In this video, we’re going to talk about the degree of exercise that you may consider if you have adrenal fatigue and are also pregnant.
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This is Dr. Lam from drlam.com and the Adrenal Fatigue Center. Pregnancy is a very traumatic event as far as the body is concerned. The fetus continues to need a lot of nutrients and it drains the mother’s body because that’s where the nutrient is derived. Exercise has always been a good way to help the body to be strong. But in the situation where you have adrenal fatigue and you are pregnant you have to be extremely careful. The body’s wish during an adrenal fatigue situation is to slow down and rest, while exercise by definition, especially if it is aerobic in nature, tends to drain the energy and release a lot of norepinephrine and epinephrine in the process. So you want to exercise but you don’t want to drain the body, and you want to leave plenty of reserve for your fetus and your baby. Of course your OB doctor, if you are pregnant, will advise you best because the doctor will know your current medical condition, the degree of reserve you have, and the amount of exercise you can tolerate.
If you are given a clean bill in terms of exercise and you’re not sure, and you have adrenal fatigue and your doctor is not able to put a finger on it, then we need to start slow. There are various different kinds of exercise that are suitable for pregnant women, including adrenal circulation exercises, adrenal restorative exercises, and adrenal yoga exercises. The adrenal yoga exercises are particularly very helpful because in a series of 21 consecutive sessions you bring the body from a core perspective, strengthening the inside first and help the body’s muscle flexibility, balance, fluidity, and ultimately the body’s control. And when the body goes through this type of gradual, systemic, and comprehensive recovery, the body gets stronger.
The problem that comes is many people tend to overdo exercises, including yoga or even aerobics. The feeling good during exercise may not equate to a body getting the benefit in an adrenal fatigue setting. The reason is because during exercise the body can be releasing a fair amount of norepinephrine and adrenalin. And these makes the body feel good. So the temptation and thought process may be that well, energy’s increased and you’re feeling good, therefore the body must be getting better. However, post exercise, many people do experience crashes and energy slumps. And in a pregnant woman this is particularly critical, because you don’t want to have that happen. When you have these energy slumps after exercise that means that the body is really in a state of a slump or energy reserve that is very low. So you have to match the body’s ability to take exercise in and the current reserve. And there’s no hard and fast rate on a graded basis. But we do have programs that help pregnant women on a very systematic basis so we can know to what degree their reserve is, to what degree they are able to tolerate certain type of exercise, the particular type of exercise, and its intent and its ultimate goal.
And if you put all the pieces together, the goal is to have the adrenal fatigue be under control, the baby well nourished, the body not drained, and have plenty of reserve to go through the pregnancy. And adrenal yoga, as I said, is quite good along with other exercises but they have to be properly used. If it’s not properly used it can actually make the situation worse. So a lot of care has to be put into the thought process when you’re trying to design an exercise program during pregnancy.
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