Cortisol Boost 101
Dr Thierry Hertogue outlined the entire suite of symptoms, and most (not all) of the treatment, over the course of two specific lectures:
1) Actual Title: PC01g - Cortisone
My Title: Cortisol deficiency and Cortisol therapy / supplementation
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http://www.prolibraries.com/a4m/?sel...&sessionID=885
2) Actual Title: GS02a - Eye Opener: Progesterone Therapy in Men
My Title: Pregesterone deficiency and Progesterone therapy / supplementation
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http://www.prolibraries.com/a4m/?sel...&sessionID=523
The two lectures should be bundled together as: "The problems of downregulated cortisol-production-line hormones (eg: preg, prog, cortisol) and treatment via supplementation with either progesterone, hydrocortisone (cortisol), medrol, prednisone or prednisolone, assuming thyroid hormones respond automatically in an optimum fashion".
Dr Hertoghe has a habit of implying that the issues involving the entire cortisol-production-line are specifically attributable to just progesterone or cortisol, when most of the issues are not actually able to be isolated with any degree of precision, to any one of the hormones in the cortisol-production-line, since all of the issues are extremely tightly connected via very strong feedback loops, ie:
a) researchers who boost progesterone automatically boost
pregnenolone and cortisol
b) researchers who boost cortisol automatically boost
pregnenolone and progesterone.
Only a few of the components he discusses and addresses were reliably isolated to specifically progesterone or cortisol, but they can definitely be attributed to the set of cortisol-production-line hormones (ie: preg, prog, 17-hydroxyprog, 11-deoxycortisol, cortisol)
Finally, Dr hertoghe omits a critical aspect whereby boosting the cortisol-production-line hormones usually requires a thyroid hormone boost, as the thyroid hormones rarely respond automatically in an optimal fashion, yet thyroid hormone levels must match cortisol levels in order to achieve the benefits under discussion.