Using Nutrients And Herbs To Restore Health

Amino acids come from protein in our diet. Even so, once you’ve completed the protocol, you’ll know which nutrients, herbs, and activities to turn to when you are under more stress. I first took biochemistry when I was a college student, specifically studying its role in nutrition and science. You don’t need to take a biochemistry class or an herbalism course to benefit from them. I’m going to guide you on how to give your body the nutrients and herbs it needs to reestablish healthy levels of neurotransmitters, hormones, and more. But we need the right nutrients, in optimal amounts, for it to work. If you were to break protein down to its tiniest parts, you’d be looking at amino acids. There are twenty amino acids used in the human body for various purposes, including building muscles, detoxification processes, and making adrenaline and neurotransmitters. We can make eleven of the twenty amino acids within our bodies. The other nine we must get from food. However, in clinical nutrition, we can provide a specific amino acid in order to increase the production of the substance made from that amino acid. And it is possible to give your adrenal glands the nutrients and herbs they need to restore healthy production of cortisol and adrenaline, just as it is possible to give your intestinal cells the nutrients and herbs they need to recover from leaky gut.

Friday On The Mind

We have to start with calming support. But if you stimulate yourself more, without having enough calm to counterbalance, that will only work against you. You’re likely to aggravate your anxiety, sleep issues, and worries. Why do that to yourself when there’s another way that doesn’t have to involve feeling worse? Instead, we start with calming, as it’s only once you are out of stress mode that your body can truly heal. That means increasing calming neurotransmitters, decreasing cortisol and adrenaline if they are high, and generally giving your body the signal that it doesn’t need to be reacting to stress. It is also the time to make space in your daily schedule for you. And how do you feel? Are there any anxieties or insecurities coming up? If so, be present with yourself in a loving way and give yourself compassionate support to know everything will be okay. Phase 1 can take anywhere from days to weeks to months. It depends on your body and your ability to implement these changes in your life. Stress mode causes some people to react to every single thing, even things that are good for them. It can seem like every change, even good changes, makes things worse. If this is the case for you, you’ll need to approach stress mode with the greatest amount of stealth and suavity.

Ordinary People

You’ll need to start with the tiniest changes and give yourself a lot of positive feedback and mantras to keep moving forward on this path. So be patient with yourself. As one patient explained, When you’ve been going 140 miles an hour every day, the gas pedal is always accelerating, so you no longer know what slowing down feels like, and it can feel scary or strange. You won’t know if today is going to be full of taking steps forward or backward. You’ll need to be able to maintain curiosity about what’s happening in your body while also keeping steady with your intention and mindset. Remind yourself that every step along the way is a learning opportunity. Allow your experience to simply be what it is. And at the same time, be totally committed to the process of feeling better, getting out of stress mode, and recovering from stress so that you can feel your best and live your passion and purpose. Phase 1 looks different for each person, though it always involves getting out of stress mode. For dogs, it might look like a shake. For us, as humans, it’s not as easy. Like a spring that’s sprung, your body needs to get back to a ready position.

Get It Right The First Time

For Stress Magnets and Night Owls, this phase is focused on decreasing cortisol and adrenaline during their elevated times of day. Tired and Wireds need their adrenaline to drop down to optimal. All of the stress types, including Blah and Blue, need to support their calming neurotransmitters, which have likely been depleted by stress. Various herbs and nutrients can help you achieve equilibrium and get you out of stress mode. Focus particularly on nutrients, amino acid supplements, and herbal medicine to normalize your stress hormone levels and decrease inflammation by starting to heal leaky gut. Theanine, an amino acid found in tea leaves, is the perfect example of what we all need in Phase 1 of stress recovery. Plus, these neurotransmitters are often depleted by stress, so you likely need more. Theanine is known to be generally safe and gentle. Notice how you feel when you take it and adjust the dose to match what you need. Some studies have shown that it communicates with the nervous system via bacteria in the gut. Tryptophan is the precursor amino acid to serotonin. First, tryptophan can go down a different pathway, to make a substance called kynurenic acid, which is a neurotoxin. And when our bodies are stressed, they are more likely to send tryptophan down this undesired pathway. That is because our bodies and nervous systems are used to the amount of serotonin they currently have. If we increase our serotonin too quickly, our nervous systems will notice it and may cause us to feel stimulated instead of relaxed. I refer to this as a serotonin celebration, because the nervous system is so excited to see more serotonin show up. After about a week of taking it, you’ll likely find that your nervous system is used it. You’ll be able to increase the dose if desired, and move the dose to bedtime, because it can help you to feel more relaxed and to sleep more deeply. You can take them as needed during a stressful period.