Posted by rod on March 26, 2005, at 16:13:49
Hi
I havent posted for quite a long time because I was playing around with some home-made Cranial Electro Stimlation stuff with varying results... (I guess you thing I am crazy for doing this .. :-) ),but I want to talk about something I am wondering for quite a long time.
My problem is that even a small amount of physical exercise intensifies depression and causes mild akathisia (I would say that akathisia like symptoms (restnessness) are a typical aymptom of my depression. I am not really agitated, just restles...)
I bet exercise triggers release of cortisol and produces this.I get depressed when I take Ritalin. It also causes the release of cortisol.
If I drink alcohol, even a little amount, produces the same effect as ecercise or ritalin. Alcohol in gerneal, as far as I know, also releases cortisol (http://www.jrussellshealth.com/alc_cortisol.html#alcohol)
This happens if I dring regular (central european) beerm which is clear (the yeast gets filtered out) and mostly made of barley. (its rice in the us. is it?).
BUT, if I drink wheat-beer (litterally translated ist called White-beer, which is typically for bavaria for eample) which also contains different yeast (and the beer gets brewed at higher temeratures compared to lager for example.) and the yeast isnt filtered and the beer further ferments inside the ready filled bottle. The beer is (dont know the word for sure, buut I gues:) dull from the yeast.
This kind of bear actually makes me feel better and I just dont get worse (except the next day, but thats another story I guess). But hey, yeast is rich of B vitamins, and B vitamins can help to lower cortisol, right? Maybe the yeast is thinng that makes the difference. I wondered if the wheat and the barley makes the difference. Maybe allergy to barley? I dunno.What do you think? Am I right about the cortisol "connection"? the only bothering thing is that free plasma cortisol is within normal range (but measurement was about 5 years ago). But maybe this is not representable for what is going on inside my brain, right?
Maybe you could help me or give me new ideas, impulses to find out whats my core problem.
also from the link above:
"Chronic stress causes an over-production of a hormone called cortisol, which has a profound negative effect on the brain. It contributes to the death of brain cells, interferes with the functioning of neurotransmitters, and starves the brain of its only source of fuel, glucose."
And drugs which rise brain glucose utilization (nicergoline) and attenuate HPA axis activation (pentoxifylline) just help..
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14566072)anyway. long post for me :)
any thought are WELCOMEthanks
Roland
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