Can growth hormone help with depression?
Research on this particular topic is lacking, but, for those people who are shown (by insulin tolerance test) to be growth hormone deficient, replacement (by daily injection) may produce a variety of benefits, including an improvement in energy and overall well-being. What happens during cortisol withdrawal? Cushing’s patients may experience cortisol withdrawal when surgery successfully removes tumors which increase cortisol. Cortisol withdrawal may occur when a patient is being tapered off of replacement hormones following surgery while awaiting recovery of the hormone system which regulates cortisol. This system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, may take months or years to recover after removal of a tumor. People experiencing cortisol withdrawal often feel extremely fatigued and have severe muscle and joint pain. In an extreme case, the body experiences a crisis in which a person has nausea, dizziness, severe fatigue, and may actually be at risk of death. This is a medical em
