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    Cortisol may drive COVID-19 mortality

    The reason I decided to do a post on this study is that over the last several months, various public health authority bodies around the world have adopted "treatment protocols" for COVID-19 hospitalized patients, and virtually all such protocols contain a potent synthetic glucocorticoid such as...
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    • cortisol covid-19 dexamethasone exacerbation glucocorticoid hospitalization mortality
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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    Cortisol Therapy Makes Cancer Resistant To Treatment

    As many forum users probably know, glucocorticoid treatment is one of the main lines of therapies in cancer. It is considered highly beneficial due to reducing inflammation and swelling/pain in inflamed/cancerous tissue. However, recent studies have shown that immune dysfunction is perhaps the...
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    • cancer chemotherapy cortisol dangerous dex dexamethasone estrogen glucocorticoid gr immune dysfunction immune system resistance thymolytic thymus
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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