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“Never give up on yourself, and you’ll continue to thrive.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is one of the most useful herbs for underperforming adrenals. It can give many of the benefits of supplemental cortisol with much less risk of side effects and dependency.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“What role does cortisol plays in metabolism? Cortisol is a catabolic chemical, meaning it causes wear and tear if it is too high, which in turn can make you gain weight and crave sugar. Your adrenal glands do a delicate dance to maintain your weight, and when your cortisol is too high, the rhythm is disrupted.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“So, the liver does its best work cleaning out your body during your deep sleep. This is also when your liver is able to convert your food into energy for your muscles. When the body is full of pollutants, though, your liver never gets to rest and it ends up sending both calories and toxins to your belly fat instead.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Of the salt you do get, sea salt is good because it contains useful amounts of magnesium along with the sodium.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“If your goal is metabolic flexibility, carbs are a tool that can help when used carefully. A diet that is too low in good carbs blocks your liver from burning triglycerides. Carbs also help your liver make glutathione,12 activate thyroid hormones,13 lower cortisol,14 and feed your good bacteria.”
― Alan Christianson, The Metabolism Reset Diet: Repair Your Liver, Stop Storing Fat, and Lose Weight Naturally

“Try to only do strenuous exercise earlier in the day, so as to not further disrupt the afternoon and evening cortisol levels. Gentle yoga or walking can be fine for afternoon or evening activities.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Getting to bed no later than 10 PM can help you get more restful sleep.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“The journaling helps because your brain stores trauma, unfinished actions, and powerful memories in areas that can trigger strong emotions and subconscious stress responses. Often these unresolved events can trigger anxiety for no apparent reason. When you convert your feelings into words, it prompts a neurologic change. MRI scans have proven that the act of speaking or writing about feelings that are top of mind can move stored experiences away from the emotional reptilian parts of the brain, where they continually recirculate up to the rational parts of the brain, where they begin to dissipate. This effect can be invoked any time you convert ideas into words, regardless of whether you are speaking, writing, or typing and regardless of any feedback you receive.”
― Alan Christianson, The Metabolism Reset Diet: Repair Your Liver, Stop Storing Fat, and Lose Weight Naturally

“Specifically, cinnamon has been shown to help reset the Adrenal Fat Switch when insomnia throws it into storage mode.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Many years ago I realized that our daily adrenal rhythms are what make or break our health. When they are in harmony, we are thriving. When they are off, we are just surviving.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Perhaps the biggest source of controversy and confusion in the world of nutrition is the carbohydrate.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“A catch-22 for many who are Crashed, however, is that they know stress reduction techniques could help them, but they often lack the mental energy to take on anything new. Guided imagery is a perfect fit because it requires no mental exertion on the part of the participant.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Plan to do two strength-training workouts each week, with movements that work the entire body.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“For artificial lights you cannot control, there are glasses like Uvex that can help. Wear them starting an hour before bed, and they can block most environmental blue light and help improve your sleep.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“When you feel bad and don’t know why, this creates uncertainty that can raise the pressures of life even more.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“light therapy has to be done differently than for those at the Stressed level. Rather than first thing in the morning, use thirty minutes of bright overhead light exposure in the early evening—ideally, five hours before your projected bedtime.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“In summary, when your blood sugar is well controlled, you feel energized and you stay lean. When your blood sugar is poorly controlled, you feel depressed and you gain weight. And when the latter situation goes on for long periods of time, bad things happen, like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“When you are stressed, you may have symptoms that indicate something is not right, although it is often not clear where they are coming from. Stress can cause symptoms such as: • Racing heart • Muscle twitches • Headaches • Fatigue • Stomach pain or cramping • Erratic bowel movements • Sweating • Muscle pain or tension • Dizziness”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Advanced meditators believed that they could control their blood pressure levels at will and they wanted someone like Dr. Benson to prove this to the world. His studies bore out their claims, and also showed that meditators were less apt to get stuck in survival mode.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“growing new cells. As the conditions”
― Alan Christianson, The Thyroid Reset Diet: Reverse Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's Symptoms with a Proven Iodine-Balancing Plan

“Foods today contain higher amounts of toxic proteins, which can trigger survival mode. Because of this, the rates of dangerous allergies to foods like peanuts or shellfish have gone up many-fold during the last few decades.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“What is more important for weight loss—diet or exercise? The real answer might be sleep. Sleep determines how much you eat, which foods you crave, and what your body does with the calories.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“If high-carb and low-carb diets both have problems, obviously we need some carbs. Like Goldilocks, we need to get them just right: we need the right types of carbs, not too much, not too little, and not too early in the day.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“As long as you are stressed, do not log hours on the treadmill. Prolonged and frequent high-intensity aerobic exercise will only make things worse. Anything above half your maximum effort will cause substantial elevations in cortisol levels.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Some have linked obesity to the addictive nature of today’s foods and their high levels of sugar, fat, and salt. Although toxic food is definitely a factor in weight gain, brain scientists have shown that we are susceptible to food-based addictions only when we are in a higher state of pressure.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Weight gain is not a matter of too much fuel coming in and too little fuel going out.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“Many people today find themselves spending time in the state of alarm on a daily basis. Since this condition shares many symptoms with what we commonly think of as “stressed” today, I’ve renamed the level “Stressed” to reflect that more recognizable state.”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

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― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving

“The data consistently showed that those with the highest stress loads gained the most weight.20”
― Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving