Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

If you feel too tired to crawl out of bed in the morning or lack energy at work, you often surprisingly find both causes and solutions in your head. Luckily, your brain can rewire against overwhelmed feelings that accompany exhaustion.

Fatigue often comes from overwork, poor time management, lack of sleep, worry, boredom, lack of water, poor brain food, or lack of exercise, for instance, and these conditions tend to be reversible.

While it’s understandable  that brief exhaustion hits people with a cold or flu, lasting fatigue requires more serious adjustments in how you are wiring your brain’s plasticity. Do you run on serotonin which adds energy … or cortisol which robs it?

Stress, anxiety or depression … for instance … makes you feel worn out and since it also shrinks your brain – few are surprised that it robs energy too.

Overuse of alcohol, drugs, or caffeine can also add to energy loss, where the body send signals and the brain shuts out energy.

Energy loss may come from low hemoglobin – which is an oxygen carrying fluid in red blood cells. Reduced amounts create anemia, a condition that leaves you tired.

Problems such as diabetes can reduce energy by holding sugar in the blood and blocking it from entering the body’s cells where it converts to energy.

Thyroid malfunctions can cause tiredness, since the thyroid regulates the body’s use of energy, and this problem can often be helped with prescription drugs.

Kidney or liver disease leaves people exhausted because concentration of toxic chemicals build up in the blood.

Severe exhaustion comes from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which can be complex since there is no cure yet. Prescription drugs do help some who suffer from chronic fatigue and others use a combination of traditional and alternative therapies.  

Check out these tips to invigorate your energy, and if these do not work for you – check with your medical professional because fatigue can often be helped, in daily doses where your body sends messages to the brain for energy and enthusiasm rather than for exhaustion or burnout.

While most of us tend to vent when tired  –- energy returns far faster when you find the courage to  stick a neuron in your head and laugh! What do you think?