It was a good idea to test a stress marker. I’m surprised this wasn’t done before.
Nad+ is really the thing for addiction recovery, though it MIGHT be somehow related to cortisol as well. I have cortisol regulation issues and take phosphatidylserine every night at bedtime to control it. It is probably the most effective thing you can take to control it. And you sleep like a baby.
This makes sense.
My testing with addicts revealed that failure to create a healthy self identity in childhood and teen years leads to the dependency.
With no sense of self identity or ego identity to hold values, morals, hopes and dreams, the person is locked in dependency/codependency with no vessel to hold individual will.
My research revealed childhood traumas that destabilized childhood attachment and bonding issues, thus destabilizing the foundation necessary to build a healthy self.
Sorry. This is laughable. Just medical science trying to justify its existence by putting more details on paper and attempting to qualify it as a breakthrough for so-called ‘treatment’ (read $$).
Addiction is, unfortunately, an assured result of excesses pursuant to basic biochemical survival mechanisms built into our biology. Cortisol is an effect having no relation whatsoever to the biochemical process which prompts addictive behavior.
Until there’s a major breakthrough in brain chemistry (possibly gene therapy, perhaps even psychological) addiction treatment will remain much like it is:
Largely ineffective.