What are the adrenals and why are they so important?
The adrenals are the “stress glands” that produce the hormones that help the body deal with all types of stress. Every challenge to the mind and body creates a demand on the adrenal glands. Your adrenals react to acute demands of stress and can sharpen your senses, release your energy stores for immediate use, increase your heart rate and many other functions. But they weren’t made to do this constantly, rather on an only when necessary basis, only when confronted with a “stress”. But in this day and age, instead of occasional, acute demands followed by rest, we’re constantly under stress, from work to financial pressures to relationships to bad food choices like sugar and caffeine, to over-exercise. The result is adrenal glands that are constantly on high alert.
