I notice that this topic hasn't been raised for a few years and wanted to raise it as it's played a part in my research since I was diagnosed with AA. First of all, I'm a nursing student with an interest in integrated health and believe that the entire health status of a person needs to be considered as contributing to the targeted illness.  From what I know, your adrenal glands produce the hormone cortisol, which is the most powerful anti-inflammatory substance in your body. However, in autoimmune disease, cortisol levels are inadequate for the degree of reaction taking place in the tissues being attacked. This is one of the reasons why strong corticosteroids (prednisone, prednisolone, etc.) are used with all diseases involving inflammatory processes, including autoimmune diseases. These drugs imitate the anti-inflammatory effects of cortisol.

Cortisol not only affects the redness and swelling of inflammation, but also influences the activity of the white blood cells that cause the inflammation and helps keep immune reactions in balance. It both activates existing immune defense mechanisms when they are needed and also damps them down to prevent them from overshooting and causing damage or cell death. Through this ‘damping down’ action, cortisol modulates the immune response to help reduce the amount of potentially toxic chemicals secreted by white blood cells that produce tissue inflammation. Healthy adrenal function and cortisol output is therefore essential for minimizing damage from uncontrolled inflammation brought about by autoimmune processes. During adrenal fatigue, it is less likely that your adrenal glands can produce enough cortisol to adequately counter these autoimmune inflammatory reactions.

I'm looking more into this, but wondering if anyone else is and if you have treated your adrenal fatigue with success and what effects that had on your alopecia. I have found a supplement that treats adrenal fatigue that I've ordered so I'll let you know what outcomes I experience from that. 

I'm also researching the connections between progesterone (natural and artificial) and autoimmune disorders.  I've learned that progesterone and synthetic progestins impact risk of autoimmune disorders and immune-mediated injury in different ways depending on their concentrations and their engagement of various progesterone receptors expressed in immune organs, immune cells or tissues targeted by immune attack. These are often the hormone used in birth control and may be why women are more often affected by autoimmune disorders.

And as I type this ... four more hairs on my laptop keyboard :( I'm going to stop counting them now.