Does low TSH correlate with longevity and health
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Perhaps Dr. Peat’s most controversial statements were around this. Today virtually all the literature suggests very low TSH may be not a good thing. Dr. Peat thought the lower the better.
What do you think about this and why?
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Having a well functioning thyroid is a result of and marker for good health.
I reckon the causation mostly works that way round, whereas trying to alleviate compromises of tissue functions, metabolism and microcirculation by supplementing exogenous thyroid hormone is mostly necessary but overall far from the same to overall health as proper endogenous functioning.
So my first thought would be to reinstate proper endogenous thyroid function, which in currently applied allopathic medicine is unheard of. And RP in his ever-striving effort to quench inflammation, which very often is not causative but a result, wouldn't have assisted in such endeavours.
RP also pretty much shunned iodide.
Furthermore, there's e.g. a super high association of H. pylori infection with thyroid dysfunction and improvements of the latter by successful antibiotic therapy. I'm sure there are other intracellular persisters, whatever their origin into the body, wreaking chronic havoc of similar kinds.
Anyway, you won't ever heal that with cascara or grated carrots. Nor with progestorone, more coconut, sugar and honey. -
@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Does low TSH correlate with longevity and health:
What do you think about this and why?
I think that a low TSH is associated with health, especially when it occurs naturally without pharmaceuticals or exogenous hormones. I do not think that a low TSH is associated with longevity; but I think that a high TSH is associated with increased mortality (a shorter duration in lifespan). So there is an incentive to keep TSH low or at least on the low side of the normal range.
As to the 'why", I have not read the literature but I have a general analogy.
First, there has been an explosion in the number of people with Type II diabetes and the term adult onset diabetes is no longer appropiate since children also develop Type II diabetes. The general cause for this explosion is our modern lifestyle (with many non-ancestral components) which has over stimulated our hormonal insulin secretion. And for the analogy, lifestyle promotes high ISH (insulin secreting hormone). It takes years of high ISH before diabetes is diagnosed.
I am wondering if high TSH will eventually result in thyroid problems, that is thyroid resistance and the lucrative medical manangement thereof.
There are hotlinked references about thyroid resistance at the end of this article.
Thyroid hormone resistance and its management (2016)
