How to Heal Hashimoto's by Marc Ryan L.Ac

Author:Marc Ryan, L.Ac.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

ANDROGEN HORMONES

The androgen hormones are testosterone and DHEA (which stands for the impossible-to-pronounce dehydroepiandrosterone).

These are present in both men and women. DHEA is popular for being the “youth hormone.” It does have antiaging effects. It also helps the body fight infections and helps protect the body from the effects of cortisol and stress.

Cholesterol gets converted into pregnenolone, the precursor for all of those hormones. Pregnenolone is also a precursor for cortisol.

With chronic stress—the kind that causes a host of health problems, including hypothyroidism—something called a “pregnenolone steal” happens.

This is when the body says, “Sorry, DHEA and testosterone, we need to borrow pregnenolone for a little while and use it to make more cortisol.”

This is the body’s way of conserving resources to help us survive stressful situations, like living with Hashimoto’s. The problem with chronic stress (a perpetual state of “pregnenolone steal”) is that it ends up draining the adrenals.

Remember that, because we’re going to come back to it in a moment. I want to digress quickly into the brain. In chapters 2 and 3, we talked a bit about the hypothalamus, where the ancient Taoists tapped into the energy of the Big Dipper.

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