Cushing's syndrome
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Oct 30, 2026
Nic de BrauwereGUEST
Paying attention to the change in who they are is, I think, an important warning sign.
Nic de BrauwereGUEST
I did quite a few post mortems on horses when the vet world first learnt about Cushing's disease and where we assigned most of them to expecting to find a tumour at the pituitary gland.
Nic de BrauwereGUEST
And with tumors, you normally assume that they become bigger.
Nic de BrauwereGUEST
And I think we've since learned that PPID is often not necessarily down to a tumor that you could find if you open the brain.
Nic de BrauwereGUEST
But we certainly found quite a few horses where that was absolutely the case.
Nic de BrauwereGUEST
And then you have to recognize that that tumor then takes up space, which presses on the optic nerve.
Nic de BrauwereGUEST
So losing vision is something that people have described with Cushing's horses.
Nic de BrauwereGUEST
And also potentially if it's pressing on the brain, it could be causing headaches or other abnormal functions so that if they're not feeling themselves, there could be a physical reason for it that you can't see.
Ken BerryHOST
Here's Anna.
Ken BerryHOST
I have Cushing's disease.
Ken BerryHOST
I'm down over 200 pounds, but my cortisol is making it hard.
Ken BerryHOST
Any suggestions? Anna's lost 200 pounds and she's worried that she's not doing good enough.
Ken BerryHOST
Of course, your cortisol levels with having Cushing's disease is going to make it harder for you to lose weight, but you've already established a very successful track record and a Just keep doing what you're doing.
Ken BerryHOST
What's going to happen is your weight loss is going to be slower.
Ken BerryHOST
Just like for menopausal women, that their hormones are fluctuating and messed up.
Eric BergHOST
or your insulin is too high.
Eric BergHOST
People that have high cortisol, there's a condition called Cushing syndrome.
Eric BergHOST
They develop this.
Eric BergHOST
They actually have a fat pad on their back.
Susanne KuckuckGUEST
And when that stays in our body for a longer period, that can actually lead to a wide variety of cardiometabolic health problems.
Susanne KuckuckGUEST
So a very clinical example for what happens with long-term cortisol overexposure is what we see in patients with Cushing's disease.
Susanne KuckuckGUEST
So in patients with Cushing's disease, we see that over a very long time period, be it weeks or months or years even, basically until somebody is diagnosed, this person will be exposed to very, very high levels of cortisol.
Susanne KuckuckGUEST
And in these people, we really see that they develop insulin resistance, possibly diabetes.
Susanne KuckuckGUEST
They also have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
Emily KingHOST
yeah.
Emily KingHOST
I think this is a place where AI can serve like some sort of purpose, you know, like take, everything you know about Cushing's disease and put it in and be like, this is what I know as Cushing's.
Emily KingHOST
And you type it in, right? All your scientific words and all that and be like, how would how should I best explain this to a client? Yeah.
Emily KingHOST
How should I best explain this to a kid? How would I explain this to whatever? You know what I mean? And then see what it's saying and look at the word choices that it's using.
Elisha EdwardsHOST
A horse that seems a bit dull, one of the things that I see without a doubt is a lot of fatigue and depression.
Elisha EdwardsHOST
Now that is another conversation for another day, but that comes up with Cushing's, right? So a lot of those hormone changes can cause that, but horses get really tired when they have a low thyroid.
Elisha EdwardsHOST
And that's sort of one of my first sort of clues that we need to sort of focus on that metabolic rate because the body is just so tied up trying to detoxify and trying to generate what it needs to.
Elisha EdwardsHOST
So you're looking for that flat, low energy sort of feel.
Elisha EdwardsHOST
So the texture of the hair coat will change.
Elisha EdwardsHOST
And of course, slow to shed out or grow in.
Elisha EdwardsHOST
And again, that can be a bit of a Cushing's picture as well.
Elisha EdwardsHOST
Like those are clinical signs that you're looking for with Cushing's, but that's all hormone related too.
Kathryn ChristiesonHOST
So if they're over the age of about 12 or so and they're repeatedly getting abscesses, I'm going to recommend that we do that.
Kathryn ChristiesonHOST
Cushing's test.
Kathryn ChristiesonHOST
A lot of them is thoroughbreds.
Kathryn ChristiesonHOST
Just
Molly OstranderHOST
But I think that gets blown out of proportion when it comes to things like cortisol face, cortisol belly, you know, you can't blame everything on that.
Molly OstranderHOST
And you know the cortisol face thing that one's pretty concerning to me because cortisol face usually doesn't show up unless you have Cushing's like that's that's
Lara DilkesHOST
not really on high dose prednisone or prednisone
Molly OstranderHOST
yes exactly because it's
Molly OstranderHOST
Right.
Molly OstranderHOST
That's not.
Molly OstranderHOST
And I mean, Cushing's and prednisone are very situational and an actual real diagnosis that your Western doctor should be having a conversation with you about.
Molly OstranderHOST
That doesn't mean that the low grade fight or flight that you experience while you are actually gaining weight, maybe actually gaining weight in your face is changing, might be the combination that's happening.
Melissa MagsaysayHOST
But what typically are the remedies for that? Can it just be lifestyle change? Well, it depends.
Eva CwynarGUEST
Again, if we're identifying... real abnormality that's considered Cushing's.
Eva CwynarGUEST
And then we look to see if it's something called Cushing's disease or Cushing's syndrome.
Eva CwynarGUEST
One comes from the adrenal glands.
Eva CwynarGUEST
And then the other one is whether or not something is going on in the pituitary.
Eva CwynarGUEST
And these things are not cancers, they're growths generally.
Eva CwynarGUEST
So we either... cut it out or give you medicine for that.
Eva CwynarGUEST
What I think society is going through right now is something called pseudo Cushing's where you can look like Cushing's.
Scott LuperHOST
If you're making way too much hormone, then you probably have a tumor that's overproducing hormone.
Scott LuperHOST
That's called Cushing's disease.
Scott LuperHOST
There's other diseases that are associated with this as well, but the test is good for that.
Scott LuperHOST
And also, if you're not making any hormone whatsoever, it's called Addison's disease, and the test is good for that.
Scott LuperHOST
But Addison's is zero, Cushing's is 100, and there's lots of stuff in
Haley FieldsHOST
between.
Scott LuperHOST
There's another 99, right? States of being, and it doesn't really, it's not good for testing any of the one of those, except for in a very crude fashion.
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