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Body temperature measurement is the simple, affordable and easy test that can reveal the cause behind a multitude of WTS complaints. But the test only works if it is administered properly! Improving your temp-taking accuracy will help enable the best possible outcomes of WTS therapy. Keep these Top 5 Temp-Taking Mistakes in mind when following WTS protocols:

1. Eating hot or cold foods or drinks. Wait at least 20 minutes after eating or drinking anything hot or cold before you take your temperature. Temp changes in the mouth from hot or cold foods and beverages linger longer than you might think!

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A common complaint related to Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome is a feeling of overall low self-esteem, and the feeling of being out of control which can lead to, among other things, anorexia and bulimia.  Patients sometimes find themselves functioning at obviously inadequate levels.  They often feel as if they cannot control their emotions, their reactions, or their thoughts.  They find it difficult to find the motivation to accomplish even simple tasks.  Yet, when they notice these shortcomings and they cannot, by looking at themselves in the mirror, see anything wrong, they can begin to have diminished self-esteem.  They sometimes have an

Dear Dr. Wilson,

I am writing this letter to thank you for what you have done for me. Your diagnosis and treatment of me has changed my life!

Five years ago my life and my health seemed to take a turn for the worse. I was under an extreme amount of stress but it never occurred to me that the problems I was experiencing were also responsible for the changes taking place in my body. I had headaches, my skin was becoming dry and flaky, I had a loss of energy, and some accompanying depression. I also began to gain weight even

Dear Dr. Wilson,

Do you have to monitor the temperature when weaning off the T3 during the early cycles. I am weaning off my first cycle by decreasing the T3 7.5 mcg every two days. My temp was up and down during the first cycle, but my average was never higher than 97.5. My doctor said that I don’t have to keep track of my temperature while weaning right now. Is this correct and if it is, why?

Thanks,
A believer

Dear Believer,
In some ways, I feel it is more important for patients to watch their temperatures while weaning off a cycle than it

Sometimes when I’m at the grocery store I happen to notice what people have in their grocery carts.  Many times, my reaction is “Wow, they must not know any better, maybe no one ever taught them.”  There are a lot of people in the United States that struggle with excess weight.  Some of that is due to high stress and low body temperatures, and some of that is due to what a lot of Americans are accustomed to putting in their grocery carts.

It used to be that our ancestors lived off the land.  They

I just wanted to THANK YOU for all your hard work in discovering this syndrome and its treatment! I feel like I am able to see the sunshine now when before there were only clouds. I am about 70-85% normal when before I would say I was functioning at about 40 or 50%. It is like my body is waking up after a long, long time of just wanting to sleep all day and not being able to sleep at night, misery, pain, etc….. I have more energy, I am less achy, I sleep better and I would say the

The depression associated with WTS will frequently respond to antidepressants, sometimes for only two or three months, sometimes longer, and, at times, not at all.  Interestingly, there have been many studies about T3 being used to enhance the effects of antidepressants – sometimes converting non-responders to a particular antidepressant into responders.  It is my feeling that many of these patients’ depression would have responded to T3 therapy alone.  The correction was probably due to the T3 itself and not necessarily because of the enhancement of the antidepressants’ effects.  Thus, the correlation between thyroid hormone (T4 and T3) and depression has

There is much division over the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).  Even the Supreme Court was divided 5 to 4 over just the constitutionality of the law.  And there is just as much division over whether the law is bad or good.  It’s about insurance coverage.  It’s about a lot of money.  It’s about the cost of health care and who will pay for it.

Here’s an example of how insurance works in our country.  A doctor knows that an insurance company reimburses only so much for a test, only the doctor may not know how

Dear Dr. Wilson,

“I am so pleased to say that about 8 months ago I stumbled upon your website and couldn’t believe the symptoms I was reading which described my 21 year old daughter to a tee! Throughout her childhood she would have bouts of feeling really lousy with symptoms like muscle aches, or joint pain, tiredness, and feeling chilled. Then other days she’d be fine. I didn’t think it was serious or specific enough to bring her to a doctor. Looking back now I see that when she was under stress her symptoms were worse.

She is living on her own

More than twenty years ago no one was saying anything about Reverse T3 or making any special mention of T3.

I remember like it was yesterday the day I picked up this article:

Schimmel M: Thyroidal and Peripheral Production of Thyroid Hormones. Annals of Internal Medicine 87:760-768,1977.

This article opened my mind to the possible significance of Reverse T3 and T3 as compared to T4.

Before that day, I focused mainly on T4 and TSH as we were trained to do in medical school. However, this focus wasn’t giving me the results I was expecting to see in my patients. It didn’t