Guest guest Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Carol, thank you. I've been experimenting with this. A doc I talk to said that progesterone tends to depress aldosterone and that's why, during pregnancy, women often experience a lessening of symptoms. These episodes start with my trying to take even a small dose of Armour. My FT3 is always very low. I theorize that my body is trying to keep aldosterone low. I've read animal studies that T3 increases aldosterone but haven't found any human studies. Progesterone used to calm me at first and then cause increased anxiety toward the end of the nine days/month that I take it. For the last two months, progesterone has decreased symptoms. Estrogen (transdermal gel) tends to make my anxiety worse so I've been splitting it into two doses. I've never gotten a very high E2 test so I tend to believe I'm not OD'd on E2. I'd be inclined to drop it, at least for a while, except I have osteoporosis from 14 years of untreated hyperparathyroidism. I will try taurine and will read your folder. Thanks for responding, Carol. Val cbwillis9 wrote: > > Hi Val, > I come by and read every few weeks or months and saw your > post on aldosterone. > > Progesterone, diuresis and aldosterone > http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/260/5/E743 > <http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/260/5/E743> > > note first sentence of the abstract re aldosterone. > > It seems that P is an aldosterone blocker of sorts, is my > read on this. > > --- > Estrogen is definitely aggravating if too high and/or not > adequately opposed by progesterone. I had that prob in about > 2001, E got a bit too high from meds, was taking 1 mg oral > E at the time, got high BP briefly, went to urgent care even. > Bringing E down solved the problem, as I was already taking > Prometrium 100 mg. > > --- > There is also something called pseudo cushings you may want > to google. > > ___ > Idea: Try Taurine amino 500-1000 mg as targeted amino, > taken on empty stomach w no competing proteins. > See my Links>Proteins folder for more info. > > HTH, > > Carol Willis > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/willis_protocols > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/willis_protocols> > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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