It’s a peculiar, though not entirely unexpected phenomenon: You’d expect endocrinologists, specialists in glandular health, to be the champions of restoring optimal thyroid status. Instead, they are the most misinformed and neglectful.
Much of this is due to their ignorance of the emerging science that has emerged over the past two decades on the impact of INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS on thyroid status, something they would not be aware of unless they examine the TOXICOLOGICAL evidence demonstrating that the thyroid gland and thyroid hormones are disrupted by common chemical exposures.
Ignore your ignorant endocrinologist and get your free T3 assessed and replaced. 80% of people on levothyroxine alone will feel happier, lose weight, no longer feel intolerably cold, and regain improved metabolic health. It’s really SO easy.
I know I have these issues of hypothyroid by feeling cold, low rising temp in the morning (96.0 – 96.3 avg), following WB WOE for 18 months with little weight loss. Just can not find the correct type of Dr to address my issues in southern Oklahoma.
Denise Dush wrote: «I know I have these issues of hypothyroid by feeling…»
You can order your own testing to get numbers on the situation. If you want to use the Life Extension products, I see that LabCorp has clinics in OK and north TX.
re: «Just can not find the correct type of Dr to address my issues in southern Oklahoma.»
This article of mine includes a hint on dealing with exactly that situation. Beyond that, one of the topics discussed by members on the subscription forum is work to work with and around care deniers.
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Thanks Bob, I will go through these leads. I have been a subscriber to UD for about 14 months. I appreciate your input.
Yes! My husband is experiencing a lot of relief from levothyroxine and he’s now trying Armour desiccated thyroid meds to see if they help more, going by his subjective feelings of even less fatigue, etc..
Failure to convert T4 to T3 can also be caused by selenium deficiency as the body needs Se to make that deiodonase enzyme, and also to make the T4 in the first place. So correcting Se deficiency as well as any iodine deficiency may mean that your thyroid will normalise and you don’t need to take exogenous hormones at all. But that would mean you don’t need to see the endocrinologist any more. Could that be the reason endocrinologists prescribe hormones instead of Se and iodine?
Re the industrial compounds that interfere with the T4>T3 conversion, ways to avoid exposure to them would be helpful. Maybe a new blog post?
Stuart wrote: «Could that be the reason endocrinologists…»
Based on the accumulated horror stories, the majority of endos are vying for the title of: most useless of the modern specialties. You might be safer seeing a phrenologist, if they were still around.
re: «…the industrial compounds that interfere with the T4>T3 conversion, ways to avoid exposure to them would be helpful. Maybe a new blog post?»
That would be interesting. I’ve speculated on the role of non-native halogens (and what you can do about them), but have no real idea if they interfere in the conversion per se.
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Interesting information. I take iodine daily according to the WB WOE and supplements recommendations. I still feel cold more then not… along with fatigue, cold to touch hands, inability to loose weight and low rising temperatures. What kind of Dr might recognize the need for Se?
Denise Dush wrote: «I still feel cold more then not… along with fatigue, cold to touch hands, inability to loose weight and low rising temperatures.»
Top priority on that is getting some real thyroid testing, as mentioned above.
re: «What kind of Dr might recognize the need for Se?»
That would be a pretty rare bird. Anyway, on Se, here are some remarks from a year ago.
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Thank you Bob. I found a Lab Corp in Norman. I will be scheduling labs.
I was being sarcastic about the endocrinologists, but then you knew that.
I had my own brush with an endocrinologist following a bout in hospital with septicemia. Apart from offering no useful advice about my diabetes (“keep taking the tablets”) this doc insisted on writing scripts for a statin and blood pressure medication, despite my protests that my blood pressure hadn’t been high prior to the infection. No interest on his part on why there should be a sudden change, just reach for the prescription pad. I went home and 5 minutes googling established that raised blood pressure is a well-known side effect of the NSAID Meloxicam which I’d been prescribed by the hospital. Stopped the NSAID, blood pressure dropped. I binned the scripts and won’t be going back to that guy again.
This illustrates the problem with so much of modern medicine – treating symptoms instead of causes. Instead of asking himself what had caused my blood pressure to suddenly increase he automatically prescribed a drug to treat the symptom. He probably does this with all his diabetic patients, completely oblivious to the fact that the principal cause of their high blood pressure is elevated insulin.
Stuart wrote: «I was being sarcastic about the endocrinologists, but then you knew that.»
Oh sure, but my comments here are often directed at the wider audience (some of whom may yet presume that endocrinology is a generally respectable specialty).
re: «…just reach for the prescription pad.»
That’s part of the problem: the pharmacological bias.
re: «…treating symptoms instead of causes.»
A focus on causes would lead to too many inconvenient questions, and would lead to prevention, and prevention doesn’t pay very well, so the money flow tends to perpetuate and exacerbate the status quo.
I might add that the prevention problem exists on both sides of the consultation desk. On the patient side, they are perfectly willing to blow through their insurance cap and the family fortune, to treat an optional ailment, but seem unwilling to spend a farthing to learn how to avoid it in the first place. Part of the problem there is that consensus prevention prevents almost nothing, thus sabotaging expectations.
By the way, we just had a new member on the Inner Circle report having endo who refuses to prescribe anything but T4 in thyroid cases, and instead prescribes anti-depressants to his victims who remain miserable on the T4-only torture. This is the sad reality of Standard of Don’t Care with endos. Be very cautious with them, or they could be the endo of you.☤
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