Thyroid hormone resistance

[Guest guest]

Thyroid hormone resistance began being investigated in the 1950s, yet many

endocrinologists still have never heard of it, or believe it’s a rare

condition.

“ The difference between hypothyroidism where there is a deficiency of thyroid

hormone, and thyroid hormone resistance, is that the same amount of thyroid

hormone—within the laboratories’ reference range—that would maintain

normal metabolism in cells don’t do so adequately.

Those people [with thyroid hormone resistance] need a much higher dosage of

hormones —a dosage that would cause most endocrinologists to scream,

“You’re going to die of heart attack if you don’t get off that,†Dr.

Lowe explains. Why Lab Testing is NOT the Most Useful Tool for Diagnosing

Thyroid Disease

Unfortunately, many if not most conventional doctors do nothing but look at lab

test data when diagnosing thyroid disease, and typically ignore signs and

symptoms revealed by the patient, such as dry skin or hair loss or dozens of

other symptoms . Dr. Lowe and I often refer to these as extremist medical

technocrats.

However, Dr. Lowe says he’s noticed a revival of sorts of the practice to

listen to the patient; getting a list of the symptoms; looking at the patient

and touching them.

This can be particularly valuable in the case of diseases like thyroid disease,

which is littered with clinical symptoms.

The exclusive reliance on lab tests is actually NOT advisable in this case. In

fact, Dr. Lowe discusses why these tests may at times be completely useless for

diagnosis. For example, based on three decades worth of work in this area, and

two rigorous studies, Dr. Lowe has concluded that the traditional testing used

does not correlate with the far more powerful assessment of thyroid hormone in

your body, which is your basal metabolic rate.

[Guest guest]

Dr peatfield does yes and any other doctors that believe in RT3 will also

beilieve in thyroid resistance.

Steve

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> Hi all!

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> There is some great info on THR in the files section and

http://www.drlowe.com/.

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