Go Kaleo har gjort ett gästinlägg hos Cheeseslave om samma ämne.
Det är förstås samma tema som i hennes eget inlägg som Ursprungsliv länkar till här ovan och ett par av kommentarerna fastnade jag rför
http://www.cheeseslave.com/is-it-adrenal-fatigue-or-starvation/Lolly February 18, 2013 at 8:22 AM
I found Kaleo’s blog a few weeks ago. I’m a middle-aged woman with out-of-whack hormones, overweight and verging on obese, always tired. I’ve been keeping track of calories for a couple of years, never going over 1500 calories and usually around 1200 per day. I just get bigger and feel worse. Tried interval training…gained 20 pounds. What Amber had to say about starvation made sense but it was very hard to take that step of eating more…the last thing I need is to try the next new fad and gain more weight and feel worse than I already do. Well, I took the step out of desperation. I upped my calories to 2000-2500 depending on the day and activity level. I committed to hiking four days a week and lift weights 2 days. Guess what! I did not gain weight. I’m absolutely shocked. I’ve lost some weight…not sure how much…but I’ve gone down one pants size. My menstrual cycle this month was not painful and was much easier to deal with. The best thing is that I actually have the energy to exercise and want to do it because it feels good, not because I have to which is a huge change for me. So that’s my anecdotal evidence that she is right. I know I’ve only been doing this for a few weeks but, as I had immediate positive results, I’m keeping on with it. I love the feeling of being well-nourished which, frankly, I’ve never had eating nutrient-dense food because, apparently, I wasn’t eating enough of them. So, thank you Amber! You’re my hero right now.
Kristen February 18, 2013 at 11:04 AM
Well, being one who is traveling the road back to health from the perspective of extreme adrenal fatigue (understatement), I contend that starvation induces adrenal fatigue. It doesn’t merely mimic the symptoms- the two are one in the same. Stress on the body is stress. Period. Also, the adrenals are intricately connected to digestion at every point, including buoying the body when calories are restricted. The adrenals kick in to tell the liver to release glycogen stores so that one can remain alive (by keeping the blood sugar up far enough to be compatible with life) and it releases steroids that give the energy to function and to release the fat from our cells in the absence of energy-giving calories and glycogen stores (which get used up eventually). The adrenals are all about keeping us in balance and alive, dealing with the stress that is all around us, and often in us, every day, all day long- and we very often ask more of them than they can handle, causing what I believe to be AF in most people living in fast-paced cultures. If you’ve ever been to the point of having your adrenals nearly collapsing altogether, you would realize how stressful everyday life is (when there is no cushioning mechanism left to buffer the onslaught it becomes apparent just how much our adrenals go to bat for us all day long)- the visual stimulation of driving down the road on the body, the sounds of plates clanking together during dinner, the physical exertion of carrying a load of laundry to or from the washer, the “trauma” of a lovely massage that would normally be a wonderful thing. The adrenals are at work in every one of those situations (and, of course, many more- pretty much everything you do in life requires the adrenals to compensate to one degree or another). I know for me, when I don’t eat enough in a day, I pay for it that evening in the form of having my AF symptoms return that I haven’t seen for a while (in other words, it taxes my adrenals to the point that my body reverts back to a lower level of functioning again even though I’ve done the work to heal past that point overall).
So, as I read this article I believe it is not adrenal fatigue OR starvation. I believe it is adrenal fatigue because of starvation (and probably a host of other stressors that haven’t been identified or given recognition).
That is my two-cents worth on this subject
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