RE: Re: Something VERY Interesting!!!

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Could you post your previous labwork? It would help in giving you advice. If

your cortisol is that low, then you most likely will need to take HC. Your

entire endocrine system is interelated and each thing affects another. Your

body NEEDS cortisol to survive. If it doesn't have enough, nothing will

funciton right. Your body won't be able to use thyroid hormones. Your sex

hormones get all out of whack. Memory loss and brain fog are both symptoms

of adrenal fatigue. The article to me looks like it is talking about people

whose levels of cortisol are too high. Your adrenal gland don't just

suddenly stop producing cortisol when you have adrenal fatigue. In the

beginning stages you can have too much cortisol as your body tries to deal

with stress and fails. Take a look at this site. It explains and shows the

different stages pretty well. A product like the article is talking about

looks like it might be helpful if you have high cortisol levels. If you have

low levels, then you don't want to lower them anymore. You need to raise

them. When you take HC, it allows your adrenals to rest and hopefully

recover. Once they heal, you can wean back off of the HC. In the early

stages of AF you can take adreanl support to help heal the glands, but once

you go past to the later stages, the only thing I'm aware of that will help

is HC. You have to replace what your body needs before it can start healing

itself. You should definately talk with your doctor before starting any of

the supplements.

I understand that the medical community have made steriods out to be a very

bad thing to take, and I can sympathize with wanting to avoid them. The fact

is though that our body makes it for a reason. We need it to survive. If you

cut out your adrenal glands, you die. So if your tests show low cortisol

levels, and your doctor is willing to prescribe HC, you are very lucky. Many

doctors won't even acknowledge AF. I hope this is helpful. :-)

Rie

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy

enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

> In my case, my cortisol is very low, a few months ago it was 2 in the

> morning and went down to 0 by noon! I do not awake tired. Actually,

> I have energy in the morning for four to five hours then I'm pooped

> out, to say the least. Then again, I awake in the middle of the

> night, sometimes for an hours, sometimes I'm up for the day. That I

> think, is from hormone imbalance, low estrogen and NO progesterone,

> according to latest blood tests.

>

> So, this is a dilema, isn't it? With short-term memory loss too, I do

> think my nutritionalsit hit the nail on the head with the

> hypothalamus-pituitary axis being afftected negatively. I just hope

> my doc next month realizes that it's more than very low cortisol.

>

> BIG question: If this is so, what if the doc puts me on HC to bring

> up my cortisol levels??? That is where the article was a bit

> confusing to me. Would that be damaging to my HP Axis? What else

> might help the HP Axis? Would healing my HP Axis bring up my cortisol

> levels to normal so I could have a normal life in time???

>

> Homekeeper

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Sorry! I forgot the link! http://www.chronicfatigue.org/ASI%20Normal.html

Rie

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