On the road to healing......

And so I moved on along the road I had been looking for, for many years.

You know all I can say is thank god for Hair Analysis, seriously if I hadn't found that old analysis report I would of never found the right road. I'm not sure if I believe in angels or God or even who God is. But I have in the past prayed to God and the angles. Who knows maybe my prayers were answered.

I knew from my hair analysis that my adrenal glands were working at 1/4 of their efficiency. Adrenal fatigue or burnout its called. Now sometimes with adrenal fatigue all is needed is a long overdue holiday and lots of rest you come home and feel like you have been reborn. But if your burnt out then any amount of rest has little impact on how you feel. With burnout it takes a little more than a week in the sun. You just don't have all the other tools needed to get you up and out of that bed feeling like a million dollars.

Stress plays a major role in adrenal fatigue. Now the stress can be good stress or bad stress. You know good stress would be maybe, getting married, deciding to have a baby and waiting for the little blue line to show up on the test or moving house. Or bad stress like an abusive relationship, a demanding job or working extremely long hours. But whatever the type of stress its all bad for you. And people with adrenal burnout will find a way to stimulate their adrenals and wake them up, otherwise they will want to sleep all day. Stimulants used, can be coffee, sugar, drugs, alcohol,  worry, stress, watching scary films or even sex.  

Now me I have moved house 13 times bought and sold 4 houses, moved to Spain and then back home again with myself and my 2 sons. I did all this without a partner and I loved every minute of it. But you know what I was a stress junkie. I had to find something to stimulate my burnt out adrenal glands and boy were they on the floor and no way were they getting up without a major stimulant to help. So stress itself kept me going. I also used alcohol and would have a glass of beer or wine most nights. This I guess is the lifestyle factor ( remember in my first blog the calcium shell and lifestyle factors or attitudes) I had been defending for many years. I was not admitting that the alcohol was a crutch for me. I used it as a stimulant to keep me going. I was in a viscous circle and was creating stressful situations to stimulate my adrenals, and then my body was creating a calcium shell to hold me up and protect me. Mad or what. Can you believe it the body is a complex machine and will do anything to keep itself alive and operating.



Also showing up on my hair analysis test was an under active thyroid. My calcium/potassium ratio was way off ( i can tell you it wasn't the only thing that was way off at the time) and this indicated an under active thyroid at a cellular level. Most doctors assess the thyroid using a blood test, testing for hormone levels, but testing hormone levels doesn't take into account how well your hormones pass from the blood into the cells, now this is important right! You can have all the hormones you like floating around in your blood but if they cant get into the cells then what the hell good are they to you? Slow oxidisers like me have reduced cell permeability. Another reason for reduced activity is how powerfully the hormones act on the cells, once they actually can get  into the cells that is. One part of the cell is called the mitochondria this is the power house of the cell,  the part of the cell that is responsible for producing energy. They require many nutrients. If even one of these is deficient or if toxic metals are excessive,then thyroid hormones may not be able to do their job of increasing the metabolic rate at the cellular level.

So causes for thyroid imbalances, low available magnesium, iodine, and selenium. high levels of toxic metals especially copper, mercury, ( and me with loads of mercury fillings in my teeth ) stress, and impaired cell permeability. Another interesting factor is inhibited expression, interesting for me because maybe by holding onto that lifestyle attitude and not expressing it was not only affecting my calcium but my thyroid as well.

So guys I hope this is making as much sense to you as it did to me! A simple hair mineral analysis was able to fully explain what was going on in my body and why ( the why is the most important thing for me ) I was feeling as I was. So through diet and the right supplements I was able to start on the road to recovery.

So bloggers till next time sleep well and I hope some of what I say here is of some help to someone out there... :) :)