Abba's Corner: June 2019

Friday, June 14, 2019

THYROID TEST

Measure Reverse T3 and Get Thyroid Healthy!

Many of you follow my writing and understand that hypothyroidism means reduced level of thyroid hormone, dubbed “T3.” But you probably have not heard of reverse T3. Today I’m going to tell you why you should never ignore reverse T3, even if your endocrinologist does.

First the basics. The hormone called T3 gives you energy, so it’s sometimes called the gas pedal in your body. Reverse T3, abbreviated as rT3, would then be the brakes. You sometimes want to use the brakes, don’t you? If you don’t have brakes, your body will speed away on the highway and zoom out of control, so rT3 is required as part of your body’s push/pull balancing system. It’s the isomer of thyroid hormone that looks like it’s the reverse (opposite) of the active T3. Picture your left hand as your rT3 and your right hand as your T3.

If you have too much rT3, it can cause all the symptoms of hypothyroidism that you don’t want, like chronic fatigue, a sluggish metabolism, and weight gain. This is a measurable thing, this rT3! Unfortunately, even endocrinologists tend to ignore it, and they may fight you if you ask to have the blood test drawn. In my opinion, that is an oversight.

But they’re not just being mean, it’s that most physicians were taught that rT3 is an “inactive metabolite” of thyroid hormone, and therefore has little to no impact on hormone balance. Because it doesn’t activate the cell, it gets pushed under the rug.

But high levels of rT3 put you into hibernation by sitting on the cell’s receptor (the doorway to the cell) and blocking active thyroid hormone (T3) from binding. So you can see, it’s common sense, right? If you have too many of the do-nothing rT3 molecules on your cell, then your cell can’t bind the T3 that wakes you up, burns fat, and makes you happy!

IMHO, not testing for rT3 levels is an oversight. If you’re rT3 dominant, you’re clinically hypothyroid, stressed, anxious, overweight, tired and cold! And yet your TSH and your Free and/or Total T4 levels might be in perfect range. How would know you were rT3 dominant unless you were tested. (I’m making a good case here, aren’t I?)

Let’s do a quick review so I know you’re with me!

Reverse T3: A Check and Balance Hormone rT3 performs a kind of balancing of the checkbook of the body. It cancels out a percentage of active thyroid hormone to bring everything to a kind of “0” level, where 0 equals harmony. To reiterate my car analogy, the gas pedal is T3 and the brakes are rT3. The process of these compounds binding to your cells takes place in milliseconds, billions of times a day.

Inactive T4 and its conversion into active T3 gives us a nice, speedy metabolism and promotes energy, beautiful and shiny hair, a content mood, and a beautiful figure. These hormones are THAT important!

Thyroid hormone regulation influences your weight, metabolism (meaning how fast you burn off that figgy pudding), respiration, pulse, and ATP (energy) production in the very mitochondria of every cell you have!

Here’s where reverse T3 comes in. Reverse T3 is a mirror image of T3. Picture again your left and right hands. They are mirror images of each other.

In our bodies, about 40% of inactive T4 is converted into T3, powering our metabolisms and keeping us energetic and slim, and 20% is converted into rT3 to make sure we don’t burn up all calories and end up a nervous, bone-rack of a wreck.

So, the rT3 is there as your check and balance. It clears out excess T4, keeping you in homeostasis, perfect balance. It puts the brakes on if your gas pedal is floored.

Problems You Might Experience
1. Low T3
If you have too little Free T3 relative to T4, you get hypothyroidism. Therefore, you experience weight gain, fatigue, joint and muscle pain, depression, and a tendency to feel cold. The reason for this is you aren’t producing enough heat or ATP energy in your cells!

2. High T3
Too much T3 relative to T4 will cause the opposite, as in hyperthyroidism. This causes you to feel jittery, worried all the time, anxious, nervous, irritable, and sometimes hot or sweaty, rather than cold. You could be diagnosed with Graves’ disease if you are found to be hyperthyroid and have high antibody titers.

3. High rT3
Too much reverse T3 and you get the same effects as hypothyroidism (low T3) as shown in situation #1 above. This is because the high levels of reverse T3 block your cells’ ability to get fed by your “wake-up and feel great” thyroid hormone called T3.

Reverse T3 isn’t bad. I want to make this point crystal clear. Reverse T3 is not the enemy (unless it’s very high), because it keeps you feeling just energetic enough without you sailing into full on hyperactivity/stress mode (which you don’t want, because stress is the archenemy of any and all hormones, including cortisol and estrogen, both of which cause belly fat gain and extreme fatigue).

In fact, this whole mechanism in our bodies is there to protect us from starvation, as it did for our ancestors in times of famine or hiding out from saber-toothed tigers. Picture yourself stuck in a cave, clad in a fur sarong like Captain Caveman, heart a-pounding and a bubble over your head saying, “Is that ugly thing still outside smacking its lips?”

So, a too-high rT3 level in the body, is bad, creating reverse T3 dominance and a poorly functioning thyroid gland.

And here’s where things get really interesting. Back to my ancestral-slowing-of-the-metabolism-in-times-of-peril story. Researchers have recently learned that rT3, not cortisol, may be the real cause of our inability to lose weight, and the reason why we gain or regain weight so quickly after a diet. This comes as a surprise to most physicians in the medical community as cortisol has been considered the main “belly fat” hormone for decades. We’re learning now that it’s more likely high rT3 that drives the yo-yo spike in weight, another reason to consider T3 medications, as opposed to T4 (i.e., Synthroid). T4 doesn’t always metabolize to T3, you see. This is all covered in my book, Thyroid Healthy.

When you diet, especially if you suddenly and drastically reduce your food intake, you create a mountain of physiologic stress, which adds to the terrible emotional stress caused from the restriction of everything you love! This physiologic, or better termed “metabolic” stress, cases your rT3 to rise, reducing your thyroid activity and slowing your metabolism which… voila! Causes you to literally pad your vulnerable organs with fat! Picture padding around your belly, where a lot of your organs are – this nice layer of protective fat padding is called “belly fat” and it hides out there in case a tiger attacks!

High rT3 is also one reason you regain weight so quickly after a crash diet. In fact, researchers have basically found that whenever we humans lose weight, our body fusses about it, basically rebels against us, and tries to regain any weight lost during the sudden crash diet, which it perceives as a famine. In fact, the more extreme your caloric reduction, the higher the spike in rT3 from the forced starvation.

Did you know rT3 dominance can impair your ability to build and repair muscles? If you have high rT3 (and again, you can measure this with a blood test) it causes fat-burning muscles to wither, so when all is said and done, you will be bones with flabby fat, and very little muscle. This is why I’m adamant about you testing for it, and fixing it if it’s high.

How to Find Out if Your rT3 is Too HighI literally wrote the book on this topic, and hosted a world-wide thyroid summit event in 2014. I’ve interviewed the best thyroid experts in the entire world. More than that, I’ve dealt with this problem myself, and for many years I have been very healthy and so I can speak to this situation with ease, and I’m confident I can help you.

Over the years, I’ve gotten countless emails from some of you saying “I could not get my physician to order this lab test for me.”Again, most physicians are taught rT3 really doesn’t do anything in the body and, therefore, they rarely measure it and may be resistant to running tests.

But high levels suggest that you are not “thyroid healthy” and that you could very well be suffering with all the symptoms we’ve been discussing, especially fatigue and weight issues. It could also mean (and this my fear for you) that you get diagnosed with a mental health disorder such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Insomnia, Bipolar Disease, Heart Disease or some other problem that requires a big drug! All the while, your thyroid hormone gets ignored because “That’s not a big deal, let’s try a new drug that’s out to help you with [insert new bizarre symptom here] and we’ll see how you feel in 6 months!”

Do you hear that? Am I right? So, it is extremely important you get tested for rT3 along with your regular thyroid hormone profile.

Any doctor can test this, it’s available by Quest, Labcorp, and every other lab I know of. But if you encounter resistance, you can certainly order them yourself from direct-to-consumer labs, which have popped up in the last few years. Because I’m a practitioner, I even have an affiliate connection where you can order tests, although you need your own local laboratory, and your own doctor to discuss it with.

Important: On Thyroid Drugs and rT3 DominanceIf you have high levels of rT3, I suggest you NOT use the T4 drugs (Levothyroxine is the generic), because it tends to break down into even more rT3 (as opposed to T3). As a result, some of you still feel awful and hypothyroid, even though you never miss a dose of your medicine.

Remember that. Because if you have high levels of rT3 and you take T4 drugs, you’ll generate even more rT3, instead of the biologically active T3 which makes you lose weight, look beautiful, and live the life you imagine.

What if rT3 is high? What Do You Do Then? You can, in fact, lower rT3 naturally!

How to Lower rT3 Naturally and Get Slim and Gorgeous AgainThe following information could make all the difference between a slim, healthy, energetic you and cold, tired and worn-out you.

These are some ways to lower rT3 naturally:
1. Increase selenium in your diet with Brazil nuts or seafood, or through supplementation. If you’re shopping for supplements, bear in mind that selenomethionine is more natural than sodium selenite.
2. Support your liver and consider a liver cleanse or supplements like milk thistle, glutathione, or artichoke extract. Some over-the-counter analgesic medications that go through the liver for their metabolism can weaken the liver over time.
3. Reduce or eliminate drinking, smoking, and refined foods which hurt the liver and spawn free radicals. These habits also destroy the fragile lipophilic cells of your colon, your lungs, brain, heart, pancreas and your thyroid.
4. Ask your physician for a trial run of a T3 medication, or NDT which is a combo of T3 and T4 medication. The point is to get away from a T4 drug and get on to a T3 containing medication. The T4 drugs (levothyroxine) tend to preferentially break down into more rT3 instead of bioactive T3.
5. If you’re on a T4/T3 combo drug like an NDT drug already and your levels of rT3 are still high, then consider switching to plain T3 as in compounded T3 by a compounding pharmacy, or Cytomel, a drug sold in most pharmacies in the US. Either way, it might be time to switch from NDT natural desiccated thyroid to a plain T3 medication for a while for the same reason as above. This is a decision that is best determined by your medical physician and your lab values for free T3, total T3 and rT3. You’d know if plain T3 works within a month, it’s that fast.
6. Consider one or two adrenal-supportive herbs or adrenal-loving vitamins. There are many, I don’t know which ones are right for you so I’ll name a bunch. You can consult the oracle Dr. Google (lol!) and learn about these and then buy them at any health food store. I would recommend you consult your physician first to find out his/her opinion about which is right for you specifically: Astragalus, rhodiola, beta sitosterol, ginseng, ginger, B vitamins (especially pantethine), schisandra, eleuthero, ashwagandha, turmeric/curcumin or L-theanine.

What is a Healthy rT3 Level?If your thyroid levels are in perfect balance, your rT3 levels should be lower than 15 ng/dL or 150 pg./ml.

A whole healthy thyroid panel would look like this:

rT3 < 15 ng/gL also expressed as <150
Ferritin 70=90 mg/dL
TSH .5 – 1.5 mlU/l
Free T3 = 3.5-4.3 pg/dL
Total T3= 140-175 ng/dL
Free T4 = 0.8-1.8 ng/dL
TPO antibodies less than 20 IU/mL
T3/rT3 ratio should be > 2

Now that you have this information and a new consideration, you can demand excellence from your health care provider. You can have an intelligent conversation about one simple lab test, and understand what it all means to you. I’d like to empower you and all individuals experiencing thyroid dysfunction with the knowledge and wisdom to feel healthy and strong again, as well as happy, warm, and skinny! That’s what your thyroid can do for you, so please share this article with anyone you love.

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Mental Health Problems- Sad “New Normal” on College Campuses JUNE 13, 2019

By the Children’s Health Defense Team

College campuses are witnessing record levels of student mental health problems, ranging from depression and anxiety disorders to self-injurious behaviors and worse. A clinician writing a few years ago in Psychology Todayproclaimed it neither “exaggeration” nor “alarmist” to acknowledge that young Americans are experiencing “greater levels of stress and psychopathology than any time in the nation’s history”—with ramifications that are “difficult to overstate.”

The problems on college campuses are manifestations of challenges that begin sapping American children’s health at younger ages. For example, many students enter college with a crushing burden of chronic illness or a teen-onset mental health diagnosis that has made them dependent on psychotropic or other medications. The childhood prevalence of different forms of cognitive impairment has also increased and is associated with subsequent mental health difficulties. In addition, a majority of American students are now unprepared academically for their college careers, as evidenced by historically low levels of achievement on standardized tests. Once in college, large proportions of students—increasingly characterized as emotionally fragile—blame mental health challenges for significantly interfering with their ability to perform. The outcomes of these trends—including rising suicide rates among students and declining college completion rates—bode poorly for young people’s and our nation’s future.

… more than three in five (63%) respondents reported experiencing overwhelming anxiety in the past year, while two in five (42%) reported feeling so depressed that it was difficult to function.

Crippling anxiety and depression

A 2018 survey at 140 educational institutions asked almost 90,000 college students about their health over the past 12 months. The survey found that more than three in five (63%) respondents reported experiencing “overwhelming anxiety” in the past year, while two in five (42%) reported feeling “so depressed that it was difficult to function.” Students also reported that anxiety (27%), sleep difficulties (22%) and depression (19%) had adversely affected their academic performance.

In the same survey, 12% of college students reported having “seriously considered suicide.” Another study, which looked at college students with depression, anxiety and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who had been referred by college counseling centers for psychopharmacological evaluation, found that the same proportion—12%—had actually made at least one suicide attempt. Half of the students in the latter study had previously received a prescription for medication, most often antidepressants.

Colleges are feeling the squeeze, with demand growing nationally for campus mental health services. A study by Penn State’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health reported an average 30% to 40% increase in students’ use of counseling centers between 2009 and 2015 at a time when enrollment grew by just 5%. According to Penn State’s report, the “increase in demand is primarily characterized by a growing frequency of students with a lifetime prevalence of threat-to-self indicators.”

College vaccines

Most colleges expect new students to have had the full complement of CDC-recommended childhood vaccines and to top up before college matriculation with any vaccines or doses that they may have previously missed. In particular, universities are likely to emphasize tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap) and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) boosters; the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine; meningococcal vaccination; and annual flu shots.

… found particularly strong associations for three disorders common on college campuses—anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders—and observed a surge in diagnosed disorders after influenza vaccination (one of the vaccines that college students are most likely to get).

It is unlikely that clinics are issuing warnings to freshly vaccinated college students about potential adverse consequences to watch out for, yet two universities (Penn State and Yale) made news in 2017 when their researchers published a study showing a temporal relationship between newly diagnosed neuropsychiatric disorders and vaccines received in the previous three to twelve months. Although the researchers analyzed health records for 6- to 15-year-old children, not college students, they found particularly strong associations for three disorders common on college campuses—anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders—and observed a surge in diagnosed disorders after influenza vaccination (one of the vaccines that college students are most likely to get). They also detected significant temporal associations linking meningitis vaccination to both anorexia and chronic tic disorders.

To distance themselves from too strongly implicating vaccines, these researchers later proposed several less controversial mechanisms to explain their findings, including the presence of predisposing inflammatory or genetic factors. One of the researchers even suggested that the “trauma” of getting “stuck with needles” might be triggering the adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes.

This absurd sidestepping ignores considerable experimental evidence from both animals and humans linking the immune responses produced by vaccines (and vaccine adjuvants) to adverse mental health symptoms. In fact, some researchers vaccinate healthy animals or people on purpose just to study this phenomenon. For example:

A study intentionally injected mice with the vaccine used against tuberculosis (BCG vaccine) to induce “depression-like behavior,” finding that the vaccine-induced depression was resistant to treatment with standard antidepressants.
Another study in mice found that both the antigens and the aluminum adjuvant in the Gardasil HPV vaccine produced significantly more behavioral abnormalities, including depression, in the exposed mice compared to unexposed mice.
University of California researchers followed healthy undergraduates for one week before and one week after influenza vaccination; in the absence of any physical symptoms, they detected increased post-vaccination inflammation that was associated with more mood disturbances—especially “depressed mood and cognitive symptoms.”
Another study of influenza vaccination compared vaccine recipients who had preexisting depression and anxiety to “mentally healthy” recipients, finding that both groups had “decreased positive affect” following vaccination; however, the vaccine’s impact on mood was “more pronounced for those with anxiety or depression.”
Neuroscientists at Oxford injected healthy young adults with typhoid vaccine to explore “the link between inflammation, sleep and depression,” finding that the vaccine “produced significant impairment in several measures of sleep continuity” in the vaccine group compared to placebo; the researchers noted in their conclusions that impaired sleep is both a “hallmark” and “predictor” of major depression.
Another group of UK researchers who likewise injected healthy young adult males with the typhoid vaccine found that, within hours, the vaccine had produced measurable social-cognitive deficits.

Interestingly, a study conducted in 2014 found that vaccine-mental health effects may cut both ways. Researchers who assessed self-reported depression and anxiety (and other measures) in 11-year-olds before and up to six months after routine vaccination found that children who reported more initial depressive and anxious symptoms had a stronger vaccine response (defined by “elevated and persistently higher antibody responses”) and that this association remained even after controlling for confounders. Given that this type of overactive vaccine response can be a harbinger of autoimmunity, some researchers have urged more attention to these “bidirectional” effects.

… we are kidding ourselves if we ignore the possible contribution of a cumulative vaccine load that has children receiving dozens of doses by age 18 …

Safe spaces or safe vaccines?

As “safe spaces” multiply on college campuses, and elite private institutions offer dumbed-down for-credit courses like “The Sociology of Miley Cyrus” or “Beginning Dungeons and Dragons,” it is time to take stock of the health challenges—both mental and physical—that are sabotaging college students’ chances of success. Researchers already have noted a disturbing mismatch between available cognitive abilities and the types of “non-routine analytical-cognitive” skills that our nation will increasingly need in the future. While variables such as student debt certainly factor into college students’ stress equation, we are kidding ourselves if we ignore the possible contribution of a cumulative vaccine load that has children receiving dozens of doses by age 18—and piles on even more when kids go off to college.

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

School-Located National Vaccination. Do You Consent?

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By Rosanne Lindsay, ND

Dentists in Oregon, Pharmacists in all 50 states, and soon school nurses, can inject your children without your permission.

What makes it possible to deliver vaccines to children through the public schools? One reason is that the School-located vaccination (SLV) has a long history in the United States. In 1875, New York City schools delivered the small pox vaccine. In the 1950s, schools delivered the Salk polio vaccine. In the 1990s, schools conducted catch-up clinics for the Hep B vaccine. In 2009, schools injected the H1N1 vaccines. In 2012-13, an SLV project in rural Kentucky deployed the HPV vaccine, all to improve vaccination rates.

According to Goal #4 of the 2015-16 National Vaccine Plan, Health care providers must continue to improve access to and acceptance of vaccination providers in nontraditional healthcare settings. School-located vaccination (SLV) can augment other emerging alternative vaccination sites.

The SLV strategy is described in a position statement by the National Association for School Nurses which represents the government-accepted narrative. Their Journal of School Nursing reports:

School nurses are trusted professionals within the school and community settings and can play a pivotal role in the success of SLV. They are ideally placed to identify students who have missedvaccines.

This narrative is repeated in studies published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, a group claiming to be dedicated to the health of all children. Their 2017 study suggests that “SLV is key for adolescents who have significantly lower rates of vaccination due to lower rates of office-based visits.”

Just because registered providers claim they can deploy “biologics” through a needle without parental permission, does not make it right. Just because the Nurses Associationclaims that “School nurses are well-versed in the importance of deterring and eradicating vaccine preventable diseases and the issues that are unique to their school community” does not qualify them to replace parents to decide what is best for each child.

The Journal of School Health (Shlay et al., 2015), writes:

The school is an ideal place to reach 52 million children from all cultures, socioeconomic groups, and age groups that attend each day; and the school is conveniently located in a familiar and trusted community environment. SLV also offers a convenient option for parents to have their children receive needed vaccinations without having to arrange for a healthcare provider visit or take off time from work.

The Healthy People 2020 Act plans for schools to “play a key role in the deterrence of vaccine preventable diseases” because high vaccination coverage is “an important public health objective.” SLV provides an important opportunity to immunize youth with limited access to healthcare services in the community at large. In advance of this Act, studies are evaluating whether state laws permit the implementation of standing orders programs (SOPs) to increase uptake of vaccines.

Question Everything

Pay attention to the language and question everything. First, there is no such thing as “vaccine preventable diseases” when vaccines cause the diseases for which they claim to prevent. See this breakdown.

Secondly, there is no such thing as “Public Health.” Public health is a term created by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913. “Public health” is a trap. It does not exist outside of individuals who makes up the public. Likewise, Public Opinion, Public Safety, Public Body, and Public Perception are myths that political elites promote in order to manufacture consent to justify their right to power and to maintain the status quo. There is only individual opinion, individual safety, individual bodies, and individual perception.

The public school system is a planned conveyor belt for a Public Health agenda. If you understand the true definition of “public” by the authors who write the narrative, you can see how the language is used against the individual.

Before the vaccine was developed, the American Medical Association claimed that the measles are a benign childhood illness. Then, in 1967, the Public Health Service marketed the measles vaccine as a way to eradicate the measles virus through a mass vaccination campaign. Today, the AMA claims these mild diseases are highly contagiousand result in “illness, disability and death.”

Measles Shots Aren’t Just For Kids

The CDC claims that as measles cases rise, adultswill need an MMR booster. The same CDC that says the killed measles vaccine available in 1963-1967 was not effective, now say:

“There’s no downside to getting a dose of measles vaccine,” says William Schaffner, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an infectious disease and vaccine expert. “If you’re [already] protected, it won’t help much, but it won’t harm you. And if you happen to be susceptible, it will give you over 90 percent protection.”

It is no coincidence that this narrative is growing louder to coincide with The Healthy People 2020 Act, which takes advice from an Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, to recommend 13 vaccinations for adults.

When individuals buy into a Public Health ideology, thinking stops. Suddenly, people begin to believe that benign childhood illnesses no longer exist and every infection, from flu to measles and Chicken pox can kill. They believe that CDC-approved shots can be ineffective one year but “safe and effective” the next. Yet, according to VAERS data and reports by the Vaccine Court no deaths today result from the measles infection, while many deaths have been attributed to the MMR (measles, mumps, Rubella) vaccine.

Ask yourself by what Authority do registered nurses, a school system, a Public Health Authority, or any group, claim power over parents, or you? Who certifies the certifier? If public schools only serve to indoctrinate, then it is time to go back to the Home School. Read 100 reasons to Home Schools Your Kids. Nearly two million US children are homeschooled, and the homeschooling population is increasingly reflective of America’s diversity, and the need for self-directed learning.

Choice Cannot Be Legislated

To consent to Public Health dictates is to give up individual (inherent) rights in exchange for Public Rights. Public rights do not exist. They are merely attempts to legislate choice. When it comes to government overreach, the tool for individual re-empowerment is found in the Spirit of the Declaration of Independence:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government….to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The Spirit of these words reflect inherent rights in each individual. Physical documents and words do not grant or deny rights. When you consent to Acts and laws, you consent to give up your freedoms. You dis-empower yourself. Alternatively, you can choose not to give consent. Choice is the power of the individual to say no. Choice means you can cease to participate is a system of coercion. Non-compliance is an option. You can ask, by what authority is your consciousness greater than mine? You can end the ruse of the Public Health authority.

Rosanne Lindsay is a Naturopathic doctor, writer, Earth keeper, Health Freedom advocate, and author of the books The Nature of Healing, Heal the Body, Heal the Planet and Free Your Voice, Heal Your Thyroid, Reverse Thyroid Disease Naturally. Find her on Facebook at Rosanne Lindsay and at her website at Natureofhealing. Consult with her (Skype or Zoom consults available) at natureofhealing.org. Subscribe to her blog at http://www.natureofhealing.org/blog/ and at her podcast Thursdays at 5 pm on Blog

Originally posted: https://www.naturalblaze.com/2019/06/school-located-national-vaccination-do-you-consent.html

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