TSH - A Critical Re-Evaluation of Its Non-Significance: Why Your TSH May Tell You Nothing About Your Thyroid Health
Symptoms of hypo- and hypothyroidism (figure from youngstershub.com) In previous articles about overtraining I've already touched on the possibility that training too much and eating to little can put you into a state where your TSH levels are low, even if the same goes for your free T3 and free T4 values. Normally, your hypothalamus should correct low levels of the two active thyroid hormone T3 and T4 by increasing TSH. This physiological up-and-down is what doctors use to diagnose hypo- and hyperthyroidism by measuring TSH and in many cases only TSH - text-book practice, but still questionable against the background of the latest science. Learn more about your thyroid , T3 , and T4 at the SuppVersity Green tea messes w/ your thyroid hormones Overfeeding affects thyroid hormones Fructose prevents decline of T3 while dieting T2 has thyroid-suppressing ef-fects as T3 & T4 Dieting makes you "hypothyroid" - temporarily Levothyroxine may not b...