A brief solo wellness talk by McCall McPherson explaining that adrenal dysfunction (commonly called adrenal fatigue) cannot be overcome by continuing to push; recovery requires rest, proper fueling, adequate sleep, daytime stress-reduction (meditation), and tools such as NuCalm to lower cortisol and support adrenal repair.
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So it's kind of like these people that exercise and over exercise, they're like, well, I'll just get over this hump, and then I'll be really strong, and then I'll be really resilient. But in fact, most people in those situations when they have adrenal dysfunction, they just deplete, deplete more and more and more. So you can't push your way out of adrenal fatigue. You have to rest your way out. So also, fueling your adrenals is very, very important. So some lifestyle modifications that you can do to help facilitate adrenal repair are. Resting. Getting enough sleep at night is foundational, right? Letting your body heal and recover. Your cortisol come down at night. Meditation during the day is an extremely effective way to reduce cortisol. When I am really stressed, I honestly, I can't meditate like, I'm. I get too stressed to actually meditate. And when I do, there's a couple other things that I've been toying with. One that I can actually speak to the value of so far is called nucalm. N U C A L M It is simply. It's a. It's a very passive form of almost meditation. You put on headphones and it simply plays music. And behind that music are tones that take your brain waves from a really heightened stress state, and they slowly transition them to a more relaxed state, again, allowing your cortisol to come down, allowing your adrenals to recover, allowing you to achieve that meditative state and activate.