Dr. Jaiwant Rangi explains Addison's disease, where the body doesn't produce enough cortisol. Medication is essential for survival, but diet, sleep, and gut health can help patients feel better. His brother once stopped taking steroids, a dangerous choice that shows why treatment can't be skipped.
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And I try to put myself in that space when I am not well or whatever. I'm like, don't give me any prescriptions. I want to know what else could be doing. Yeah. And same thing for my brother who decided to just not take his medication sometimes. And in spite of me guiding him that, hey, you really need to make sure that you have what is adrenal insufficiency, what is Addison's disease, and how it can be life-threatening if you don't take it. So his condition was opposite to what we see every day, which is hypercortisolism. He had hypocortisolism because his brain was not sending signals, right? So for him, taking the medicine was very important. But could he do more things? Absolutely, yes. He could eat better, he could sleep better, he could do things that could definitely help his gut health, right? In spite of the need to take medicine.