RE: A sudden spike in TSH and LDL

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Dan,

What is her thyroid doing, T3, T4, Free T3 values? Maybe there is an iodine

issue as the mechanism by which the thyroid gland adapts to an insufficient

iodine supply is to increase the trapping of iodide as well as the

subsequent steps of the intrathyroidal metabolism of iodine leading to

preferential synthesis and secretion of T3. They are triggered and

maintained by increased secretion of TSH.

Dr D. Flechas states when talking about using

orthoiodosupplementation, " I have seen TSH sometimes go up rather than down

while T4 and free T3 did not change or may have gone up some. This does not

mean that the patient was developing hypothyroidism but that the brain was

stimulating the body to make more sodium iodide symporters (NIS). The NIS

are channels in the cell membrane that transport atoms into a cell as

compared to a calcium channel or a sodium channel or a chloride channel

where the channel only admits one atom to go through. The NIS transports

sodium iodide into cells and has been found in all cell lines tested so far.

Thyroid stimulating hormone, prolactin and oxytocin have been found to

stimulate the making of NIS . While taking iodide, one may see an elevated

TSH but we have to recognize that this is not a bad thing. TSH has many

actions outside the thyroid that have been discovered.

Just some food for thought?

Caruso ND

ston Mi.

Family practice

>From: <drdanielnd@...>

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>Subject: A sudden spike in TSH and LDL

>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:06:14 -0800 (PST)

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>I am treating a 70 year old woman for suspicious looking precancerous cell

>in her bladder and high urine lead levels. After several months, her lead

>levels returned to normal and examinations of her bladder revealed no

>abnormal cells. But now her TSH skyrocketed from 2.5 to 4.7 and her LDL

>rose from 135 to 247. Her Cholesterol/ HDL ratio is 7.6. She has been on

>1.0 grain of Armour thyroid for about a year. I have been monitoring her

>labs regularly. This spike in values was unexpected and sudden.

>

> She also has tachycardia which she has had her whole life (and HTN).

> She is taking Niasafe, Gugul-lipid, trace minerals, zinc, UNDA 8, 33,

>203 (on these her tachycardia dropped from 100 bpm to 80 bpm), magnesium

>taurate and fish oil.

>

> Any ideas on why the TSH and LDL jumped so high?

>

> , ND

> Klamath Falls, Or

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