8 Signs of high cortisol. How do you know if your cortisol is too high? Dermatologist @DrDrayzday covers 8 skin and hair changes that happen when cortisol is too high. I explain what is high cortisol and I talk about what causes high cortisol. #health #cortisol #dermatologist
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0:00 8 signs of high cortisol
1:00 High cortisol and weight gain
1:58 High cortisol and skin thinning
2:51 High cortisol and stretch marks
3:50 High cortisol and acanthosis nigricans
5:12 High cortisol and steroid acne
6:23 High cortisol, hair loss, facial hair growth
8:30 High cortisol and slow healing
9:32 High cortisol and skin infections
11:12 What causes high cortisol?
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Happy Thursday! I love your tips on the power wash for the shower. I am going to try it since that is one of my toughest house chores. Your tips are always so good even beyond skin care!
Greetings Theresa Berg hope u r well n Happy Thursday😀👍💜….
@Whitney Brown Happy Thursday🙂
Thanks! Happy Thursday!
Was this mentioned in this video???
You inspire me to get into dermatology! Thank you for your videos ♥️
thanks for watching
Thank you so much for this. I’m enduring high stress AND perimenopause symptoms right now, and you’ve been the best source of information explaining what the heck is wrecking my appearance.
I’m in perimenopause and my chin has broke out bad lately.
+1
im 32 and have perimenopause symptoms as well! period has been normal all my life expcept for this past year, had to go on BC. periods where only 2 days long! hot flashes, cant sleep at night, thinning skin, its horrible. i have no clue whats wrong with me everythign comes back normal but yet its not
@Just Peachy This! We’re expected just to put up with it. People don’t realize how terrible the symptoms are. If men had to put up with this there would be a “cure” for perimenopause.
@AddieC. Tests for perimenopause is hard because of the fluctuations of hormones. I understand where you’re coming from. I’m going through it and I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism recently amongst other ailments. Sigh…. It’s not easy.
Hello Doctor Andrea how are you ? (I hope you are well and strong ❤✌). I don’t know but today’s video about cortisol really got me focused (i was litterally hanging from your speech 👍). It was so informative and simple. It gave us a rounded view about the importance of cortisol levels in our body plus the dangers that lurk in different skincare products and medications. Medications can hide the fact that have cortisol inside them so we only have side effects that are know (i mean we know what to expect from using a cortisol medication treatment cream or oral etc) but the products that conceal the fact that have a cortisol ingredient in them is another matter (a sad one but yeah – i think that they should put it in their ingredient list so in order for the consumer to have a full view of what is inside the product/products that he/she purchased😊). It was wonderful miss Andrea really learned a lot ❤👍🙏😊✌.
Hi Dr. Dray! Would you consider including more photo examples of darker skin tones when you show examples? Thank you for considering.
Some of these photos are of skin of color, but I don’t have any from deeper skin tones for this condition. When I have the photos, I always show them though because it is so important to see how things look on different skin tones
Hi dr. Dray. What type of body care would you suggest for thining skin, strechmarks and bruising after 25 years of corticosteroids? I started using them when I was 12 due to SLE but managed to get off them several years ago. Most of the things you mentioned in the video, I went through… not easy as a teenager. I’m still searching for ways to improve the damage done. I’m well aware that some of it is irreversible.
I love your product review vids, but I absolutely love the most your scientific videos 🎉❤❤❤❤❤ keeps me vigilant on my health as I get into my “wiser years” 😊
This was an eye opener. I have the bruising, the acne, the hair loss, the belly, the yeast issues…
Would you please consider doing a detailed video expanding on the interaction of the body’s skin and insulin? I found your reference to the dermis being affected by insulin as a potentially fascinating topic. Thanks very much for the content you produce. It is most educational!
See my video on signs of diabetes
This stuff is so stressful (ironic, I know). Diet, skincare, lifestyle habits, supplementation is all within our control to some extent. I feel like a lot of us do struggle with the two things we cannot always control though that make many things nearly redundant – stress and sleep! I hope everyone is feeling mostly stress free today!
This was very informative. however I was really hoping you’d touch on how to lower cortisol levels for us who have most of the symptoms you talked about in this video.
An additional cause is high stress! The specialist to see for hormone problems is an endocrinologist. I had several of these symptoms from extreme stress. My face ballooned up and I gained 20 lbs in my abdomen extremely fast despite eating my normal diet. It took a few months to see an endocrinologist and several more months for the cortisol to go down to normal.
And did they prescribe?
@liv ics Yes, thyroid hormones which weren’t working properly. I also reduced my stress levels.
This is what I am going through right now ❤
Stress kills.
Please do a video on what we can do to correct high cortisol levels.🙂
Reshi supplement at night with magnesium glycinate 💗 it’s helped me
@Erica Rice thank you 😊 I already do a Cortisol Manager that has ashwagandah and l-Theanine at night. I’ll have to give your suggestion a try.
I thought this would automatically be in the video😭
Wouldn’t it be nice if more healthcare professionals bothered to educate us like this??
Like, in their free time?
Yes! Thank you Dr Dray ❤
@bananaxo perhaps, but also during the time they provide care. As a family nurse practitioner who spends many hours of my day in emergency rooms, I educate all I can both in the ER and on rounds. In my free time I answer questions and provide input to family, friends or anyone else when opportunity permits. Patient education is part of the job of a healthcare professional. I’m grateful for Dr. Dray’s content and simply wanted to express it.
This was so helpful! I’m going to start drinking more lemon balm tea. I already do it when I feel stressed, because I know it lowers cortisol. But now I see there’s more to it than just feeling stressed or not.
Thank you, Dr. Dray. This is a very thorough explanation of cortisol and the effects on the body when too high or too low. Cortisol testing is not something primary care doctors order routinely, even when asked. I think the adrenal glands are very often ignored. I have an apple shape (mostly belly fat), a hump on my upper back, which I attributed to osteoporosis and thinning hair at the top of my head.
Adrenal fatigue is real!
Thank you for this!! I was on prednisone long term as a young person and nothing prepares you for this. You hit everything I experienced and I wish this information was around when I was going through it
Me too.
As someone who works in a veterinary hospital, we see this condition frequently in dogs and sometimes horses. They have the telltale signs of the distended abdomen, thin skin and hair and skin and ear yeast infections. Many times they are also diabetic. Generally, the cause is a benign tumor on the adrenal gland. Most people opt to treat with medication rather than surgery. This was interesting to hear that it affects people in much the same way. Thanks, Dr Dray. Happy Thursday! Hope you have a peaceful evening. 💜
I recently came across cushing’s syndrome (all symptoms you describe in this video) 3 years ago I was prescribed a highest dose inhaler for asthma prevention. Within 3 months my face changed, I developed a buffalo hump, gained a massive amount of weight in my trunk only, watched in realtime as stretchmarks appeared in column formations up my abdomen (I felt a burning in the shower – my skin was tearing/stretching right then and there) and a bunch of other odd symptoms. Despite all of these being pretty obvious signs of cortisol disruption, my doctor and myself put them all down to diet and exercise, despite me regularly lifting weights and eating within my calorie allowance. Not once was my inhaler mentioned. It seems so dumb now, but I did NOT know my inhaler was a high dose steroid, and I also did not know it wasn’t meant to be used long term. So, 3 years of feeling like my body is failing me and believing it was because I was getting older and not “good” enough with food and exercise.
Once I realised what cushing’s was, I traced my timeline back to the start of the inhaler use and asked my doctor about it. Their answer? “ohhh, that makes sense. You shouldn’t really be on really really high dose inhaler for too long, come off it today.” This is after re-prescribing it all this time. Whilst the steroid withdrawal was hard, within 4 weeks I:
– Saw the buffalo hump reduce drastically
– Saw my jaw and cheekbones re-emerge almost fully from “moon face”
– Dropped 3kg in weight
I know it will take considerable time for other changes, like thin skin (I bruise at the slightest bump and usually the skin tears with it), quicker wound healing (cuts on my hands, legs and feet can take months to disappear) more weight loss etc
I wish more people had access to information like this to allow them to make appropriate choices about their health and prescriptions. I relied on my doctor’s advice, and it was severely lacking. I’m now rebuilding my perception of what I look like, what my body can do, 3 years too late.
Thanks for sharing, @DrDrayzDay
Wow!! I’m so glad you figured it out!
Thank you so much Dr Dray…I seem to have high cortisol and really need to calm down etc. You are always so informative and a testament to the great skincare routines you have….you look early 20’s!