cortisol, was Re: Sulfur food reactivity and hunger

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You discovered an important point about cortisol use. When taking

physiological cortisol it is important to try to stay at the

maintenance dose and reserve stress dosing for serious stress like

illness, divorce, death in family, etc.

There are many times when extra cortisol will make the person feel

better. It is important to try to figure out why and treat the

problem rather than taking extra cortisol. Two very simple examples

are low blood sugar and low sodium. Cortisol will bring blood sugar

up, and it will tell the kidneys to retain sodium, but it is better if

the person regulates blood sugar with diet and takes extra sodium so

that they aren't tempted to take extra cortisol for those two things.

There are other examples. The biggest mistake that I made was using

extra cortisol to treat pain.

J

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> I am really not comfortable with using cortisol but at this

> > point may have to consider it.

>

> My Medrol has been a lifesaver for me. My sulfur-food reaction can

often feel very much like

> a " low cortisol " spell. But one way I know unmistakably if that

feeling is a sulfur-food

> reaction is when, *no matter how much cortisol I take in that

moment,* the feeling doesn't

> go away. If it was just a low cortisol spell, then stress-dosing

extra corticosteroids would put

> me back in business. Not so w/the sulfur food reactions. So don't

rely on cortisol to help you

> deal with food reactions. I now realize that it really is because of

mercury redistribution, and

> cortisol can't erase that when it's happening.

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