How doctors utterly fail to treat thyroid properly
Cancer, heart disease and much more could be CAUSED by improperly treating thyroid, or not treating it at all. Here are the most common mistakes doctors make
There's probably nothing as poorly treated today as thyroid issues. Since the 1930s, it's been known that high cholesterol is a typical sign of low thyroid activity. Yet, cholesterol is treated with dangerous statin drugs, while thyroid issues are often ignored.
High cholesterol is the primary symptom of low thyroid activity.1
The usual way to test thyroid function is through a TSH test.
TSH is supposed to indicate whether someone's thyroid is too high or low, but the limit for showing low thyroid is set far too high.
A TSH of 4 or less is considered fine, but I’ve found that even people with a TSH of 1 can be low in thyroid function.2
When thyroid is treated, it's often done with only the storage form of the hormone, T4.
The problem is that many people are poor at converting T4 into T3, the active form of thyroid, also called triiodothyronine or liothyronine. To see real effects from thyroid treatment, you need some T3.
Sometimes, the monotherapy of only-T4 jams up the works and makes thyroid status worse.
T4 turns into rT3, which jams up the works, rather than into T3, which is what the body needs.
High rT3 can often cause atrial fibrillation and heart failure. Quick, do an ablation procedure and prescribe more dangerous drugs!3
Sadly, the news never gets out.
Instead, hundreds of thousands end up with needless heart failure and A Fib.
And the have heart failure and A Fib due to their health care. Their heart problesm are often caused by prescribing only T4.
And often, heart failure and A Fib (and cancer, see below) are caused by thyroid dysfunction — and this is untreated because the TSH test says “everything is okay”.
So, why are so many patients dying from heart disease including heart failure and A Fib?
They do not teach doctors to fix A Fib and heart failure with proper thyroid administration.
That’s why there are protocols that use only T3 because relying on T4 alone often doesn’t work.
Dr. Denis Wilson has developed a good T3-only protocol for patients who are not thriving on T4 only, or even T4 and T3 combined.4
Despite this, doctors continue to prescribe T4 without advising patients to measure their body temperature and heart rate.
Years ago, Dr. Broda Barnes treated thousands of patients by using temperature and heart rate as guides, and he gave them whole thyroid products, which include both T3 and T4.5
Compared to the Framingham study, which was being conducted at the same time, Dr. Barnes’s patients had almost no heart attacks, while the Framingham group had hundreds. All of Dr. Barnes’s work has been ignored because blood tests are now the standard.
Many of my students tell me their doctor says they’re hyperthyroid or euthyroid based on a blood test, but their body temperatures are only 96.5 or 97°F.
Your temperature should be 98.6°F or 99°F during the day, especially in the afternoon.
I see many students with temperatures 96F. or even 95F.
Low thyroid activity almost guarantees a higher risk of heart disease and cancer.
To ward off cancer, you need to maintain a healthy, higher body temperature. In fact, a high fever can sometimes stop cancer in its tracks.
And low body temperature encourages cancer. 6
But doctors will often say, “My patients aren't 98.6°F, they're 97°F,” and now 97°F has become the new normal.
Let me tell you, the new normal is low thyroid activity.
The new normal is people with high cholesterol and low thyroid, which is a very unhealthy combination. The new normal is having at least 2 chronic medical conditions.
But look: Instead of prescribing statins, doctors should be re-reading Dr. Broda Barnes’s books and using temperature and heart rate to find the right thyroid dose.
Unfortunately, no one is doing this because Big Pharma doesn't like thyroid treatments.
They don’t train doctors properly on it, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people are needlessly dying.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2133549/
https://academic.oup.com/ejendo/article-abstract/154/5/633/6695575
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151413
https://restorativemedicine.org/journal/reversing-hypometabolic-symptoms-by-normalizing-low-body-temperatures-with-sustained-release-t3-in-patients-with-euthyroid-tsh-levels/
https://www.thyroidopedia.com/post/dr-broda-barnes-history
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/thy.2005.15.1253