Sentences with phrase «much of aldosterone»

This condition occurs when your adrenals, two small glands located on the top of the kidney, produce too much of aldosterone.

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Too much secretion of this hormone typically results in an elevated level of aldosterone in the blood.

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.

Production of aldosterone by the adrenals depends on how much cortisol - stimulating hormone (ACTH) is being sent from the brain.

Levels of aldosterone go up and down in much the same pattern as cortisol does, and likewise go up as a normal response to stressful situations.

Chapter 22 of Adrenal Fatigue The 21st Century Stress Syndrome outlines the «Anatomy and Physiology of the Adrenal Glands», and has much more detail about aldosterone and the regulation of the body's electrolytes.

Aldosterone is, one of its main roles is sodium retention or sodium regulation inside the body, and when the adrenal glands are not functioning properly, that whole process of regulating sodium becomes impaired, so you actually don't retain as much sodium as you should.

If the medication used to treat Cushing's disease inadvertently suppresses too much adrenal gland activity, deficiency of cortisol and aldosterone may result.

The tumor causes the adrenal gland to produce too much of the hormone aldosterone.

The tumor causes the glands to release too much of each hormone such as cortisol, aldosterone, and aldosterone, sex hormones and catecholamines.

While typical Cushing's involves too much cortisol, «atypical» Cushing's can occur when the outer layer of the adrenals — the zona glomerulosa — overproduces the hormone aldosterone.

Addison's disease may also result when the drug used to treat Cushing's syndrome destroys too much of the adrenal tissues, resulting in a deficiency of cortisol and aldosterone.

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.