Excellent explanation from
Hashimoto's Healing of blood sugar, cortisol adrenals and thyroid and how they intertwine:
But other things you don’t normally think of, also place just as much of a burden on the adrenal glands.
These include blood sugar swings, gut dysfunction, leaky gut, food intolerances (especially gluten), chronic infections, environmental toxins, autoimmune problems and inflammation.
All of these conditions sound the alarm and cause the adrenals to pump out more stress hormones.
So really, stress can be thought of as anything that disturbs the body’s natural balance (or if you like, homeostasis).
Adrenal stress is one of the most common problems encountered in modern clinical practice, because nearly everyone is dealing with at least one of the things I just discussed...
Adrenal stress weakens these barriers, weakens the immune system in general, and promotes poor immune system regulation.
Cortisol can impact this in both directions. Too little cortisol causes the immune system to rev up and can lead to an over aggressive immune response.
Too much cortisol can weaken the immune system and make you more vulnerable to attacks or unable to defend yourself.
When these immune barriers are breached large proteins and other antigens are able to pass into the bloodstream or brain where they don’t belong.
If this happens over and over again, the immune system gets thrown out of whack and we become more prone to autoimmune diseases...
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