Our Path to Break Down

Most of us are very good at making trade-offs in our lives. You exercise more so that you can eat junk food. You squeeze in a few more hours for work or family by sleeping less. Stress reduction takes a back seat to almost everything.

Fortunately, your body phenomenal at dealing with stress. However, when these stresses become habits, and are constantly present, your body begins to break down. Your energy and focus begin to wane, you become ill, irritable and lethargic.

Then, you turn to white flour, sugar, nicotine or caffeine to prop up your energy. These substances wear out your adrenal glands over time . Low energy becomes chronic but not before elevated cortisol levels start packing on the body fat.

So, suddenly you are a little fatter, a whole lot more tired, and understanding that something is wrong with your body. If you decide to do something about it, you probably hit the gym. Unfortunately, if you are like most people, you do a high-cardio, high-intensity workout program that further depletes the adrenals and throws your hormones further out of balance. Workouts become more difficult, the fat loss stops and you dig yourself even further into exhaustion.

With the weight not budging, you decide to try a fad diet or calorie deficit. Not only does this starve your body of the nutrients it needs to repair all of the damage your exercise is doing, but it also sends your cortisol levels skyward and lowers your metabolic rate.

This vicious cycle rages on with years of broken diets, yo-yo weight loss and loss of energy. Completing workouts or even just dealing with your life gets more difficult. The hole gets deeper and you are unsure what to do as you trainers, diets, and supplements prove ineffective.

The problem with this cycle is that once your vitality gets low, you become symptomatic. You begin to experience increased blood pressure, cholesterol, chronic fatigue, or drop in libido. You can take prescriptions for all of these but rarely do they address the underlying cause of over all imbalance and decreased vitality. If your lifestyle does not change to promote better nervous system and hormonal balance, your body will eventually become susceptible to disease. At the lowest level of vitality, you can even die as your body becomes overwhelmed with stressors and can no longer maintain equilibrium.