Thanks guys. For what it's worth, I think there's a lesson in my situation. I'm 57 yo, with degrees in Exercise Science and Kinesiology I've been training for over 35 years, and in fact, own my own personal training/sports training service. I'm a former powerlifter that mainly trains for aesthetics today.
Everything I did, I tended to do to the extreme: I lifted hard and heavy (~750 Lbs. max deadlift @ 36-37 yo, and 250 Lbs. body weight, for example), and I kept lifting too heavy, too long (e.g., I pulled a 530 Lbs. dead, with no straps, no belt, for my 53rd birthday challenge).
When I partied (and man did I party), I went off the rails! Lots of cocaine use/abuse, ephedrine/caffeine , etc. So, I clearly went over the top with the stimulant use. Lots of staying up late/all night. On top of all of that there was cycling AAS for about a dozen years.
In general, I led an intense, high stress life. That's all well in my past (haven't done coke for 13 years), but "even" knocking off the drugs and truly extreme behavior by my mid 40's, I continued with the heavy training and legal stimulant use for years more.
Long-and-short of it all: by not learning to moderate I really screwed my adrenal system. In fact, I'm surprised I have high cortisol, rather than low cortisol from completely burning out my adrenals!
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