What do you do now?
Does this scenario sound familiar:
You have been to your Doctor's office countless times. You have reported enough symptoms to make yourself wonder about your situaton. Your doctor tells you he/she will only listen to one symptom per visit. Lucky you, it should now only take you between five to fifteen visits to draw the picture of how you feel. Something to look forward to for sure. So, you start the unpleasant task of trying to convince your doctor that you feel awful. You feel tired, lethargic, gaining weight, cold extremities, water retention or edema, brain fog, uninspired, gas, bloating, etc. You are now up to five visits and your doctor is asking you about your marriage, your interests, telling you to go to the gym, get out more.... all exciting and novel approaches if only you could get up the energy to do any of them not to mention you have already thought of them a million times. However, you are not in a position of power to either access the possible pharaceuticals that could help or knowledge necessary to do the proper diagnosis. When your doctor has had enough of your challenging health condition, is baffled and unable to assist, yet equally unable and unwilling to admit it and goes on the invariable defensive and tells you it is all in your head, under no circumstances take the defensive/offensive comments of your doctor personally. In fact, laugh to yourself and continue to laugh. He/she is acting out quite likely out of defensiveness, not caring concern that you would expect. Next step, start your own path of knowledge. To follow is enough information, logically laid out to get you down the correct path and where you are headed.
We live in a world of epidemic thyroid problems. When your thyroid is underactive a myriad of symptoms will surface. Your thyroid, as I have said over and over again is the engine of your body. A lot of other systems in your body depend on enough fuel from your thyroid in order to properly function. When you start to run out of gas in your car, it spudders and starts to stall, so do you when your thyroid is not providing enough T3 fuel to your cells. Unlike your vehicle, you will start to spudder on many more levels.
Here are your best options to help yourself:
Your body will start to respond when you start to use Natural Desiccated Thyroid nutraceuticals or pharmaceuticals. Desiccated thyroid glandulars are a T4/T3 combintion. First ask your doctor to change your prescription from synthetic T4 hormone replacement to Natural Desiccated Thyroid replacement. Armour, Thyrolar or Parke Davis are some of the brands available. Your doctor should know, if he does not, call a local Pharmacist and ask what is available. Take that information to your doctor along with the pharmacy you can access it and get the change in prescription. Alternatively, if you live in the USA or in Mexico or any other country where you have access to trusted pharmaceuticals that you can purchase from a reliable source, order or access Natural Desiccated Thyroid and start to use them. Start with four capsules or grains a day. That would be 60 mgs X 4. One pharmaceutical thyroid capsule is 60 mgs. You need to start with four of them. Natural Desiccated Thyroid replacement has a very clear feed back system. When you take enough you will enjoy enough energy to enjoy the day or if you take too much you will over stimulate your body and you cut back by one capsule.
If you not under a Physician's care and believe you are trying to cope with the symptoms of hypo-thyroid go to Premier Labs/Canada and order the Thyroid Glandulars. Follow the directives. Along with the addition of Thyroid Glandulars, you need to attend to your nutrient intake. Remember everything starts from Diet Up. Gain the knowledge you need.
Contact Information:
Premier Labs/Canada
- www.premierlabs.ca or www.premierlabsllc.com
- Phone Number: 1-888-678-7145
They have offices in Canada and the United States
If you have questions feel free to email me with any queries. You can contact me @drjvaughan@healthchannelonline.com
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Buy Dr. Broda Barnes book: 'Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness' along with Dr. Barry Durrant Peatfield's 'The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Survive it'. READ BOTH. You will see Dr. Broda Barnes says very clearly that at four grains a day, your cholesterol will start to come down to healthy values. That is because high cholesterol is a condition of a low functioning liver which is a result of a low functioning thyoid gland. I have seen this process happen over and over again. If you take synthetic T4 you will continue to have high cholesterol and the next visit to your doctor's will likely result in a prescription for statin drugs. Just what you need, more drugs. Your doctor will not listen to your ongoing complaints associated with hypothyroidism because in his/her mind they have already treated you for hypo-thyroidism with the synthetic T4 replacement. If you are taking synthetic T4 replacement and you continue to feel lethargic and uninspired, your next visit to the doctor's will likely result in a prescription for an anti-depressant. You do not get the same results from synthetic hormone replacement to improve your energy or your outlook, but try and convince your doctor of that. He/She will tell you that you are already being treated for hypothyroidism and you must be depressed. You have felt great joy in your life and you do know what good health should be but try and get your doctor to either listen, understand or provide you with enough information and direction to get you back to a road of health. It can be like hitting your head against a brick wall. You are not so sure that you are suffering low thyroid or just tired from your attempts to get the proper care from your doctor. Now you are on statin drugs, an anti-depressant and synthetic thryoid drugs and likely a high blood pressure pill or diuretic. If you are on a diuretic you are probably also suffering legs cramps because diuretics or water pills are notorious for depleting vital minerals from the body. Part of the symptomology of low thyroid is water retention. That is because part of the function of the thyroid gland is to regulate water in the body. High blood pressure is largely treated with a diuretic with the expected result of getting rid of edema and lowering your blood pressure. If your problem includes water retention or edema, please carry on to the sensible approach below and look at your options for dealing with this very annoying problem. Individuals suffering from water retention generally feel sluggish, have swollen hands and feet and ankles, along with puffiness around the eyes or face. Swollen hands and feet in the a.m. and/or p.m. are the usually give away.
The only people getting satisfaction out of your condiition are the big drug companies. Why do we continue to believe they are on own our side of health? They are on the side of profits and keeping their share holders happy. Plain and simple. The scenario has many roads and bumps, all not leading to where you want or the health you deserve. Now you go back to your doctor because you can not lose weight. You go back because your hair continues to fall out. You go back because your skin is dry. You go back because you have arthritic pain. At the end of the visits you have enough drugs to support a small colony and you still feel terrible. No one has talked sensibly about other options.
Here is a sensible approach and my experience with my clients:
1. Again you need to switch your Thyroid Replacement to either Natural Desiccated Thyroid with T4/T3 combination or to Desiccated Thyroid Glandulars nutraceuticals. If you choose Nutraceuticals then be sure to search for New Zealand Glandulars. It is my experience that they are the highest quality. Argentina also has a high quality thryoid nutraceuticals. I would use it if I could not access New Zealand Glandulars. Sart with four grains or capsules per day, in the a.m.
In the a.m., upon rising, take 2 Plant Enzymes and four thyroid capsules. Do not eat for about fifteen minutes. This allows the glandulars to digest uninterupted and ensures better absorption.
If you have high cholesterol, read the information on www.westonaprice.org regarding other options for addressing this issue and whether this issue is a problem in isolation.
If you are lethargic, buy an excellent anti-depressant called SAMe. Source Naturals is a very high quality company where you can access SAMe. Go to their website www.sourcenaturals.com and search for a store near you or purchase online. Take one 400 mgs. a day in the morning. Follow the directions on the package. It is excellent. In my experience with my clients, their mood starts to elevate in a week to ten days.
If you have joint pain, first go to a hypo-allergenic diet which largely cuts out all processed foods and especially wheats and processed grains. Go to my website and follow the link to the IBS page and follow that approach to eating. It will correct the gas, bloating and contribution that bad eating habits contribute to your joint pain and fatigue.
You have no choice but to feed your body properly. That starts in the a.m. All the information you need is on my website in order to understand the concept of gaining control of cravings and starting the path to healthy eating. You do not have to avoid fabulous food, desserts, fun eating but you have to feed yourself properly. When you can put water and sugar in the car and drive it, then you can put unhealthy fats, processed foods and sugar in your body and expect to enjoy good health. Craving control starts in the morning. You will take the time to prepare simple and fabulous, easily digested foods in the morning and you will begin to reap the benefits of your efforts within a couple of days. Then you stay on that path.
Your body runs on a complicated series of nutrient molecules. The next time you hear anyone, including professionals, say that your nutritional intake has nothing to do with your health and you believe them, don't blame them for such a ridiculous comment, blame yourself for looking and being a ponzi for an excuse and justification not to change what you know is wrong. It is that simple. Believing a lie about feeding your body properly is not subject to interpretation or manipulation.
1. Use Life Extension Foundation for products. They are a remarkable company determined to protect your right to access nutraceuticals that are high quality. They are dedicated to protecting your right to access knowledge. Support them.
2. Use Source Naturals for your products. They also are a remarkable high quality company that you can trust for their determination to deliver biologically active products. They have excellent plant based enzymes called Essential Enzymes. Also use their Pancreatic Enzymes. They have an excellent SAMe. They also have a very good multivitamin in capsule form, always choose capsules over tablets
3. You need a green food. ProGreens is excellent. If you, like me, will not engage in mixing powders that the very look of is both unpalatable and slightly scary then buy their ProGreen capsules and follow directions. The usual daily requirement is 12 per day. That is 3 tablespoons. If you prefer to mix the powder, by all means do that.
4. You need a good probiotic. Start with Natren's Healthy Trinity. Take one a day for 30 days. Then take 1 every three days for another couple of months. This will ensure healthy population of Super Strain Probiotics. Eat yogurt as well. It is not any where near as effective as taking the Healthy Trinity but it will supplement and more important is one of the top 5 foods to consume. Choose organic, plain yogurt. Follow the direction on my web page on Nutrition 101.
5. You need healthy fat. Salba, hemp hearts and deep sea fish are excellent sources.
6. You need high quality protein. Yogurt, organic meat, poultry, eggs and diary are excellent sources.
7. Source Naturals has an excellent diuretic called Uvi Ursi Diuretic. It is a combination of herbs intended to nourish the urinary tract and kidneys while also regulating excess water in the body. It is truly an excellent product. It is rich with minerals and herbs to build the urinary tract rather than deplete precious vitamins and minerals from the body.
8. If Weight loss is a problem for you, go to my web page on Gaining Control: Healthy Weight Loss. There is enough information on that page to get you in the correct direction. If not, purchase the eBook I have written for a detailed approach. It is written in accordance with the Laws of Nature and natural physiology of your body. Easily followed and void of silly faddish nonsense, you will have the knowledge to lose weight and keep it off. You will also have the knowledge you need to get back on the 'wagon', if you stray from proper, healthy eating. That is the key to weight control. How often have you or someone you know lost weight only to regain it plus.. plus.. plus.. simply because they have used a 'fad' diet and have no tools for ongoing weight control.
This approach will start your journey back to health.
Read the recommended books. Go to the recommended websites. Follow the above directions. Do not take NO for an answer. Demand proper care and take action to ensure you are getting proper care by following the steps that will get you on that path.
If you have questions, do not hesitate to email me with them. I will answer your concerns.
Please also act with wisdom. Do not simply stop your pharmaceuticals. That is neither wise or helpful. Start with the proper nutrition. If you under a Physician's care, expect to be given the proper thyroid hormone replacement and that is Natural Desiccated Thyroid. If you Physician does not know how to work with it, ask him to become knowledgeable. That is not an unreasonable request. Bring them the books, if you must. If you are not under a Physician's care and believe you would like to work with the Glandulars, go to Premier Labs/Canada. You can order them online and follow the proper directions as outlined above. Remember that health starts from nutrient dense foods and that means from Diet Up.
Built a strong body. You have a life to enjoy. Enjoy the ride so drive through life in your Ferarri, not your Grandparent's Model 'T'
