How Are The Adrenal Glands and The Thyroid Connected?

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How are the adrenal glands and the thyroid connected?
Your thyroid works in tandem with your adrenal glands. The adrenal glands, which are above your kidneys, can handle small amounts of stress well. When you encounter stress they release cortisol, which enhances various bodily functions.

The thyroid is another gland responsible for producing hormones that keep your body running optimally. When the thyroid gland, which is in the lower front of your neck, isn’t functioning well, you can become tired, forgetful, and depressed — similar to adrenal symptoms. Other signs of hypothyroidism include feeling cold, dry skin, and constipation.

Because some of the symptoms of hypothyroidism are similar to adrenal fatigue, the two conditions can be confused. In addition, people with hypothyroidism often have weak adrenal glands. The two glands work together to supply essential hormones and deliver them where they need to be throughout the body. When your adrenal glands aren’t producing enough cortisol and you have a thyroid problem, it can make the situation much worse.

Adrenal Gland Basics
Your adrenals are two triangular-shaped glands situated on top of each kidney. They produce more than 50 hormones, including cortisol, aldosterone and adrenaline. Like thyroid hormones, these hormones play important roles in your metabolism.

The primary differences between the two are that adrenal hormones regulate your physical and mental responses to stress, and affect your mood, immune function and blood pressure, while thyroid hormones regulate your body temperature, energy and tissue growth.

While many bodily systems can be assessed using blood tests, there are no blood tests that can give you an accurate picture of your adrenal function. While cortisol is frequently tested using blood, what’s being measured is your total cortisol, which includes both free and bound cortisol.

Most of the cortisol in your body is bound to various proteins and does not exert biological activity, so "high cortisol" on a blood test doesn’t tell you much. What matters is the free cortisol because that’s what has biological activity. One of the best tests for this is a urine test (DUTCH test), taken several times over 24 hours.

The DUTCH test will measure the amount of free cortisol, cortisone and their metabolites, alpha-tetrahydrocortisol (a-THF), beta-tetrahydrocortisol (b-THS) and tetrahydrocortisone (THE). These metabolites are important because that’s how you can assess your adrenal output.

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