Thyroid Stimulating Hormone ( TSH ) Testing
I ’ m in no way saying that you should not trust your doctor . However , the days of simply placing your health into your doctor ’ s hands are over .
Today , we have to take our health into our own hands and become educated so that we can make the right decisions for our health instead of relying on a failing medical system .
I mentioned previously how the standard thyroid testing used today is leaving millions of people undiagnosed , but even that is only scratching the surface of why standard thyroid testing is so unreliable today .
Let ’ s discuss some of the shortcomings of the most widely used thyroid test today .
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone ( TSH ) Testing
The TSH test is what most medical doctors use to diagnose hypothyroidism today . As I mentioned previously , this test is based on grossly exaggerated “ normal ” reference ranges that have led to a chronic under-diagnosis of hypothyroidism .
It ’ s not only a matter of bad science , but bad math as well . The first established “ normal ” reference ranges for this test were statistically established so that only 5 % of the population would fall outside of the normal range and therefore be diagnosed with hypothyroidism . They forced the reference ranges to fit their false belief that only 5 % of the population suffered from hypothyroidism .
Based on prior decades of confirmed diagnoses it was widely understood at the time that hypothyroidism affected as much as 45 % of the population . Although that is a big part of the problem , it is really only part of the problem .
There ’ s a whole other piece of the puzzle that gets completely overlooked when relying entirely on TSH measurements alone .
Imagine again , if you will , that you ’ re trying to fill a bucket with water from a kinked garden hose . Because the hose is kinked , no water can flow through the hose to fill your bucket .
Regardless of how high you turn up the water pressure , the water can ’ t get past the kinks in the hose .
TSH is really just a measure of the water pressure . When your cells need more thyroid hormone then TSH generally rises to increase the flow of thyroid hormone . But if there ’ s a kink in your thyroid hormone pathway , then you still won ’ t be able to get thyroid hormone to your cells , regardless of your TSH level .
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