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!
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...
