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adrenal fatigue

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    Balooning Waist size Help

    Hi forum members, sometime back I had posted on how its been increasingly difficult for me to loose weight being hypothyroid. Well I did manage to loose around 7-8 kgs since than. I was around 106kgs for my 189cms height, and I am currently 98-99kgs. The one main change I made was cutting off...
  2. thingsvarious

    Each hormone deficiency is associated with a distinct kind of fatigue. I had them all.

    Hello, I am a medical student in my last year. For a few years I have been replacing all of my major hormones (see here) and I have been both high and low in many different constellations. From all this I learned 2 things. Each hormone deficiency can cause chronic fatigue. Each hormone...
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    • adrenal fatigue cortisol estrogen igf1 low cortisol low testosterone sex hormones
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    • Forum: General Treatment
  3. thingsvarious

    Cortisol brought me back to life.

    I am a medical student in my last year. I have been replacing multiple of my hormones for years now. Before I had crushing fatigue, I couldn´t function. Out of all the hormones, the biggest difference made cortisol. Because there is just SOOOO much misinformation about cortisol, I wrote a...
  4. thingsvarious

    I replace ALL my hormones. This brought me back to life. But is it sustainable for decades?

    In my opinion CFS is often (not always obviously) multiple hormone deficiency (esp. adrenals, perihperal thyroid sensitivity). I am a medical student in my last year. I replace ALL of my hormones. my energy levels went from the 5th percentile to the 95th percentile. In early twenties my life...
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    • adrenal fatigue cortisol hormones hydrocortisone hypothalamus hypothyroidism low cortisol low testosterone sex hormones thyroid
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    • Forum: General Treatment
  5. Iritu1021

    The Enigma of Sigma Receptors

    Hey everyone! I know I've been a stranger to this blog lately - (too much going on IRL right now and not in a good way) but I've finally put down on paper the latest installment to my "intracellular calcium chronicles" and I think this one is huge: sigma receptors. If nobody has yet proposed...