In the book "Safe Uses of Cortisol" by William McK. Jefferies, M.D. he describes how to use low doses of bioidentical cortisol to heal the adrenal glands.

He outlines that the major problems with prescription cortisol as:
1. Most prescribed cortisol is synthetic and has a strongly supressive effect on the adrenals.
2. The prescribed doses of this synthetic cortisol is very high, much too high, and as a result has a supressive effect.

He says that with low doeses of bioidentical cortisol it can be enough to take some of the workload off of the overburdened adrenals and give them a chance to heal. If you are interested at all I recommend his book. I'd recommend galndulars before hormones any day.

-Colin