http://www.arltma.com/AdrenalInsufDoc.htm
3) Nutritional supplements to reduce stress and enhance adrenal activity. The adrenal glands especially require vitamins A, C, E, pantothenic acid, manganese and zinc. Adrenal glandular substance is also recommended to provide adrenal nucleoprotein and other specific nutritional factors to help rebuild the adrenal glands.
hey DIM, looks familiar! lol!
http://www.arltma.com/
trace elements and adrenal corticosteroid production
Abstract The implications of essential trace elements in endocrinological processes, mainly thyroid function, growth, gonadal function, adrenal hormones, prolactin, glucose homeostasis, calcium-phosphorus metabolism, and thymulin activity, are reviewed. Most concerned elements in this field include iodine, zinc, selenium, copper, chromium, manganese and vanadium. The minerals are powerful modulators of several physiological functions that can be considerably perturbed in deficiency states. The resulting biochemical and clinical modifications can be prevented and/or corrected by adequate supplementation. Sometimes, however, they act like pharmacological agents when their beneficial effects are not the result of a correction of a nutritional deficiency state. Their potentialities as therapeutic agents are perfectly described in many cases, but some indications deserve further investigations.
hmm here's a good link to a book resource on adrenal dysfunction, but i don't have time to really absorb the info right now..
http://books.google.com/books?id=FRnKH1 ... y+holt&lr=
dim, it's overproduction of cortisol that wears out the adrenal glands right?
Biol Trace Elem Res. 1990 Jan;24(1):83-9.
Zinc acutely and temporarily inhibits adrenal cortisol secretion in humans. A preliminary report.Brandão-Neto J, de Mendonça BB, Shuhama T, Marchini JS, Pimenta WP, Tornero MT.
Hypo- and hyperzincemia has been reported to cause alterations in the adrenal secretion. To determine the acute effect of zinc on cortisol levels, we studied 27 normal individuals of both sexes aged 20-27 y after a 12-h fast. The tests were initiated at 7:00 AM when an antecubital vein was punctured and a device for infusion was installed and maintained with physiological saline. Zinc was administered orally at 8:00 AM. Subjects were divided into an experimental group of 13 individuals who received doses of 25, 37.5, and 50 mg of zinc and a control group of 14 individual who received 20 mL of physiological saline. Serial blood samples were collected over a period of 240 min after basal samples (-30 and 0 min). We detected an acute inhibitory effect of zinc on cortisol secretion during 240 min of the study period in the experimental group.
here's a list of hypoadrenalism symptoms:
-weight loss and anorexia
-fatigue and weakness
-nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea
-generalized wasting and muscle cramps
-hypoglycemia (esp. children)
-dizziness and postural hypotension
-loss of body hair
-pigmentation of light exposed areas
-vitiligo (autoimmune adrenalitis)
-circulatory shock (acute circumstances)
anorexia and hair loss jump out at me as zinc issues.