Every morning we practice our tactical habits to attack fatigue and laziness before they attack us;

So we make coffee, we buy energy drinks, we devour protein bars, but our energy cravings don't come, and the piles of deferred tasks on the desk are endless, so is it laziness that we don't live up to our expectations, or are our expectations too high?

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You might think that energy is a mysterious chemical, biological, psychological and physical combination, the kind of enthusiasm and vitality we feel when it's there and when it's missing, but in a report in The New Yorker, Maurizio Fava, chief of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital confirmed , that what we call "energy" is our perception of the body's metabolism of carbohydrates or fats as energy, and then comes our experience of burning energy and converting it into work.

This process takes place inside our cells, specifically the mitochondria, which are the energy factory inside the living cell.

Trillions of mitochondria within a single body convert glucose and oxygen into cellular fuel, help produce essential hormones, and regulate cell reproduction and death.

There are many factors in our bodies that may make a person hyperactive or vice versa (German)

Martin Pickard, professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, likened the energy of cells to emotions in humans.

It causes them to make seemingly irrational decisions, so cells choose to supply an organ with energy to perform one function or another.

One of Picard's most important discoveries in one of his experiments was that cells age faster if we put them under stress, breathe faster, burn up their energy faster, and waste their energy;

So people with mitochondrial disorders struggle to turn energy into work, or what we used to call tiredness, but it's an eternal type of exhaustion.

There are many factors in our bodies that may make them hyperactive or vice versa, including: gender, age, hormones, body fat percentage, muscle mass, genetics, blood pressure, and blood sugar.

There are also things that whenever a person is exposed to them, the mitochondria in their cells are disrupted: pesticides, excessive use of over-the-counter medications, fructose, poor lighting, and electromagnetic waves.

The cells of the body age faster if we put them under stress, they breathe faster and burn their energy faster, wasting energy (Getty Images)

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Everyone is tired in his own way, because of his experience quite different from the others, because the effect of the daily threats to our life is less clear;

Chronic psychological stress is a common human experience, and years of chronic crises cause emotional, cognitive, behavioral and metabolic changes that accelerate aging and predispose to cardiovascular disease, dementia, and premature death.

In 2006, the Guardian reported on the “exhaustion epidemic,” due to the fast pace of life, the 24-hour world, and the technological age that has brought not only flexibility, but rather bed-to-bed emails.

Also, changing the society's concept of paternity has radically changed the relationship between parents and children.

Two generations ago, a husband and wife would go out for a weekend together, and their children would play unsupervised at home, but Martin Pickard's lab conducted a study published in the Journal of Biological Psychiatry in 2018, in which 91 mothers reported their mood levels and underwent mitochondrial tests over a period of 7 years. days, bad moods and the stress of caring for their children had a direct negative impact on the health of mitochondria.

Symptoms of emotional and physical exhaustion appear;

We feel agitated, impatience, pent-up anger, and anger, and lose the ability to notice and enjoy rest times, and there are other signs of lack of energy, such as feeling hungry and sleepy after meals, constantly consuming caffeine, and weight gain.

How do you increase your energy?

It is clear that despite our best efforts, energy is not distributed equally among humans, whether due to genetics, nature or upbringing, but adherence to some habits can change a lot:

  • Keep track of the level of glucose in the blood, because it helps the flexibility of mitochondria, and fluctuations in the ratio lead to the cessation of mitochondria from their work and cause oxidative stress;

    So start tracking your glucose with a glucose monitor, and analyze the data with the help of a dietitian.

  • Our body doesn't handle foods high in sodium, refined carbs, processed oils, and added sugars well. To produce more energy, we should rely on whole foods and avoid processed and fast foods.

  • If you're already thinking about changing your diet, it may be best to follow a low-carb diet for most days of the week, adding in periods of eating more carbohydrates, whether by sticking to a carbohydrate-rich meal per day or dedicating an entire day of carbohydrates per week.


    For more energy, rely on whole foods and avoid processed foods (pixels).

  • If possible, you can turn off social media, turn on emails, and tell your manager and team.

  • If you are fortunate enough to take time off to charge your battery and treat fatigue, you can make a simple plan for what you hope to achieve in that time;

    Because controlling your day helps relieve stress, but while periods of relaxation may be beneficial, they are not a long-term solution if you immediately return to the same stressful environment.

  • Avoid eating in the evening, especially sugars and salts, stop using the phone before bed, take a cold bath, do breathing exercises before bed, and use an eye mask, in order to get more than 5 hours of deep sleep at night.

    It's all about knowing your limits, so don't push yourself into a sea of ​​high expectations that you haven't reached before.