As a child, my temperature was typically 96.8 instead of 98.6, but doctors ignored it, so I had undiagnosed hypothyroidism till I was 32. By then I was sleeping 12 hours a night and taking over 1000mg of caffeine to stay awake the other 12. I was working at The Colonial Press in Clinton MA where the Barnes book was printed in 1976. I had to work second shift because it took me three more hours to become functional after I got up. Normally, I could not read without falling asleep, but fortunately, a doctor had recently put me on "speed" (Dexedrine) and I was able to stay awake to read this book. OMG! I had three dozen symptoms of low thyroid, and no doctor had ever suspected it! I brought the book to my doctor and asked him to read it. He said he did, but then ordered the standard thyroid blood tests. I said, "But the book proved that the blood tests are useless, and that body temperature and symptoms are the only reliable way to diagnose and treat low thyroid." He replied, "Well, we'll give you the tests anyway."
According to all three blood tests, my thyroid was perfect, right in the middle of the normal range, so he would not give me a prescription. I went to several other doctors. One endocrinologist had a tantrum and threw me out of his office, but I finally found an old GP who was willing to try it. Sure enough, three dozen symptoms went away as my temperature came up to normal. Without that book, I probably would not have lived past 40. I'm now 79 and get by just fine on 6 or 7 hours of sleep a night. I can climb at least six flights of stairs two steps at a time without difficulty. I can squat so low I can touch my butt to the floor and pop back up again. As a senior electronics engineer, I can still do analog circuit design and printed circuit board layout. Earlier this year, I bought a microprocessor board and learned how to program it. I am still coming up with new inventions and writing the patent applications myself. I have deliberately eaten a high-fat high cholesterol diet since 1976 to prove the medical establishment wrong. My weight, my blood pressure, and my blood chemistry are all excellent. I am living proof that Broda Barnes was right and the rest of the medical has been wrong all this time. But enough about me.
The blood tests measure what they measure very accurately, but they are measuring the wrong thing. We don't care how much thyroid hormone is in our blood because that is not where it works. The T4 has to get out of the blood and into the tissues, be converted by an enzyme to T3, and the T3 has to get into every cell of our body where it binds with receptors on the mitochondria. There it controls the metabolism — that rate at which we combine food and oxygen to produce heat and energy. The only way to measure that is by body temperature. Our temperature is normally regulated to ±0.07%, the most tightly regulated variable in the body. TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) from the pituitary gland controls the output of the thyroid gland. The TSH blood test has a normal range of ±82%, which is almost 1200 times wider than the temperature it is supposed to regulate. Trusting such a test is ludicrous.
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