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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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