How can I raise morning cortisol?

[Dee8686]

I believe my waking cortisol is a problem along with my iron.

How do I raise waking cortisol please?

I’m hoping that for me, addressing iron and this am reading will help me.

Thank you

[hipolion]

Mine is the same. Are all kinds of solutions, adaptogens roots(licorice, ashwagandha, etc) or glandular adrenal (from Thorne research, etc).

[Dee8686 in reply to hipolion]

Do you take it on waking?

[hipolion in reply to Dee8686]

In the past I took for a short period of time(AC adrenal cortex from thorne). One in the morning and one in the afternoon.

[greygoose]

Be careful with adaptogens. They're just as likely to reduce your cortisol as raise it.

Your morning cortisol isn't that bad, so shouldn't be too hard to raise.

* Make sure you always go to bed and get up at the same time, every day.

* On rising, have a high protein breakfast - eggs or something.

* Make sure you have plenty of B vitamins - but test vit B12 and folate before supplementing.

* Take large doses of vit C spread out through the day.

* Make sure you get plenty of salt in your diet, or try the Adrenal Cocktail. healthunlocked.com/thyroidu....

* And, of course, get as much rest as you can, and avoid stress if at all possible.

[Dee8686 in reply to greygoose]

Thank you gg. Yes resting is all I can do still 😩

On another note- I have pressure in my neck and tiredness in my neck of that makes sense! What is that do you know?!

[greygoose in reply to Dee8686]

I'm afraid I have no idea. Could be many things, including stress, weak muscles, low B12? I don't know.

[Dee8686 in reply to greygoose]

Just wondered if it was a hypo symptom x

[greygoose in reply to Dee8686]

It certainly could be. Just about anything can be.