Hidden Cause #1 Why You Still Have Thyroid Symptoms

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Today I’m gonna be starting a new series called, “Why Do You Still Have Thyroid Symptoms When Your Thyroid Numbers Are Normal?” There are millions of women walking around right now, and men, that have low thyroid symptoms.

Now, the number one cause of low thyroid in America is an autoimmune attack-- but I’m not even gonna talk about that.  That’s called Hashimoto’s.  I’m gonna talk about one of the published patterns in the research for why you still have thyroid symptoms, and that pattern is due to a deficiency in serotonin.

“What? Serotonin has something to do with thyroid function?” 

Yes, it does, and it’s pretty complex but I’m gonna give you the players. 

There’s a place in your brain called the hypothalamus.  There’s something in there called your periventricular nucleus.  This is real science. It's crucial for you women and men that are still suffering with thyroid symptoms, even though your thyroid labs look normal and you’re taking thyroid hormones...but you still feel crappy.

So this hypothalamic periventricular nucleus is acted upon by serotonin in the central nervous system and what it will do is make you have low-thyroid stimulating hormone.  Now, I’m really not gonna go into the pathways more than that, and the reason I’m telling you that is I would be shocked, if any of your doctors you’ve ever seen for your thyroid condition have ever known about this factor

See, taking thyroid hormones for this problem-- this serotonin problem-- is not going to do anything for you. It's not going do anything for your thyroid symptoms. 

Youur labs will look normal and pretty soon you’re gonna get labeled "crazy", or depressed...

And maybe you need to just go ahead and take an anti-depressant (NO!)...and the thing is when you take the anti-depressant you might actually feel better but not because you were depressed. Because some of those anti-depressants have effects on serotonin. See the connection?

Now, the biggest influence on Serotonin is blood sugar.  Blood sugar regulation is the one thing, that determines whether you’re gonna make serotonin in your brain or not. 

So that means you need to have regular steady glucose, not up and down glucose...you don’t need to be hypoglycemic...you don’t need to be insulin resistant. When your blood sugar is up and down like this you can’t make neurotransmitters like serotonin efficiently ---which means serotonin can cause your thyroid gland to malfunction. And you end up with thyroid symptoms like these:

    * Tired, sluggish
    * Can't lose weight even with exercise
    * Feel cold—hands, feet, or all over
    * Require excessive amounts of sleep to function properly
    * Increase in weight gain even with low-calorie diet
    * Gain weight easily
    * Difficult, infrequent bowel movements
    * Depression, lack of motivation
    * Morning headaches that wear off as the day progresses
    * Outer third of eyebrow thins
    * Thinning of hair on scalp, face or genitals or hair loss
    * Dryness of skin and/or scalp
    * Mental sluggishness
    * Nervousness and emotional
    * Insomnia
    * Night sweats

And you have thyroid symptoms, even though your labs are "normal."

The best way that you handle that problem, by the way, is don’t have a blood sugar problem. 

• Don’t skip meals
• Don’t eat and drink crap

That’s a pretty simple solution.  I’m making it sound simple; obviously it can be more complex than that.

In fact, I think that’s probably where I’ll stop today because I realize that this is maybe new information and you’re kind of wondering, “Gosh, I’ve never heard about serotonin and the thyroid gland before.” 

This is real science--I"ve been kind of harpy on that point lately. This is evidence based medicine.

"Evidenced based medicine", by the way, is really prejudiced based medicine because if your evidence isn’t our evidence then we don’t believe you.  Well, they can believe this because it comes straight out of basic science research which is serotonin, low central nervous system serotonin can impact low thyroid function.

So that’s hidden cause #1....and one reason why you can still be having thyroid symptoms even though your labs look normal. 

And with this information perhaps you can get plucked out of the wilderness that is thyroid hormone disorders, because my goodness, they are mismanaged and misunderstood.

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Comments

[Darren]

I read that there are about 59 million Americans with a thyroid problem,not including the rest of the world that's alot of people. the scariest thing I read is that most of them don't even know it. I could be one of those people so is there any self check I can do on myself to find out if I suffer from an unhealthy thyroid?