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i had some questions about a confusion relating  to high cortisol and low cortisol how do you truly  

know if you have one problem versus another  this is a lot of confusion even if you get  

a 24 hour saliva cortisol test and it does show a  problem your symptoms might not match a classical  

high cortisol situation or even a low cortisol  situation because sometimes the symptoms are  

mixed between both of these so if we take  a look at the civil collection of medical  

illustrations volume 4 endocrine system  by frank netter md we get the section on  

high cortisol the classic syndrome being  Cushing’s syndrome where you have this  

huge waste thin leg muscles round face you  have insomnia sometimes blood sugar issues  

atrophy in your glutumas maximus that’s  your butt muscle acne allergy low vitamin d  

excessive thinking etc eventual osteoporosis  now if we compare these symptoms over here with

this condition which is low cortisol it’s  called addison’s disease very very different  

in this condition you pretty much have no  more cortisol and you’re very thin you’re  

tan you have a vitiligo you have a very  poor immune system you are craving salt  

all day long because you’re losing tons of  salt and you’re completely burned out so  

it’s very confusing because some people have  symptoms of high cortisol and some people have  

symptoms of low so i wanted to clarify what’s  going on if we take a look at cushing’s syndrome  

it’s actually very very rare three out of a  million people get this condition every single  

year if we take a look at addison’s disease  that’s also very rare one out of 10,000 people  

actually get addison’s disease each year so  what is going on here just doesn’t make sense  

well the next thing i’m going to tell you will  help you understand what’s really going on there’s  

a subclinical problem with cortisol which means it  may not show up on a blood test it may not show up  

on a saliva test until it’s very very advanced  because you don’t just go from here to a disease  

overnight it gradually happens over a period of  time so it’s my belief that a lot of people are  

stuck in this subclinical area over here it’s  very very hard to detect on certain testing  

and here’s what’s happening the receptor for  cortisol becomes downgraded in other words you  

develop something called cortisol resistance now  the concept is very similar to insulin resistance  

in which you have this high level of a certain  hormone which causes the receptor on the other  

side to start to become downgraded or blocked to  the point where this receptor does not receive  

that hormone as well as it did in the past now  there is quite a bit of research on this i’m  

going to put some links down below now you’re  probably not going to find a lot of data if you  

do research on cortisol resistance but you will  find it under glucocorticoid resistance because  

this is just another name for cortisol so  what happens when you have this glucocoracoid  

resistance you have a situation where your  adrenals are pumping out a lot of cortisol  

that cortisol is ineffective it’s not working  so you have both symptoms of high cortisol  

and low cortisol i mean think about  it cortisol is supposed to suppress  

the immune system and reduce inflammation but  why then do so many people with high cortisol  

have all these inflammatory conditions so  what happens over time is you get this massive  

confusion in the endocrine system uh this is  the hypothalamus right here in the pituitary  

that’s supposed to be sending signals down to  the adrenal so if this cortisol being pumped out  

of the adrenals for whatever reason becomes  inhibited or blocked as in this right here  

then the communication doesn’t get back  to the pituitary or the hypothalamus  

so if there’s no turn off switch then you just  get an on switch that’s permanently on causing the  

adrenals to pump out a lot of cortisol now what  is the best thing to do for the situation well  

what you need to do is you need to do whatever  you can to inhibit the trigger to cortisol  

dropping stress you need to isolate where the  stress is coming from and do whatever you can to  

minimize the stress i have a lot of data on this  i’m going to put some links down below there’s  

things that you can do from an exercise standpoint  change your eating nutrients and even a manual  

type massage technique that you can do to help  reduce stress now from a nutritional standpoint  

if we take a look at what we’re dealing  with we’re dealing with the glucocorticoid  

receptor problem now i want to bring up a new word  for you that potentially could be misunderstood  

it’s called agonist okay an agonist  is the opposite of an antagonist  

so an agonist is something that stimulates  something it increases something now there are  

certain drugs that they’re researching right now  that are glucocorticoid receptor agonists and the  

reason why they’re coming up with these is they’re  trying to find a treatment for this problem  

that doesn’t have too many complications because  if you think about it if you have a glucocorticoid  

resistance okay so in other words that that  hormone is not working then logically it would  

make sense to give the person more of this hormone  since it’s blocked right but the problem with that  

is it makes things a lot worse so if you were to  give someone like prednisone with this condition  

they might feel a little bit better temporarily  but they’re going to gain a lot of weight they’re  

going to have blood sugar issues and so there’s  certain drugs they’re trying to come up with that  

acts like prednisone which is a synthetic  type of cortisol without the side effects  

however if you know anything about me i’m going to  go more on the natural route i’m going to look for  

plant or herbal or vitamin type versions of this  right here and one research paper describing a  

natural corticoid receptor and agonist is Panax  ginseng so i put a link down below and this may  

help in this condition however honestly i don’t  think this is going to do much unless the actual  

root cause of your stress is greatly reduced so in  summary if you’re confused whether you have high  

cortisol or low cortisol the most important thing  you need to be focusing on is getting to the root  

of your stress and reducing stress as much as  possible before you go if you have a question  

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