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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-07-03 18:31:43 UTC
Subject: RE: Return of adrenal symptoms after bilateral with Addisonian
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1154497.1088879504006.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Or it could be that the remaining tissue can produce the products of one portion of the adrenal (such as the estrogen) but not be able to produce the steroids essential for life-sustaining aspects like correct sodium to potassium ratio or fluid maintence.
It interests me that with adrenal growths the ferrets often tend to lay down abdominal fat. Fat tissue also is among the organs that produce estrogen.
(Estrogens, BTW, are also essential for life, having several hundred bodily functions including ones in mental functioning and is an older hormonal grouping than the androgens (such as testosterone) which serve fewer functions, but some of them, like being able to lay muscle tissue more easily, are also important to essential given what pathological muscle depletion like sarcopenia and worse can cause. The body can convert the estrogens and androgens back and forth to each other. Oh, these weird related bits of trivia a person picks up.)