| Please don't blame your doctors because thyroid | | | | rejecting the fetus after the pregnancy has gone |
| problems are difficult to diagnose. Lack of | | | | underway. This has happened repeatedly. |
| symptoms or normal tests does not mean lack | | | | Systemic enzymes like vitalzym is taken to |
| of problems. There are two main problems here: | | | | balance the body long before you get pregnant |
| 1. Underlying systemic low-grade inflammation: You | | | | which will make the fetus to progress to term. |
| must listen to your whole body because | | | | These proteolytic enzymes also clean out the |
| pregnancy put a lot of stress on this little | | | | blood. Life is in the blood. The blood is not just the |
| butterfly shaped gland below the Adam's apple. | | | | river of life; it is also the river of litters. Cleaning |
| Once your thyroid malfunctions, you must check | | | | the blood preserves pregnancy. |
| your other organs, too. | | | | You should also balance the thyroid with thyroid |
| 2. Specific thyroid gland pathology (hidden | | | | essentials put together by Swanson's vitamins. It |
| hyperthyroidism): Silently there may be low grade | | | | has all the vitamins, minerals, and herbs necessary |
| inflammation of the thyroid. Tests like TSH and | | | | to balance the thyroid. You must also avoid foods |
| T4 may be normal or even low and yet | | | | that are called goitrogens that hurt the thyroid |
| symptoms persist. I will explain why...because | | | | and make the hormones to misfire causing |
| that's your concern. | | | | hyperthyroidism. |
| Hormones are chemical messengers produced by | | | | You must balance not only the thyroid and its |
| ductless or endocrine glands in the body that is | | | | hormones but your whole body. Control |
| carried through the blood. Hormones are secreted | | | | inflammation by alkalizing your food. Eat organic |
| in one organ but exert their effect in another or | | | | foods to minimize toxins and acidic wastes that |
| distant organs or glands. | | | | create inflammation (the cells are on fire). |
| There are 3 main hormones that are associated | | | | Detoxify the liver, the colon, and the kidneys |
| with the thyroid. | | | | because these internal organs work together. |
| - TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) secreted by | | | | Take a baseline multivitamin like vitacost one a |
| the pituitary gland in the mid-brain; it controls the | | | | day. Please don't use the one that says "woman's |
| release or stimulation of... | | | | one a day" or centrum. These commercial, mass |
| - T4 (tyrosine) which is the major but inactive | | | | produced vitamins are synthetic, and are made of |
| thyroid hormone. T4 is usually converted to... | | | | petroleum products that create organophospates |
| - T3 (triidothyronine)--the active hormone causing | | | | which worsen inflammatory reactions. |
| all the trouble and which hardly picked up the the | | | | Fat loss is mandatory here if overweight is |
| tests. So when T3 is high, hidden and raging, TSH | | | | involved. By the way 15% of estrogens are |
| is suppressed (low levels). Yet T4 may be normal | | | | metabolized by the thyroid gland. Fat cells worsen |
| or even below normal. This solves your puzzle. | | | | the thyroid problems because they produce |
| Most tests and doctors miss this until it is too late. | | | | excess estrogens the release pro-inflammatory |
| It is interesting to know that the thyroid gland | | | | cytokines that provoke free radicals and pollute |
| regulate everything from your temperature, | | | | the immune systems. Antibodies powers healing |
| respiration, basal metabolic rate (weight control), | | | | and tissue repair and enzymes drive the train. |
| pulse/heart rate as well as fertility and libido. | | | | Therefore you also need multi-enzyme blend like |
| There is what we call specificity and sensitivity of | | | | nattokinase or serrapeptase. These are |
| a test. Where you may have false positives and | | | | proteolytic enzymes that eat away women |
| true negatives. Most thyroid function tests are | | | | fibrotic diseases. |
| not sensitive enough to pick up T3. Moreover, the | | | | You must eat whole foods to balance your body, |
| body is complex and enzymes are involved in the | | | | regulate the thyroid, combat inflammation, balance |
| making, packaging and release of these hormones. | | | | your hormones and mop up free radicals. This is in |
| I saved the first for last. You must control | | | | addition to prepare your body for fertility and get |
| underlying inflammation. Frequent m/c is found to | | | | pregnant. |
| be and inflammatory response. The uterus is | | | | |