@StreamOfWater said in High DHEA, Cortisol, Prolactin and Cholesterol:
and I feel like it's damaging my body as a whole.
Yep, low thyroid / high cortisol may cause muscle wasting, fat accumulation, etc.
also looks like that my liver has a problem storing glycogen
RAY PEAT: “Thyroid acting partly through the liver helps to lower prolactin production"
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/hot-flashes-energy-aging.shtml "One of the things progesterone does is to stabilize blood sugar. In one experiment, hot flashes were found to be increased by lowering blood sugar and decreased by moderately increasing blood sugar (Dormire and Reame, 2003). Hypoglycemia increases brain hormones, corticotropin releases hormones, CRH (Widmaier, et al., 1988), which increases ACTH and cortisol. CRH causes vasodilation (Clifton, et al., 2005), and is more active in the presence of estrogen. Menopausal women are more responsive to its effects, and those with the most severe hot flushes are the most responsive (Yakubo, et al., 1990). | The first reaction to a decrease of blood glucose, at least in healthy individuals, is to increase the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, with an increase of adrenaline, which causes the liver to release glucose from its glycogen stores. The effect of adrenaline on the liver is very quick, but adrenaline also acts on the brain, stimulating CRH, which causes the pituitary to secrete ACTH, which stimulates the adrenal cortex to release cortisol, which by various means causes blood sugar to increase, consequently causing the sympathetic nervous activity to decrease. Even when the liver's glycogen stores are adequate, the system cycles rhythmically, usually repeating about every 90 minutes throughout the day."
Haidut: The methods for increasing glycogen storage depend very much on the specific organism/person, but if you are interested in trying some new things the first option I would suggest is to get some pure fructose (or fruit juices like apples that contain mostly fructose) and use that as your primary source of sugar for several days. Fructose is supposed to be particularly good at building up glycogen storage. | On the supplement side, taurine is supposed to help with that, but the dose varies wildly from person to person for optimal effects. So, you have to try to find out what works for you. Typically, effective doses are 2g-5g a day. | Another supplement that Peat wrote about is uridine. Read The Problem of Alzheimer's Disease as a clue to Immortality Part 1 | Finally, if you are interested in trying drugs (after consulting with your doctor of course) an older antihistamine and anti-acid drug famotidine (Pepcid) is exceptionally good at inhibiting glycogen breakdown and promoting the synthesis of new glycogen. It is worth noting that famotidine is unique in its glycogen effects among the anti-acid drugs and unlike other drugs it has no known interaction with any other drug or any known effects on liver health or metabolizing abilities. So, you could use that while loading up on sugar. Famotidine is helpful for several conditions completely unrelated to stomach acid such as schizophrenia and PTSD. A probable explanation of those benefits would be due to the drug improving glycogen storage/usage and thus improving brain energetic profile.
I'm very happy for you that you are doing better. Did you dig yourself out of it?
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I spent a lot of time researching and healing my soul/psyche and body. I'm almost at the right spot, but the legal availability of some drugs (prescription only) is the thing I still need to overcome...
