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Lightbulb levodopa carbidopa & the hypoglycemia connection!

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the symptoms of hypoglycemia
such as irritability, nervousness,
anxiety, dry mouth, muscle tightness
in the neck and low back,
palpitations and so on.

Diabetics
quite often experience some of
these symptoms.
Insulin is the most important
hormone secreted by the beta cells
of the pancreas contained in the
Islets of Langerhans.

It promotes
glucose utilization by facilitating
the entry into the body cells of
glucose. It is also promotes protein
synthesis using amino acids to
make proteins inside body cell and
lipid storage in the form of triglycerides.

Insulin is a building type of
hormone and helps the body to
take in nutrients and utilize them.
It responds to glucose levels
rather than levels of other nutrients.

Unfortunately hypoglycemics
have too much insulin with the
result that too much sugar leaves
the blood and the brain is fueled by
what little is left. There is not
enough sugar in the blood to feed
the brain, resulting in tiredness,
vagueness in consequence of the
blood sugar levels going too low.


OTHER HORMONES
DHEA
(Dehydroepiandrosterone) is
probably a very popular hormone.
It has a lot to do with motivation
and drive. People who are deficient
become anxious gloomy and
sad, have low energy and motivation,
may grow lifeless hair and
have dry skin.

They may have scant
hair under arms and in the pubic
area, a low libido and typically a
“pot belly”.
It is the most prevalent hormone
in one’s body and over a life time
is probably twenty times more
abundant than any other hormone
in production. It is regarded as
building block hormone, because
it is used by different organs.

It is used by the woman’s ovaries to
make female hormones. It is used
by men’s testicles to make testosterone.
It is used by the adrenal
glands to make hormones as well.
So it is a base hormone abundant in
the body.
It fights depression, anxiety and
promotes a sense of well being and
it improves memory.
It is claimed that it also strengthens
muscles, keeps mucous membranes
moist, and boosts immunity.
In women it helps their libido
to increase. In experimental animal
studies it has been shown to
have positive effects in fighting
heart disease and cancer. In
America you can purchase DHEA
over the counter which has led to
misuse in sport, because when
taken in excess it starts to make
androgens including testosterone.
The side effects are due to excess
testosterone, creating acne, greasy
facial hair, oily face and aggression.
In Australia it is far more complicated
to get DHEA. A doctor’s
prescription is required and it can
only be obtained from a ‘compounding
pharmacist’ of which
there are about twenty in Sydney.
Australian doctors prescribe
DHEA when people have tested
low on it.
In America people with healthy
levels may take far too much of
DHEA and may do damage to their
body tissue, such as growing excess
hair, become cranky and
greasy skins. It is wonderful hormone,
but it is only wonderful,
when people proven to be low on it
are given the right dosage.
Cortisol
Cortisol is another hormone
from the adrenal gland. It is a stress
hormone. People that are deficient
in cortisol often have hair loss,
thinness in the face, recurring fevers
and frequent colds. Synthetic
cortisol is cortisone given by way
of injection into swollen joints, or
given to asthmatics when they have
a severe attack. It boosts up your
total cortisol equivalent and people
to cope with things. In cortisol
deficiency people may have bad
skins, hives, psoriasis, pigmentation.
They may have low blood
pressure faster heart rate and painful
joints. Often people have sugar
and salt carvings when they are
low in cortisol.
Emotional effects - Cortisol
helps you to respond quickly and
constructively with stress. It prevents
vagueness, confusion and
irritability. Cortisol is a biological
clock hormones coming in a circadian
rhythm. It peaks in the morning
just after you awake, and it
troughs in the evening sometime
between about six and ten o’clock
in the evening.
It can change quite significantly
in the course of one day. There is a
large range for a normal range. In
Cushing’s Syndrome too much
cortisol is produced. Some of the
symptoms are a round-moon face
and these are the effects of over
treatment also. You get the round
trunk and skinny limbs. There is
thinning of the skin, soft bones,
stomach ulceration and the buffalo
hump between the shoulder blades.
Sometimes the treatment with cortisone
is the only treatment that
may save the life of a severe asthmatic
or arthritis patient when nothing
else works.
Excess cortisol may increase
your appetite and promote weight
gain, it eases inflammation. It enhances
the immune system. In
asthma allergies can be terrible. If
you have a severe allergic reaction,
adrenaline is probably number
one we are going to inject it, and
cortisol is number two. Cortisol
boosts the blood sugar levels in
stress. It is one of the slow responses
when you are low in blood
sugar. In stress it directs blood to
the vital organs, fights fatigue and
anxiety, irritability and low blood
sugar sugar. If a person is deficient
the treatment is between 5-10 mg
Cortisone per day. A person with
more severe problems may take
higher doses. Once you take more
than 5 mg per day you risk the
nasty side effects of steroids, and
cortisone is the primary steroid.
The effects of over treatment include
stomach ulcerational bleeding
and osteoporosis.

If you have been on cortisone
for a long time you have to taper
off it slowly, so that your own
adrenal glands get a chance to make
more cortisol for you as it tapers
off.

Aldosterone
This is hormone that promotes
sodium reabsorption and potassium
loss in the kidney. If someone
has low blood pressure and struggles
to stand erect, then aldosterone
is a hormone that helps to
maintain the blood, water, salt volumes
in the right place at the right
time. It helps a person feel comfortable
standing up.

We are different
from most other animals in
that we stand erect. In animals on
all four the brain and heart is at the
same level. So you need some
clever engineering and physical
chemistry that has to occur in your
body to keep the circulation to the
brain going.

People with low blood pressure
may feel light headed, and they
prefer to be lying down than standing
up.
They should be tested for
aldosterone levels.
Typical symptoms of deficiency
of aldosterone includes drowsiness
and a need to lie down, dehydration
and thirst, trouble maintaining
a reasonable blood pressure
when they stand up, often a increase
in urine volume and frequency
of urine.
Blood pressure is typically below
100 mm/Hg systolic. The urine
is often colourless, because the
urine is not concentrated due to a
large volume and the person is
quite thirsty.
Other effects are that aldosterone
maintains blood pressure when
you are standing up, it also helps to
keep the mind clear. This is really
because it keeps the osmotic pressure
within cells inside of the brain
to be more or less correct, rather
than letting the salt and water in
the different adjoining cells have
vast differences. Aldosterone fights
against drowsiness and poor
stamina and the need to lie down.
Sometimes people have that rapid
heart beat, tachycardia, because of
low blood pressure and it may alleviate
that as well.
Treatment is with synthetic aldosterone
tablets called Florinef,
which is fludrocortisone acetate.
Over-treatment results in tissue
swelling, particularly at the ankles,
hands and feet. When the
doctor prescribes an incorrect dosage,
one may suffer from high
blood pressure and potassium imbalance.
Aldactone, a fluid tablet is used
to control blood pressure. This really
works the other way around
by blocking aldosterone in the body
and changing its effects of fluid
movement in the body. It stops
sodium from being reabsorbed, and
you lose sodium, and this lowers
your blood pressure.
Adrenocorticotropic (ACTH)
ACTH is a hormone in the brain
from the pituitary gland. It is a 39
amino acid polypeptide. When
there is a deficiency people suffer
from hair loss and the skin pallor.
When you have low thyroid you
also get hair loss and skin pallor,
but other hormones have the same
effects such as low cortisol and
ACTH also.
ACTH helps your resistance to
stress. It is a hormone that makes
you pump cortisol, makes you more
attentive, vigilant and focused and
better memory. It controls your
circadian rhythm just as cortisol
we discussed before. This is because
cortisol is controlled by
ACTH from the pituitary in the
brain.
Other effects are hair loss, skin
pallor and you sun burn easily. You
may have trouble maintaining energy
and it increases your response
to stress, infection and surgery and
to hypoglycemia as well. When
the blood sugar crashes this is stress
and two stress hormones are
pumped. The immediate one is
adrenaline and the slow one is cortisol.
Treatment is rarely used because
ACTH is so hard to control. It is a
39 AA peptide administered by
injection. If people are deficient
we tend to use the hormones that
are being produced by ACTH. We
give people cortisol, aldosterone
and DHEA supplements. ACTH
injections twice a week for six
months have been used in the past
and it is not popular.
Dopamine
Dopamine also comes from the
adrenal gland, but now we are considering
the inner part of the
adrenals called the medulla.
Dopamine is a catecholamine. It
also secreted from the basal ganglia
in the brain. This secretes a
group of physiologically important
substances, including adrenaline,
noradrenaline and dopamine
with different roles mainly as neurotransmitters
in the functioning
of the sympathetic and central nervous
system.


People that are low on dopamine
have usually a mask like face,
muscle are rigid. They have the
tremor and a droopy posture with
sagged shoulders and skin. The
exciting thing about studying hormones
is that all hormones have
precursors and you can fix hormone
imbalances with precursor
hormones.


my 10 cents
luv,tena
- when women are menstral our meds do not work well at all -
I think they make me worse, I drink a medicinal tea to bring harmony
to the hormonal functions in women/ as I have had Low blood sugar/
aka hypoglycemia since I was in highschool,


Dopamine is the precursor
to adrenaline and noradrenaline,
so when these are deficient it
may useful to give a Parkinson’s
drug like Sinemet, which is LDopa,
to people who have not
enough adrenaline in their body.
This is especially so if there are
signs of muscle stiffness or a rigid
posture.


Adrenaline
Adrenaline is a catecholamine
with which hypoglycemics identify
the most. When adrenaline is
pumped into the body as often
happens in hypoglycemics it is the
fight or flight hormone. Its effects
are that dries all secretions, you get
dry eyes, dry vagina, dry mouth
and dries up sniffles in to nose.
It
slows down the bowel. When
adrenaline is raised it is a response
to an emergency.

This happens
when your blood sugar is crashing
and helps to raise blood sugar levels.
It redirects blood away from
unimportant organs to the vital
organs. It gives your brain, lungs,
kidneys and your heart more blood.
It lowers the blood in your hands
and feet, and this is why they get
cold.

It lowers blood from the
womb, which can be a cause of
miscarriages. It closes down blood
supply to the bowel. It increases
gastric acidity and this may cause
stomach ulcers. It dilates your pupils
and this will improve
preipheral vision in case of an
emergency.


Thus adrenaline is a
potent vasodilator and also opens
up airways. It is used in cardiac
arrest.
It is given in acute allergic
reactions as in anaphylaxis.

People
with rhinitis can use adrenaline
nose sprays. It is also used in a type
of glaucoma called open-angle glaucoma,
which changes the size of the
pupil and helps the flow of fluid
inside the eye ball so as to lower the
pressure inside the eye ball.
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for hypoglycemic people w/ PD!
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