I did read sometime ago that someone who is level 2 diabetic found that she benefited better from her NDT once she had received the medication to regulate her blood sugar, and I certainly felt my blood sugar go sky high and slump after eating high sugar items.
Cut them out week and half ago and from the first morning felt a difference. Not a heavy, fuggy head and lots more energy.
Anyone else experienced this?
cc,
How wonderful that you have found this beneficial way of eating as healthy thyroid function depends on keeping your blood sugar in a normal range.
When you eat too many carbs, the pancreas secretes insulin to move excess glucose from the blood into the cells (where glucose is used to produce energy.)
When this is excessive the cells lose the ability to respond to insulin and the pancreas will pump out more insulin in an effort to get glucose into the cells, and so causing insulin resistance.
Studies have shown that the repeated insulin surges common in insulin resistance increase the destruction of the thyroid gland in people with autoimmune thyroid disease. As the thyroid gland is destroyed, thyroid hormone production falls and the patient becomes symptomatic ( even if medicating adequate thyroid hormone replacement)..
Equally as important is not to allow your blood sugar to go too low as this will stress the adrenal glands into secreting more cortisol (which tells the liver to produce more glucose, bringing blood sugar levels back to normal). Elevated cortisol can suppress the pituitary function which will affect how thyroid meds work.
Eating three regular meals which all include protein, low GI carbs & healthy fats will help balance blood sugar levels. If I get hungry in between meals I have a pea protein rich smoothie or a piece of fruit with protein in the form of cheese, nuts or yogurt. This will allow blood sugar levels to remain balanced and keep me feeling full.
Flower
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Thank you Flower 007. Also doesn't low cortisol mean that T3 isn't pushed into the relevant cells?
cc,
Low cortisol is the result from years of elevated cortisol and usually goes hand in hand with other issues such as gut dysbiosis and liver congestion.
A congested liver can't clear excess estrogens and so TBGs are increased. These are the transport proteins that inactive T4 attaches to and when elevated makes the T4 unavailable to the receptors.
T3 Uptake and TBG are inversely proportional so if TBGs are elevated then T3 uptake is low but I can't remember if cortisol is directly involved in T3 entering the cell ..... bit brain foggy today !
Flower
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Thank you Flower007, I certainly had v high cortisol for years, now I think that I have low during the day and high during the evening /night. I had a liver test reading of alanin transaminase of 70 (0-40).
here's an article by Dr Lam on Low thyroid function due to adrenal fatigue:
I've certainly been advised by private endo recently that I wasn't eating anywhere near enough (I am a Yoga and Dance Teacher and exercise around 6 hours a day and was eating only a small salad, tiny protein breakfast and a weenie evening meal and still 3 stone overweight) and that the resultant dip in blood sugar will obviously contribute to the way I have felt in the afternoons (knackered dot com). He advised protein shakes (though not a specific variety and I've yet to research this), nuts and seeds and keep eating every 3 hours. I can't say I've kept to that 100% perfectly but I've been a lot better on more NDT, less HRT and more frequent meals (plus a ton of extra supplements). He also advised Hymalayan Salt - 2 tsp per day which I'm sure has helped restore depleted salt levels from so much exercise...
Thank you healthunlocked5989, I tend to eat roasted peanuts throughout the day, though I think peanuts are not recommended for people with thyroid problems, but hazelnuts (or other nuts) are so expensive. I certainly think, especially with the energy you expend, you should eat regularly and enough protien. Goodness knows why your overweight, but perhaps you haven't been taking NDT for long, or need to increase your dosage?
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