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Starting Testosterone with Low Iron and Ferritin
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<blockquote data-quote="Nelson Vergel" data-source="post: 17738" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Welcome to ExcelMale.com, Mrk.</p><p></p><p>I am glad that you found another doctor. What a moron who could not even read the package insert for testosterone cypionate! It seems that you may be on your way to better care.</p><p></p><p>I would get free T3, free T4 and reverse T3 measured since your transferrin and iron are on the low side. <a href="http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ferritin/" target="_blank">http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ferritin/</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>"First, though the slide into low iron can be symptomless, it eventually becomes the precursor to being anemic, revealed by the other iron labs&#8211;saturation and serum iron. And once the latter occurs, you can then have symptoms which mimic hypothyroid&#8211;depression, achiness, easy fatigue, weakness, faster heartrate, palpitations, loss of sex drive, hair loss and/or foggy thinking, etc, causing a patient to think they are not on enough desiccated thyroid, or that desiccated thyroid is not working. Excessively low Ferritin as well as low iron can also make it difficult to continue raising your desiccated thyroid, resulting in hyper symptoms when raising desiccated thyroid.In turn, having low iron levels decreases deiodinase activity, i.e. it slows down the conversion of T4 to T3. Biologically, insufficient iron levels may be affecting the first two of three steps of thyroid hormone synthesis by reducing the activity of the enzyme “thyroid peroxidase”, which is dependent on iron. Thyroid peroxidase brings about the chemical reactions of adding iodine to tyrosine (amino acid), which then produces T4 and T3. Insufficient iron levels alter and reduces the conversion of T4 to T3, besides binding T3. Additionally, low iron levels can increase circulating concentrations of TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone).</p><p></p><p>Even worse, good iron levels are needed in the production of cortisol via the adrenal cortex. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1651678" target="_blank">This study</a> reveals that an iron-containing protein is present in high amounts in the adrenal cortex and is involved in the synthesis of corticosterone. So by having low iron, you can potentially lower your cortisol levels."</p><p></p><p>Blood tests:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.discountedlabs.com/choose-your-test/" target="_blank">http://www.discountedlabs.com/choose-your-test/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nelson Vergel, post: 17738, member: 3"] Welcome to ExcelMale.com, Mrk. I am glad that you found another doctor. What a moron who could not even read the package insert for testosterone cypionate! It seems that you may be on your way to better care. I would get free T3, free T4 and reverse T3 measured since your transferrin and iron are on the low side. [URL]http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ferritin/[/URL] "First, though the slide into low iron can be symptomless, it eventually becomes the precursor to being anemic, revealed by the other iron labs–saturation and serum iron. And once the latter occurs, you can then have symptoms which mimic hypothyroid–depression, achiness, easy fatigue, weakness, faster heartrate, palpitations, loss of sex drive, hair loss and/or foggy thinking, etc, causing a patient to think they are not on enough desiccated thyroid, or that desiccated thyroid is not working. Excessively low Ferritin as well as low iron can also make it difficult to continue raising your desiccated thyroid, resulting in hyper symptoms when raising desiccated thyroid.In turn, having low iron levels decreases deiodinase activity, i.e. it slows down the conversion of T4 to T3. Biologically, insufficient iron levels may be affecting the first two of three steps of thyroid hormone synthesis by reducing the activity of the enzyme “thyroid peroxidase”, which is dependent on iron. Thyroid peroxidase brings about the chemical reactions of adding iodine to tyrosine (amino acid), which then produces T4 and T3. Insufficient iron levels alter and reduces the conversion of T4 to T3, besides binding T3. Additionally, low iron levels can increase circulating concentrations of TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone). Even worse, good iron levels are needed in the production of cortisol via the adrenal cortex. [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1651678"]This study[/URL] reveals that an iron-containing protein is present in high amounts in the adrenal cortex and is involved in the synthesis of corticosterone. So by having low iron, you can potentially lower your cortisol levels." Blood tests: [URL]http://www.discountedlabs.com/choose-your-test/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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