ADHD, Social Anxiety disorder treated with hormones

[1cc]

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/feb2006_ch_01.htm

[love_en]

Low DHEA is a clue that total adrenal function is compromised. Where is the AM cortisol, serum ACTH and stim test?

[pmgamer18]

Still a dam good read they missed the boat on cortisol but just goes to show you what Hormones will do Thanks 1CC.

[love_en]

I am not so sure about missing the boat on cortisol. It is often the official policy of antiaging doctors to have soemone's cortisol as low as possible without sending said person into Addison's disease. If they were not set on that agenda, low DHEA would trigger an investigation of that patient's adrenal function. BTW, I tried DHEA when it first became popular in the 1990's. In the context of my low cortisol, all I got from it was anxiety and more cardiac arrhythmias. Now I understand why. It acts in opposition to cortisol. This guy is lucky the DHEA is not making him worse.

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Originally Posted by pmgamer18

Still a dam good read they missed the boat on cortisol but just goes to show you what Hormones will do Thanks 1CC.

Pregnenolone converts to cortisol, and they gave him a hefty dose of pregnenolone, so that's probably why they were not concerned with it.

The point of the article is to show that people are being treated with hormones because of hormone deficiencies for conditions that they would normally be treated with very unhealthy and damaging drugs.

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While human studies of pregnenolone supplementation have not been completed, compelling evidence suggests that pregnenolone plays a role in depression. In a study of 27 patients with depression and 10 healthy volunteers, the depressed subjects had lower levels of pregnenolone in their cerebrospinal fluid than the healthy individuals.13 Cerebrospinal fluid circulates in the spinal column and brain, indicating that the brains of the depressed patients were exposed to less pregnenolone than those of the healthy subjects. In another study that matched 12 healthy controls with 12 men who had generalized social phobia and were not taking medication, concentrations of pregnenolone sulfate were significantly lower in the plasma of the patients with social phobia, again implying that pregnenolone plays a role in mood states.14

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/...rt_preg_02.htm