Understanding your thyroid is pertinent to both weight and health. While this article is from 2016, it revamped the way I think, to my great benefit. So I wanted to share.
Guess what?
Italics mine. Because there's no "might be" about it. My first bout with modern endocrinology was me having a menopause from hell and them insisting on Prozac. I had to shoot fire out of my eyes and declare "I have hormone problem and I want a hormone solution." So then they gave me artificial hormones, which stopped working because my body is like that. (I suspect it somehow knew these weren't good for me, and stopped responding as a survival tactic.)
I always tested "fine." Now I know what that means.
In short,
jack-squaticil.
The crux of the whole thing is here:
And you wonder why we are all so incredibly sick?
How fast would be bounce back from a head cold if we were sent to a Soviet gulag as a "cure" and kept drunk so we wouldn't notice? That's the science of symptom repression which is the INVERSE of actual healing.
They NEVER did that. And it turns out
chronic stress alone has an inhibiting effect on the workings of the thyroid, and in ways that will not show up on a lab test. I'd had so much stress, for so long, I actually had cortisol resistance. And, as Dr. Jack Kruse says, "the next stage is death." Sure felt like it sometimes.
Instead of wrestling with the clueless state of thyroid treatment, and since I'd never considered suppressed thyroid, I started taking Raw Thyroid. It is micronutrients and a bit of actual T3, somewhat like Armour (real thyroid from pigs.) It has been amazing; sleep, healing, and concentration all improved.
And I had no idea.