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If you're on thyroid medication but it's not completely relieving your symptoms, you probably better watch this, and perhaps read this explanation as well (click on the "show more" link below to read the rest of this:

As I mentioned in my original movie ("Our Holy Miracle of the Infallible TSH Test"), I am a patient, not a doctor. Like many patients with hypothyroidism, however, I have had to learn a great deal about the endocrine system because my treatment simply wasn't helping.

What I have found is that there is a conspiracy of silence around another endocrine organ that can be the entire source of your misery: the adrenal gland. These glands sit on top of the kidneys and excrete a number of different hormones, but perhaps the most important of all is cortisol, and you would die without it.

Cortisol is commonly called the "stress hormone," because it rises in times of stress, and allows you to deal with it. It raises your blood pressure, increases gluconeogenesis (the creation of blood sugar out of fats and proteins) and reduces the inflammatory response, among other things. You would die without cortisol, but like any hormone, too much can be as bad as too little.

Cortisol turns out to be of special interest to thyroid patients, because strong evidence now shows that it is required for the conversion of T4 to T3, as well as for the subsequent activation of the T3 receptor. In short, you can't use your thyroid medicine without it.

If you have been through a great deal of stress or have weak adrenals for other reasons, you might not have enough cortisol to use your thyroid medicine. I was taking 3 grains of natural dessicated thyroid and couldn't tell any difference at all from going all the way up to 5 grains. My temperatures were still low, my neck muscles were still sore and I was still going home after work and dropping in exhaustion.

It was a long trek through 7 doctors, but I finally found one who gave me a saliva-based cortisol test and prescribed hydrocortisone. The very first day I took it, my body temperature snapped right back up to 98.6 (it hadn't been that high for 15 years) and my other symptoms of low thyroid began to subside. Astonishingly, I even *lost* a few pounds (I was afraid of exactly the opposite).

This is my attempt to get out the word, because most current doctors literally don't believe in weak adrenals, and there is no ICD (International Classification of Disease) code for the condition, which would probably be most accurately called hypoadrenalism if there were.

I highly recommend a book called "Safe Uses of Cortisol" by William MckJeffries for more about cortisol. For all the thyroid-related information you could ever hope to find in one place, StopTheThyroidMadness.com is by far the best site I have found.

For now, thanks for viewing my film, excuse the goofy humor, and I hope you find the information helpful!

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