drob31
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I can't tell you why the cortisol is high or low (it's probably the PVN sensing inflammation, infection, or blood sugar issues, histamines, etc), but after reading an interview with David Zava, Ph.D, something that clicked with me, and I now understand something that it seems 99.9% of doctors do not.
It's common knowledge that low cortisol prevents thyroid hormone for entering the cell. It's slightly less common knowledge that high cortisol causes celluar resistance to thyroid hormone. However, high cortisol doesn't just cause celluar resistance to thyroid hormone, it causes cellular resistance to almost EVERY hormone, INCLUDING CORTISOL ITSELF. That's why it can cause blood sugar issues, and symptoms of low energy that mimic mitochondria issues, and also why it can match every symptom of hypothyroidism. It can give you hot flashes, which in women would mimic low estrogen, but their estrogen levels are just fine. It gives men libido problems even though their testosterone levels are adequate, because the cells resist it.
So if you feel like crap when you eat something, it may not be food allergies, it could be blood sugar disregulation. High and low blood sugar, sometimes hypoglycemia, and sometimes insulin resistance because the cells are insulin resistant due to high cortisol.
I'm not sure, but this should also apply to low cortisol as well, but in a different way.
http://www.virginiahopkinstestkits.com/cortisolzava.html
It's common knowledge that low cortisol prevents thyroid hormone for entering the cell. It's slightly less common knowledge that high cortisol causes celluar resistance to thyroid hormone. However, high cortisol doesn't just cause celluar resistance to thyroid hormone, it causes cellular resistance to almost EVERY hormone, INCLUDING CORTISOL ITSELF. That's why it can cause blood sugar issues, and symptoms of low energy that mimic mitochondria issues, and also why it can match every symptom of hypothyroidism. It can give you hot flashes, which in women would mimic low estrogen, but their estrogen levels are just fine. It gives men libido problems even though their testosterone levels are adequate, because the cells resist it.
So if you feel like crap when you eat something, it may not be food allergies, it could be blood sugar disregulation. High and low blood sugar, sometimes hypoglycemia, and sometimes insulin resistance because the cells are insulin resistant due to high cortisol.
I'm not sure, but this should also apply to low cortisol as well, but in a different way.
Too much cortisol, again caused by the adrenal glands’ response to excessive stressors, causes the tissues to no longer respond to the thyroid hormone signal. It creates a condition of thyroid resistance, meaning that thyroid hormone levels can be normal, but tissues fail to respond as efficiently to the thyroid signal. This resistance to the thyroid hormone signal caused by high cortisol is not just restricted to thyroid hormone but applies to all other hormones such as insulin, progesterone, estrogens, testosterone, and even cortisol itself. When cortisol gets too high, you start getting resistance from the hormone receptors, and it requires more hormones to create the same effect. That’s why chronic stress, which elevates cortisol levels, makes you feel so rotten—none of the hormones are allowed to work at optimal levels.
http://www.virginiahopkinstestkits.com/cortisolzava.html