Des Linden reveals she had "thyroid" problem before 2018 Boston Marathon win

That’s correct. Not sure why there are downvotes for this. And to add to this. Someone said that you’re fine if the TSH is up to 5.0. That’s not true. The upper range has been reduced to 4 in most certified labs. But.. the more critical factor is that the value is very specific to each individual. Some are euthyroid at 1.5/2.0 others maybe at 3.5. If the individual starts trending upwards but is still at the “normal” upper limit they may already be hypothyroid. You really need to stay on top of it if you are feeling the symptoms and get treated if necessary.

I heard her discuss it on the Rogue Running podcast. She sounded convincing, and her story of serious medical necessity should be verifiable.

So you are arguing that one form of medical condition is the same as any other. Now we have established you have no medical expertise.

Yeah crazy hey, you would think that biking up to 35 hours per week next to diesel trucks, cars and in dry mountain air would not cause inflammation of the lungs at all.

It also bugs me when 100 mile a week distance runners whine about inflamed achilles tendons, plantar fascia, hamstrings, and pop NSAIDs like candy. Why can't they run though the pain, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, brah.

Does she have low L-Carnitine also? I heard that they go together!

The TSH Range makes this whole thread. The concern for fair sport is that an athlete is taking an exogenous synthetic hormone to be at an optimal level for fats, carbs, red/white blood cells metabolism.

If this TUE for thyroid is allowed then why stop there? If the range for Testosterone is 500-900 then those at 600 should be obligated to cycle exogenous testosterone hormone to manipulate into optimal 900.

Thanks for posting this, I'm with you Cantfakeit.

I've been on the thyroid meds for 25 years and am now retired from running. I think it hit me in my early 20's and concurrently the asthma (exercise-induced) came along with it. When all of this hit, I felt very weak and went from peak running fitness to wondering what the hell was going on with me. I got back on track but never had the thyroid issue diagnosed until much later.

It hit my daughter as well after she ran and trained hard in high school and college. I believe many people are undiagnosed.

This is very valid point. From her description in the book, her thyroid hormone wasn’t at the lower end, it was dangerously low and close to myxedema levels. I wouldn’t know, of course, but I choose to believe her.
The whole point of a biological passport is that it follows each individual’s normal variation so a deviation from that PERSONAL pattern would trigger alarms and possible bans. If someone’s testosterone level always fluctuates between 500-600, then suddenly in an Olympic year it’s 750-850, they’d get caught.
In her book, Kara Goucher mentioned that during the NOP investigation, Tyggart told her he thought that Mo and Galen’s testosterone levels varied in a WAY too suspicious pattern, but not enough to trigger the BP violation. Makes the ‘Salazar experimenting on his son’s testo levels with cream’ story very suspicious.

These synthetic testosterone (cypionate) form would be detected? If not sport has a long way to go as you could always time things on/off with labs and the half life of cypionate.

DHEA is an over the counter hormone precursor that is banned. The whole action of this hormone is that it reduces SHBG and recovers testosterone because it works with pregnenolone (not banned) if DHEA is high you'll in theory have no restrictions to DHT, preg, hcg, etc and naturally have cycled or recycled high testosterone because there's no restrictions.(diet, sleep, exercise optimal)

If a hypo/hyper is always at an optimal TSH because if exogenous synthetic hormone then why the double standard?

I wonder why a friend of mine who was an elite runner on the track has so much trouble despite being on meds. He's in his mid-50s now but weighs between 50-60 pounds over his 120 pounds race weight. Some of these other elites I see racing are still tiny race weight sizes.

Years ago, he was given meds after an accident and his body has never been the same. He has autoimmune. He has Hashimoto's (I've also seen it written as Autoimmune Thyroiditis). It set off something else too (maybe MS or Lupus or something because he has weak balance and sometimes tremors a little). He is very heavy with water retainment. It seems much of his extra size and weight is from the water retainment. One week ago today, we talked in person while running and he said he had been to the endocrinologist a few days before and was offered testosterone injections. He said he would think about that but doesn't like taking synthroid and cytomel as they don't seem to do much for him at all because of his shape.

Speaking from personal experience as an uninsured student at a clinic, I was dx hypothyroid and my blood was then sent for antibody testing to rule out Hashimoto's/autoimmune thyroiditis. Which the labs confirmed. Nobody had to push anybody for further testing to get the right dx. And I wasn't even a pro runner. Go figure.

We are all watching Ritz closely due to this fact. Another burrito club in the making for sure