide essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and a high amount of fiber. It is a good idea to vary how you prepare vegetables, because different nutrients are made available through different cooking methods. Personally, my body has much more energy eating raw, rather than cooked, vegetables.

Fruit

Dr. Wilson notes that people with adrenal fatigue and blood sugar problems should go lightly on fruits, especially in the morning. Personally, with struggling adrenals, if I ate fruit in the morning I felt pretty nauseous and ill by lunchtime. With stronger adrenals I can eat a little fruit in the morning if accompanied by protein and a little fat.

According to Dr. Wilson, fruits contain a significant amount of fructose and potassium, which is a detrimental combination for those with exhausted adrenals. However, Wilson says it is preferable that any fruit that you do eat is organically grown. Hey, we do the best we can. Below is a short list of fruits people with adrenal fatigue tend to do well with, and ones to avoid or notice if they make you feel bad:

Preferred fruits:

  • Papaya
  • Mango
  • Plums
  • Pears
  • Kiwi
  • Apples
  • Grapes (a few)
  • Cherries
  • Strawberries
  • Blueberries
  • Blackberries

Fruits that might make you feel bad:

  • Bananas
  • Raisins
  • Dates
  • Figs
  • Oranges
  • Grapefruit

Easy Guidelines

Here are some easy guidelines which are simply and make loads of sense!

  • Eat a wide variety of whole, natural, unprocessed foods
  • Combine a healthy fat, protein and carbohydrate source with every meal
  • Eat lots of vegetables, especially the brightly colored ones. Raw is even better
  • Salt your food to a pleasant taste using good salt like Real Salt or Himalayan Salt
  • Eat mainly whole grains (avoiding gluten)
  • Combine grains with legumes (beans), or legumes with seeds or nuts to form a complete protein
  • Avoid fruit in the morning
  • Mix 1-2 tablespoons of fresh essential oils (cold pressed olive, grape seed, safflower, flax, etc.) into grains, vegetables and meats daily. Or try avocado with meals.

 

 

Notes:

  1. James L. Wilson, “Adrenal Fatigue” ↩
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Adrenal Fatigue Symptoms

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Below are some of the Adrenal Fatigue symptoms. There are similarities between Adrenal Fatigue and Hypothyroidism. It’s possible to have both conditions, or one condition but not the other. 
According to Adrenal Fatigue.org, if you are regularly experiencing one or more of the following this could mean indicate fatigue:
  • You feel tired for no reason.
  • You have trouble getting up in the morning, even when you go to bed at a reasonable hour.
  • You are feeling rundown or overwhelmed.
  • You have difficulty bouncing back from stress or illness.
  • You crave salty and sweet snacks.
  • You feel more awake, alert and energetic after 6PM than you do all day.

In addition, the folks at Stop the Thyroid Madness have compiled this list of more specific symptoms related to adrenal fatigue which can also be found in the Stop the Thyroid Madness book. Not all symptoms apply to everyone but if you have a good percent of symptoms it is worth exploring more.

  • Continuing hypothyroid symptoms with a high free T3
  • Shaky hands or general shakiness
  • Diarrhea
  • Bad palpatations
  • Higher heart rate
  • Pounding heart
  • Feeling of panic
  • Craving for salt or salty foods
  • Weakness or feeling a lack of stamina
  • Lethargy (everything feels like a chore)
  • Difficulty even doing every day tasks
  • Tasks seem to take longer and feel much harder
  • Decreased sex drive
  • Inability to handle stress
  • Inability to handle interactions with others
  • Inability to focus
  • Rage or sudden angry outbursts
  • Emotionally hyper sensitive
  • Mild depression and/or feeling less happiness, not much seems to interest you
  • Increase PMS. Bloated, tired, crabby, cramping, and craving chocolate
  • Overreacting (this is hard to measure in ourselves)
  • Highly defensive (this is hard to measure in ourselves)
  • Feeling paranoid about people or things
  • Exacerbated reactions to daily stress
  • Impatience
  • Easily irritated
  • Mild to severe hypoglycemic episodes
  • Symptoms increase if meals are skipped.
  • A strong need for snacks, colas and coffee just to keep from collapsing.
  • Nausea in the face of stress
  • Taking days to recover from even minor stress
  • Taking days to recover from a dental visit
  • Flu-like symptoms
  • Headaches
  • All over body ache
  • Super-sensitive skin
  • Extreme fatigue
  • Scalp ache
  • Hyper or jittery feeling
  • Clumsy (drop things, bump into things)
  • Confusion
  • Suddenly feel extremely hungry
  • Low back pain
  • Feeling dull
  • Cloud-filled head
  • Jumpiness (easily startled)
  • Muscle weakness
  • “Air hunger” or feeling breathless
  • Dizziness
  • Light headedness (especially standing up quickly)
  • Motion sickness
  • Coffee putting patient to sleep
  • Vomiting even running up the slightest incline
  • Almost passing out every time patient gets up
  • Dark circles under eyes
  • Waking up in the middle of the night for several hours
  • Difficulty falling asleep
  • Difficulty waking up in the morning
  • Frequent urination
  • IBS symptoms
  • Worsening allergies
  • Don’t really wake up  and feel alert until 10 AM
  • Between 3-4 PM you feel sluggish or very tired, sometimes requiring a nap
  • After 6 PM and dinner, you start to feel alive again

If you have any of the above, read more about Adrenal Fatigue testing and treatment options.

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Iodine and Thyroid Health

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Iodine is necessary for the thyroid gland’s proper performance. The human thyroid gland is located in the front of the lower part of the neck. All the blood in the body passes through the thyroid gland every 17 minutes. Because the cells making up this gland have an affinity for iodine, during this 17-minute passage the gland’s secretion of iodine  kills weak germs that may have gained entry into the blood through an injury to the skin, the lining of nose or throat, or through absorption of food from the digestive tract. Strong, virulent germs are rendered weaker during their passage through the thyroid gland. With each 17 minutes that rolls around they are made still weaker until finally they are killed if the gland has its normal supply of iodine. If it does not, it cannot kill harmful germs circulating in the blood as Nature intended it should.

 Two drops of Lugol’s solution of iodine works equally well in an adult. When the stress and strain of daily living create a load that is difficult to carry, producing a state of anxiety, and when the day’s problems make it difficult  to relax and sleep well at night, then one appreciates the aid that iodine gives. -D.C. Jarvis, MD from “Folk Medicine”

Folk Medicine in Vermont is interested in three R’s-Resistance, Repair, and Recovery. First the individual asks himself whether his resistance to disease is as it should be. Next, is he able to repair tissue injury due to accident should it occur? Finally, if sickness should come, is his body able to bring about recovery? Somehow during the passing years he has learned that iodine is related to the ability to resist disease.

We learn in Vermont folk medicine, however, that this gland performs other functions besides killing harmful germs in the blood. The first is the rebuilding of energy with which to do the day’s work. There is a definite relationship be-tween the amount of energy you have and your iodine intake.

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The first question in the presence of a condition of depleted energy is, Is the soil of the state in which one lives iodine-poor? Second, is the deficiency being made up by supple-mentary means?All soils containing granite are iodine-poor and Vermont is one of them. This fact is very important to people living in Vermont and well may be important to those living elsewhere. When energy and endurance run low in relation to doing the day’s work, then the taking of iodine needs to be considered.

A second function of iodine is to calm the body and relieve nervous tension. When nervous tension runs high there is irritability and difficulty in sleeping well at night, and the body is continually on a combat basis, organized for fight and flight. All these points stress a body’s need for iodine to lessen nervous tension, relax the body and enable it to or-ganize for peace and quiet, by the building and storing of body reserves against time of need. I have learned through Vermont folk medicine that it is possible to repeatedly change an irritable, impatient, and restless child under ten years of age into a calm, patient individual within two hours’ time by giving one drop of Lugol’s solution of iodine by mouth in a vegetable or fruit juice or in a glass of water made acid in reaction by adding a teaspoonful of apple cider vinegar. I have repeatedly prescribed this in order to make it possible for a mother of a racehorse-type little boy or girl to be able to live comfortably with the child. I have never seen it fail to calm down a nervous child.

 In an adult two teaspoonfuls of apple cider vinegar and two of honey are added to a glass of water. The honey is there because it is a sedative. Then add two drops of Lugol’s solution of iodine to the glass containing the vinegar and- honey mixture, stir it, and sip it during the meal as you would coffee or tea.  Taken apart from the meal it can be sipped like a cocktail. Soon your motor will have slipped into low gear. Your problems and their solution will seem less difficult, and the day’s load of responsibility easier to carry.  In this age of anxiety  the combination of iodine with vinegar and water  will give the harassed individual increased energy and the endurance necessary to carry the daily load. You will find that the wear and tear of daily living is considerably reduced. – D.C. Jarvis, MD, from “Folk Medicine”

A third function of iodine in the human body relates to clear thinking. The mind simply works better when the body is supplied the iodine it needs. Then there is the matter of the storing of unwanted fat. Iodine is one of the best oxidizing catalysts we have. A catalyst is the match which touches off in the body the fire that burns up the food we take in each day. If this food is not properly burned off, it may be stored as unwanted fat.

As you study yourself you will soon learn to tell when you need iodine. When a night’s sleep does not bring you to the beginning of the new day with the energy you are accustomed to have, you will begin to think of iodine. If you learn how to use it, it will restore the capacity to bounce back and sustain your well-being.  D.C. Jarvis, MD, from “Folk Medicine”

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Here is a collection of articles about Iodine, Hypothyroidism, Women’s Health:

Thyroid Disease ‘Raises Birth Risk’ Dr. Mercola

Iodine May Improve Mental Performance Dr. Mercola

Australia is adding Iodine to their bread Stop the Thyroid Madness

A toxin which could explain why SO many of us have Thyroid Disease Stop the Thyroid Madness

Causes of Hypothyroidism (including Iodine Insufficiency)

Thyroid Supplements on Stop the Thyroid Madness

Relationship between Iodine and Thyroid Health

Breast & Womb – What I’ve Learned about Iodine Supplementation

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Salt Cravings Could be a Sign of Adrenal Fatigue

Salt Cravings Could be a Sign of Adrenal Fatigue

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Understand the Salt Craving

Recently someone asked about how to handle cravings for foods like pizza, mac and cheese, and nachos. Being hypothyroid and often inflammation many patients have difficulty eating simple carbohydrates and flour. Consequently when we have cravings meals can be especially challenging if we haven’t prepared in advance.

Maybe what you didn’t know is that cravings for foods likes pizza, french friends and nachos can actually be a craving for salt.  Craving salt can actually be indicator of adrenal stress. According to James L. Wilson, Adrenal Fatigue, some people are able to assess their adrenal strength simply by their salt cravings. For people with adrenal fatigue, like me, salt is good for us. Learn more about salt. However its important to use good salt.

Curb the Salt Craving Before Reaching for Salty Foods

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When I am craving salty foods I can quickly curb the craving, while also eating healthy, by having a cup of chicken broth or drinking a glass of lightly salted water. As James L. Wilson suggets, salted water can help boost energy in the morning and before the mid-afternoon energy crash which is caused by low cortisol. Typically when I make salted water I used 1/4 tsp, or to taste of good salt like Redmond’s Real Salt.

If the salted water tastes bad, or makes you nauseated, Wilson explains this reaction is a good indicator you don’t need the salt or just need less salt. But if the salted water tastes good that’s how you know you need the salt.

Another solution for salt cravings is to make a cup of chicken broth. This is a low calorie snack  that is filling, satisfies the salt cravings and also can help support adrenal strength.

 

 

Chicken Broth Can Satisfy The Salt Craving

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The instructor said Better Than Bouillion was a great alternative to homemage chicken broth because its made with real ingrediants and doesn’t have MSG. Plus tastes amazing.

Better Than Bouillion is condensed, so I mix about a teaspon into hot water for an afternoon or after dinner snack that’s filling and satisfying.

Better Than Bouillon is more expensive the other chicken broth however the taste difference is worth to cost of about $5.95. A little jar lasts a long time and its much less expensive than ordering a pizza.

Next time you find yourself craving salty foods, see if these tricks help curb the craving.

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Foods for Hypothyroidism and Adrenal Fatigue

Foods for Hypothyroidism and Adrenal Fatigue

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Eating healthy with hypothyroidism can be a challenge. Many people have inflammation which means food allergies or sensitivities to gluten, carbohydrates and sugar. In addition, people with hypothyroidism are advised to avoid cruciferous vegetables because they can inhibit thyroid function and iodine uptake 1. Here are the food items I like to keep in my fridge and pantry or buy for special meals.

Fruits

  • Apples
  • Pears
  • Raspberries
  • Strawberries
  • Blueberries
  • Peaches
  • Lemons
  • Limes

Vegetables

  • Green Beans
  • Corn (Frozen is okay)
  • Peas (Frozen is okay)
  • Red Peppers
  • Green Peppers
  • Zucchini
  • Summer Squash
  • Asparagus (seasonally)
  • Artichokes (seasonally)
  • Lettuce
  • White or Sweet Potatoes
  • Onion

Herbs (Fresh are better)

  • Chives or Scallions
  • Rosemary
  • Thyme
  • Garlic

Canned or Jar Goods

  • Jelly sweetened with Fruit Juice
  • Natural Peanut Butter
  • Canned Tomotoes (crushed or whole plum)
  • Tomato Paste
  • Sundried Tomatoes
  • Fresh Olives
  • Kidney Beans
  • Red Beans
  • Black Beans

Meat

  • 85% Ground Chuck Hamburger
  • Ground Buffalo (mixed with the 85% for flavor with less fat)
  • Ham (Thick Cut for Chunks)
  • Italian Sausage
  • Bacon
  • Chicken Breast (Note: Try buying split breasts and debone yourself. It’s easy to debone and costs half the price of boneless)

Dairy

  • Whole Milk Yogurt
  • Whole Milk Sour Cream
  • Whole Milk, or Raw Milk if you can find it
  • Half and Half
  • Heavy Cream
  • Kerrygold Butter
  • Omega 3 Eggs or Farm Raised Local Eggs
  • Cheddar Cheese
  • Harvarti
  • Any speciality cheese that’s on sale and looks great

Nuts & Dried Fruit

  • Sliced Almonds
  • Roasted and Salted Cashews
  • Dried Dates
  • Raisins

Other

  • Redmond’s Real Salt
  • Kal’s Liquid Stevia
  • Truvia
  • Cinnamon
  • Better than Bouillon Chicken Stock

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Notes:

  1. https://wellnessmama.com/37222/thyroid-problems-cruciferous-vegetables/ ↩
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Get a Buddy!

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Hi friends,

I have an idea to share. I think it’s big.

Here is what I’ve noticed… all this hypothyroid stuff is overwhelming! There is so much to learn. We have low energy, difficulty coping with everyday tasks and have foggy thinking. So simple things for other people, like calling a doctor, ordering labs, learning about medicine, etc… is totally overwhelming for us hypothyroid peeps. How can we possibly find our way to treatment alone?

That’s when I realized: We need to Get a Buddy to help us through! It’s one small thing that will hopefully change everything.

Here’s what to do. Find someone you trust (who won’t nag or judge) and ask them to be your support buddy. You might fear it’s an imposition but it’s really not. Helping you on the road to good health helps everyone in your world. So a good friend, mom, sister or coworker may be happy to step up.

Ask your buddy to read about hypothyroidism (like my worksheet and symptoms list, or Stop the Thyroid Madness). Send them this blog post. They can do the simple tasks that may be overwhelming for you like:

 

 

Do you like this idea? Are you feeling a huge sigh of relief? I hope so! So find a buddy today and be okay with asking for help. Trust me, we all need it! And when you feel better you can help someone else.

xxxo

Lizzy

 

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Losing Hope with Naturthroid, Venturing into Compounds and Canada

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Hi Friends!

It’s been ages since my last post. While I’ve been a totally bad blogger, to my credit I’ve collected lots of good info to share. The big news: I’ve been experimenting with desiccated thyroid medicine! After the Armour reformulation fiasco two years ago, and then the Naturthroid reformulation about six months ago I’ve gone renegade and decided I needed to find stable medicine.

I took the advice of many of the great ladies on the Stop the Thyroid Madness and the Yahoo Thyroid Group and decided to try having my medicine made by a compound pharmacy. Why go with a compound? Well, it’s all in the filler.  When Armour and Naturthroid reformulated, people claim the new cellulose filler was the root of all evil. I don’t really understand why but I definitely found my thyroid symptoms got worse after both reformulations. Whatever the drug companies did, it was Bad (and not in a Michael Jackson way). The lesson learned: no more cellulose for me.

 

A Journey into Compound Pharmacies

Thyroid medicine is my life line, it has to work, and I have to know it’s reliable. So that’s when I decided to venture out on my own into the mysterious world of compound pharmacies. For those of you who don’t know, compound pharmacies are super cool. Basically, they will custom make your medicine using the filler you want. Kind of like “Build-a-Bear” of the medicine world.

A visitor here on the site, Kama (Hi Kama!), recommended a great compound pharmacy called Colliers Drug in Arkansas. I got on the phone with Rodney at Colliers and he was fantastic (and has a super cute southernish accent!). See contact info below. I explained that I wanted a thyroid medicine that could dissolve under my tongue (rather than capsule form which has to be swallowed). Rodney offered to make my medicine in a form called a “Troche” (or lozenge). They even sweetened it to cover the awful desiccated thyroid smell. Also I explained I wanted Vitamin C or Acidophilus as a filler (suggested by STTM) instead of cellulose, which Rodney was totally happy to accommodate.  It’s a great little pill. I’m very proud.

Progress

Anyway, back to the important details. It’s been a month on the compound thyroid medicine and, so far, my hypothyroid symptoms seem to be improving. Most importantly to all us ladies, I am finally losing the 6-7 lbs I freakishly gained for no reason after the Naturthroid reformulation. Yay! Now you would think that I would feel better right away on the compound but it took about three weeks before my body decided to like the new medicine. So a big thumbs up for the effectiveness of Colliers thyroid compound!

That’s all the good stuff. Now, the downside…  the compound is waaaaaay more expensive than the Naturthroid prescription. It costs $50 for a one month supply with partial insurance coverage, zoinks! I know *sigh*. It’s a lot of money.

It’s unlikely I can afford to stay on the compound, but at least I know where to get reliable medicine. Instead I’ve decided to try another medicine called Erfa, out of Canada, which was highly recommended by the Yahoo Thyroid group. The ladies say Erfa is “like the old Armour” and it costs about $50 for a three month supply. Now, its worth noting that switching medicine too quickly can really upset my body. My plan is to stay on the compound for another month just to make sure it works well. And then try Erfa by adding it into the daily medicine mix slowly.

Once I have more info on Erfa I will share what I’ve learned. Meanwhile, if you want to try my compound give Colliers a call and ask for Rodney.

xxoo

Lizzy

 

ORDERING DETAILS!

Rodney at Colliers is SO awesome. He gave us his direct phone extension for ordering the compound (479) 935-4336. Ask for the “Miss Lizzy Compound” and he will hook you up. (A doctor’s prescription is of course needed.)

 

 

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Weird Reactions to Thyroid Medicine

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Some people have reported odd reactions to many types of thyroid medicine, including shooting pains, burning sensations, heart palpitations (and probably lots more we don’t know about).

I asked the yahoo community and one nice lady wrote back with some great insights.  She experienced very weird symptoms from thyroid medicines that have a microcrystalline cellulose filler which includes the new reformulated armour, synthroid and naturthroid.  Apparently lots of us hypothyroid people have been experiencing similar, bad reactions to the microcrystalline cellulose filler.

It could perhaps be chemically sensitive, or the nature of hypothyroidism, we don’t really know.  The solution for her was ordering a compounded dessicated thyroid with acidophilus as a filler from a compound pharmacy. The doctor has to specify to the pharmacy to use acidophilus as a filler, not cellulose. Also she said make sure to find a reputable compounding pharmacy from the PCAB website.  Getting medicine through a compound pharmacy is really pretty simple.

For all of you who have been struggling with weird reactions to thyroid medicine,  I hope this helps!

xxoo

Lizzy

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Hypothyroid Symptom: Inability to Stand for Long Periods of Time

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There are so many random symptoms with hypothyroidism, like the inability to stand for long periods of time, I often thought these things were unrelated. At times doctors even told me they were unrelated. So I wanted to describe the symptoms to help you know to look out for with tired legs.

The inability to stand for long periods of time made activities like food shopping, cooking, cleaning, going to the mall, mowing the lawn really exhausting for me.  I didn’t have leg endurance. You may be thinking: “Don’t most people find shopping exhausting?”  To some extent I think yes.  However for me this was a unique kind of tiredness in the legs. An achy kind of feeling in the muscles, hips and joints, rather than muscle soreness, which I realize now is totally different. Forget going to Disney World or the zoo.

Walking for hours like this would be exhausting. I would have to take breaks and sit on a bench (mind you at 30 years old, I ought to be able to walk more than 30 minutes without fatigue!). Naturally, I didn’t have a basis for comparison, so I didn’t realize how tired my legs were all the time.  After getting on the right hypothyroid and adrenal treatment, I am now able to stand or walk for hours without tiring. And no more of that achy leg feeling.

Shockingly, now that I am getting the right thyroid treatment, I never get tired when food shopping and I can do it wearing high heels (crazy, I know!).  Equally shocking, I can go shopping and still have energy to run three miles, mow the lawn, and clean the house. All in the same day…

Before getting treatment just one of these activities would exhaust me for days. Of course, my treatment may not work for everyone. But if you have find it difficult to stand for long periods of time its worth learning more about hypothyroidism as possible cause. xxoo Lizzy

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Benefits of Salt for Adrenal Fatigue

Benefits of Salt for Adrenal Fatigue

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According to James Wilson author of Adrenal Fatigue, salt craving is a common symptom for all stages of adrenal fatique.  Sadly our salt-phobic society has deprived millions of people the very nutrient needed to decrease adrenal fatigue symptoms and increase recovery.  For people with high blood pressure salt can be an issue but since low blood pressure is one of the common symptoms of adrenal fatigue salt may greatly benefit adrenal sufferers. Wilson says unless you are one of the rare people with adrenal fatigue and high blood pressure, go ahead and salt your food.

But salt is not created equally. Stop the Thyroid Madness says sea salt contains important trace minerals, that are mostly removed from table salt. Recom mended daily amounts of sea salt are 1/4 to 1/2 tsp in water twice a day for Aldosterone and Adrenal Fatigue.

Health reasons aside, sea salt just tastes better. After following a very specific eating program it’s really important to me that my food tastes good. And for me that means good salt!  To understand the difference, take the taste test challenge. Buy some sea salt (I like Real Sea Salt and Celtic Sea Salt) and compare to regular table salt. You will never go back to plain table salt.

Not all salts are iodized and the iodine in salt may not be enough.

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