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Thyroid Issues? Low Energy Intake Triggers Low T3 / High rT3 Syndrome in Exercising Women >19kcal/kg LBM Avail. Energy Required. Low Carbing Worsens the Impact of ED

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It's not your thyroid, but your behavior that's to blame for your low T3 levels, the fatigue and being "unable to lose weight". If you exercised less and ate more, you could fix it without medical intervention or thyroid madness using Lugol's or other junk ;-) It's something I am facing on a daily basis - on Facebook, in Emails and private messages: Women with self-induced thyroid issue who wonder that their body does everything to conserve lean and fat mass. Women who are working out on a daily basis, dieting like crazy and (in their words) "still not losing weight". It does not take a thyroid expert to identify the reason for their problems: They are training too much and eating too little. Just like the 27 women in seminal experiment that was conducted at the Ohio University in the early 1990s. A study I am going to elaborate on in today's SuppVersity article, although I personally believe it shouldn't take experimental evidence t...
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Overtraining, Undereating & Self-Inflicted Hypothyrodism: Thresholds for Low T3 and High Reverse T3 Levels at 8% & 15% Reduced Energy Intake + Exercise After Only 4 Days!

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This is not a "woman thing" only and your T3 levels are not the only thing that's going to "fall flat" if you starve yourself through your workouts! Yep, low libido => low total testosterone => low free testosterone => hypogonadism, that's what we are talking about, guys. While I did promise to summarize some of the things, I said about creatine kinase, ALT, AST & Co on the last installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on the Super Human Radio Network (I will do that in a future blogpost), today's SuppVersity article will focus on a single and in my experience often misinterpreted and / or overlooked symptom of overtraining that I personally have encountered numerous times in both male and female trainees: Self-induced hypothyrodism , low T3- or the euthyroid sick syndrome are just a couple of names that have been used in the science and laypress to describe this peculiar result of the way trainees deliberately ruin their metab...
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