What Thyroid Blood Tests Mean

Before we discuss the meaning of thyroid blood tests, let’s first ask ourselves, “Why do we get them?”

Don’t doctors get them to know if, and how, they can help people feel healthier?

Thus, it could be argued that if a blood test doesn’t help us to help people feel healthier then it might not be that useful.

A lot of really smart people have done a great deal of scientific research on thyroid blood tests. And there are lots of scientific things that can be said about thyroid tests and how the values can change in various situations.

Unfortunately, despite all that science and knowledge people can still feel really poorly even when the thyroid tests provide no clear direction on how to help them recover.

That’s why we don’t need to have a lot of undue respect for thyroid blood tests even though we can talk very scientifically about them.

The only thing we really need to know is, “Do they tell us which patients can or can’t feel healthier?” Do they have a lot of predictive value? If not, they’re not worth as much as we’d like.

Doctors being able to speak scientifically about the thyroid system and thyroid tests may provide patients more comfort than doctors not being able to speak scientifically, but not as much comfort as helping patients actually feel healthy.

The thyroid tests can help doctors see whether the thyroid gland is producing too much thyroid hormone (hyperthyroidism) or too little (hypothyroidism).

The thyroid tests can also help doctors treat hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, with the patients often feeling much better.

However, there are a lot of patients that still have low body temperatures and feel poorly (and yet do respond well to T3 therapy) even though their blood tests are normal. This can be true in patients who have never had hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism. It can also be true in people who are, or have been, treated for hyper- or hypothyroidism.

A body temperature that runs low on average, despite normal thyroid blood tests, is more than enough explanation for why people may still be continuing to suffer. People can often restore their low body temperatures to normal with stress reduction and proper exercise and nutrition. More severe cases often respond to the WT3 protocol.

There are doctors who have successfully treated patients with Wilson’s Syndrome and there are those who haven’t. There are also doctors who believe in the existence of Wilson’s Syndrome and there are those that don’t. As it turns out, the one’s who have treated it successfully are usually the same ones that believe it exists. After all, seeing is believing. It’s much more convincing to see people recover than it is to give them a scientific explanation for why they still feel bad.

Warmly,
Denis Wilson, MD