Say What? America’s Latest “Lifestyle Disease” Adrenal Insufficiency & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Have you ever heard of Adrenal Insufficiency and/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Probably not, but you soon will. With the rampant over-use of energy drinks and I’m sorry to say canned iced coffees with added guarana and Yerba Mate, American’s are putting there health at risk. Whenever you drink a beverage with a central nervous system stimulant ie. “traditional” coffee, or coffee loaded with added guarana or other “quick acting” stimulants you put your body into an “artificial crises” and intialize/activate the adrenal organs (above your kidney’s) to release the “Fight or Flight” adrenal hormones: Cortisol and Adrenaline. These adrenal hormones are critical for when we are under perceived environmental stress.
The problem with these energy drinks is that they do next to nothing to build back the bodies adrenal reserves, and as a consequence, the over-use of these “quick-acting short-duration” energy drinks quickly deplete your adrenal hormones and over-time reduce your “adaptive reserve” so that when you have a “real or actual perceived” crises or major stressor your body does not have the necessary resources to respond correctly.

Like a battery that has been over-used without recharging, your body begins to fail (adrenal insufficiency and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is the result).

So if you like your “energy drink” of choice
ask yourself is this supporting my bodies energy reserves while giving me the energy I need or is it essencially “robbing” my body of the energy reserves that I would normally have if I just ate a little better, slept a little longer, and exercised a little more?