I need to run, but wanted to say I watched this, and it is pretty much what I have been telling my doctor all along. The thyroid is not the problem, it is a symptom. I think the meds they are giving me are not only incorrect, but I feel like they are actually bad for me.
More later!
I am beginning to suspect I have a similar problem, my metabolism is all over the place, when I come off a 4-6 day fast it takes a long time to get back up to speed. I am working through elimination starting with the gut bacteria, my gall bladder is sluggish I know, so thats next after boosting my gut bacteria.
The beginning of my health journey started with stomach problems. I’m vegan, gluten free, no soy, no alcohol, no tobacco, etc because of stomach problems. The thyroid problems developed much later. I do however, think they are related. I have no evidence, but I also think my liver and gall bladder are being affected.
Two words that most doctors do not acknowledge or diagnose…hashimotos disease
I think you can go a level deeper than that and say Epstein-Barr. Keeps em away like mosquito repellent.
One quick way to determine if it’s driven by anxiety is to either take a Xanax during the worst of your symptoms or have a shot or a beer. If you are freezing cold or having some weird symptom and either Xanax or alcohol fixes it then I’d say you probably have a bad case of anxiety disorder.
If taking a solid dose of Xanax doesn’t alleviate symptoms it’s likely not anxiety.
I recently had extreme fatigue and headache and some other mild symptoms and I thought I had covid. But .75mg Xanax completely resolved all those symptoms (imagine Xanax alleviating fatigue LOL). So stressed all the time because of covid and shit that it builds into even more symptoms…
It is crazy what anxiety can do sometimes.
That’s because they don’t have a treatment for it, but it’s all the same thing, a symptom of inflammation and disease somewhere, that is stopping your body doing what it needs to do.
Yeah stress causes cortisol release which messes up a lot of things, in fact cortisol and insulin resistance go hand in hand, and are probably the main drivers linked to all inflamatory disease in the body.
If you’re carrying any excess weight, you are becoming insulin resistant, this means your pancreas is over worked, and liver will be not working as well as it should, which means the gall bladder will be not providing enough bile to break down and digest everything properly, which leads to poor absorbtion of nutrients.
From my last 30 years of refining my diet, I am vegetarian, but eat dairy, and eggs l don’t drink much alcohol, and have been gluten free unintentionally for 9 months now on a keto diet, trying to understand why conventional calorie, control does not work.
I have learned just as with growing weed, everything is connected and an imbalance of one or more things affects everything else.
Your body like a plant will strive to do its best to keep the balance but it will fail somewhere at some point when the problem deteriorates any further and it can’t compensate. This is dis-ease meaning stress of a system. Depending on where that stress or inflammation developes most will cause that part of the body to malfunction.
Definitely not carrying excess weight. I’m 5’11" and 160lbs. Totally agree about the body being out of balance. It’s like my uncle used to say about replacing parts in old cars. Sometimes when you fix one thing, it puts a stress somewhere else and causes a different part to break. SO… this is a great segue into my experience the last several days.
I think I mentioned earlier I switched from Synthroid to Tirosint. Same micrograms. Well, I’ve been becoming really anxious. I’ve noticed my thoughts are racing and I’m having a really hard time focusing. It’s been nearly impossible to meditate, and I’ve been feeling my heart pound in my chest. My pulse is normal. I’ve been down this road before. They’re overdosing me again.
I went to the doctor 2 hours ago because my heart felt like it was beating too much. My blood pressure has been rock solid right at 120-125/70-75 for the last 6 months. They took my reading three times in 15 mins. In order it was 137/65, 153/75, 122,81. As soon as they saw the last number, they took the cuff off and said good, it went down to normal and said I was in range.
I asked them if I should be retesting my tsh levels since I was on a different brand of medication (hint, hint you should have done that 4-6 weeks of new meds, that’s what the web says). To which the doctor agreed that would be a good idea. I had to ask and be very persistent to get her to also test my FT3 which has never been done.
So the doctor told me that right now I am on the borderline of a thyroid storm. She wanted me to go to the ER right there. I told her I’ve been feeling this way for a week, I’ll be fine for two days until the tests come back. If I have any fluid in the lungs, in the legs, dementia, or more heart racing in the next two days I’m supposed to go to the ER. So I hear I sit because my doctor didn’t have the foresight, and I didn’t know, that I was supposed to be retested after changing brands of thyroid meds because different brands can absorb differently into the body. Needless to say, I’m not supposed to take the meds till they get the test results back.
Gotta love effin doctors. 
From what I’ve heard, generally doctors get taught about nutrition ONE hour in their entire education…
Anyway, let thy food be thy medicine.
EAT your organic cannabis (if you’re not one of those weirdo’s who don’t feel anything from edibles), I decarboxylate “au bain marie”, covered, for 3 hours. Eat one teaspoon a day, or more, as necessary.
Adding spirulina to your diet (in moderation, I eat only 3 to 6, max 9 tablets a day, before other food) will provide you with all essential amino acids, + non-essential ones, a whole array of vitamins and minerals, essential and non-essential. I notice I have more energy when I take these. (Marcus Rohrer brand, every other brand I’ve tried wasn’t nearly as good.)
Eat your mushrooms!
Turkey tail (anti-cancer), lion’s mane (anti-alzheimer, and helps nerves regenerate while strengthening them), shiitake, oyster mushrooms, etc… Amazingly wide range of benefits, see Paul Stamets for more info. Psilocybin ones also ofcourse. Perhaps microdosing could help too.
Virgin coconut oil (not the odorless bullshit, who came up with that anyway, wtf), very underrated medicine. A tablespoon a day, as butter or cook with it (much less chance of burning your food because it remains extremely stable when heated). Can be mixed with other oils like olive oil, no problem. Also rubbing it on mosquito bites takes the itch away instantely.
Dates + almonds, delicious, fiber, minerals…
Eat certified organic as much as possible.
Learn to meditate, it’s free medicine and the list of benefits is endless. Rather than thinking, observe your thoughts, emotions, body. That’s meditating, you don’t have to sit down with your eyes closed, it can be amazing, but it’s not for everyone.
Osho came up with over a hundred different ways to meditate, one of them is bound to work for you.
Affirmations work too if you keep saying them out loud every day.
"100% of my DNA is active, I am magnificent. I am healthy. I love my body. " etc. The key is to talk as if you’re in perfect health already, and to mean it, but not ignoring your current issues. Make up your own statements, have fun with it. Don’t use words like “I will” or “I want”, that only shoves your energy into the future, which is forever out of reach because all we have is the present. The rest is memories and imagination.
That’s all I got for now. I know it has worked for me for years now. Took me quite a while to figure it all out, and I still am. Maybe it will work for some of you too.
PS: also have more sex, or masturbate more. 
Amazing how fucking doc just gives you mind altering anti depressants without actually knowing whats wrong.
Sounds like life induced anxiety. Try heavy resistance training. Thyroid is usually a common scapegoat for people with chronic lifestyle induced illnesses
You might want to look at your B1Thiamin vit level, it controls 5 different enzymes in the body that control the sympathetic and para sympathetic or autonomic nervous system, it controls heart rate breathing and anxiety levels.
Most people are difficient in it. If you are and want to supplement it, get a fat soluble one it’s absorbed a lot easier, also use nutritional yeast , it’s high in all B vits and will keep the B1 in balance with the rest of the B vits if your using a big dose of B1. Or as Rogue suggests eat lots of mushrooms and yeast.
Thank you still feeling really disorientated, but I haven’t had to go to the ER yet. I take a Multicomplex B vitamin, C, D, and self made organic CBD everyday. I’m vegan, I eat organic, no refined sugars, no processed foods, no bread, no gluten, no soy, no alcohol, no tobacco, etc. I meditate regularly, do yoga, try to exercise when I have the stamina. I don’t eat mushrooms or spirulina, but I would try about anything (I’m very familiar with Paul Stamets). I constantly eat dates and pecans (I think I’m craving the selenium).
Still having trouble holding on to my thoughts. hopefully this will go away soon. I also have to keep putting my tongue between my teeth cause otherwise I keep biting down really hard and grinding my teeth. Big fun, no whammies.
Edit: Found this info on Thyroid. Kinda deep, but a lot of really good information about the processes:
Some possible flaws with some of the information, but overall seems to be pretty good imo.
Not totally topical but still interesting:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4mpxz9
Long story short people were getting too much hormone in their diets because local slaughterhouses weren’t removing the thyroid gland and dumped it into the ground beef.
Seems to be covering a lot more than the standard medical tests, doesn’t seem to address the problem that if the body cant convert the ts4 into what the body requires for proper function, it will not show as it’s not a thyroid problem but a thyroid hormone conversion problem, which is why the pharmacuitacles don’t help a lot of people.
At least they are taking notice now that there are other factors involved, which is a positive.
Yes, I agree completely. The other issue I have heard of is once they recognize it could be a conversion problem they will test for an enzyme. If you have the enzyme then they say it’s not a conversion problem. My brief reading suggests there could be other causes of non conversion to active T3. Again, I just had to argue with my doctor about even testing for T3. She told me they don’t base their medication recommendations on T3 results. Told her I don’t care and test me for it.
Tell her thats ok you don’t want her medication, you just want a diagnosis so you can treat yourself 
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Now for some alternative therapies, checkout youtube for throat chakra healing videos 
what exactly are your symptoms/issues? after all the textbooks, medical papers and random blogs ive read i believe that iodine supplementation can help or cure the majority of thyroid problems out there.
since ive been taking it for a few months most of my symptoms have resolved. im not cold all the time, my hair is growing back, my weight is stable. all for like 29 bucks lol
buy some lugols iodine from amazon or a health food store. take ~5mg worth of iodine (2 drops 2%/1 drop 5%) once a week. it will be obvious if this is beneficial, just do it weekly and dont start taking massive daily doses like some people reccomend. DO NOT take kelp supplements, only lugols solution or potassium iodide