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by Marilyn Shannon
'We can predict with a high degree of accuracy the most fertile time of our cycle, yet sales of expensive "ovulation predictor" kits continue to grow.
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But that's not all. I've been interested lately in two books by two different medical doctors who assert that the body temperature is a better indicator of thyroid function than any blood test you can take.'
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Tracy Tranchitella, N.D. and Kurt N. Woeller, D.O.
A research a few years back indicated that nearly 13 million Americans may be undiagnosed for low thyroid function. This is in addition to the approximately 20 million individuals who are receiving thyroid replacement treatment for hypothyroidism. Why the large discrepancy in diagnosis?
One reason may be inadequate testing for thyroid hormone levels, and the sole reliance by medical practitioners on these lab tests despite the individual’s specific health complaints. Just as important is that these numbers may are too high from the sole reason that too many people are diagnosed with a primary thyroid disorder, when the real reason for their low thyroid symptoms is due to adrenal gland exhaustion.
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Hypothyroidism is perhaps one of the most underdiagnosed of all medical conditions. Perhaps the sadddest fact of all is that those individuals fortunate enough to have been properly identified as being hypothyroid is the inadequate or unenlightened manner in which they are treated.
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The thyroid gland hoards its hormones, whose sustained action in our bodies is vital for our health. Their main functions are to increase metabolic rate and to increase the rate and strength of the heartbeat. Ordinarily, the levels of these hormones are tightly regulated, ensuring an even metabolic keel as we navigate life's turbulent waters. The levels can, however, go awry: overproduction leads to hyperthyroidism, and underproduction leads to hypothyroidism. The latter is more common; women are more susceptible than men, and in both sexes the incidence increases with age.
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SCH is an age-related disease. Its incidence in the adult population of the United States is estimated to be 4.3%; its prevalence is about 10% in women over 60 years of age, and somewhat less than that in men.1 During the century or so since SCH became recognized as a disease, most physicians believed that it did not require treatment, especially since its symptoms-if any-are so mild. Their lack of concern is giving way, however, to a newfound appreciation for the fact that SCH is a "stealth" disease whose long-term consequences, especially on cardiovascular function, can be severe.
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"... different views and practices from present as well as from the long past when iodine was vastly more popular as a medicine than it is today. For whatever irrational reason, doctors and patients fear iodine thus en mass do not use to its fullest potential."
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