One of the central functions of our adrenal gland is to make cortisol, the main hormone helping us deal with chronic stress. It’s called hyperplasia, which means “grown larger,” because the adrenal gland of someone with LOCAH works “overtime” to keep up with the body’s needs, and must increase its size to do so. This tweener time of life is when our adrenal glands mature into their adult form. It is called congenital because people are born with it, it just waits 9-12 years to express. It’s called late-onset because people develop the symptoms of it a few years before puberty starts, around the “tween” years. This condition is called late-onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia (LOCAH). I have cared for, and published a paper on, many people whose anxiety was being caused, and/or driven, by an inherited condition involving their adrenal gland over-functioning.
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