Re: does armour increase antibodies and other questi...

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I am curious if the armour also helps hairloss? I read on

's post that synthroid could very well be actually causing the

hairloss....I am desperate for it to regrow...but I haven't read any

posts to that effect....have you had any experience with armour

actually helping the hairloss/regrowth?

> It sounds like a couple of things are happening with you.

>

> You may be actually getting less thyroid hormone now than you were

because

> your body has adjusted for what you're taking orally and dropped its

own

> production. OR

> because your thyroid is producing some hormone, the antibodies

continue to

> attack and you're getting even less thyroid hormone to your body.

>

> This is why lots of hashi's folks feel better when they take a full

> supplement of thyroid hormone - which is around 4 1/2 grains of

Armour. This will

> cause TSH to be suppressed.

>

> I would do a couple of things. Switch to Armour and take enough to

get your

> Free T4 in the high range and Free T3 in the high range or slightly

over.

> This should quiet the antibodies and help you get rid of the hypo

symptoms you

> are experiencing.

>

> On the conversion thing your doc says about T4...the thing is, is

that sick

> folks often don't do conversion well...and your doc forgets that

hypo is a sick

> state. Plus, your thyroid produces T3 on its own and is used...so

perhaps

> you need to be taking it orally as well.

> Cindi

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