@golda said in Assessing women's thyroid status by temperature:
As you can see in the images (Broda Barne's book), the 'indicative' basal body temperature for a woman is ONLY taken on the second and third day of the period.
(!!!!!!! I thought, COME ON, is it not tricky enough to be a woman, you have to wait a full month to assess impact of a treatment?)
Thank you so much for your reply and pointing this out in particular. I have read Barnes' book and yet missed it. So it seems women have to stay on the same dose for a month instead of Peat's two weeks. Tricky indeed.
Unfortunately, she has to mostly rely for me on bioenergetic info because her English language skills are quite poor. I have read "From PMS...", "Nutrition for Women", "Generative Energy" (I recommend this one in particular), Kate Deering's book and the Broda Barnes one on thyroid and translated some choice excerpts to her; I've also sent her machine-translated articles by Ray and threads from Peat Twitter. I will definitely check out Emma Sgourakis and Kitty Bloomfield.
She has tried Progest-E about a year ago and the experience was somewhat disappointing. For some reason she has abruptly ceased taking it a couple days before menstruation, and this has caused a very painful period (not as bad as she suffered while on regular diet, but definitely worse than her new normal).
Besides her cycle is so regular and free of discomfort at this point that I'm not sure it even needs to be tampered with. She's still open to using it during pregnancy and later in life, but sees no requirement right now.
I will definitely update when and if she starts supplementing thyroid. For reference, what we have is Tyromax, the NDT product from Idealabs.