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Hi Carol. This is the treatment I'm just starting. I've had hypothroid since 1978. The symptoms never went away on synthroid or armour thyroid replacement meds. In my support group we have found most of us with connective tissue disease we all have thyroid problems. My tempt and pulse runs low n slow.....

's Thyroid Syndrome -- Hypothyroidism -- Hypothyroid -- Thyroid disease Marlene

Hi Marlene!

Thank you for your interest. Many people have quickly

and completely restored their good health with T3

therapy for ’s Thyroid Syndrome. That means it may work

very well for you as well if you're also suffering the

effects of a low body temperature.

Further, I've heard physicians comment that some

people aren't GOING to get better until they do get

their temps up, no matter what they try. I've seen

many patients try diet, exercise, herbs, vitamins,

medicines, and everything else they can think of, and

nothing seemed to help until they got their

temperatures up. A normal temperature can be thought

of as the foundation of a good health plan.

Best of all, patients' temperatures and symptoms often

REMAIN improved even after the treatment has been

discontinued. I'm continually amazed by that.

Why WOULDN'T you feel better with a normal body

temperature?

’s Thyroid Syndrome didn't come from our mainstream

medical system, but it is steadily becoming a household

term because its treatment is a persistent cure for a

great many devastating problems in a vast number of

people. In fact, I can't think of another medical

condition that causes such devastating problems in so

many people and that can be persistently cured so often.

The symptoms caused by a low body temperature have

been a frustrating mystery because doctors didn't know

where the symptoms were coming from or how to treat

them. However, with T3 therapy for ’s Thyroid Syndrome

there's a lot less mystery and correcting the symptoms

are often no big deal.

Below you'll find the report, A Brief Overview of The

Thyroid System.

Best wishes,

Dr.

P.S. - After the report below, I've encouraged you to

check your temperatures and have explained how.

And I've also included as a bonus Chapter 3 of the

book (http://www.wilsonsthyroidsyndrome.com/PatientBook.htm).

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A Brief Overview of the Thyroid System

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You or someone you love may have a number of disturbing

and baffling symptoms.

Why baffling?

Baffling, because you may have been to the doctor only

to be told that there's nothing wrong with you and

that there's nothing that can be done to help you.

Your reaction may be similar to that of many people in

the same situation, depending on how badly you feel.

If you don't feel too badly you may wonder about your

sanity. The doctor may imply, and you may wonder, if

everyone with your age and circumstances feels the way

that you do. On the other hand, if you feel very

badly and especially if you feel a lot worse than you

used to, you may become angry because you know

there's something wrong.

Problems with the thyroid hormone system can cause a

large number of varied complaints. Because the thyroid

hormone system regulates the metabolism, or the sum of

all the body's chemical reactions, it can have very

far-reaching effects. If the thyroid system

malfunctions the entire metabolism can slow down

causing a many classic symptoms such as migraines,

depression, easy weight gain, fatigue, irritability,

anxiety, panic attacks, dry skin, dry hair, hair loss,

fluid retention, brittle nails, and many others.

But why do doctors sometimes have such trouble

recognizing and treating these problems?

Briefly,

There's a gland in the head called the pituitary gland.

There's a gland in the neck called the thyroid gland.

The pituitary gland acts as a thermostat.

When the metabolism slows down too much and the body

doesn't stay warm enough, the pituitary gland secretes

a hormone (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone or TSH) that

stimulates the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is

supposed to respond by making more thyroid hormone,

which is supposed to result in the speeding up of the

metabolism. And when the metabolism speeds up to normal

all should be well.

That sounds simple enough, doesn't it?

However, there are two areas that confuse and mislead

many physicians. The first is that many doctors don't

know how the thyroid hormone produced in the thyroid

gland speeds up the metabolism. The second is that most

doctors don't know a good way of determining how well

that stimulation is working.

You can ask your doctor how the thyroid hormone

produced in the thyroid gland speeds up the metabolism.

S/he may respond by saying something about the thyroid

hormone fitting in receptors in the cells of the body.

But actually, the thyroid hormone produced in the

thyroid gland (T4) is not primarily responsible for

speeding up the metabolism. It is simply the raw

material that the tissues of the body use to make the

active hormone (T3). By far, most of the active thyroid

hormone is produced OUTSIDE the thyroid gland, in the

tissues of the body. That's very important.

You can ask your doctor if s/he knows a good way of

determining how well the thyroid system is stimulating

the metabolism. S/he may respond by saying something

about thyroid blood tests. However, many patients have

normal thyroid blood tests and yet still have low body

temperatures and classic thyroid symptoms that respond

quickly and completely to proper T3 therapy and often

remain improved even after the treatment has been

discontinued.

How can that be? Why WOULDN'T that be? Remember when I

explained that the purpose of the thyroid system was

to stimulate the metabolism to make sure it runs fast

enough to keep the body warm enough? Wouldn't it make

sense that measuring how warm the body is would be a

good way of determining how well that was working?

Looking at blood tests to see if the body's cells are

being sufficiently stimulated is a little like looking

at your car's gas gauge instead of the speedometer to

see how fast you're going. Sure, you need gas to go but

you never know how fast you're going until you look at

the speedometer. A thermometer is like a speedometer.

It tells you just how fast your body is going. A blood

test is like the gas gauge; it shows whether or not

you have plenty of raw material.

You say, " But that's obvious! " And I agree. Then

where's the confusion? It's here. Have you ever heard

someone working on a problem say something like, " I

tried such-and-such and it didn't work so I tried

so-and-so and it worked so that must have been the

problem " ? Or how about something like, " I tried

such-and-such and so-and-so and it didn't make any

difference so maybe that's the way it's supposed to

be " ? This thyroid mystery is really no more complicated

than that. Doctors have been overlooking 's

Syndrome because they haven't had a good way to treat

it.

On the other hand, doctors haven't overlooked

hypothyroidism because they HAVE had a good way of

treating IT. In hypothyroidism, the thyroid

gland doesn't produce enough raw material (T4)

to run the thyroid system and the body slows down,

developing classic symptoms. That's like a car starting

to run out of gas. And just as running out of gas shows

up on the gas gauge, hypothyroidism shows up on blood

tests. When a car runs completely out of gas, it stops;

and when people run completely out of thyroid, they

stop as well. Hypothyroidism can be fatal. Working on

this problem, doctors tried giving sick people with

low blood tests some T4 and they got better! So they

concluded, " That must have been what was wrong with

them. "

However, ’s Thyroid Syndrome is not immediately

fatal and giving patients with ’s Thyroid Syndrome (who

are complaining of symptoms identical to

hypothyroidism) T4 doesn't help very much. So doctors

concluded, " I tried this, and I tried that, and neither

seemed to help and the patients haven't died so maybe

they're fine. " But just as there are many cars that

don't run properly even though they have plenty of gas,

there are many people who don't run properly even

though they have plenty of the raw material thyroid

(T4). If a car has a full tank of gas but can't go over

30 miles per hour, there's a problem. Likewise, if a

person has normal blood tests but has a low body

temperature and classic symptoms of low thyroid

function, there's a problem.

How'd you like to hear a fairly absurd story?

Once upon a time,

there was a country that didn't have any cars.

One day, cars were introduced into the country.

Of course, the people didn't know very much about cars.

Before long cars were seen parked in odd places like

on the side of the road or in the middle of

intersections. It turned out that the cars wouldn't go

very far until they stopped.

One man found out from a tourist what was going on.

The cars were running out of gas! He became a mechanic

and was able to help anyone with that problem. People

would push their cars in and he'd fill their tanks

with gas and off they'd go. He even taught his clients

to predict when they might need to bring their cars in

based on the readings of a gauge on their dashboards.

Some of his clients brought in cars that wouldn't go

as fast as they used to. The gauges said there was

enough gas, and the mechanic even tried putting some

more gas in anyway, but it didn't help. So what did he

think? " Well all cars are different, maybe these cars

aren't as fast as other cars. " " Maybe these folks are

just imagining things, maybe their cars are going as

well as ever but they just think they're running

slower. " " If they are running slower, maybe that's

normal for cars as they get older and there's nothing

that can be done about it. " Or how about, " Well they

have plenty of gas, and the cars are moving, so they're

fine " (remember up until this point the mechanic knew

of only two kinds of cars, those that move and those

that don't because they're out of gas). These are all

fairly reasonable thoughts considering the mechanic's

experience.

One day, his tourist friend returns and shows him how

to adjust the carburetors on some of these cars. Only

when he sees the cars speed away does he realize the

cars did indeed have an easily corrected problem! The

medical profession has been overlooking 's

Syndrome, and doctors have been wondering if sufferers'

problems have been imagined or normal because they

didn't have a good way of treating it. Doctors aren't

going to realize that ’s Thyroid Syndrome is a very

common and very treatable condition until they try the

T3 therapy as described in the Doctor's Manual in a

few patients and see some of them reincarnated. The

fact that this story sounds so absurd only shows that

we know a lot more about cars than we do about

the thyroid system.

Let's go over the most common thyroid problems and their

treatments.

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Hyperthyroidism - the thyroid gland produces too much

thyroid hormone.

Grave's disease - can be thought of as severe

hyperthyroidism.

Hypothyroidism - the thyroid gland produces too little

thyroid hormone.

Hashimoto's Thyroditis - White blood cells infiltrating

into the thyroid gland tissue, sometimes

progresses to hypothyroidism.

’s Thyroid Syndrome - the thyroid gland produces plenty

of T4, but the body temperature is still low

and patients still complain of low thyroid

symptoms that respond well to T3 therapy.

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The treatment of Hyperthyroidism and/or Grave's disease

often render patients permanently hypothyroid. There

are several kinds of hypothyroidism (Primary,

Secondary, Tertiary, as well as those due to treatment of

hyperthyroidism, and those due to Hashimoto's or other

forms of thyroditis).

But they are all treated the same way:

giving patients enough T4 to make their blood tests

normal.

Treatment of hypothyroidism (due to any cause)

may not be successful in eliminating the patients'

hypothyroid symptoms because the patients may ALSO be

suffering from ’s Thyroid Syndrome.

A car can run out of gas, but it can also have a

maladjusted carburetor. Likewise, people can have

’s Thyroid Syndrome in addition to hypothyroidism,

but most patients with WTS are not hypothyroid.

The standard treatment for ’s Thyroid Syndrome

applies to people who are not hypothyroid, but

Chapter 12 of the Doctor's Manual explains how to treat

hypothyroid patients with ’s Thyroid Syndrome.

’s Thyroid Syndrome is probably more common than all other

thyroid system disorders combined!

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Measuring Your Temperatures

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If you have the symptoms of ’s Thyroid Syndrome or low

thyroid function, particularly if they seem to have

been brought on or worsened by stress, I urge you to

see how fast your metabolism is running my measuring

your temperature! Even if you " know " your temperatures

are normal, I urge you to check them again.

I recommend that you use a mercury thermometer. Digital

thermometers can easily become inaccurate due to being

dropped and/or having low batteries. If you do not have

a mercury thermometer, I recommend that you make a note

on a sheet of paper right now, while you're thinking

about it, and stick it into a crack of the steering

wheel of your car. That way you'll be able to easily

remember to get one the next time you're out.

Remember to shake the mercury in the thermometer down

below 97 degrees (36.1 C) each time before you take your

temperature. Grab the top of the thermometer and flick

your wrist while holding tightly! (It's easy to fling

them across the room and they can break). I suggest

you measure your temperature 3 times a day, 3 hours

apart, starting 3 hours after you wake up, for 3 days.

For example, if you wake up at 7am, you can take your

temperature at 10am, 1pm, and 4pm. Add your 3 daily

temperatures together and divide the sum by 3 to get

each day's average. If you are female, it's best not to

take your temperature during the 3 days prior to your

period since it's higher then. The temperature should

be taken under the tongue for around 7 minutes. Do not

drink anything hot or cold for at least 15 minutes

before taking your temperatures. If your temperatures

run, on average, less than 98.6 F (37 C), that could easily

explain symptoms of low thyroid system function.

Temperatures of less than 98 F (36.7 C) are particularly

consistent with ’s Thyroid Syndrome.

What if your temperatures aren't low?

If your story is very consistent with 's

Syndrome, as described in the book 's Thyroid Syndrome –

A Reversible Thyroid Problem, then it is quite possible

that your thermometer is wrong. You might try making

sure the mercury is shaken down below about 96 (35.6 C)

or 97 (36.1 C) before measuring your temperature. Or,

you might try using another thermometer because sometimes

your thermometer may read normal, but another one may

indicate your temperature's low.

For more information you can visit our web site at:

http://www.sThyroidSyndrome.com

Below is Chapter 3 of the book, " 's Thyroid Syndrome –

A Reversible Thyroid Problem. "

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Chapter 3

WHY THE METABOLISM WORKS THE WAY IT DOES

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Conservation Mode Versus Productivity Mode

The thyroid system is well known to be important in the

regulation of the body's metabolic rate. It can decrease

or increase the metabolic rate under certain

circumstances. Why is this important? We can think of

the metabolism as having two speeds or modes, one that

uses less energy and one that uses more. I'll call the

slower mode the conservation mode and the fast mode I'll

call the productivity mode.

There are two things that your body is designed to do:

1. Not Starve

2. Get things done

It is easier to survive famine if your body is not

using as much energy (conservation mode). On the other

hand, the more energy you spend (productivity mode) the

easier it is to get things done. If you didn't have a

conservation mode, then when food was scarce you'd be

more likely to starve. And if you didn't have a

productivity mode, then when resources were plentiful

you'd have a hard time getting as much done. People who

are in the conservation mode frequently tell me: " I

don't have any interest in anything anymore, and I just

don't feel like doing anything. " What a way to conserve

energy!

It is normal for the thyroid system to enter into and

out of the conservation and productivity modes at the

appropriate times and under the appropriate conditions.

This helps the body to cope with the changes and

challenges of life. The body enters into the

conservation mode under conditions that threaten the

survival and/or physical, mental, emotional resources

of the body, such as childbirth, divorce, death of a

loved one, job or family stress, surgery or accidents,

etc., and starvation (not very common in the United

States except for severe dieting). It seems that stress

is not always measured by the challenge itself, but by

the relationship of the presenting challenge to the

available resources. When the brain determines that

there is a threat, or that there may be insufficient

resources available to easily meet a presenting

challenge, a signal is sent to the body to begin

entering into the conservation mode to conserve energy.

When the stressful conditions have passed, the body is

supposed to return to the productivity mode; but in

’s Thyroid Syndrome it doesn't, leaving people to suffer

with frustrating and often debilitating complaints

long after the stress has passed. So essentially,

’s Thyroid Syndrome is a natural and normal

starvation/stress coping mechanism gone amuck.

How The Thyroid System Gets Into Conservation Mode

Under stress, the body slows down by decreasing the

amount of raw material T4 that is converted to the

active thyroid hormone T3, while increasing the amount

that is converted to the inactive RT3. It has been

shown that during fasting, the T3 level in the

bloodstream can drop by 50% with the RT3 going up

by 50%. Since T3 is an extremely active thyroid hormone

and since RT3 has no thyroid hormone activity, it is

obvious that this shunting process can greatly affect

the amount of physiologically active thyroid hormone

at the level of the active site. Studies have shown

that the metabolic rate drops during these same

conditions of fasting.

Incidentally, it has been shown that some of the

highest levels of RT3 found in man are in newborn

babies. Cord samples of blood taken from the umbilical

cord at the time of birth often show elevated levels

of RT3 and low levels of T3 (which begin to increase

soon after birth). This may be a survival mechanism

to help the baby to conserve as much energy as possible

and get a foothold in this world. I have often wondered

if this is why babies spend so much time sleeping.

Basically, all they do is eat, sleep, and gain weight

and can often be on the irritable side. A little hunger

seems to be so much more painful for them, and their

hunger-pang screams seem so much more urgent and

desperate, as if they're faced with a life-threatening

situation. But after they are fed they are extremely

content and satisfied. As we will discuss next, it

seems that the conservation mode is triggered when the

body perceives a threat that there may be insufficient

resources to meet apparent challenges. The lower the

resources, the more desperate the situation. Probably

few of us can think of an animal or organism with

fewer resources or that is any more vulnerable than

a human baby.

When the body is faced with stress or starvation, and

T4 to T3 conversion decreases, the cells of the body

slow down, so the body temperature drops. When the

temperature drops, many of the body's enzymes do not

function as well.

Conservation Is Bought With A Price

As the body conserves energy, it cuts down on some of

the more expendable functions that are not absolutely

necessary for survival. This can lead to a long list of

unfavorable symptoms listed in Chapter 9 (fatigue,

depression, PMS, migraines, fluid retention, etc.).

This is accomplished by the fact that some enzymes are

more susceptible to a decrease in body temperature than

others. It is fascinating that the most susceptible

enzymes happen to be related to some of the body's

more expendable functions. For example, the largest

organ in the human body is the skin, and a huge amount

of energy is expended in maintaining the skin. The skin

is quite durable and can continue to function for many

weeks even when maintenance levels drop significantly.

So a person's body can get away with significantly

decreasing the energy expended on maintaining the skin

for a period of time, thereby conserving a huge amount

of energy. In this way, the body's conservation of

energy can result in dry skin, dry hair, hair loss,

dry, brittle nails, etc. It's not surprising that

luxury functions, such as the sex drive, are among the

first to go. The more important functions (for personal

short-term survival) like vision, hearing, heart

function, and breathing are not as greatly affected by

changes in temperature. Thus, the body has a very

effective way of conserving energy under periods of

stress by decreasing energy expenditures on some of

the more expendable bodily functions, while preserving

some of the more vital functions.

Conservation Mode Sometimes Maladaptive

It might sound at first that it would be good for people

to constantly be in the conservation mode. For, after

all, one can never have too many resources and it is

always good to conserve energy and resources, even if

you have plenty, for potential problems that may lie

ahead. However, resources are only of any value when

they are put to use. The physical, mental, social and

emotional resources that human beings have are necessary

for their survival and productivity. They are put to

use in providing for food and clothing, building

shelters and homes, and building important interpersonal

relationships that are of great value in times of

difficulty. These resources are also important for the

building of strong communities and societies. They are

important in creating new ventures and making machines

and tools that make life easier and increase the

standard of living. They are necessary for the building

up of mankind in general. So conserving resources

continuously can be a very big problem, especially

when it prevents the resources from being used

appropriately under the right conditions.

I believe that the body entering into conservation mode

is an adaptive response in times and places where there

is insufficient food, nutrients, or resources available

to maintain life. For example, if a man was in

prehistoric times and he broke his leg and was unable

to hunt or obtain food efficiently, he would probably

survive longer without food if his metabolism would

appropriately decrease under the given circumstances.

Likewise, his family could better survive the period

of time without food if their metabolism slowed down

appropriately. When his injured leg healed sufficiently

to enable him to hunt again and obtain food for himself

and his family, it would be appropriate for their

metabolism to return to normal, enabling them to be

more healthy and productive. If this response were not

present when he broke his leg and was unable to feed

his family, the metabolism would continue at the same

pre-injury rate and there would be a greater chance

that he and his family would starve and die.

This adaptive response can become maladaptive in the

21st century when an injured person can be taken to the

hospital and given meals or l.V. nutrients to prevent

starvation. His family may be able to go to the

supermarket to purchase food, thereby eliminating the

possibility of starving to death as the man is healing.

In this situation, the response can be maladaptive

because his metabolism may automatically drop in

response to his injury. The function of his enzymes

and his utilization of energy in order to heal may be

impaired because of a less than optimal body

temperature. The body enzymes, including those

responsible for healing, may not function as

effectively as they could.

Poor healing is a common finding in the patients that

I see suffering from classic cases of ’s Thyroid Syndrome.

They frequently do not heal as quickly, and often will

have sores that will persist much longer than would be

otherwise expected. Many patients have undergone

surgery and have, during convalescence, developed many

other symptoms of ’s Thyroid Syndrome. They can even

suffer complications from the surgery in terms of wound

infection, poor healing, and may even have to be opened

again for revision of the wound because of infection

and/or poor healing. Many of these patients notice that

they do not heal as well with the onset of the symptoms

of ’s Thyroid Syndrome. Thus, ’s Thyroid Syndrome is a great

condition to have in response to periods of fasting or

famine, but it is not the most productive condition to

have when there are good hospitals and food supplies

available.

Thus, the conservation mode is maladaptive when it

keeps the body from being happy, healthy, strong, and

productive when there is no real threat of starvation.

And the productivity mode is maladaptive when the body

does not slow down under appropriate conditions and

when it puts the body in danger of starving.

I frequently tell people with ’s Thyroid Syndrome that it

is not all together bad that they have the ability or

tendency to develop the condition, because they have the

capacity to slow down under adverse conditions and are

probably less likely to starve if the supermarkets

close down. But it is not the best condition to have

if they want to enjoy healthy, happy and productive

lives.

As I discuss later, there are a large number of

disturbing symptoms that can result and maladaptively

persist from ’s Thyroid Syndrome. Many of these symptoms

are familiar to all of us and are therefore often

considered " normal. " But there is a difference between

common and ideal. It should not be assumed that these

symptoms are mild, because they are often extremely

debilitating. They can be so incapacitating that they

can render a person almost a " metabolic cripple. " It is

maladaptive when these disturbing and burdensome

complaints and symptoms persist inappropriately, when

there is no need for the body's metabolism to be slow.

Since ’s Thyroid Syndrome is essentially a stress and

starvation coping mechanism gone amuck, one may be able

to see how certain maladaptive situations can present

themselves. For example, a person may be faced with

being laid off from work because of the closing out

of their department, and begin to have feelings of

being overwhelmed and may enter into some depression

and may develop headaches and other symptoms of the

conservation mode. These symptoms are often brought

on by a drop in body temperature patterns. The person

may also have a tendency for increased fatigue and

decreased motivation, and all these complaints may make

it more difficult for the person to find alternative

work If the person does have difficulty finding another

job, then the temperature might drop further in

response. This may result in worsening of the symptoms

and thereby further decrease the available resources

the person may need in order to find a job.

In Summary, the greater the tendency a body has to enter

into the conservation mode, the greater the tendency a

body has to remain in the conservation mode. The proper

functioning of the body depends, in large part, on how

effectively and how appropriately the body enters into

and out of the conservation and productivity modes.

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