When the body becomes inflamed during POIS the adrenals secrets a lot of cortisol to combat the inflammation, so cortisol is our friend. But everytime healthy adrenals secrete cortisol (catabolic hormone) they are also secreting anabolic hormones like DHEA and aldosterone to balance the catabolic effects of cortisol (to keep it under control). So what could happen when it goes wrong? Two things: 1. Because of the cortisol steel, anabolic hormones are running low and we got symptomes of cortisol excess (like excess seebum, acne). 2. This is probably worse: Cortisol storage in the adrenals are too low due to long term inflammation, so there are not enought of cortisol to keep inflammation down. Those two side effects can happen at the same person during diffrent time of the POIS period.
So what can we do about that? Eat more building blocks to cortisol (cholesterol rich foods, eggs), focus of recover the adrenals with relaxation and nutrition and keep the POIS inflammation as low as possible with anti-inflammatory substances like garlic, omega 3, fenugreek, Nanna1's stack (even ibuprofen though I dont like drugs). Probably the gut and intestines need to be healed since long term inflammation has decrease their effectiviness to absorb nutrients. med Increase oxytocin, hug someone, pat a pet!