Cortisol- was: Vitamin D / Adrenal / Cortisone

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I haven't been following this thread, but I wanted to ask this

question. 's is a primary disease, but secondary 's

conforms with lots of symptoms of CFS. Low blood pressure and blood

sugar, even to the point of fainting(I feel light headed all the

time), immune dysfunction, metabolism of fats(which might explain

brain fog after eating fats), etc. Also the causes of secondary

's sounds awfully familiar- There are also several less common

causes of 's disease: other chronic infections besides

tuberculosis, especially certain fungal infections, invasion of the

adrenal by cancer cells that have spread from another part of the

body, especially the breast; CMV virus in association with AIDS, etc.

http://www.medhelp.org/www/nadf3.htm

I'm sure this has been brought up before, but what are people's

experiences with Cortisol? Good, bad, indifferent? How about with or

without Florinef?

Auto-immune 's disease, the most common type, can be

associated with other auto-immune diseases that similarly affect

other endocrine glands. The most common one is the thyroid. If an

underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) coexists with 's disease,

this is called Schmidt's syndrome.

http://www.medhelp.org/www/nadf3.htm

-helps maintain blood pressure and cardiovascular function;

-helps slow the immune systems inflammatory response;

-helps balance the effects of insulin in breaking down sugar for

energy; and

-helps regulate the metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.

http://www.pituitary.org/disorders/addisons_disease.aspx

Thanks

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> Mark

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> Let me say again that Vitamin D has significantly decreased

inflammatory

> spine pain for me. I am very thankful for that.

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> mjh

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> Yes and no. It can play a role in reducing inflammation for some

> conditions, but not necessarily others. I.e. you can't reduce the

> inflammation in diseases like sarcoidosis with vitamin D, whereas

> cortisone is effective. And vitamin D hasn't been shown to help

> simple inflammation caused by common arthritis. And vitamin D of

> course requires conversion to 1,25(OH)2D to be anti-inflammatory,

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> that doesn't necessarily occur in all tissues. - Mark

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