Blog – Page 16 – Wilson's Syndrome

Environmental Chemicals and Your Thyroid

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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Recent Success Stories

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

Cholesterol Can Drop Dramatically With T3 Therapy

A low body temperature can easily explain high cholesterol levels. To us, a low body temperature indicates a slowed metabolism. An abnormally slow metabolism can occur in hypothyroidism due to inadequate production of T4, but more often, it is due to inadequate conversion of T4 to T3 inside the cells of the body. Since most of this T4 to T3 conversion happens intracellularly, it is invisible to thyroid blood tests. That’s why people can have low body temperatures even when their thyroid blood tests are normal. Studies show that people with inadequately treated hypothyroidism are more likely to have high

What about T3 in people who have had thyroid removed?

Here’s a question I received from a reader:

Hi,
I appreciate your newsletter and am on the WT3 protocol. Would you kindly comment on how people who have had their thyroid removed respond to the WT3 protocol. Are there any differences in treatment????
Thanks,
Mo B.

Yes, people who have had their thyroid glands removed often do very well on T3 therapy. How well people feel on thyroid medicine has everything to do with how well that thyroid medicine is helping them maintain a normal and steady body temperature. The body temperature depends on how well T3 is stimulating the metabolism inside the

Act now to save your access to sustained-release T3 and bioidentical hormones (Senate vote in 2 days)

Click here now to write your senators. It’s easy and will only take a minute. Sustained-release T3 is not difficult to make and sustained-release agents can actually make thyroid medicine safer. Regular thyroid medicine is “instant-release”. It’s dumped into your system all at once. There’s no way that adding a sustained-release agent could get the thyroid medicine into your system any faster or more suddenly than that, but it could make it safer. Your only access to sustained-release thyroid medicines is by way of compounding pharmacists because drug companies don’t make it. If the FDA succeeds in this huge power

Vitamin D important for thyroid as well as bones

We’ve heard from our youth that Vitamin D is good for our bones but it’s also important in fighting autoimmune thyroid disease. When children don’t get enough vitamin D or calcium they can develop rickets, a softening of the bones. Milk is often fortified with vitamin D as a preventive measure. Adults that don’t get enough vitamin D can also experience decreased mineralization of the bones referred to as osteomalacia. What many people don’t know is that the incidence of autoimmune conditions (when the immune system incorrectly attacks instead of protects the body) is higher in people with vitamin D

Don’t let the FDA remove your access to sustained release T3

Take action by following the link at the end of this post to prevent the FDA from removing your access to sustained-release T3. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) has released draft legislation that would enable the FDA to regulate both compounding pharmacies and the compounded medications themselves. Currently compounding pharmacies are regulated on the state level. Page 7 of the draft says: “may include the designation of drugs or categories of drugs that present demonstrable difficulties for compounding, such as extended release products….” As it turns out, extended release products are not difficult to compound.

Thyroid crucial for heart health

When people have high cholesterol levels most doctors don’t think of thyroid and low body temperature. But hypothyroidism can increase the risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) by as much as 25% by increasing LDL cholesterol levels. Many people with low body temperatures and normal thyroid blood tests also have high cholesterol levels that quickly normalize when their body temperatures are raised to normal. Hypothyroidism and low body temperatures can also increase the risk of CHD by increasing obesity and diabetes. Some studies suggest that some patients with acute and chronic cardiovascular problems have impaired T4 to T3 conversion which