Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Except if it's low — if it's low, it'll bring it up
much higher because you know, let's say your
adrenals are really key at holding on to minerals and if you're decreasing your mineral retention because the aldosterone that your
adrenals make is low because of the
adrenal dysfunction that's happening, you will pee out more minerals and that — that's important for regulating blood pressure and that's also important for their sodium potassium pumps, so if we don't have enough high quality sodium, those sodium potassium pumps kinda that creates the gradient and how things go in and out of the cell, now if don't have adequate sodium on board, that can definitely be a stressor for the body.
Sometimes it's just a short - term illness, sometimes it's
much worse like when Jim was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, or when I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's, PCOS, and
Adrenal Dysfunction.
For the person suffering from
adrenal dysfunction — producing too little or too
much of
adrenal hormone — caffeine can intensify your
adrenal problems, which can worsen your Hashimoto's hypothyroidism condition.