She Knocked Out Your Thyroid

I came down with severe laryngitis while hanging out with my girlfriend. As she was leaving, a chiropractor buddy drove up and they talked before she drove away. I whispered, “Hi,” to my pop doc friend, hoarsely telling him my voice went south, and I suspected it was about my girlfriend. “She knocked out your…

Melatonin vs Thyroid & Thymus

Mainstream Big Pharma beaker boys pretend they know a lot about melatonin. Melatonin research is geared to marketing, not facts. The real “melatonin miracle” is that so many people have been conned by the hype that this “miracle molecule” is age-reversing, disease-fighting, sex-enhancing, and sleep promoting. You say it makes you sleep like a log…

Very Low Thyroid Activity

According to Ray Peat … “The first effect of too much PUFA is to block the ability of the thyroid gland to secrete the hormone by breaking down the thyroid globulin. If the thyroid does manage to secrete it, the transport of it on proteins in the blood is inhibited in proportion to the unsaturation….

Thyroid the Super Gland

According to Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) … “The thyroid gland is a reflex of the ovaries, uterus, and testes.” According to Ray Peat (interviewed by Mary Shomon, Nov. 2000) … “The thyroid gland, which normally produces some T3, will decrease its production in the presence of increased thyroxine. Therefore, thyroxine often acts as a ‘thyroid…

Thyroid Body Language #4

Patients with hyperthyroidism may be argumentative. Edwin F. Gildea, M.D. (“Special Features of Personality Which Are Common to Certain Psychosomatic Disorders,” Psychosomatic Medicine, Sept.-Oct. 1949) wrote … “Patients with hyperthyroidism respond moderately well to supportive psychotherapy but present special resistance to attempts at psychoanalytic therapy. In contrast, most authors agree that a high percentage of…