I appreciate the Mayo Clinic's take on labeling adrenal fatigue as an unsubstanciated disease; I think they happen to take it a bit too far in its dismissal of cortisol effects.
No one, certainly not the Mayo Clinic, is dismissing the effects of cortisol. What they, and I, are dismissing, is unscientific grouping of vague symptoms under the umbrella of a so-called "disease" that has no defining criteria, and treatment that hasn't been evaluated by double-blind studies.
Cortisol is a pulsatile hormone. Your morning levels will be nothing like your evening levels. If I take your cortisol levels now, I can proclaim them as "too high" or "too low" depending on the time of day, as it suits me.
I find it astonishing how scathing people are about modern medicine, which has completely turned around infant mortality, maternal mortality, conquered many previously lethal infectious diseases, lifted our life expectancy, to name just a few things, and on the other hand, doggedly defend the most improbable "disease" they insist the medical establishment has ignored, and the equally improbable treatment that "they" just don't want you to know about. A complete double standard. I'm not saying you are doing this, just that I see it time and time again, and it irks me.
