I mean I heard about this treatment and initially even I thought it sounded perfect.  I think I may have even tried it.  Well until that is I had figured out the above, and then I would have stopped the drugs and insisted on returning to conventional treatment. 

It sounded perfect.  Block androgens and lower the cortisol dose to lower side-effects.  But then when I figured this out last night after reading Kim’s message,  to be honest it was quite obvious.  Why block or suppress androgens?  Growth cannot obviously happen without them.  You need them.  You need them to grow muscle, ligaments bones and to help metabolise fats.  If they are lowered they do less of that.  if they are suppressed completely, those things don’t happen at all.   Any cortisol in that environment then just raises the blood glucose levels too high and this causes insulin resitance and the extra glucose is stored in the fat cells.  I never really thought about it until last night when excess weight gain and insulin resistance was mentioned.  Every child will go through that on that treatment at some point when they merely adjust the doses of either cortisol or anti androgen.  It’s inevitable.