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Symptoms of Excessive Thyroid Hormone
If you start taking thyroid replacement, you’ll want to watch for and report to your practitioner if you start to have any of the below symptoms after starting the replacement. My experience is that the standard lab test, called “TSH”, has to get below 1.00 before normal thyroid levels are achieved. This may falsely be […]
Carpal Tunnel & Hypothyroidism
Think of carpal tunnel as running an engine with no oil or playing a fiddle with a dry bow. There’s a “wristband” of ligaments that wraps around your wrist called the transverse ligament. Bundled beneath it are ligaments and the median nerve that move and innervate your fingers. Each time you flex your fingers, it’s […]
Symptoms of Hyper/Hypothyroidism
You can be hyperthyroid (too much thyroid hormone) and hypothyroid (too little thyroid hormone) at the same time. It’s a hard to understand concept if you don’t understand critter/immune system science. Even if you do, this is an advanced Jedi doc case. This young mother of two has been bounced from doctor to doctor to […]
Are Your Thyroid Levels Low?
When a police officer conducts a sobriety test, he’s not practicing medicine. This is in spite of the fact that he performs a neurological exam and makes a “diagnosis” based on his findings. Why is this not practicing medicine? An excess of certain chemicals in the body manifests outwardly. Poor balance, slurred speech, droopy eyelids, […]
Blood Sugar, Thyroid and Lucy & Ethyl
This is a great way to explain type 2 diabetes. If we can find a way to help Lucy and Ethyl, we can “cure” type 2 diabetes. The definition of type 2 diabetes is chronically elevated levels of blood sugar. The chocolate candy represents blood sugar. If candy consistenty gets past Lucy and Ethyl, that […]
Are You Hypothyroid
The assistant manager at Drug Emporium came up to introduce herself. It’s just reflex for me now to do a quick visual scan for evidence of hypothyroidism. She had 2 glaring ones. One is the swelling in her neck that gives the appearance she swallowed a whole doughnut. People will think this is just fat, […]
Hypothyroidism In Pregnancy
The first thing to do after pregnancy is diagnosed is to assess thyroid function. At the very least,this means getting a TSH. This Thyroid Stimulating Hormone test does not measure thyroid levels but a hormone that stimulates thyroid hormone production. Higher levels of TSH indicate low thyroid levels. TSH should be 1.0 or less. Low […]
What Your Doctor May Not Know About Hypothyroidism
Weight gain and being tired all the time are symptoms most people are aware of being associated with low thyroid. There are other symptoms of thyroid deficiency that even most Drs are not aware of. Thyroid hormone is required to assist insulin in getting sugar from the blood stream to inside cells to be burned […]
Thyroid Guards – Do You Need One?
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Are You Hypothyroid?
Millions of Americans suffer from undiagnosed hypothyroidism. Most of the so called diseases people are given medications for have a root cause in hypothyroidism. As thyroid levels decline, there is over growth of Candida yeast and other germs in the body. For every degree your body temperature falls below 98.6, there is an increase in […]
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