Blog – Page 11 – Wilson's Syndrome

FDA Action Alert- Please Share!

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The FDA Doesn’t Want You to Know the Healing Power of Your Nutrients

The FDA is up to no good when it comes to your nutritional supplements. They are attempting to require medical foods and dietary supplements to undergo the same extremely burdensome and expensive approval process to simply to initiate research. The FDA has just opened a public comment period and it is critical for us to flood the agency as well as Congress with messages about why we oppose this proposed legislation.

What this proposed legislation means to you is that your nutrients will become much more expensive due to

Don’t forget to do this if you have chronic fatigue syndrome

Tags: CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, fatigue, hypothyroidism, Low body temperature, T3, TSH, Wilson's Temperature Syndrome|

Everyone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is familiar with the frustration of getting a proper diagnosis and treatment. You also know that at times, you have to take your health into your own hands. That’s why I recommend that anyone with a diagnosis of CFS do one vitally important thing: check your body temperature.

The details on how to do this correctly are on my website, under How are body temperatures measured? If your body temperature is consistently low (below 98.5 F., or 36.94 C. but typically lower than 97.8 F, or 36.56 C) it means that your metabolism is

What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know about Gluten Sensitivity Could Hurt Your Thyroid

Tags: autoimmune, autoimmune thyroid disease, gluten sensitivity, leaky gut syndroms, Low body temperature, Male Wilson's Temperature Syndrome, wheat, wilsons temper|

Even though awareness has never been greater, research shows that the overwhelming majority of people with gluten sensitivity are unaware that a simple dietary change could make a big difference in their health. And sometimes we would prefer not to know, because maintaining a diet without gluten can be challenging at first!

Some people are sensitive to the gluten, which is found not only in wheat, but other grains such as barley, rye and spelt, without even being aware of it. This sensitivity can lead to a “wearing away” of the

What’s so special about a thermometer?

Tags: Female Wilson's Temperature Syndrome, hypothyroidism, temperature, temperature log, thermometer|

Do you have the proper thermometer to track your body temp?

I recommend liquid metal thermometers because digital thermometers are less accurate when the battery is low, without telling you that they’re inaccurate (because the battery is low!). Also, they can become inaccurate when they are dropped from a height of 4 to 6 inches (What if that happened in shipping?).

The thermometers we recommend are individually tested and marked for accuracy at the factory. You might be able to find this same thermometer in your local pharmacy or large retailer.

I recommend that you check your

Can thyroid disorders lead to addictions?

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Well no, thyroid disorder does not directly cause addiction. But it can cause vague mental symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, cognitive problems, nervousness, irritability, and fatigue that can drive a person to self-medicate with legal or illegal drugs, including alcohol, in order to feel better. Ongoing drug or alcohol use can, in turn, affect thyroid hormone levels. Drug or alcohol use appear to inhibit the liver’s ability to make the proteins that help convert T4 to T3, for instance. It can also lead to a build-up of inactive forms of thyroid hormone. And it’s speculated that low thyroid hormone activity

Can a Detox Help Your Thyroid?

Many chemicals in our environment have the potential to disrupt thyroid function. They include everyday household products, prescription drugs, and chemicals used in agriculture and manufacturing. These chemicals end up in our water, air, food, and eventually, in our blood, fat stores, liver, 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 long after our exposure to them has ended. They can cause hypo- or hyperthyroidism. They can cause autoimmune problems including Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Graves disease. Some impair T3 activation

If you have a thyroid autoimmune disorder, check your body temperature.

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Lots of people have autoimmune thyroid disease. It’s the most common type of autoimmune disorder, affecting 2 to 5 % of people in western countries. There are a couple of types. The most common is Hashimoto’s. All of them involve lymphocyte infiltration of the gland, inflammation and cellular breakdown.

People may get their thyroid hormones checked because they have vague symptoms. Unfortunately, many doctors rely only on blood tests such as TSH and T4 to determine whether their patients need supplemental thyroid hormones. Levels may stay within a normal level for a long time, so people have gradually

The Carbohydrate Sensitivity and Thyroid Connection

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Are you one of those people who doesn’t tolerate carbohydrates very well? You may crave carbs, but within an hour or two of eating them, you start to develop symptoms of low blood sugar. You may be tired, irritable, and hungry. There could be a connection between your carbohydrate sensitivity and thyroid.

You are definitely better off limiting the carbohydrates you eat, especially refined carbs. But you should also check your body temperature. If it is low, you may have low metabolism due to low thyroid function. Low

Psychiatric Trouble May Start in Thyroid

If you have any kind of psychiatric problem–depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, even PTSD–a number of leading-edge psychiatrists believe it is important to check your thyroid function. Why? A growing body of evidence suggests that some psychiatric problems may start with thyroid hormone malfunctioning–and that treating the thyroid problem may alleviate the psychiatric symptoms and prevent further decline. It is common for people with thyroid problems to be given a misdiagnosis of psychiatric illness. Symptoms can be vague, subtle and highly individual, experts say.

Both clinical and subclinical hypothyroidism have been linked to psychiatric problems, especially depression and cognitive decline. But

When Antidepressants Don’t Work

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If you’ve been taking an antidepressant for six weeks or more and don’t feel like you are getting much better, there’s an important link with thyroid function you should know about. A surprisingly high percentage of people with chronic or treatment-resistant depression are found to have low thyroid function, research shows. In one study, 22 % of people with treatment-resistant depression were found to have sub-par thyroid function (based on TSH levels), compared to only 2 % of people whose depression was helped by antidepressants.

I believe an even higher number of people with depression have another kind of thyroid problem