Health, Lifestyle, Fitness
Here’s Why We Might Be Exceedingly Tired: Chapter 10
And what can we do about it?
This article, a summary of a book chapter, aims to provide practical and natural ways to beat lethargy and live with abundant energy.
Feeling lethargy can be a clear indication of a lack of energy. Our lives depend on continuous power. This fact is so apparent, but we seek solutions in the wrong places with desperation.
Many biological, psychological, and environmental factors block and drain our energy. Understanding these factors can be a good start. When we have sustained energy, life becomes joyful.
My goal is to provide critical yet straightforward points that can help us feel energetic. Benefits from a combination of these points can unclog energy blocks. They are natural, proven, and practical solutions.
From a biological perspective, energy boils down to these tiny organelles that we call mitochondria. When we have more denser mitochondria, we experience a lot more energy.
Considering my experience, I want to start with stress because it is one of the most significant biological, mental, and environmental factors affecting our energy levels.
Stress is inevitable in our lives. We continuously experience it. Stress itself is not good or bad. Acute stress is essential for our growth. Chronic stress is the problem.
Our response to stress matters. We can manage stress by taking personal responsibility and preventing our acute stress from becoming chronic.
The problem is with chronic stress for energy blockage. We need to address chronic stress. Acute stress is essential for our growth. There are many ways to deal with chronic stress.
According to studies, mindfulness, yoga, meditation, relaxation, and other past-time practices can reduce stress levels.
Awareness of stress-creating situations and eliminating them from our lives is vital to staying healthy.
Like many other aspects of our lives, our mitochondrial health is also strongly affected by stress. Thus, an effective stress management approach is essential to increase and maintain our energy levels.
Stress adversely affects our mitochondria. However, learning the details of mitochondria is not essential, but its awareness is.
The next important point to increase energy and reduce fatigue is fitness. Exercise improves mitochondrial health. Exercise can balance hormones and neurotransmitters. Thus, it can address biological and mental issues.
Blood glucose and insulin levels are essential in feeling energetic or lethargic. When blood glucose level gets high, insulin can spike.
Through my experiments, I discovered that fluctuating blood glucose created an alarming situation for my body. These alarms can drain our energy.
Related to blood glucose levels, excessive fat storage can also cause lethargy. When our body depends entirely on glucose, it cannot tap into fat stores.
When we are not using fat as the main energy source, we might become dependent on glucose. Excessive blood glucose and insulin spikes create a vicious circle.
Unstable blood glucose, high insulin, and excessive body fat are interrelated. Their excessive amounts can be unhealthy for overall mitochondrial health. With these conditions, we feel moody and gain weight. When moody and overweight, we feel too lazy to move our bodies.
In addition to biological and mental factors, we also need to understand the adverse effects of environmental factors.
From an environmental point of view, toxins, heavy metals, and pathogens adversely affect mitochondrial health. Eliminating toxins, heavy metals, and pathogens from the body can noticeably impact our energy level.
Related to toxins and heavy metals, bloating can be a factor in lethargy. From my experience, when my bloating disappeared, my energy increased amazingly. I used natural ingredients such as activated charcoal and gelatin.
These natural products helped me capture toxins from my gut and improve my gut health.
The next critical point for energy is our diet. Our energy is created by nutrient-dense food. Diet is an individual matter, as we all are different. Thus, a customized diet aligned with our genetic makeup covering all essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes is vital for energy production.
If our diet does not allow us adequate nutrients, we may consider supplementing with the critical nutrients with advice from our medical professionals. Practicing an elimination diet can also be useful.
Exposing nature, like sunshine, also can help with beating lethargy. Going out and walking in a green park with flowers and trees can boost our mood. This simple change can help balance our hormones and create more energy-producing hormones like dopamine.
Last but not least, from my experience, the most significant factor for my lethargy was sleep deprivation.
Sleep plays a pivotal role in our lives. When I learned the importance of sleep and took appropriate measures, my energy levels increased substantially.
When I fixed my sleep issues and had adequate sleep, everything around me looked brighter, and life became more meaningful. My lethargy disappeared, and my energy got abundant.
Thank you for reading my perspectives. I wish you a happy, healthy, and productive life.
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