The Ultimate Guide to Adrenal Cocktails: Recipes and Benefits
What is An Adrenal Cocktail?
Adrenal cocktails are tasty, nutrient-packed beverages designed to nourish your adrenal glands and replenish key minerals. These drinks deliver a combination of essential electrolytes that support energy, stress resilience, and overall vitality.
The beauty of adrenal cocktails lies in their simplicity. They are rich in sodium, potassium, and magnesium—critical minerals that help maintain electrolyte balance, support hormone health, and optimize cellular function.
Minerals are the powerhouse behind every process in your body. Think of them as the spark plugs for your cells, essential for producing energy, creating hormones, and supporting enzymatic reactions. Without adequate minerals, your body can't function optimally, leading to fatigue, stress, digestive issues, hormone imbalance, poor detoxification, brain fog, and so much more.
Why You Need More Minerals
Modern life is stressful, and demands a lot from our bodies. High stress, busy schedules, and poor gut health can quickly deplete our mineral reserves. Stress, in particular, increases your body's need for minerals as it requires more energy to function under pressure. Without adequate minerals, your ability to handle stress and stay energized suffers, leaving you feeling worn out and overwhelmed.
Even if you eat a balanced diet, you might not get enough minerals due to depleted soil quality and compromised absorption from gut issues. This is why replenishing these essential nutrients can be transformative for energy, resilience, and well-being.
Are You Wondering If You're Depleted?
If you're struggling with fatigue, chronic or acute stress, persistent gut symptoms, or even known exposure to toxins, such as mold or toxic elements, you might be dealing with mineral deficiencies. Even subtle symptoms can indicate that your body isn't getting the support it needs.
One of the best ways to know for sure that you are low in minerals is to test. In my practice, I love using a test called a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis. This test is relatively inexpensive, yet it provides a ton of information about everything from minerals to toxic elements, energy production, stress resilience, digestion, immune function, hormonal status, and more.
Click here to learn about a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis—a simple and non-invasive test that reveals your mineral status and helps guide a personalized plan for better energy and health. Or, schedule a free Discovery Call to see if this test is right for you.
Do You Need To Drink Adrenal Cocktails?
If you feel tired and stressed or are experiencing any of these symptoms, an adrenal cocktail might be your new best friend.
- Bloating
- Constipation
- Feeling Puffy
- Retaining Water
- Drinking water, but peeing frequently throughout the day
- Thirsty, even though you drink tons of water
- Muscle aches and pains
- Soreness after workouts
- Leg cramps
- Skin breakouts or rashes
- Sleep issues
- Irregular blood sugar
- Muscle or eye twitches
- Poor stress resiliency
- Anxiety
- Irritability
- FATIGUE!
These signs may indicate that your mineral reserves need a boost. Adrenal cocktails provide the precise nutrients your body craves to recover and thrive.
Nutritional Breakdown & Ingredients
Adrenal cocktails pack a punch with these key nutrients:
- Sodium: At least 460 mg. Use mineral-rich salts like Redmond’s Real Salt or Crucial Four Salt. Sodium and potassium work together to help replenish the body’s electrolyte balance, ensuring that cells have the necessary minerals to function properly.
- Potassium: At least 375 mg. Essential for thyroid function, heart health, muscle coordination, glucose control, and more. The goal is to consume 4700 mg of potassium per day, but most people don’t even come close to this.
- Vitamin C: At least 60 mg of whole-food Vitamin C. It is very soothing to your adrenal glands and helps your body cope with stress.
Bonus Minerals:
- Magnesium: An essential mineral with a big role to play. It’s the second most abundant element inside your cells and is crucial for over 300 enzymatic reactions. Magnesium helps convert food into energy, supports muscle relaxation, and modulates the stress response. It also plays a vital role in detox pathways by aiding in the synthesis of glutathione, your body’s main antioxidant.
- Start adding magnesium in your adrenal cocktail after you have started with vitamin C, potassium, and sodium for about a month. You can start with 150 mg and increase as tolerated per your practitioner’s recommendation.
- Trace Minerals: A trace mineral supplement can help support adequate repletion of all of your minerals.
- You can find my favorite trace minerals HERE.
Adrenal Cocktail Recipes
The best part about adrenal cocktails is that not only do they help your body to feel better, but they are also delicious!
Click HERE to download your free guide with even more adrenal cocktail recipes and get started on your journey to balanced energy and better health!
The Original
- 4 oz. Orange Juice
- ¼ tsp Cream of Tartar
- ¼ tsp Redmond’s Real Salt of Crucial Four Salt
(Blood sugar support tips: swap out the orange juice for lime juice, or add 1 scoop collagen peptides, 1 scoop casein powder, or ¼ cup coconut milk to reduce the rise in blood sugar)
Booster
- 1 cup coconut water + 8-16 ounce filtered water
- 1.5 tablespoons Rayvi powder (flavor of your choice) or 1 scoop Pickleball
- ¼ teaspoon Redmond’s Real Salt or Crucial Four Salt
- Squeeze of lemon, lime, or orange
Grapefruit Refresher
- 4 ounces of filtered water
- 4 ounces of grapefruit juice
- 1.5 tablespoons of Hibiscus Mint Rayvi
- ¼ teaspoons Redmond’s Real Salt or Crucial Four Salt
Hot Chocolate Adrenal Cocktail
Ingredients:
- 8-10 oz of canned coconut milk
- 1 tbsp cacao powder
- 2 tbsp collagen or casein (there is more calcium in casein)
- 1 pinch of sea salt
- 1 tsp of maple syrup, honey, or sweetener of choice
Instructions:
- Heat coconut milk in a saucepan over medium heat. (Don’t boil!)
- Add in your dry ingredients and mix until combined.
Click HERE to download your free guide with even more adrenal cocktail recipes and get exclusive tips on how to enhance your energy, reduce stress, and feel your best!
When and How To Consume Adrenal Cocktails
Rather than starting your day with a cup of coffee on an empty stomach, sending your adrenals into a nuclear meltdown, reach for your adrenal cocktail. This is the perfect start to your day by supporting your body with hydration and boosting minerals that soothe your adrenals and give you energy.
Remember to start slowly. Most people start by drinking one per day, but after a few weeks, start drinking two, just depending on how your body responds. If you’re still feeling like you need an energy boost, it probably means your minerals are really low, and that you could use more!
The best times to drink an adrenal cocktail:
- Morning Boost: Start sipping when you first wake up
- Afternoon Slump: Feel the power of an afternoon boost that won’t affect your sleep or further deplete your adrenals.
- Workout Recovery: Support hydration and muscle function.
- Nighttime Calm: Enjoy before bed to help prevent waking up at 3 AM.
Make it enjoyable:
- Use a pretty glass.
- Experiment with different flavors.
- Garnish with fresh herbs or citrus.
- Share with friends for a mocktail hour.
Potential Side Effects and Precautions
If you increase minerals too quickly, you might experience mild side effects like loose stools, water retention, or elevated blood pressure. These are usually temporary—just reduce your intake and increase gradually. It’s a sign that your body needs more support, but at a slower pace.
Contrary to what you might assume, if you experience side effects, it doesn’t mean you don’t need more minerals. It likely means that you are trying to do too much too fast. Just back down on the amount of minerals you were taking, then slowly reintroduce and increase at a rate your body tolerates.
Conclusion
If you are unsure if an adrenal cocktail is right for you, reach out for a consultation. We can discuss whether a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) to evaluate your minerals might be beneficial for you. A Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis is a non-invasive, soft-tissue biopsy (hair) that analyzes minerals and toxic element levels in your body over the past 3 months. It provides a BIG PICTURE window to look into how your body functions at the cellular level.
To learn more, click here for my free guide to Adrenal Cocktails and start taking control of your energy, stress, and overall wellness!