Re: Sleep and adrenal fatigue

 Last night though, I woke up sweaty and with my heart pounding, fast and hard. This seems to me like hypoglycemia and adrenaline being released. Lucky me (this is not always present when I wake in the night but the past two nights it's been very pronounced).

That is epinephrine doing that.  Hypoglycemia will not make the heart pound hard and would also cause other symptoms such as sweating and shaking.

This could have been triggered by a nightmare or possibly hypoventilating during sleep leading to a build up of lactate and thus triggering off a panic attack.

I thought I might even be having a panic attack. I'm not sure why I got this bad all of a sudden. I hope I really didn't mess myself up by flushing and taking herbal cleanses... yikes.
It was also at 4AM which seems to be the danger time these past few days, I seem to wake up at that exact time again and again.

Surprisingly though I apparently drifted off to sleep again.

I have to say that these past few nights my mind has not particularly been racing. Last night I did breathing and calmed my mind, but the heartbeat continued. I felt mentally ready for sleep but it was like a battle between heart and mind! It just wouldn't let me.

Have you tried a large dose of ashwagandha before going to sleep?  Not only does it raise GABA levels to calm the mind, but it is also a natural beta blocker, which inhibits epinephrine release.

Another thing you can try is taking lecithin granules 3 times daily or choline bitartrate to get your acetylcholine levels up.  Acetylcholine is the antagonist to epinephrine.