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Does it have something to do with candida and adrenal malfunction? The source of the issue comes from my friend, Linda.
She has been bothered by sleeping problems for the past few months.
She often wakes up in the middle of the night, wide awake, unable to get back to sleep.
Then when morning comes, she finds it difficult to wake up.
She has a part-time job with fairly flexible hours; however, she says to me it is embarrassing when people say to her 'why don't you come in early, get your work done, and then you have the rest of the day to do your own thing?' She lies and says that she gets a lot of stuff done around the house in the morning when in truth she is sleeping on the couch! Sometimes the reason she wakes up is restless leg syndrome.
In case you're not familiar with this, it's when your legs ache or throb and you just can't get comfortable.
The only thing that seems to help is walking around.
She is wondering if this couldn't be somehow caused by candida because since she has started the candida diet she hasn't been bothered by it.
My friend, Lucy has also been experiencing sleeping problems for the last week.
If she is not having problems falling asleep initially, she is waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to fall asleep.
Could this possibly be caused by adrenal malfunction? Based on my own feeling and experience, I've had problems waking up in the middle of the night, and I've also had adrenal malfunction.
As I did things to help my adrenal glands heal, the middle of the night waking grew later and later, until now I'm waking up early in the morning, still tired, but it's better than waking up in the middle of the night.
And hopefully as I continue to heal, it will continue to improve.
My naturopath said that when the adrenal glands are damaged, your circadian cycles can get screwed up, because one of the controlling mechanisms for them is the adrenal gland.
It's supposed to produce the most adrenaline in the morning, with levels falling throughout the day, and being the lowest at night.
But when the adrenal glands are damaged, they'll put adrenaline out in the middle of the night, waking you up, and keeping you from going back to sleep.
I remember reading that candida happens to especially like three things - sugar in the digestive tract, estrogen from the reproductive system, and adrenaline from the adrenal glands, and especially likes to colonize those three areas.
Candida actually has receptor sites on it to take advantage of the estrogen and adrenaline.
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