did taking Armour the Peat way at night worked for you?
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@risingfire lately, I'm not so sure.
when I was doing half grain before lunch and dinner I remember seeing my HR at rest to low 70's or a bit less, TSH at 1.0 with this. Some cold hands during the day, often after eating actually.
Adding a 1/4 of a grain later in the day with dinner I thought it helped with feeling more strong at the gym, be able to carry more conversations with people, having more energy for it and feeling good.
I tried this twice, TSH at .7, but I realized that taking thyroid in the evening disrupt my sleep, so I cut back again on the extra 1/4 for the past 7 days, and I fall asleep better.
Water retention so far, and I tried to use the glass thermometer under armpit after lunch yesterday, it showed 98.3 or a bit less, Braun ear always shows btw 98.4 to 99.1 max
I'm putting together a chart with the help of chatGPT searching under Ray Peat and Dr Alan Cristianson recommendations, to track thyroid symptoms during the day. I want to try to keep TSH at .5 or a bit less, see how I do with that
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@risingfire forgot to mention probably the most important symptom is constipation/slow food transit, but I'm dealing with SIBO, so I'm not sure how much comes from Thyroid or if it is only SIBO itself
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@GRay did you have these symptoms prior to Armour? You should take take thyroid after the meal per Peat
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@risingfire the constipation slow food transit symptoms?
I think it all started years ago when I decided to stop my NDT for a trial, at that time I was using 1 grain NP Thyroid in the am before breakfast. Soon after that, I remember complaining of gut motility issues, from there things started to get worse and never really recovered from it.
I understand Peat advise to take it multiple times with food, and I agree 100% when it comes with synthetic T4/T3. But I'm questioning if NDT is actually ok or better on empty stomach. When I was taking the 1 grain NP on empty stomach, my FT3 after about 2/3hrs came back at 4.5, 6 hours after ingestion at 4.1, not much of a difference.
I generally think NDT should be taken twice per day, sometime even once.