Cirion
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It sounds like this is what's happening for you. Keeping warm shuts down the adrenaline and makes you sleepy. I know people who keep their apartment at like 64 or less because they hate the heat and one of them was diagnosed with MS at like 17. She will not age well unless she changes a lot of things. Elderly typically can't tolerate cold or heat. I prefer just hot enough. But I can sleep very warm and be fine. My health tends to be better when I am not trying to keep my body warm.
I guess I'm confused then. One the one hand wearing warm clothes seems smart especially if you have low body temperature problems, on the other, you say you feel best without, so is it something I should be doing? Or is the whole warm clothes thing just an intervention technique until you can regulate things fine on your own (which that article seems to talk about, fixing your auto-regulation system).
How has your experience been with iodine? I ordered some lugols and have experimented the past two days or so at an extremely conservative dose. Always hard to speculate whether something is placebo or not, but i feel worse on it so far.
Honestly I have been making so many changes it is hard to isolate what is causing what anymore, and there are so many reasons to feel worse while starting it that it's too hard to diagnose without blood tests. I think I'm gonna do a bunch of tests soon myself, because I'm tired of just screwing around with what I call "F*** - around - itis" (a disorder where you just screw around hoping to find out what's the problem), lol. Need to do a hair analysis test, hormone test, iodine test, just to name a few.
In a way, I wouldn't disagree with the notion of warm clothing being a "cheat code" as you put it. Because artificially warming your body up won't necessarily make you more sensitive to thyroid hormone on a cellular level. Hypothyroidism is like diabetes in this regard. A diabetic's problem generally isn't the fact they aren't producing enough insulin, it's the fact their cells aren't sensitized to the insulin. Same thing with hypothyroidism in people with under active metabolisms. You generally produce enough hormone, the problem is somewhere along the pathway the hormone is becoming blocked by unresponsive cells. This can take place in various areas, like the liver, transport proteins, etc. Simply wearing warm clothes won't change this. Nonclinical, or subclinical rather speaking, is the most abundant and apparent form of hypothyroidism is America. It's the most dangerous too, because you could go to the doctor and have T4 and T3 levels checked and they would be perfectly normal.
So again, does that mean I should be wearing warm clothes a lot or not? I notice on Jack Kruse's site he seems to be a big fan of "Cold Therapy" which I don't know much about yet. On the one hand you have people promoting being in cold and eating a lot of metabolic foods to get the body good at raising body temp, on the other you have people saying you should focus on warm clothes. On the Low temp website Janelle linked earlier, it made it sound like some people may have to wear warm clothes for the rest of their lives, and I somehow can't help but think that seems wrong to me.
The idea of bringing temperature up by any means seems like a noble goal, and makes it sound like a temperature of 98.6 is the holy grail that solves all ails. I don't really disagree with that per-se, but if that's the only thing that is required for health, why not just turn your heat up to 100F and not have to eat or drink anything? You'd still die to malnutrition. Lol.
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