Re: Dependency on Cortef/this is wrong!!!!

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> Well...I don't want to get into an argument with ya - but I have to take

> exception with some things.

> I took adrenal support (prednisolone) 10 mg. a day for about three

> months....and I don't have all the dire things you said would happen.

I should have been both clearer and more understanding. A ten mg disaster would

be the

result of considering it to be replacement dose and thus taking it every day for

the rest of

your life as one must do when taking a replacement dose>

> And I don't take any exception to your overall warning about adrenal support.

> But since you differ with at least two major thyroid docs on this issue

> (Langer and Durrant-Peatfield)...and everything else they say about thyroid

> disease is so totally accurate - I think I will put my faith in their words.

OK, as you like. I'm certainly not a thyroid doc. I've got Langer's book infront

of me and no

where in the context of treating thyroid disease does he advocate taking

corticosteroids.

Right at the end, in the afterword, he mentions Jeffries book and dosing for

adrenal

exhaustion. Other than the last afterword paragraph that is all there is so I

don't see how

you can say I disagree with a thyroid doc when he barely brings up the subject!

> Also - Armour is considered " out of date " too - and that doesn't mean that

> the information about Armour is null and void now.

I'm not sure about the logic that connects Armour to " Safe Uses of Cortisol "

through the

the use of the phrase " out of date. " Armour is an older product but it is

excellent and

only considered " out of date " by people hypnotized by some idea about how

thyroxine is

supposed to work and take care of everything for everyone.

You know Jeffries book is very interesting and I

only am concerned with how current it's knowledge is when it says, for instance

on page

13 that a replacement dose of cortisol, that is a dose suitable for someone with

no adrenal

function, is 35-40 mg. This is just wrong and there is no way around it. Major

big time

wrong. All I have to do is read this and I know I'm reading an old book. Show me

an

ian on 35-40 mg for two years and I'll be able to point out

every corticosteroid side effect in the book. I could list them but probably

uneccesary.

Jeffries also makes the statement on the same page that people naturally produce

about

20 mg but ians need 35-40 mg because 60% of the HC is not utilized when

taken

orally. This is poppycock, what can I say? HC is currently considered to be very

easily

absorbed through the GI tract and very efficiently utilized. I only need 17.5-19

mg/day/

every day and I'm doing great except for some emerging pituitary origin

hypothyroid stuff.

Anyway, thanks for being nice and having no urge to kill the messenger.... Jim