The Metabolic Classroom, Ep. 3: How Thyroid Affects Insulin & Fat Cells 

Great suggestion. Thank you.

No. NOT weird. You can have all the T s h in the world But if you don't convert that to t three nothing will improve. That's what your doctor didn't understand. Hopefully he gave you west thyroid or armor or cytomel. Endocrinologist Are idiots for the most part

You would have to eat a LOT of salt. There is a higher and I mean , far higher mortality rate from eating too low salt than too much. The studies are not hard to find online.

Ken Berry and Kelly Hogan talk about taking lugols iodine drops. You can get a good idea of appropriate Supplementation by looking at that video

Right. If we supplement with iodine we can get the thyroid healthy and help with the insulin problem?

The problem is ben isnt technically studying thyroid.He isnt qual and thats why he doesnt expand. Its only his theories of the interactions. Which I hope will oneday soon be followed up. There has to be a way for big pharma and big agriculture to make money out of fasting, good fats...protein and low carb products. Then we will see change.

I could be wrong- but he said hypo has. More insulin receptors and make it difficult to break down the fat cells. Where as hyper have less receptors and don’t hold the fat.

sorry you have had to have such a big operation. hOPE YOU ARE RECOVERED WELL NOW. I was in the same place as you 18 months in now hyesterectomy 8 months ago. I found the operation itself, the hormone changes and the drugs used whipped me very quickly back into insulin resistance. I knew it because I had return this ugly dark brown stain between my legs which I now know you get from insulin resistance. Has TAKEN ME AWHILE but I have stayed the course and are reaping the benefits now. Keep with your routines....Your body has been through a lot and it will recover and start weightloss again when it heals a bit more .right now your still likely in recovery mode. xx

If your endo is changing your meds based on TSH only, especially with a normal free T3 and free T4… he or she is an idiot and you need a new endo. If you are on meds you have to titrate based on free T3 and free T4 NOT TSH because TSH just tells you what the pituitary is putting out to signal your thyroid to produce more hormone… if you’re using meds for your thyroid your pituitary is not going to be putting out TSH.

Too much thyroid meds. Your tsh indicates as much. There is a range of normal but everyone's body has s place it wants to be at. Your free t4 and t3 is measured against your oral dose. You can definitely go hypo to hyper. I had thyroid cancer so i have no thyroid and i am completely dependent on levothyroxine. If your liver is unhealthy or you take your meds wrong you can take high levo and still be hypo.

It probably is. Women like that seem to do better when they eat about 50/60 grams of glucose a day. Also maybe adding some kelp to food can play a positive role.

That is strange, as weight-gain is one of the typical symptoms. Do you have any of the other symptoms ( like being really tired and feeling cold ) ? Did you get subsequent tests or a second opinion ?

Yes, really strange. I will get second opinion soon. I dont feel extremely tired nor extremely cold, but yes more on that end. But I also have heart palpitations which is symptom of the opposite - hyperthyroidism... Before medicine T3 was slightly low and TSH in the upper part of normal range, T4 normal. After 6 weeks of taking euthyrox all normal. In OGTT test both fasting glucose and insulin normal, but insulin doesnt drop after 2h to below 25 but remains 38,5, glucose fine.

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Do you mind sharing your fasting insulin?

@@johnhogue9402 OGTT test, INSULIN (uIU/ml): fasting - 4,2; after 1h - 58,54; after 2h - 38,5. GLUCOSE (mmol/l) : fasting - 4,6; 1h - 8,9; 2h - 5,2. Also, maybe its important to emphasize that those are fasting results after 10 years of low carb diet, meaning very very rare intake of starches and sugars except from non starchy vegetables.

I have Hashimotos, and the trick is to go on whole thyroid gla*ndular. Thyroid meds are synthetic and does nothing for most people. Then going animal based carnivore, lowering carbs to a degree where you still feel good, but not hypoglycemic. NO starches, only fruit. Address nutritional deficiencies with food. Thyroid hormone production will not happen without enough selenium or zinc. Organ meat can cover this. Use cronometer to make sure you cover ALL NUTRIENTS. 25 pounds in 3 months lost so far. Digesting fat also helps in the metabolizing of insulin. Insulin desires fat to be balanced, but lipase is the enzyme which digests it, if you don't have sufficient lipase, you won't digest your fat and your insulin will not get any. If gallbladder isn't working properly, or pancreas isn't secreting sufficient digestive enzymes, (Hashimotos lack these enzymes), taking a digestive enzyme supplement of natural pancreatin will help. Insulin could also be influenced by a gut imbalance. Megasporebiotic is something I've been taking, the only probiotic that's been clinically tested and proven to work. Make sure oxalates are low, when I first started carnivore, crystals were coming out of my skin all around my thyroid gland. Oxalates may have also been our contributor to all these problems, not just insulin. Oxalates need to be dumped. Wishing you all the best.

Thanks, Cheryl, for your comment. There are a couple of resources for “working with your doctor” inside my free introductory course called, “Raising Your Insulin IQ for Improved Metabolic Health” that may help you. Just create a free Basic Membership on my website for access: www.insuliniq.com