Few know that the Power Hormone of the body is Thyroid. It is generated from a gland at the base of the neck. Your body makes about a tablespoon of it a year. You have about 73 trillion cells that need to be driven to harmony and the proper speed.

The gland secrets the thyroid into the blood stream for transport to the cells. From there it enters the cells and works like that little guy at the back of an 8 man racing boat. Each must pull the oar at the same speed. Each must pull the oar at the same power. Each person on the team must be screamed at to catch up or slow down. If this does not happen the boat goes in curves. Power is wasted and if the pace is too slow, well they lose the race. Regulating this is the work of the thyroid hormone.

All doctors want to learn the symptoms of a disease to make the diagnosis. In low thyroid this is a hard job. There are up to 100 but there are Sixty five big ones. These symptoms change places and vary in many other ways as other diseases jump on the body. Here is a sampling: Obesity, un-responsive to diet and exercise. Cold or cool hands and feet, Puffiness, the kind that doesn’t go away when you push on it. Loss of libido, Dry skin, thin outer eyebrows. Mixed up thinking or what’s known as “brain fog” and then you have early gray hair.

In High School and University, I was a debater. We were required to make our arguments and assertions and then cite evidence of what we were saying. Here is a book that will do that and more Hypothyroidism Type II by Mark Starr MD. You can order it from my sight. I found my self very happy that much of my experience was being written there. As I spoke to friends they often suggested I write a book. After this book, Not now it says everything that I had already learned.

Now if one hormone can cause so much trouble if it is low, you should learn more about Thyroid and its general workings in the body. If you have low levels of it you are going to suffer. Next I want to give you some rules of thumb.

The bad news. Blood testing is poor and often misleading. Early on A test called the PBI was done. It turned out to be very inaccurate. Then tests for function of the gland when submitted to radio active dye was tossed out for lots of reasons. Then All were tested on over 100 known Low Thyroid Levels patients. None made the diagnosis. Oh yes one limped in and made it over the finish line. It was the TSH. Now on close comparison to the doctors who treat a lot of this disease, It doesn’t work well either. It finds some low thyroid levelss but most of us consider it too late and at the extreme expense of the vast majority missed. Suffering but just not enough to turn the TSH Positive.

There are daily contaminants in our water and food that are not tested for and yet block the complete functioning of this valuable hormone. Even if your TSH is normal, (the best thyroid test we have????) many chemicals block the thyroid function. If they don t totally block the hormone they slow it and blind any effort to make a solid diagnosis.

What to Do? Learn about the body temperature and its major signal to low thyroid. Take your under arm temp with a glass thermometer for 10 days and see if it is above 97 degrees. The mountain of evidence proving this is an accurate test in Dr Starr’s book. Or you can follow the directions to point you on a successful finding of your diagnosis in this and other of my blog materials. View my Videos presentations on thyroid diagnosis and the importance of Iodine.

Looking to learn more about Low Thyroid Levels? Then go to Dr. Howard Hagglund’s site at http://hagglundmd.com to learn about a Thyroid protocol that actually helps your Low Thyroid Levels