Re: Low Thyroid Hormone Increases Risk of Death from Heart Attack by Seventy Percent

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Steve, Excellent post from you as always.

There are five of us in our immediate family with thyroid problems.

Not only does our family need to be in the lower end of the TSH

range, but our family needs to be BELOW TSH range to feel normal.

I do best with a TSH of about 0.17 and must take combination T4/T3

therapy.

My Neice does best with a TSH of 0.16, and must take combination

T4/T3 therapy. Supressing her TSH with Armour to this low number is

what it takes to boost her Free T3 to ideal levels. No hyperthyroid

symptoms.

My sister has a TSH of only 0.06, and feels great with combination

T4/T3 Therapy. Many people would display symptoms of hyperthyroidism

with numbers like that, but not my sister.

I guess we are a weird family.

Bobby

>

> Low Thyroid Hormone Increases Risk of Death from Heart Attack by

Seventy

> Percent

> http://www.naturalnews.com/025030.html

>

> Here are some quoted paragraphs - note that the study group had

normal

> TSH levels in a range that is narrower than LabCorp or Quests

reference

> range in the USA. The group with the lowest TSH had the lowest

total

> cholesterol and the lowest heart attack risk. The heart attack

risk is

> quoted in absolute values, not relative:

>

> " This examination of Hunt Study findings, reported in the Archives

of

> Internal Medicine, involved the prospective study of the

associations

> between thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and fatal coronary heart

> disease (CHD) in 17,311 women and 8002 men without known thyroid or

> cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus. All participants had

> " normal TSH " levels, meaning the TSH values were in the lab

reference

> range of 0.5 to 3.5. The women were stratified into three groups

> reflecting lower TSH, intermediate TSH and upper TSH levels.

Mortality

> from heart disease was recorded over an 8 year observation period.

>

> Researchers found that the group with the highest TSH had a 70%

> increased mortality from heart disease compared to the lowest TSH

group,

> even though all these TSH values were in the range considered to be

normal.

>

> Another report from the Hunt Study showed LDL cholesterol to be

linearly

> associated with TSH level. As LDL cholesterol goes up, so does TSH. "

>

> " Findings clearly support the need for TSH values in the low end of

the

> normal range

>

> Heart attack is the most common cause of death in the U.S., so to

be

> able to reduce the risk of heart attack by 70% has broad reaching

> implications. To put this in perspective, cholesterol lowering

drugs

> only decrease heart attacks by 1.4 % in those without underlying

heart

> disease. Based on the study findings, the most effective way to

reduce

> death from heart disease and normalize lipoprotein levels is to

reduce

> TSH to the lower end of the normal range. TSH in the upper end of

the

> normal range is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality

and

> elevated LDL measures.

>

> Optimal thyroid levels offer many more benefits

>

> Thyroid is the most important hormone in the body. Since it

simulates

> cellular energy production, all other hormones will be impacted

when

> thyroid hormone levels are not optimal. This results in every

aspect of

> health being affected, including weight, mental outlook, body

> temperature, energy levels, and the quality of hair and skin.

Symptoms

> of low thyroid hormone are unexplained weight gain, fatigue, dry

skin,

> irregular or faint heartbeat, sleep apnea, high or low blood

pressure,

> chronic pain, constipation, frequent infections, brittle nails,

weak

> muscles, head congestion and sinus problems, joint pain,

hoarseness, and

> more. "

>

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