I'm very early days playing in the glandular extract park at the moment. Took a while to get here because the idea of taking cow glands is rather revolting, really.
The entire adrenal glandular I took was WAY too overstimulating. Yuk, yuk. Horrid. I can't see how this would help anyone with CFS, which is perhaps where the contraindication comes in.
Next up I tried the the adrenal cortex extract because I'm subborn like
@Dufresne and like nothing better than spending my non-xistent money supply on yet another supplement
The cortex extract doesnt contain the parts of the gland that produce the adrenaline hormones. I've switched to taking 50mg only every other night because I don't want to overdrive anything. But it's definitely helping me. Not overstimulating like the whole glandular. I went for a walk yesterday, walked twice as far as I did before taking them, and the monitor indicated my heart rate took longer to get to that extreme CFS number of 105
. I don't know if there's a link between the two.
I started on hypothalamus glandulars only last week. For those too I have begun taking them every other night, before bed because they seem to be helping with better sleep. It's far too early to say what they are doing, but I'm hopeful. I feel both a little more fatigued since I started taking them, and at the same time I'm feeling a little less fatigued. Which doesn't make any sense but I don't know how else to explain it. Perhaps the less fatigue is the adrenal glandulars kicking in and the more fatigue is increased detoxification? But it feels like something different is going on in my body, as if it's doing more cleaning out. Who knows?