Infections and cortisol - The Potbelly Syndrome

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Infections and cortisol

The drawing shows how infections produce inflammation and raise cortisol

levels.

 

 

Each time we are attacked by a germ, our bodies start an acute phase

response (APR) to kill that germ. Usually, the APR eradicates the germ in a few

days

or weeks and we recover completely. A few germs, however, cannot be

eradicated and they cause chronic infections and chronic APRs.

 

 

The long-term effects of APRs include heart disease and potbelly syndrome

(PBS): obesity, high blood presure, and type 2 diabetes.

 

 

A healthy lifestyle, with exercise, vitamins, and a good diet, can delay the

consequences of chronic APRs for a long time. A healthy lifestyle cannot

cure APRs, heart disease or potbelly syndrome because it cannot eradicate the

germs that cause them.

 

Some of the germs discussed in The Potbelly Syndrome can be eradicated

fairly easily by your doctor, but others will require a lot of effort. Still

other

germs, like the herpes viruses, can't be eradicated yet and we must wait for

researchers to find better ways to kill them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

More information on infections and cortisol

 

_Miyashita N._

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..Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) [Chlamydia pneumoniae infections]

Kekkaku. 2006 Sep;81(9):581-8. Review. Japanese.

 

_Torpy DJ, Ho JT._

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bmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) Value of free cortisol

measurement in systemic infection. Horm Metab Res. 2007 Jun;39(6):439-44.

Review.

 

_Rotman-Pikielny P, Roash V, Chen O, Limor R, Stern N, Gur HG._

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1 & ordinalpos=26 & itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_

RVDocSum) Serum cortisol levels in patients admitted to the department of

medicine: Prognostic correlations and effects of age, infection, and

comorbidity. Am J Med Sci. 2006 Aug;332(2):61-7.

 

_Manary MJ, Muglia LJ, Vogt SK, Yarasheski KE._

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Cortisol and its action on the glucocorticoid receptor in malnutrition and acute

infection. Metabolism. 2006 Apr;55(4):550-4.

 

_Bouyou-Akotet MK, Adegnika AA, Agnandji ST, Ngou-Milama E, Kombila M,

Kremsner PG, Mavoungou E._

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Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) Cortisol and susceptibility to

malaria during pregnancy.Microbes Infect. 2005 Aug-Sep;7(11-12):1217-23.

 

_Huitinga I, Erkut ZA, van Beurden D, Swaab DF._

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The hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in multiple sclerosis. Ann N Y Acad Sci.

2003 May;992:118-28. Review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Potbelly Syndrome:

How Common Germs cause Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Disease

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I still think the potbelly, which everyone seems to have these days

from childhood to adult, is caused by too much Prednisone. Prednisone

is given neonatally on into old age frequently. llaci

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I found this post to be enormously useful in my own personal health

battle and it will probably take me days to wade through all of the

links.

 

BUT- for anyone else on digest, the original post did not come through

on my digests and I only found it because of the one reply that did

come through, so if anyone missed it, go to the group site and it is

message number 53680 dated 7-19-08 at 8:38pm, posted by " bestsurprise2002 "

 

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