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Personally because I have had tests and I have read lots on this stuff I know that my sleep problems (insomnia, frequent wakings, unrefreshing sleep) are at least partially caused by these. But wanted to make sure and also share my findings with those that maybe are suffering with sleep problems without realising these two things (adrenals and thyroid) are often the cause:
http://www.healthboards.com/boards/thyroid-disorders/742306-tt-sleep-issues.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453004000125
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/27/11/1593.short
http://www.hotzehwc.com/en-US/Resource-Center/Articles/Sleep-Problems-and-the-Thyroid.aspxIf you wake up in the middle of night, and can t get back to sleep, that s a sign that your adrenals are fried, burnt out. You see, when we are sleeping our cells are working. Our cells need glucose to live. That s the job of cortisol, to tell the liver to keep glucose going to the cells. If the cortisol isn t working, the body says ‘hey guys we need sugar”. Well if your cortisol levels are very low, your body will go into the emergency mode, and go to the adrenal medulla ( the inner adrenal ), which secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine. It s like the fireman breaking the glass to get to the fire extinguisher. When that gets secreted your blood sugar goes up, you wake up, and now you have an adrenaline rush. You can t go back to sleep. This is what happens in third degree adrenal stress, adrenal burn out and adrenal fatigue.
SS: What do you do for this person?
MG: I would give them B complex injections, 1000 mg of Vitamin B5 daily, 25,000 mg of intravenous Vitamin C weekly, and put them on 4,000 mg of Vitamin C daily.
I would give them adrenal cortex extract injected deep into the muscle. The herb licorice root increases the half-life of cortisol. Licorice is also an anti-viral, and great for respiratory infections in those who have adrenal fatigue. The hormone, Pregnenolone which is produced in the adrenals and the brain, is the precursor of all the adrenal hormones, and also improves memory. DHEA helps with third degree adrenal fatigue. Lastly, Bio-identical Progesterone strengthens the adrenals.
SS: Yet, is it at this stage that most people are usually given a sleeping pill and/or an anti-depressant.?
MG: Yes, this does not fix the root of the problem. Also, sleeping pills like Ambien can become highly addictive. There are certain things that are critical for the adrenal fatigue people to do to get better. They have got to avoid refined sugar. They must avoid caffeine because it raises your blood sugar. When your blood sugar is raised your insulin gets triggered to drive your blood sugar down. When the blood sugar goes down, cortisol is supposed to bring it back up, but since these adrenal fatigue people don t have enough cortisol, they become very hypoglycemic. So drinking caffeine is probably the worst thing they can possibly do.
http://www.healthboards.com/boards/thyroid-disorders/742306-tt-sleep-issues.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453004000125
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/27/11/1593.short