Empowering You to Understand and Own Your Thyroid Health
Following from yesterday’s email about cortisol and that it is an important ingredient for your energy levels: Your cells need glucose, together with T3 hormones, to produce energy. The glucose level in your blood is managed by cortisol. However, cortisol fluctuates during the day, and our quality of sleep also affects our cortisol levels. Here’s how it works […]
Fatigue is a symptom that can have many underlying causes. While too little thyroid hormones (T4, T3 or both) could be cause, what if your thyroid hormones levels are “normal”? What then? Hello cortisol. You may know cortisol as your stress-coping hormone. Did you know that your cells contain mitochondria, which is like the cell’s energy […]
Free T3 hormones are the active hormones that our cells can use for energy and other metabolic functions. Reverse T3 plays an important role, in keeping the balance in our body and ensuring that there are not too many T4 thyroid hormones in your body. But some things can throw this balance out. According to […]
During the process of converting the inactive T4 hormones to the active T3 hormones, the body converts some of this T4 into another hormone called Reverse T3. Reverse T3 (shortened to rT3) plays an important role. It acts like a balancer – to make sure that there is not too much T4 going around in […]
The thyroid gland produces mainly T4 thyroid hormones and a little T3 hormones. But these two types of hormones play very different roles in your body. First, T4 has very little biological action of any significance, according to Paul Robinson, author of the book Recovering with T3. T4 is more of a storage hormone, or […]
Once your thyroid gland produced thyroid hormones, these hormones must reach its end destination: the cells in your body. Think about it this way: the thyroid hormones must catch a ride on a bus to get to its destination. There are plenty of busses to make sure that this happens. The bus is actually called […]
“Your genes load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.” – Mehment Oz You may have the genes for an underactive thyroid, Hashimoto’s, or even other conditions or diseases. But for most of us, having the genetics doesn’t mean that we will have the disease. Epigenetics is the science of how genes are influenced by […]
Just about every cell in your body needs thyroid hormones to function optimally. When you are hypothyroid, there is not enough thyroid hormones in your body, and you can experience a wide variety of symptoms. Here are a list of possible symptoms that I could find, so there could be more symptoms. Which of these symptoms do […]
If you want to have a complete view of the status of your thyroid gland, you must ask for the following thyroid lab tests: TSH Free T4 Free T3 TPO antibodies TG antibodies Reverse T3 (if you have been under severe stress or recently had surgery) Iron & Ferritin (technically not a thyroid lab test, but […]
You have been struggling with some strange symptoms, like unexplained weight gain (you are definitely not pregnant), feeling very tired all the time, and sleeping for all hours of the day. Someone then suggested that you have your thyroid tested, or you make an appointment to see your doctor. It makes sense, so you do […]
