If you are feeling sluggish or exhausted, the adrenal cocktail will help you replenish crucial minerals!  May also be for you if you are looking for a hydrating coffee alternative?!?!

Give your system a boost with the adrenal cocktail, while nourishing the adrenals!

What are the adrenals and why do we need to nourish them?

The adrenal glands are two small organs above your kidneys. They provide hormones to keep your body ready and primed to deal with stress. In our modern lives, stress isn’t running from tigers, it’s dealing with traffic or an awful coworker or chronic infection/illness. Stress is abundant and how we react to it depends on how we think, how we perceive the world, our physical nutrition status, and our past experiences.

These two glands pump out hormones to ready us to run from the tiger, including:

• Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases sugar in the bloodstream and downgrades functions, like digestion, reproduction, and immune system, that would be considered non-essential in a fight-or-flight situation.
• Adrenaline increases your heart rate and boosts energy resources. But it also affects sodium, potassium, total fluid in the body, and blood pressure.

If you are already eating an excellent diet full of leafy greens, healthy fats and healthy proteins, then bravo!  If not, work on that 🙂 A nutrient dense diet can do wonders for all body systems, including the adrenals 🙂

Adrenal Cocktail Recipe

Below is the recipe for the adrenal cocktail. If you are pressed for time in the mornings, you can mix this the night before and leave in the fridge for the next day!

I have seen many recipes, but they all follow a general pattern:  Vit C + Cream of Tartar + sea salt

• Vit C scoop  + 8 – 16 ounces water OR  4-8 Ounces fresh squeezed Orange Juice!!
• ¼ – 1/2 tsp Cream of tartar (source of potassium)
• ¼ – 1/2 tsp salt. (Celtic, Himalayan, Unbleached sea salt, etc)

Mix well, can drink throughout day.

Note: some report feeling nausea. You might need to work up to the full amount. Anytime you start a new nutrition regime or supplement speak with your physician.

Vitamin C: I use Innate Response C Complete because it tastes like an orange tang drink mix and mixes fairly well. The cream of tartar is a source of potassium.  You may also use cold fresh squeezed organic orange juice, so refreshing!

Take it further, Magnesium deficiency?

Your body benefits from a source of  sodium, potassium,  and vitamin C when stressed but also really needs magnesium!!

MOST of us are magnesium deficient, up to 50% of the population!!! (meaning, it’s you or the person standing next to you!) and running on a tangent, we need magnesium to absorb vitamin D, another fatigue and disease fighter!

click here all you ever wanted to know about chronic magnesium deficiency: Subclinical magnesium deficiency: a principal driver of cardiovascular disease and a public health crisis

My favorite magnesium supplements are: