Re: CFS and HPA interesting article

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English wrote:

> Meanwhile, a group of Harvard

> Medical School researchers found that in Fibromyalgic [CFS]

> women, " the HPA axis-a complex brain-to-body pathway involving the

> hypothalamus and the pituitary and adrenal glands-is damaged. As a

> result, it does not properly regulate production of cortisol, a

> hormone with widespread effects throughout the body. " *

>

I have a question about that----if the adrenal glands are damaged, (as

in me, I'm stage 7), how can the regulatory mechanisms have any effect

at all? Trying to get blood out of a stone, seems to me. Of course the

regulators may keep trying, which would in turn exhaust those processes?

Does I phrase my question understandably? I mean if the adrenals are

trashed they can do no more, no matter what is trying to " regulate

production " , my adrenals have got just about nothing more to produce,

and will never have, unless I can support, rest, and heal them. I think

of this like TSH going up and up, trying to stimulate a dead thyroid gland?

sol