Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome (AFS) is a condition that arises if you’re facing chronic stress. Chronic stress can be physical or psychological, and they often come together. Your adrenal glands have to work overtime to produce your body’s main anti-stress hormone, cortisol. And as cortisol increases to meet the growing demand, you get symptoms of AFS.
Symptoms of adrenal fatigue include fatigue, insomnia, weight gain, brain fog, anxiety, mild depression, low libido, PMS, infertility, hair loss, dry skin, hypoglycemia, salt and sugar cravings, lowered immunity, heart palpitations, unstable blood pressure, food and drug sensitivities, and an inability to handle stress.
Proper sleep is one of the cornerstones of good health. While you sleep, your body has the chance to rest and repair, and to replenish your energy stores. One of the most challenging aspects of adrenal fatigue and the dysregulation of the NEM is insomnia. And with AFS, you can get two types of insomnia: sleep-onset and sleep-maintenance. Both of these occur due to when you have a rush of cortisol that wakes you up.
Sleep-onset insomnia is when you can’t fall asleep, even if you’re tired. You toss and turn but just can’t seem to get there. You may eventually do it, but it’s pretty late by then and doesn’t allow you a full night’s rest.
Sleep-maintenance insomnia is where you’re able to fall asleep, but then wake up in the middle of the night, sometimes more than once. Then you may also have a hard time going back to sleep. This makes the quality of your sleep low, as you can never truly reach a state of deep sleep.
One study tested high voltage electric potential therapy on a group of college students with sleep disorders, with another group of college students was given a sham treatment. The ones receiving the electric potential therapy were exposed to 50-Hz, 18 kV for 30 minutes a day for five days.
In the group receiving the real treatment, they showed improvement in the length of sleep, how refreshed they felt, and how sleepy they were upon rising. These improvements were significantly higher in the group receiving the real treatment than the group receiving the sham treatment. Also, the electric potential therapy group showed improvement in the duration of awakening in the middle of the night.
This means that the therapy could be useful for the two different types of insomnia you can suffer from when you have AFS. You may be able to fall asleep easier, stay asleep longer, and feel more refreshed upon awakening.
To read the study mentioned above:
A Pilot Study of Electric Field Therapy for Sleep Disorder
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