Help With Blood Test Results

Death is upon you. :(

can you tell me all of the stuff you eat and drink. Do you drink out of plastic waterbottles?

Breakfast (as it's easy to make) is usually 3 eggs with a couple peices of toast and a bowl of grits well salted.

Lunch is usually some type of sandwich (fish, leftover whatver from last night, chicken) with some sort of veg. on it and maybe a sweet potatoe or squash with it.

Dinner is a meat (fish, chicken, or beef) with some sort of starch and a couple diff. veggies or a veg. dish and fruit.

Snack, post dinner is usually a couple heaping bowls of air popped Amish pop corn, maybe with salt or some fruit or veggie. Maybe have a little something between lunch and dinner/run.

Haven't used a water bottle since I've been home for the summer, used to mainly drink from the Polar ones at school (less washing to do).

Been eating really well, I think, esp. since summer started as both my mom and aunt are PhD's and into the whole 'whole/natural' foods thing--so it's not like I'm knocking back a mess of presertives/pesticides/etc.

try going gluten free and see if that helps with your thyroid and anemia. low testerone levels aren't uncommon with the miles you are running.

google Dr. Hyman's books or articles on improving thyroid function with supplements and diet.

did you have blood sugar tested?

don't eat soy products

Bump

Last one.

Maybe a bit more in the weekday crowd...

I had lowish blood readings when I got tested in early July after a mysterious and dramatic drop off in performance. I started taking iron supplements exactly a month ago and they definitely started to help by about the third week. I also cut way back on running and started on huge doses of vitamin D (which I was also very low on) at the same time. So there are lots of variables at work here, as there will be for you.

I can't speak to the time for efficacy of thyroid meds, nor the hormonal issues.

In the past month I've been eating iron rich meat at least three times a week (chicken liver, steak and dark chicken meat) and cooking a lot in cast iron.

Be sure to take your iron with vitamin C and don't take it anytime close to also ingesting calcium, which blocks absorption.

Hang in there. It will get better.

What did your iron panel look like (out of morbid curiosity...)? I think the testosterone comes back pretty fast as you put the patch on. Also the thyroid. Should make for great recoveries!! However, I'm a month in to recovering from very low ferritin and lowish h and h. I'm only starting to feel better now, and some helpful posters have indicated they took months to fully recover.

Here's a helpful link on diet that would help thyroid issues with diet, to go along with your meds:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/a-7-step-plan-to-boost-yo_b_247369.html

I agree about the vitamin D.

You can't get enough of that stuff. Apparently everyone in modern society is low.

I'm taking about 4000 IU per day, now that its summer and I get some sun.

It has a huge impact on thyroid function.

the pseudoscience being promoted in this thread makes me want to projectile vomit all over my computer and never visit the letsrun boards again.

You can read about the crank that Mark Hyman is here:

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=665#more-665

also, someone suggested drinking out of plastic bottles could be the source of your thyroid issue.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4060

You can search for real scientific studies yourself. I can guarantee you won't find any credible study that claims plastic water bottles f*ck up your thyroid, or f*ck up bodily processes for that matter.

hygiene wrote:

You can search for real scientific studies yourself. I can guarantee you won't find any credible study that claims plastic water bottles f*ck up your thyroid, or f*ck up bodily processes for that matter.

Do you find this recently published article about BPA absorption from water bottles and the sources cited within it (about the health risks of BPA) non-credible?

oops, here's the url

http://www.ehponline.org/members/2009/0900604/0900604.pdf

niarun wrote:

Here's a helpful link on diet that would help thyroid issues with diet, to go along with your meds:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/a-7-step-plan-to-boost-yo_b_247369.html

got to agree with the guy who is projectile vomiting on his keyboard.

this is the biggest bunch of B.S

the only thing that can help hypothyroidism is thyroxine. period. anyone who tries to tell you anything else is a quack.

the effects of bpa on endocrine function has been looked at almost exclusively in mice. Humans metabolize and get rid of bpa much more rapidly than mice, an important difference. Obviously, more studies need to be done on its effects in humans, but until then, I'll take my chances even tho I drink out of a nalgene anyways. However, you can be sure if it is shown to have a significant disruptive effect on endocrine function, the fda will ban it.

good idea! lets just leave it up to the fda. they would never let something bad enter the market?! Plus the companies that use plastic would never let these kinds of studies to alter production.

you stupid

the government was responsible for 9/11 too, right?

Yes, he's a quack. Its a good summary of common sense, however, which is why I linked to it. If you are low in zinc, selenium, d, etc. or are stressed you are going to have trouble. If you aren't, it won't do any harm. You still need to do the thyroid meds, however, no matter what the diet.

The d=thyroid link is in the peer reviewed literature.

The vitamin d deficiency is a no brainer. People sit in front of computers. We are wako about sunscreen. No vitamin d production. Plus, the information is from a peer reviewed article in nature, plus others.

Before calling psuedo science, do a literature review on pubmed.

There are also a couple of recent correlative articles in the sports medicine literature on d being linked to performance in endurance athletes. I'm not convinced, as there haven't been any double blind placebo studies yet, but it is interesting.

Plastic bottles made of polycarbonate may (may) have endocrine disruptive properties from the BPA (estrogenic effects). Best be safe and get another plastic until they figure it out. Regular water bottles (the spring water or whatever) and the standard squeeze bottles are fine. They leach chemicals in the water, but they haven't been shown to be trouble.

However, the BPA or whatever wouldn't show up as estrogen on a screen, so this cannot be the answer, as his actual estrogen is going up. Thyroid wig out.

I'm still curious about the Fe numbers, as I mentioned.

Thanks a lot for the replies thus far everyone. I never really thought about Vit. D, but I'll swing by Life Extension and get some today. Never really messed with the type of plastic bottle that had BPA, etc. in it--not because I really believe in or think about that...but mainly because it wasn't convienent.

google search xenoestrogens.