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5 Safe Ways to lower blood pressure and support your Thyroid by Tom Brimeyer founder of Forefront Health.

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7 years ago•12 Replies

When elevated, aldosterone works to re-absorb and retain sodium while wasting potassium in the process.

This loss of potassium actually causes your arteries to constrict, increasing your blood pressure.

Elevated aldosterone also promotes both inflammation and edema (water retention), and suppresses your metabolism.

All of these further promote hypothyroidism.

To regulate both water balance and blood pressure, you must regulate aldosterone.

Aldosterone rises in response to many things including:

Sodium Loss

Elevated Parathyroid Hormone (via low calcium)

Hypoglycemia

Estrogen Dominance

Elevated Serotonin

Bacterial Endotoxin

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shaws7 years ago

Thanks for posting and am sure it will be helpful to those who have problems with their blood pressure.

MoonbeamXX17 years ago

Thank you for posting about this link. It's very interesting and informative; does it resonate with what is going on with you?

I fit quite a few of the very specific symptoms and looked to see what he suggests to attempt to improve your particular situation. He is talking mainly however about lowering high blood pressure when I'm one of the ones whose body 'compensates for the untreated hypo' by lowering my blood pressure.

He mentions one of the indicating factors as being 'elevated parathyroid gland' - definition below:

Parathyroid gland: A gland that regulates calcium, located behind the thyroid gland in the neck. The parathyroid gland secretes a hormone called parathormone (or parathyrin) that is critical to calcium and phosphorus metabolism.

I remember having tests for this around 30 years ago (I'm almost certain it was this but I'd have to have access to my medical records to be absolutely positive): the reading was off the top of the range - result?

Nothing done whatsoever; they were satisfied I didn't have a tumour on my pituitary gland so I was sent off to deteriorate........

mourneadventurer• in reply toMoonbeamXX17 years ago

Appalling that as you say so many of us are sent off to deteriorate!

I thought this schematic might be useful for others as It took me ages to figure out about the “aldosterone steal” and gradually put the jigsaw together. Challenging bradycardia focussed my attention and I’ve since been reinstating electrolytes and replaced T4 monotheraphy with a T4/3 combination. A reverse T3 Test was very high so I’ve now slightly increased the T3 to clear the backlog.

The key question is why did this happen and I’m now going after the culprits.

Have you ever been checked for H Pylori?

MoonbeamXX1• in reply tomourneadventurer7 years ago

Hello mourneadventurer

It's funny you should mention H Pylori - I've just been reading about gut bacteria and the bad ones that can seriously affect you. I didn't however feel I met most of the symptoms you supposedly get when you have this particular bug......

No, I haven't been tested for it; I'm afraid I don't really visit any GP because of the monstrous ways I've been treated over the years.

The thing is; their dismissive, arrogant strategy worked a treat and I don't cross their doors and therefore I haven't had any tests of any significance done for me (the only proper tests I had done were when I consulted Dr Peatfield. They showed advanced hypo and severe adrenal insufficiency).

Again you are mentioning electrolytes; I instinctively feel I have a problem with them, also have abnormal water retention and low calcium (my teeth have cracked in half several times - I'd do a 'smiley face' with no teeth here if I knew how to do it! Though not really funny; luckily the teeth were at the back of my mouth).

Did you have an issue with your blood pressure and which was it?

mourneadventurer• in reply toMoonbeamXX17 years ago

I emphasise with your sentiments!

I mentioned H Pylori as a lot of the population have it and don’t know. Insidiously it alkalises our stomach acid and therefore sets us up for dybiosis, occult pathogens, infections and leaky gut. Surprisingly H Pylori can also be found in the parathyroid.

Biofilms the protective coating of these unwanted guests are made up of our calcium and magnesium and other minerals so our own immune system can’t annihilate them. That along with trying to neutralise the toxins given off by these nasties diminishes our minerals.

I was on T4 only for so long, unknowingly not converting properly to T3 (heterozygous Deiodinase 2 enzyme) and occult gut infections which I knew nothing about! Left me with a suppressed immune system and challenging bradycardia. The latter I linked back to my adrenals as my blood pressure wasn’t normal.

I think we should all go back to the wisdom of our ancestors and do a parasite cleanse and remineralise twice yearly!

thyr01d• in reply tomourneadventurer7 years ago

This is so interesting. I wonder if H Pylori could be the cause of discomfort and pain in my throat and neck area with no infection or other detectable cause. Seems likely as I just read an article about low stomach acid allowing the unwanted H Pylori to thrive. Thanks

mourneadventurer• in reply tothyr01d7 years ago

Perhaps worth investigating? Recently for approx 4 weeks I used an Emser salt and nose wash system. Putting the nose wash in alternating nostrils every morning. I used the stronger salt concentration- It was really good and stopped an irritating post nasal drip that sometimes even woke me up whilst sleeping.

After a 24 hour loading Iodine Test I discovered that my Iodine levels were very low and started to supplement along with Selenium. Other minerals and vitamins including vitamin C and zinc were added after testing and thankfully my throat doesn’t hurt.

H.Pylori is a spirochate and burrows.

I guess we just have to make unwanted guests feel unwelcome..

thyr01d• in reply tomourneadventurer7 years ago

Aha, I'm a yoga teacher and teach a practice called neti which is similar, the salt water is very gently drawn up through the nostrils and allowed to flow all around the 'inner tubes' and finally makes it's way into the mouth where we just spit it out like toothpaste. This practice should not be done with high blood pressure though.

MoonbeamXX1• in reply tomourneadventurer7 years ago

How did you get tested for H Pylori? Did your GP do it or did you have a private test and how is the test facilitated?

FYI - I mentioned leaky gut to a GP about 20 years ago now and was told it was 'not possible' to have a 'gut that leaked'...…..

It makes me so angry sometimes. It seems that in trying to solve the riddle of my illness; that I have been light years ahead of the dumb, but superciliously arrogant and dismissive, medical profession I was unlucky enough to consult.

mourneadventurer• in reply toMoonbeamXX17 years ago

My understanding thus far is.

The gut wall is only one cell thick and this is easily disrupted and

physically damaged by parasites, mould, yeast, pathogens leading to gut permeability or leaky gut. Also approx 80% of our immune system is based in the gut as our first line of defence. Hypothyroidism knocks out our Hydrochloric acid in our stomach (amongst other things) then proteins, fats and carbohydrates don’t get broken down properly to be absorbed. This subsequently leads to the gall bladder and pancreas not draining properly to keep small intestinal bacterial, and mould overgrowths in check.

That is we end up retoxing ourselves! The biofilms used by these pathogens utilise our magnesium, calcium, zinc, iron etc and we become deficient and replace those minerals with whatever iwe are exposed to which invariably leads to heavy metal toxicity such as mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium.

The best test I’ve had to identify unwanted guests in the Invivo GI map test.which identifies the RNA of bacteria and parasites from a teaspoon of stool sample.This has to be read by a practitioner as it needs interpretation. A Functional Nutritionist would be able to Interpretate results. Pm me or contact ThyroidUK for a name.

MoonbeamXX1• in reply tomourneadventurer7 years ago

Hello mourneadventurer

I would very much like to PM to find out more about how you have helped yourself; thank you for the offer.

It's interesting that so much of your findings are related to gut bacteria and pathogens. This is what the protocol suggested by the Medical Medium is based on; he suggests that our thyroids are not 'underactive' at all - they are 'simply' overpowered by the germs/viruses we have stored in our bodies.

Reading reviews on Amazon about his books; some people have overcome decades of very serious and debilitating conditions by adopting his protocol regarding what you should and shouldn't eat and the supplements/adaptogens he suggests to pinpoint specific pathogens.

I started a thread on here to spread the word about this, in my opinion, valuable source of information; because information is power - you can read it and dismiss it if you don't feel it's the way for you but at least you have become aware of it in the first place!

mourneadventurer• in reply toMoonbeamXX17 years ago

Testing has guided me on this journey. It’s been like peeling back onion layers. My personal experience has been to keep digging and time will tell if the root cause of my hypothyroidism, bradycardia, arrhythmia has been heavy metal and toxin exposure in tandem with a plethora of unwanted guests not annihilated by my suppressed immune system. These unwanted guests have most certainly altered my mineral and vitamin status which I’m currently reinstating.

Thanks for the heads up regarding the Medical Medium I haven’t read any of his books yet.