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Well first off, you shouldn’t trust doctors. Historically, as a profession, they have collectively done enough to earn everyone’s distrust (to put it mildly), from things like the Tuskeegee and secret radiation experiments, to performing electro shock and lobotomies. The current crop isn’t any better, with their loyalty to dangerous pharmaceuticals, and other procedures. I’m sure you can give plenty of your own examples.
As for tests for Thyroid, Peat recommended pulse and temperature. A low waking body temperature, for example, is a good sign that you might be hypothyroid, and can benefit from thyroid supplementation. Symptoms like cold hands and feet, weight gain, and brain fog can also be signs. Common labs that can be useful include TSH, Free T3 and Free T4, although Peat didn’t think much of the idea of “Free” hormones.
Levothyroxine is just pure T4, which is more like the “storage” form of thyroid. It can have some benefits, but many are hypothyroid because they have problems converting T4 to T3, so would find little to no relief from Levothyroxine. Something like desiccated natural thyroid has both forms (and other forms like T2 as well), so many find that to be superior. I think there is also some benefit to taking a mix of both synthetic T4 and T3 (like you can find in Idealab’s Tyromix), I think either of those is superior to taking T4 alone. Some even find T3 only useful, although I have heard it can be dangerous, I think especially at higher doses in the long term.
Ultimately, a trial of either desiccated thyroid, or a T4/T3 mix would be the best test. It would probably have to be done over the span of a few months, as it seems to take longer for some symptoms to improve. Also, it would be wise to read about traditional dosing schedules, like Broda Barnes used, you don’t want to flood the body with excess thyroid hormone too soon. It would be best, of course, to do this with a knowledgeable and competent medical professional, but those seem to be very hard to find.
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Zack-Vegas.