We all have hormones. If they don't have "balance", you will find yourself with symptoms such as depression, headache, insomnia, fatigue and weight gain. Thyroid disease is one of the most common hormonal diseases after insulin resistance and diabetes. Most people with thyroid imbalance have hypothyroidism [hypothyroidism] and a few suffer from hyperthyroidism [hyperthyroidism]. The problem is that symptoms of hypothyroidism are often mistaken for depression, signs of aging or undetected.

Your thyroid

Your thyroid – a small butterfly-shaped gland in front of the neck that controls the function of every cell, organ and gland in your body.

In addition your thyroid regulation:

o use oxygen in all tissues,

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o repair rate of damaged or diseased tissue,

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o Control blood sugar levels by controlling the release of glucose [sugar] from the liver to the blood,

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o cells and electrolytes and water balance in the body,

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Your circulatory system,

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o muscle energy and strength,

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o The speed of the impulse nerve, your sexual desire, and last but not least is your fat metabolism.

The four major hormones produced by the thyroid directly affect your metabolism and body fat. They are thyroid stimulating hormone [TSH], triiodothyronine [T3], thyroxine/levothyroxine [T4] and calcitonin [for calcium metabolism].

Although your thyroid gland secretes and regulates these hormones, approximately 80% of the body's T3 is produced by chemically modifying thyroxine or T4 outside the liver's thyroid gland.

One of the main reasons for weight gain in patients with hypothyroidism is because their T4 is not converted to a metabolically active form of T3 by the liver, or the transformed T3 hormone does not enter the cellular level of the body – meaning you are producing it, but your The body can't use it.

While most traditional physicians only test inactive T4 hormone levels, it is important to remember that active T3 thyroid hormones cannot function only in the blood – it can work in every cell of the body.

If T3 is not available at the cellular level, those cells will not function properly. The T4 blood test has not been tested, but your body temperature has been tested! I personally think that your body temperature is the only best test for thyroid function.

symptom

Every cell and tissue in your body is affected by hypothyroidism. Insufficient levels of active T3 thyroid hormone can produce one or more of the following symptoms:

o weight gain

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Ø fatigue

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Ø Weaknesses

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Ø constipation

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o shortness of breath

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Ø Depression

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Ø irritable

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o poor memory

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o difficult to concentrate

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o not cold

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o low body temperature

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o dry, rough hair / dry skin

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o hair loss

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o muscle or joint pain and stiffness

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Ø headache

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o loss of libido

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o elevated cholesterol or triglycerides

Sadly, many symptoms of hypothyroidism are often considered by doctors to be a normal part of aging, psychological problems, overwork or other conditions. Therefore, thyroid examinations have never been performed and the patient has never received the appropriate medical care required.

What interferes with thyroid function

o insulin resistance / metabolic syndrome

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o Chronic stress / adrenal failure – There is a strong interaction between the thyroid and the adrenal glands.

One is usually weak first, then weakens the other.

o prescription drugs – [including Dilantin, Lithium, Beta Blockers, Premarin, birth control pills and some antidepressants]

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o Frequent X-rays – from dental or medical examination or radiation therapy to the head, neck or chest

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o Thyroid suppressing food – Excessive consumption of soy and raw thyroid inhibiting foods such as Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and kale

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o Hormones – synthetic and genetically engineered hormones [estrogen and other hormones] in meat, dairy, poultry and eggs. There are also conditions such as polycystic ovarian disease, fibroids, IVF treatment and menopause.

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o Exercise – Receptors of thyroid hormones are found deep in the cell, and movement stimulates the thyroid by increasing the oxygen of the cells. As you exercise and inhale more oxygen into your body, you will accelerate your metabolism and your body's calories will increase. Therefore, in order to increase your metabolism, you need to pump some iron to heat your cell "fat burner" and give them more oxygen.

o Dieting – In a restrictive diet, that is, low calorie or lack of essential nutrients, the body produces less liver enzymes, thus converting less T4 and producing less T3. Perhaps the biggest problem in diet is that most diets will reduce muscle and fat than when you start. The researchers found that low-calorie and low-carbohydrate diets eventually inhibit T3 hormone levels in the body by providing enough fuel for the thyroid gland and body to function properly.

o Heavy metal exposure – Mercury is a toxic heavy metal containing more than 50% of "silver" dental fillings found in cigarettes. Mercury can interfere with the production of 5-deoxygenase in the liver, which is essential for the conversion of thyroid hormones.

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o Chlorine – [added as a disinfectant to most municipal water systems]

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o Fluoride – [main sources include toothpaste, dental products, municipal water supplies, pesticides and commercially grown food residues].

These last two elements, fluorine and chlorine, block the iodine receptors in the thyroid gland. In fact, fluoride is a potent thyroid inhibitor that has been used medically to treat people with hyperthyroidism [hyperthyroidism] to slow their thyroid activity.

Testing thyroid function

If everything you do is correct and still feels uncomfortable, there will definitely be something to solve. Maybe you have clinical hypothyroidism [hypothyroidism] or subclinical hypothyroidism [you have symptoms but blood tests are normal].

Let us assume that you are overweight and think you have hypothyroidism. You used to go to the doctor because of weight gain, fatigue, cold hands and feet, and complaints about "brain fog." Your doctor will check you and perform some blood tests, including a thyroid exam. All tests returned to normal. But you are sure you must have an inactive thyroid gland. You have all the symptoms, including low body temperature, but the doctor decides not to prescribe. When you go home, you are sentenced to a weight-bearing life and feel obviously unwell. This situation is played again and again until one day you end up under the "reference" range.

Barnes temperature test

If you think your thyroid is slow and you think you may have hypothyroidism, it is important to test your thyroid gland. You can do the Barnes thyroid temperature test yourself [see below] as a cheap but surprisingly accurate initial test. Before the blood test, the Barnes basic temperature test and patient symptoms were used by doctors to test thyroid function.

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Doing Barnes' own temperature test will give you a starting point to determine if you have hypothyroidism and need further confirmation testing.

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1. Place the thermometer [preferably digital] on the bedside table.

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2. Place the thermometer on your armpit for five minutes and move as little as possible because exercise will increase your body temperature.

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3. Record your body temperature every morning for five days. [For women, extra consideration is needed during ovulation because ovulation causes an increase in body temperature. Therefore, menstruating women should start recording body temperature on the second or third day of menstruation.]

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4. A reading of 36.4 degrees or less may indicate hypothyroidism.

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Serum [blood] test for hypothyroidism

If your temperature is low, you may need to test it further. If you want to enter a traditional medical test route, you will need to ask your doctor to perform T3, free T3, sensitive TSH, reverse T3 and anti-thyroid antibody tests. Keep in mind that the standard T4 blood test for thyroid function measures only T4 [inactive form of hormones] and is rarely sensitive enough to determine hypothyroidism. That's why I recommend that you have your doctor perform other blood tests.

Based on my clinical experience, I found that most thyroid blood tests will recover within the “normal range”, but patients still show signs of [subclinical] hypothyroidism, such as low body temperature [basal]. Studies have shown that the reference range is too wide and not suitable for individuals – I think we are not the same after all!

The good news is that new and more accurate salivary and urine thyroid tests are already available.

Salivary thyroid examination

Saliva and urine thyroid detected rescue! This is correct, although not easy to get saliva thyroid detection can be an alternative solution. Your saliva and urine are now the key to determining if you have thyroid dysfunction. This new technology is expected to change the lives of millions of people with undiagnosed thyroid dysfunction. Because it tests thyroid function at the cellular level, it finds saliva/and/or thyroid thyroid panels

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It is more accurate than a blood test when identifying a hypoactive thyroid.

Thyroid saliva test measures T3, T4 and free TSH. The salivary or urine thyroid test also measures anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies, which are important enzymes involved in thyroid hormone production. A positive antibody is a hallmark of the autoimmune process [the immune system attacks the body's own thyroid tissue].

Restore your thyroid

If your thyroid gland is found to be slow, you can try natural non-pharmacological methods to restore your thyroid gland through various tests.

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o Identify the cause of the slowness – such as stress, …

Feeling drowsy, moody, tired or fat? It may be your thyroid! was originally published on Spring