Ongoing stress is a trigger for many health issues, and it all starts in your body at the adrenals, small glands at the top of your kidneys.
The adrenals are like receptors of anything that is stressful to you, emotionally, mentally and physically. They pick up stress that you might not notice consciously. And from your adrenals the effect is passed on throughout your whole body.
Importantly, your adrenals never adapt or change what they notice by passing them through your ‘mind filters’, as happens when things you notice pass through your thoughts. This means that even if you feel you are handling a stressful situation well, your adrenals might disagree.
Nothing hurts our adrenals more than long-standing low-grade stress. It leads to an underlying inflammation, an obstruction in our body. It’s a subconscious sabotage you might not even be aware of. It is also the key to your healing.
The tricky part however, is even recognising you are under constant stress; the lingering low-grade kind of stress that kills very slowly. We’ve become so used to living with stress we tend to adjust, to accept, and to allow. But when it comes to stress, that’s not a healthy idea.
And in these times when we are all experiencing heightened stress as the world continues to speed up, our adrenals are working overtime.
If you can’t change the stress in your life no amount of healthy food is going to fix you. If you can’t change what happens around you, you need to change how you respond to it.
Symptoms of High Cortisol:
When your adrenals are continually working overtime they keep pumping out cortisol and here’s what happens:
- Dizziness
- Lack of energy
- Weight gain or weight loss
- Brain fog
- Crave salt and feel better when you eat something with sugar
- Feel worse in the morning, such as stomachache
- Difficulty sleeping
- Anxiety
- Decreased immune system and slower wound healing
- Increased blood pressure
- Sweating
- Increased heart rate/palpitations
- Face feels flushed