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For example, doctors typically prescribe T4 only medications like Synthroid or
Levothyroxine that can easily lower TSH without actually delivering more of the right
thyroid hormone to your cells or improving your thyroid function.
The most important piece of the puzzle that you need to know is how much thyroid
hormone you are getting to your cells and simply looking at TSH alone is highly
inaccurate and leads to millions of people suffering with either undiagnosed or
misdiagnosed hypothyroidism every day.
Another reason why TSH tests are highly
inaccurate is that they are based entirely on
illogical reference ranges. Any lab test is only as
accurate to the degree that its reference ranges
are accurate. And there is a lot of evidence
surrounding the illogical reference ranges that
have been established for TSH.
The original TSH reference ranges were based
on the results of the Protein Bound Iodine test,
which was one of the many tests that have been
deemed entirely inaccurate and unreliable.
So, basing TSH reference ranges on a test that was proven to be inaccurate and
unreliable makes the results of the TSH test… inaccurate and unreliable at best!
2. Additional Thyroid Blood Testing
There are a number of blood tests available for measuring various factors related to the
thyroid hormone pathway including TSH, T4, T3, reverse T3, T3 Resin Uptake,
Thyroglobulin, etc.
One of the biggest benefits to additional blood
testing is that if you understand the physiology
and roles that all of these hormones play within
the human body, then you can begin to gain
some insight into what the potential problems, or
kinks, are that are disrupting your thyroid function.
However, they still do not answer the one single question that continues to elude
modern medicine even today, which is how much thyroid hormone is actually getting to
and being used by your cells.
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