Does anyone know of references linking a high cortisol level to low zinc or a zinc deficiency especially in pregnancy?
Dear Graeme, I’m not aware of any such references. Yet, I was asked a few months ago by a physician about any possible relationship between adrenal gland and zinc deficiency, referring to a case of suspected acrodermatitis enteropathica in a baby. Given the key role of zinc in the function or control of numerous proteins, including hormones, it could make sense.
Dear Sebastien
Thankyou for your input if you come across anything please keep in contact.
Kindest regards
Graeme
Dear Graeme, I sure will, and I will be pay even more attention to this point in the patients and in their mothers who are tested in our lab.
Good luck for your research,
Sébastien
Dear Sebastien
You mention that you will keep an eye out in your laboratory. I presume therefore that you are working in a pathology laboratory. I suspect in your case then that the linkage may be between high cortisol and urine zinc. I am measuring hair zinc and total cortisol. I have been using pregnant women in my trial and I note that their cortisol levels are much higher than non pregnant women. In pregnancy zinc levels can reduce during the pregnancy term but in some women if their cortisol levels are exceptionally high their hair zinc increases rather than decreases. I supect that this means that their zinc store is being pushed into tissue or excreted rather than being made available to the foetus.. My study is very small and so I am now doing a larger one but I am interested to see whether others have noticed something similar.
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