Just gonna throw down some thoughts here on what I have experienced.
More is not better, just right is best, or right above just right is best. There is a line for me, when I cross that line stress hormones start to increase, the body will only raise metabolism so much at a time, after that, it starts to fight back. If I push it too hard, I am gonna feel like crap. This is important, metabolism will only raise so much at a time, I am not able to push myself up into hyperthyroid when I first start supplementing thyroid, I will however be able to push myself up into stress hormone city and this is what people think is hyperthyroid, its not. Its stress city, body fighting back on raising metabolism. Ray Peat told me once, being slightly hyperthyroid felt really good. And I know now exactly what he means. He was telling me, I was not hyperthyroid. I was in stress city and needed to work it out myself.
I use what I like call the push up technique. Find that perfect dose of thyroid, that place in the calm, no stress hormones. Then push above that line, 1/16th of a pill. Now I have stepped into stress hormone city. It will be uncomfortable for a few days, sleep will be disturbed, but then finally, stress city becomes calm city and I realized I have now stepped up a notch in metabolism and the stress hormones have died down. This is a satisfying feeling and everything improves at every step upwards I take. So then, once I have been in calm city again, for a while, then its time to step it up and take a trip into stress city for a while, taking a 1/16th of a pill jump. Doing this process over and over is bringing my metabolism up further and further, while at the same time dialing down the stress hormones.
Knowing what I know now, I would have started with 1/16th of a pill, and waiting a couple weeks to see how I react. And then would have used the above technique to slowly push up the metabolism.
I will add more as I think about it.
More is not better, just right is best, or right above just right is best. There is a line for me, when I cross that line stress hormones start to increase, the body will only raise metabolism so much at a time, after that, it starts to fight back. If I push it too hard, I am gonna feel like crap. This is important, metabolism will only raise so much at a time, I am not able to push myself up into hyperthyroid when I first start supplementing thyroid, I will however be able to push myself up into stress hormone city and this is what people think is hyperthyroid, its not. Its stress city, body fighting back on raising metabolism. Ray Peat told me once, being slightly hyperthyroid felt really good. And I know now exactly what he means. He was telling me, I was not hyperthyroid. I was in stress city and needed to work it out myself.
I use what I like call the push up technique. Find that perfect dose of thyroid, that place in the calm, no stress hormones. Then push above that line, 1/16th of a pill. Now I have stepped into stress hormone city. It will be uncomfortable for a few days, sleep will be disturbed, but then finally, stress city becomes calm city and I realized I have now stepped up a notch in metabolism and the stress hormones have died down. This is a satisfying feeling and everything improves at every step upwards I take. So then, once I have been in calm city again, for a while, then its time to step it up and take a trip into stress city for a while, taking a 1/16th of a pill jump. Doing this process over and over is bringing my metabolism up further and further, while at the same time dialing down the stress hormones.
Knowing what I know now, I would have started with 1/16th of a pill, and waiting a couple weeks to see how I react. And then would have used the above technique to slowly push up the metabolism.
I will add more as I think about it.