Additional tips to keep your Adrenal glands healthy:
- Avoid caffeine
- Reduce or eliminate alcohol
- Ditch the sweets
- Stop using microwave oven
- Avoid hydrogenated oils (canola, corn, and soy oil)
- Drink more water
Herbs and supplements
- Ashwagandha: Used in Ayurvedic medicine is known to help us respond to stress and balance hormones and blood sugar level. You can find it in tea, tinctures, and capsules in health food stores or online.
- Holy basil: This herb reduces cortisol levels and regulates corticosterone, promoting balance to the adrenal glands. This herb protects your hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and adrenals.
- Licorice root: It contains phytonutrient triterpenoid saponins that regulate cortisol. Licorice can be taken as a tea or in capsule form to support the adrenal cortex, regulate blood sugar, and balance hormones.
- Supplement with fish oil: Essential fatty acids from fish oil inhibit adrenal activation caused by mental stress by calming the central nervous system.
- Magnesium: This relaxation mineral reduces the production of cortisol and is responsible for hundreds of bodily functions.
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