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Thinning Hair? Check Your Body Temperature

Hair loss is one of the classic symptoms of thyroid dysfunction. That’s because hair follicles require thyroid hormones in order to produce hair. Thyroid-related hair loss can be diffuse–thinning hair on the scalp, eyebrows and other parts of the body. Or it can occur in patches. Autoimmune thyroid disease can lead to low body temperatures and hair loss, and thyroid antibodies can often be found with blood tests. However, far more people can have hair loss from low body temperatures due to stress even when all their thyroid

Bones and Your Thyroid

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Thyroid hormones are essential for normal bone strength. Bones aren’t static, like rocks. Throughout our lives, the cells in bones break down and regrow, a process known as remodeling. A proper balance of breaking down and rebuilding bone tissue is needed for bones to stay strong during our lifetimes. As we age, bone tends to break down more quickly and rebuild more slowly. For women, the first 5-10 years after menopause are a period of accelerated bone breakdown. It’s especially important to try to minimize bone breakdown during this time to maximize healthy bones for a long time.

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Soy and Your Thyroid

If you have any sort of thyroid disorder, you should pay attention to how much soy you are getting in your diet. Research shows that people are consuming more soy than ever in the U.S. It’s cheap and is often considered healthier than meat, although that is not the case for people with thyroid problems!

Most people are aware of the obvious sources of soy, such as tofu,

Fibromyalgia and Your Thyroid: What You Need to Know

If you have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, you should learn about how treatment with T3–the active form of thyroid hormone–can help, and often even completely eliminate, your symptoms of muscle pain, brain fog and fatigue.

This treatment can help even if you’ve been told you have normal thyroid function and have normal blood levels of thyroid hormones — T4, T3 and TSH. It can help if you are taking T4 (Synthroid, or levothyroxine) for hypothyroidism and still not feeling fully functional. In either case, however, you will might have low body temperature,

Environmental Chemicals and Your Thyroid

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Do you know that many chemicals in our environment have the potential to affect thyroid function? These chemicals are called endocrine disruptors, and they include both everyday household products and chemicals used in agriculture and manufacturing that end up all over the place–in our water, air, food, and eventually, in our blood, breast milk, and babies. These chemicals often break down very slowly. They can persist in the environment for years after they are banned, and in our bodies even after our exposure to them has ended. They can cause hypo- or hyperthyroidism. They can cause autoimmune

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Treating WTS (as one of my symptoms) some years ago made a huge improvement in my long term battle with Lyme disease. My Lyme doctor recently discovering the prevalence of gluten intolerance in those with Lyme has allowed me (and almost all of her patients) to regain full health.

Thanks to Dr. Wilson for his discovery of Wilson’s Syndrome! My Lyme doctor tells me virtually all of her Lyme patients have (had) WTS. She was unaware of WTS until I began seeing her a year ago. She told me treating WTS with T3 has been a huge help

Depressed? You may want to check your thyroid

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If you’re depressed, and especially if you haven’t responded all that well to antidepressants, you may want to have your thyroid function checked. In fact the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists states: “The diagnosis of subclinical or clinical hypothyroidism must be considered in every patient with depression.” That’s recommended because it is well known that when patients have slow metabolism due to low thyroid hormone production from hypothyroidism, they can easily have depression that can respond dramatically to thyroid hormone treatment. It’s also recommended because many doctors are

Your Thyroid Needs Iron

When is the last time you had your iron status checked? Not just serum iron levels, but hemoglobin, total iron-binding capacity (TIBC) and serum ferritin, a measure of iron stores? Knowing your complete iron status is important if you have low body temperature or low thyroid function, especially if you also are often tired, achey, out of breath, have heart palpitations or feel out of breath. These are symptoms of both thyroid malfunction and iron deficiency, and the two together just make things worse.

Here’s how iron and your thyroid

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