Posted by clipper40 on December 28, 2007, at 2:41:32
In reply to Re: Rehmannia » Sigismund, posted by Sigismund on December 27, 2007, at 4:39:01
No problem, we can "eductate" you. :-) (I didn't even notice the misspelling until you pointed it out.)
Too much cortisol production is not good. That happens from too much stress of any sort (even medications that are noradrenergic are a stresser on the adrenals) However, after a long period of too much cortisol production, the adrenal gland basically becomes exhausted. It's at this stage that it produces too little cortisol. (This is an oversimplification because there are different times of day that it produces different amounts. You can have cortisol production be ok or even too high at one stage of the daily cycle and then have it be too low at another stage.)
When you have too little cortisol, you experience the fatigue. One of the major symptoms is that you don't feel like you've fully woken up until many hours after you've gotten out of bed. I feel like I'm drugged until late afternoon or early evening - foggy brain, no energy at all. Lowered cortisol is also not good for your immune system or digestion etc. If your digestion is impaired, because of not enough enzymes due to low cortisol, then you don't appropriately retain and utilize nutrients or medications. So this has all kinds of other implications.
Cortisol has a lot of good functions besides the stress reaction so just lowering it isn't the necessarily the proper solution. Bottom line is that to have a healthy functioning system, you need to have cortisol at the right levels (not too high or too low) during all times of the day and night.
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