And then they tracked just how much fluids went into and out of each participant, in addition to some other fun stuff
like aldosterone and cortisone, two of the hormones involved in helping us maintain our water - salt balance, which is critical to life.
When your body is so pre-occupied with manufacturing cortisol, it has no reserves for making other important hormones and neurotransmitters
like aldosterone, testosterone and epinephrine which are so invaluable for keeping stress under control.
Not exact matches
Is there a solution for doing something
like increasing
aldosterone, or is it a matter of going after the high cortisol?
Bryan: Yup, and usually the pattern is that when they have low
aldosterone like that, their pattern tends to be towards low blood pressure, they tend to have what's called orthostatic hypotension, which means they get dizzy if they stand up too quickly, and they urinate a lot, and their blood chemistry will typically show patterns of dehydration, but by adding sea salt, what typically happens is it's great.
And in the last marker, I just want to point out to you that
aldosterone there, that's
like a marker down, I read that one, it was really interesting because your blood chemistry, or a previous one, showed an alteration in sodium and potassium, I won't get to the details unless you want me to, but you usually see that pattern in sodium and potassium on you if you have low cortisol, low cortisol, low
aldosterone.
Now guys, it sounds
like, right now, the recommendations that you're making would be to follow up this series of tests with yet another test, a lymphocyte subset panel, and then also look into something
like enhancing my body's intake of glutathione or glutathione precursors along with, perhaps for this
aldosterone side issue, adding in some sea salts and some trace minerals.
Data for plasma urea nitrogen, creatinine, α amino nitrogen, uric acid, growth hormone, and insulin -
like growth factor I and for urinary urea,
aldosterone, and cortisol is published separately (52).
Like serum testing, saliva tests offer only a «snapshot» look at hormones that ebb and flow throughout a 24 - hour period, for which reason its diagnostic value for testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and
aldosterone is compromised by rapid fluctuations in salivary concentrations of these steroids.
These include the
likes of androstenedione, testosterone, estrogens, cortisol, and
aldosterone, to name the more commonly spoken of ones.
Like cortisol,
aldosterone follows a diurnal pattern of secretion, peaking at 8 a.m., and at it's lowest from 12 - 4 a.m.
Examples include certain Beta blockers such as Labetalol, medications that work by blocking the actions of the hormone
Aldosterone such as Lisinopril and Losartan; And, certain Diuretics
like Spironolactone and Eplerenone.
Just
like cortisol,
aldosterone levels can go up and down.
So it releases stuff
like rennin,
aldosterone, and another one called vasopressin and your body even releases extra albumin in your blood and when this happens, your plasma volume expands and even though, while your exercising short term, especially for
like an aerobic session, your plasma volume decreases by 10 - 20 % by the time your body has bounced back and responded a single bout of intense exercise, especially
like a long or hard session, can expand your plasma volume or your plasma fluid by 10 %.