routepitcher
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Hey guys,
I would appreciate some help crowd sourcing this issue I'm having. I have family history of thyroid issues and after reading Broda Barnes' book I was a full believer on what was ailing me. I took his dosing advice and tracked temp and pulse to figure out the dose. I started at 1/2 grain and felt great a couple of weeks in. Unfortunately with a busy work schedule and sleep cycles, my temperatures were all over the place and over the next couple of months I worked my way up to 2 grains. I then had a terrible fit of hyperthyroidism and quit cold turkey. From here I've been in poor health. I mainly have symptoms of hypothyroidism with hairloss, poor heat regulation, energy issues, just feeling "off". I had read that the gland returns to normal rather quickly and you just need to ride it out, but after 2-3 months nothing really improved. I then decided to go back to 1/2 a grain and just stay on that and I did improve a bit, but I'm not really 100% with the same symptoms as before but milder. I got blood work (after a month of 1/2 grain) and my levels were pretty decent: TSH - 1.27 -- Free t3 - 3.8 -- Free t4 - 1.3 -- Rt3 - 15 -- Antibioties - 1. Other blood work was done and everything else from B vitamins to Calcium, to Iron are all normal. Cortisol is a bit high, test is a bit low, but all within ranges. The only thing that was messed up was high LDL cholesterol (total over 200) and bilirubin.
With that I'm kind of at a loss on what could be going wrong. Thyroid levels appear normal but I still feel like I'm missing something. I have to think it is some sort of nutrient deficiency or vitamin which is acting as a rate limiting factor to achieve homeostasis with my body.
The only other thing I've done is supplement zinc/magnesium the past two weeks. I've been reading papers on what could be lacking from high stress states and found that zinc, magnesium, b-vitamins, etc all get used up rather quickly.
As for diet and lifestyle I follow the principles pretty well. I don't eat processed foods and drink a lot of milk and orange juice, liver/oysters weekly.
I'd greatly appreciate any anecdotes, quotes from Peat, or even theories on what could be going wrong.
Thanks
I would appreciate some help crowd sourcing this issue I'm having. I have family history of thyroid issues and after reading Broda Barnes' book I was a full believer on what was ailing me. I took his dosing advice and tracked temp and pulse to figure out the dose. I started at 1/2 grain and felt great a couple of weeks in. Unfortunately with a busy work schedule and sleep cycles, my temperatures were all over the place and over the next couple of months I worked my way up to 2 grains. I then had a terrible fit of hyperthyroidism and quit cold turkey. From here I've been in poor health. I mainly have symptoms of hypothyroidism with hairloss, poor heat regulation, energy issues, just feeling "off". I had read that the gland returns to normal rather quickly and you just need to ride it out, but after 2-3 months nothing really improved. I then decided to go back to 1/2 a grain and just stay on that and I did improve a bit, but I'm not really 100% with the same symptoms as before but milder. I got blood work (after a month of 1/2 grain) and my levels were pretty decent: TSH - 1.27 -- Free t3 - 3.8 -- Free t4 - 1.3 -- Rt3 - 15 -- Antibioties - 1. Other blood work was done and everything else from B vitamins to Calcium, to Iron are all normal. Cortisol is a bit high, test is a bit low, but all within ranges. The only thing that was messed up was high LDL cholesterol (total over 200) and bilirubin.
With that I'm kind of at a loss on what could be going wrong. Thyroid levels appear normal but I still feel like I'm missing something. I have to think it is some sort of nutrient deficiency or vitamin which is acting as a rate limiting factor to achieve homeostasis with my body.
The only other thing I've done is supplement zinc/magnesium the past two weeks. I've been reading papers on what could be lacking from high stress states and found that zinc, magnesium, b-vitamins, etc all get used up rather quickly.
As for diet and lifestyle I follow the principles pretty well. I don't eat processed foods and drink a lot of milk and orange juice, liver/oysters weekly.
I'd greatly appreciate any anecdotes, quotes from Peat, or even theories on what could be going wrong.
Thanks