Re: what does HC feel like?

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> I am not sure if this is related to your experience or not, but I

> have always felt that my hormone receptors are very sensitive.

> Perhaps due to deficiencies in lots of hormones all my life, they

> have become overly sensitive in order to respond to limited

> availability of hormones. So I react strongly to small amounts

> of any hormones.

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> I don't know the immediate cause of your feeling of suppression,

> but maybe it has something to do with your body being sensitive to

> hormones?? Just a thought.

Hi ,

Thanks for replying. I'm not totally sure but I think that might well

be the case with me too, I have responded quite quickly to all the

hormones I've tried at lowish doses so what you say could explain

it. I think this is being upregulated? I know Andy mentions this in

AI as a result of mercury's effect on the dopamine receptor and the

body's way of compensating and you can go either way, down or up but

would make sense re long-standing deficiencies. I also dont seem to

do well if I take large doses of supplements, it just always feels

like too much, I d taking smaller doses frequently.

My main problem though was when I weaned off, I went through a really

hard time, my adrenals just seemed to pack up, I could hardly walk

and because of this I can only assume some suppression of my HPA axis

had occurred as my body really struggled to cope with the withdrawal.

And since then I've suffered more severe low cortisol symptoms

compared to how I was before I ever took h/c. In fact I feel like Ive

come down with an infection the last few days, I've been feeling like

I've been run over by a truck and it definitely feels like my

cortisol has dropped again so might have to increase my dose now.

> I guess you could also be a very fast metabolizer and need to

> dose more often? Just a guess.

I think I'm a slow metabolizer due to being hypothyroid but frequent

lower doses might be worth trying yes.

> I used 3 g per day of ashwagandha. From what I read, this is the

> low end of the therapeutic dose range, but people on various yahoo

> groups seem to think it is a lot.

It does sound a lot though I didn't know you could take much higher

doses therapeutically thats interesting, I might experiment with a

higher dose to see what effect it has. The most I've ever taken is a

1200mg mix of standard root extract and powder.

> I wonder if you have a very reactive stress response at the

> level of the pituitary, which exhausts your body by trying to

> push your adrenals to produce lots of cortisol when they can't

> keep up. By telling the pituitary to quit asking for so much

> cortisol (which is my understanding of what phos serine does),

> this actually gives you more energy, because your adrenals are

> not being forced to work so hard. I'm sure I've heard this

> explanation somewhere, but can't remember where.

I found that on Dr Lowe's site so presumably thats where you read it

too. Yes I guess it is the effect on the pituitary or on the

hypothalamus and downregulating or blocking cortisol as taking it

made me feel like a load had been lifted off my adrenals and I had

much more energy and stamina and felt much calmer.

> I took iodine a few years ago when I first started working with an

> ND. Her suggestions helped me a lot overall, but I don't recall

> the iodine itself making a noticeable difference. It was not the

> really high dose iodine (iodoral). I haven't seen enough

information

> about that yet to be comfortable trying it.

Yes I would imagine you would have noticed some difference if you

were deficient even if you took a low dose. I noticed from another

post you take kelp so it might be that you dont need the extra iodine

anyway. Where do you source your kelp from, do you know if its

screened for heavy metals? I've tried Iodoral and Lugols and

definitely noticed quite a few benefits mentally and physically but I

am hypothyroid so I know for sure that I'm lacking in Iodine and I

feel better eating seaweed too. If you are interested in learning

more about Iodine there is a really good yahoo Iodine group and it

has a sister website you might want to check out..

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iodine/?yguid=157652497

http://iodine4health.com/

Take care,

Anne

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