If cortisol is high at night, why take Cortef at Bedtime?

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I guess I don't follow this logic? Would please explain this

to me. Clueless

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>>I guess I don't follow this logic? Would please explain this

to me. Clueless<<

the reason cortisll becomes too high at night in adrenal fatigue has everything

to do with this. When your cortiso is low in the daytime, your body makes TONS

of ACTH to beat the adrenals into producing more cortils , cuz it's low. SO the

adrenal CAN'T make any more so the ACTH builds higher and higher. Then when late

afternoon comes around, and the cortisl needs are MUCH lower than early in the

day the adrenals CAN make what you need for that time of day, but the ACTH is

still sitting there WAY too high so the adrenals, rather than lowering thei

production as they should for bedtime, keep on making as much cortisol as they

are able to, going WAY too high for night time. This also keeps them from

rebuilding their stores so they can give you the cortiosl you need in the

morning adn you arein a vicious cycle of never ending poor cortisol rythym.

Now the minute you take cortisol in the daytime to raise the levesl to EBOUGH

cortisoll for morning and noon, the ACTH LOWERS dramatically. Usually too much

as it reads the doses you are taking as full production when it really isn't but

just under what you need. So by night time your adrenals are sleeping and making

NOTHING ad RESTING which is our goal to rebuilfd them. But you need SOME

cortiosll at night too, just not as much as morning and noon. SO to give your

body enough cortilsl so the adrenals can rest and rebuild you need to take a

bedtime dose to cover your overnight cortisol needs. Once your adrenals are

rested adn start rebuilding you seesaw off HC by lowering the first dose FIRST

so the ACTH can come back up, then you will not need the HC at bedtime.

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