Adrenals!

DON'T eat this please...

Fight or flight??? Which do you prefer?

Well, our little adrenal glands work hard for us, not only assisting us in this fight or flight situation, but regulating our thyroids, hormones and immunity. Those sound pretty important to me.

To keep healthy adrenals, try to avoid or limit your caffeine and sugar intake. those to substances make your adrenals work hard and sustain high levels of cortisol..keeping them from doing their daily job.

They work best with short term stress, healthy adrenal glands release cortisol to help you deal with stress then bounce back, and continue that process. But, unhealthy adrenals have a harder time bouncing back.

Adrenals that are shot, can take four to six months to fully recover, it honestly depends on how fatigued your adrenals can be. Sometimes kidney infections can be caused by fatigued adrenals, since those organs are neighbors. Be kind to your this organ and you'll be fine.

keep your skin healthy

Keep these tips in mind to keep your skin healthy.
(realbeauty.com)

Visit Real Beauty's website for more tips.

Test the makeup on a small portion of your arm to avoid bacteria transfer 

5. Be sure to shower off after your take a dip in the pool: Chlorine will linger on the skin, if you shower after, use super sudsy soap to get all that off. Chlorine dries your skin.

4. Ladies, wash off that makeup before you fall asleep: No matter how tired you are, I'm sure you don't want to wake up to a morning pimple. Leaving your makeup on when you sleep leads to clogged pores and bacteria infections. Not to mention it stays on your pillow, so the next night when you lay down, you're laying in yesterdays makeup.

3. Attention coffee drinkers! Caffeine will dry your skin as well, so keep up and drink lots of water to avoid that thirsty skin. Oh, this also will help you avoid magnification of wrinkles.

2. Don't pop those pimples!! Caution...popping them will push the bacteria and dirt deeper into your pores, just try to keep your hands away from your face.

1.Testing makeup: it's fun to test new makeup, see if that color or style looks good on you? Well, hang back and don't test it out on your face, imagine how many people's fingers and who knows where they've been have touched that same tester...Ew! Test the color or shade out on a small part of your arm. Avoid your face!

coffee drinkin'

So many people can be seen in the morning, or on campus throughout the day with a coffee cup in hand, and the line at Starbucks is almost always out the door...Do these coffee drinkers have some benefit over those who don't drink coffee?

CNN.com reports that coffee drinkers may be at a lower risk of live, colon cancer, type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

Coffee also has antioxidants in it, and more people seem to be consuming their antioxidants through coffee rather than fruits etc. Men who drink coffee also have a lower rate of prostate cancer.

A study done in 2008, coffee-drinking women were less likely to die of various causes than those who don't drink coffee. (caffeinated coffee.)

Though keep in mind that the National Coffee Association reported that it does affect alertness, but there are not always other health benefits.

Everything at this point seems like it's saying that it may or may not help you out.
I guess from there we can draw our own conclusions...