also puffy then I’m not - the fluid rentention there and really no reason for it. Yep body metabolish is very interesting....my endocrine system ....need a new one. My thyroid is being attacked by my immune system and the parathyroid ...err something to do w/ lacking vitaim d when it’s tested. So been wondering if the whole endocrine system is just shot and that has something to do w/ what you are thinking about also- it all works together right. My thyroid was always messed up and just waiting to get bad enough for medication err maybe this doesn’t have anything to do with what you are writing about but fun just the same. A large population of those with CAH would have to contribute to your paper for the findings to pan out. The salt subject is very interesting - what the body craves at times. For someone w/ CAH just love things with to much sodium. When I was born thought to be a salt waster until I was three  but it was indeed simple virilizing thought to be 21 hydroxylase then it was 11....medicine....cool . What kid craves Al steak sauce from the bottle,  pickle juice, salted ham? That was me but only at certain times.

I hope you become and endocrinologist.

take care.