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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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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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