Ok, so I'm trying to get a general picture of the relationship between thyroid & stress hormones with regards to maintenance calories. From my very limited understanding, thyroid conditions and running on stress hormones are strongly connected but still separate conditions, so this is how I see it at the moment:
1. Hypothyroidism + Running on Stress Hormones = Very high maintenance calories (because low thyroid -> cells can't retain magnesium -> cells constantly burn calories using stress hormones to produce ATP, which mostly breaks down because no magnesium, resulting in a constant inefficient energy production cycle)
2. Hyperthyroid + Running on Stress Hormones = Extremely high maintenance calories (as hyperthyroid already puts people in a hypermetabolic state that boosts stress hormone production)
3. Just running on stress hormones with healthy thyroid = if acute, increase metabolism. if chronic, slows it down.
4. Just hyperthyroid/hypothyroid = Above normal maintenance calories/Below normal maintenance calories
Is this more or less accurate?
Ever since I saw RP talk about needing 8000 cals to maintain when he was young and supposedly hypothyroid, I have been looking into this and trying to understand it, because I suspect I am in a similar situation; except more likely with hyperthyroid as I have way more of those symptoms. He solved it by supplementing with thyroid and cutting his maintenance cals in half, but I guess that wouldn't work for hyperthyroid people...
1. Hypothyroidism + Running on Stress Hormones = Very high maintenance calories (because low thyroid -> cells can't retain magnesium -> cells constantly burn calories using stress hormones to produce ATP, which mostly breaks down because no magnesium, resulting in a constant inefficient energy production cycle)
2. Hyperthyroid + Running on Stress Hormones = Extremely high maintenance calories (as hyperthyroid already puts people in a hypermetabolic state that boosts stress hormone production)
3. Just running on stress hormones with healthy thyroid = if acute, increase metabolism. if chronic, slows it down.
4. Just hyperthyroid/hypothyroid = Above normal maintenance calories/Below normal maintenance calories
Is this more or less accurate?
Ever since I saw RP talk about needing 8000 cals to maintain when he was young and supposedly hypothyroid, I have been looking into this and trying to understand it, because I suspect I am in a similar situation; except more likely with hyperthyroid as I have way more of those symptoms. He solved it by supplementing with thyroid and cutting his maintenance cals in half, but I guess that wouldn't work for hyperthyroid people...