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@hardasnails1973 56 wrote:

This condition is what our soldiers are suffering from coming back from Iraq. I am going to Colorado springs to university of the rockies to talk to try and talk to a psychologist that works at the army base to educate them on the fact that if they would combine psychotherapy with proper hormone balancing will help them to break the cycle. With out proper adrenal and thyroid support to have the ability to cope with the trama their becomes a vicious cycle. I ran into a number of soldiers while out there that goto VA hospital and had some hormones ran. The results were border line hypothyroidism. How ironic isn’t it? These soldiers are on so many psychotropic drugs it is ashame. Majority of them are on lithium carbonate at 300 mgs and also trazadone to sleep. I know it is only theory but could simple addressing the adrenal fatigue and thyroid actually give these soldiers a new lease on life? I am going to do my best to educate health professionals to look into this. I would love to conduct a study of cortisol saliva test on solders returning home to see exactly what their levels are at.

Any forward progress with the new treatment of soldiers in this manner? We really need to jump on this, and my friend (and I) who is actually about to be med-boarded for psychiatric/psychological reasons is trying to start a new behavioral health and drug treatment program. This could really go somewhere..

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Interesting. So, hopefully 7-keto at reasonable levels doesn’t affect the cortisol access, either? Are there any published studies out there regarding this?

This would be great for me to know as well since my E2 went out of control after starting DHEA therapy…

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Wouldn’t 7-keto also cause a problem with cortisol levels (or action at the cellular level) in those with adrenal insufficiency/fatigue?

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