Posted by Hombre on August 2, 2010, at 4:35:55
In reply to Where to Start?, posted by Steve Q on August 1, 2010, at 22:57:19
My understanding of caffeine is that it creates a state of emergency in your body and your body responds with stress hormones that mobilize glucose and fat stores and shift blood flow to where it can be used for movement as opposed to digestion and recovery. Done every once in a while, it feels exhilarating.
When caffeine stops working for me I assume it is because my adrenals are depleted and my body is no longer listening to the cry of "wolf" uttered too many times.
I find the Bs, C, zinc and magnesium helpful for energy, possibly because antidepressants increases the demand. But you should be getting energy from the food you eat and the rest you are getting...if you're able to sleep, that is. If you are eating real food and you don't have any go-juice, perhaps you are not absorbing well.
Look into (perhaps body-constitution based) food therapy and (kidney/adrenal) herbs to rebuild your burned-out body and perhaps something like meditation or yoga to tweak your nervous system so that it idles a little lower. You gotta treat yourself like an old person for a while, keeping extra warm, going to bed early, regular meals, zero stimulants and drugs. Or maybe that's like a baby. It may suck, but being tired all the time sucks the fun out of everything anyway.
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