The thyroid test will kill you (Breakthrough warning)
The thyroid test will kill you
(Breakthrough warning)
Recent studies showed that you can have normal thyroid hormones levels in blood test while the tissue saturation is very poor. This has serious consequences on your health.
Studies showed that this is the situation in up to 80% of population. What !!!!!
The tissue level of thyroid hormones is by far the most important to your health not the serum level.
When the tissue level of thyroid hormones is poor, your body can't burn fat for energy.
So what?
If your body can't burn fat for energy, you will be prone to obesity, diabetes, ischemic heart diseases, dementia and short life expectancy.
Why?
The fact: the body can make energy from 2 sources only, either carbohydrate or fat. The amount of energy generated from fat is far more in the amount and with far less production of toxic metabolites. As with more energy production, the cells can produce more anti-oxidants to neutralize the toxic metabolic end products. So with fat metabolism, there are more energy, less oxidation and more antioxidants production.
Why does the tissue level of thyroid hormones become lower than serum levels in many people?
Here’s the scientific background
Thyroid hormones are the driver for energy generation from fat in all cells of the body organs including the hear, the brain, the muscle, the skin, hair and reproductive organs etc.
Thyroid gland produce 80% of the hormones as T4 and 20% as T3.
T4 is an inactive hormone and must be converted to T3 to do its action.
T4; not only converts to T3 but also converts to another hormone called (reverse T3), which prevents T3 from attaching itself to the receptors in the cells of the body.
If your body makes too much (reverse T3), the effective amount of T3 that can bind to the receptors of the cells will clearly become less than what is supposed to be.
Now the remaining amount of T3 wants to travel from the receptors to go inside the cells to do its action. This step needs energy as it is not a passive process.
If you have any state or disease that adversely affects the energy production, there will not be enough energy to carry the remaining part of T3 - which is now attached to the receptors - to go inside the cells.
The net result will be normal blood level of T3 level while tissue level is very poor. This is why the blood test is deceiving and does not express the situation in the tissue.
So the problem is in the presence of the reverse T3 and in the fact that T3 movement across the cell membrane needs enough energy.
What are the states that make your body make too much reverse T3 and reduce the body ability to make enough energy so that the tissue saturation of T3 will be low?
· Old people
· Diabetes mellitus (type 2)
· Pre-diabetes
· Obesity or being over weight.
· Chronic fatigue syndrome
· Fibromyalgia
· Ischemic heart disease.
· Heart failure.
· Depression and anxiety.
· And many other diseases.
This means that huge number of people are actually hypothyroid at tissue level while the blood test says that everything is ok. This is why they are suffering.
So what?
Read the symptoms below and you will figure out that you might be suffering from one of them:
· Tiredness and fatigue during morning and during day times.
· You can not loss weight and burn fat despite regular exercise.
· Being sleepy during work and need too much sleep in afternoon,
· Cold hands and feet.
· Depression
· Loss of mental clarity.
· Irregular menstruation (periods).
· Dry skin and hair and hair loss.
· Myofascial pains (muscle and tissue pains)
If you have some of the above symptoms you need to take thyroxin regardless of normal blood test, because if you dont these symptoms will never go away . You will also be prone to all diseases that appear with age and you expose yourself to short life expectancy.
If u have further questions, contact me
Dr Ahmed Foul
Specialist in geriatric medicine
Specialist in antiaging medicine
dubaiwellness@hotmail.com