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let’s talk about vitamin b5 pantothenic acid  your adrenals and the quality of your sleep  

the first thing you need to know is that vitamin  b5 is essential for the production or synthesis  

of acetylcholine which is good for your focus and  memory it’s also essential for making the cortisol  

hormone this is the stress hormone it’s  also essential for making epinephrine that’s  

adrenaline another adrenal hormone serotonin and  melatonin so as you can see it’s very important  

in creating the stress hormones as well as the  hormones involving sleep as well as the hormones  

involving your mood b5 can directly support  the cell that controls the circadian rhythms  

okay that’s the central clock in your brain  that helps you keep your circadian waves  

in check and this clock is called a  suprachiasmatic nucleus so b5 is necessary  

to support that clock and by the way you not  only have this central clock in your brain  

you have other clocks in virtually every single  cell in your body they’re called peripheral clocks  

and they’re all linked up with your major clock in  your brain and so this way when you’re asleep you  

have the rest of the body also asleep so you’re  not having things like restless leg syndrome as  

you’re trying to sleep or other conditions and  so if you’re low or deficient in vitamin b5  

these are the symptoms that you can experience  number one irritability number two fatigue athlete  

numbness in the hands and the feet muscle  cramps especially at night restlessness  

okay that’s going to affect your sleep as well  as sleep disturbances in general and so when you  

take vitamin b5 it actually helps to regulate  cortisol let’s take a look at how cortisol is  

produced you have the hypothalamus okay in your  brain that’s like the master gland and then you  

have the middle man which is the pituitary okay a  lot of times people call the pituitary the master  

gland but really it’s the middle man the via  between the master gland and the actual gland  

that it’s going to and so we have the hypothalamus  pituitary and the adrenals okay so we have various  

hormone communications throughout this pathway  and so the whole goal is that the environment  

like stress for example activate certain  hormones in your brain through your receptors  

that signal down to the pituitary and the adrenal  to release its hormones to adapt the body to  

stress now if you’re trying to sleep at night  and you’re trying to adapt the body to stress  

you’re not going to sleep and so when cortisol  is produced it sends also a signal back up to  

the pituitary and the hypothalamus letting those  two glands know that that function was carried out  

and so this negative feedback turns off the  pituitary and the hypothalamus so that hormone  

doesn’t have to keep being generated okay now the  important thing to note is that vitamin b5 makes  

the hormone from the pituitary called acth more  sensitive now what does that mean more sensitive  

what that means it just makes that hormone work  better and more complete so when the cortisol is  

produced and it’s and it comes back around to turn  off this pituitary it’s able to turn it off and so  

vitamin b5 helps this communication pathway to  help regulate cortisols and also b5 is needed to  

make cortisol which then allows cortisol to  come around and turn off the switch as well  

so when you think about b5 think about a vitamin  that helps to regulate the amount of cortisol  

you need so it’s not too high and not too low when  you’re trying to sleep on top of high cortisol  

you’re not going to be able to sleep okay  especially the second half of the sleep where  

you have the rem which is the superficial type  sleep you’re just not going to get a quality of  

sleep you’re going to get up usually around 2 2:30 3 o’clock and so you can take pantothenic acid  

as a supplement but there’s another version of  pantothenic acid that might be more powerful and  

this is called pantothene which is kind of like  the active form of b5 so panthenic acid has to  

convert into this active form called pantothene  and so some people have a problem with vitamin  

b5 because they can’t make this conversion and for  those people they definitely need the pantothene  

version of this vitamin and so if you have  adrenal problems or sleep problems you may want to  

add between 500 and a thousand milligrams  of vitamin b5 to help you with lowering your  

corsol so you can get a better sleep now if  you haven’t seen my recent video on sleep i  

want you to check that out too because there are  several other factors that you want to combine  

in improving the quality of your sleep hey before  you go if you’re benefiting from any of my content  

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