Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.
Please update the Thyroid sticky to add a soil based probiotic to the proticol if you choose the iodorol route. (https://www.amazon.com/Prescript-Assist-B0049NW9UI-60-Capsules/dp/B00JB2GOFI/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1501690255&sr=8-2&keywords=prescript-assist+probiotics+supplement) The iodoral completely kills off all the good gut bacteria and allows for the bad bacteria to take hold. I couldn’t digest food and had diarrhea for 3 months, I finally went to a digestion expert and got a stool test. I was diagnosed with C-Diff lost even more gains and have recovered after 4 weeks of probiotics, luckily. Iodoral is NOT the best way to get Iodine, Seaweed and Iodized salt in your food does the trick just fine, or going in the ocean. Im not convinced that this TRT low body temp phenomenon is a thyroid problem, it is certainly a progesterone => Corisol low DHEA problem witch triggers a fight or flight mechanism in the body from high E2 and HCg confusion, after the body shuts down some hormone production from too long of TRT, causing anxiety and blood to be pulled in form the extremities. get the E2 down, try progesterone and 7-Keto DHEA in the morning and let me know how it goes.
Your response is unusual and surprising. I understand your logic and argument. You may have been harboring some nasty bacterial that took over. And sometimes people also just get c-diff and these things may have been coincident. Climbing out of a iodine deficiency hole with a few mcg’s of iodine while you are excreting iodine makes for a long process. Middle ground more appropriate.
How much iodine were you taking and how soon were you in distress? Did you also take selenium?
I did 50mg iodoral for one week, followed by 25mg iodoral for one week, with 3 brazil nuts a day for selenium (make sure you soak them for 8 hours first in salt water to remove enzyme inhiditors). I started to feel better but then i didnt feel myself, the lack of positive gut bacteria make me week and feel like a fruit cake. After two weeks the C-diff took hold and I was bloated followed by painful burning diarrhea for 2 months, regular doc didnt help, the naturopath did the correct stool test to find the C-diff and the probiotic corrected it is two weeks. However, I feel that this cycle is too long and my body is over worked, I came down to 200/mg test E/wk form 400mg test E/wk and 150IU HCG 2x /wk and some of the cold anxiety and low corisol Am high cortisol PM has come back, I cant help but feel its somehow related.
“So maybe the benefit of DIM isn’t so much with decreasing estrogen (although this one study showing a lack of decreases in estrogen doesn’t mean DIM shows no decrease in estrogen), but with increasing cortisol? Guys who have too-high T levels tend to have too-high estrogen as well as (because of the increased T) too low cortisol. Therefore saying, “hey, I feel better” after taking 50 mg of DIM for a few days means this is because 1) decreased estrogen (particularly estriol and estradiol, which DIM targets), 2) increased cortisol (to offset the lower cortisol because of higher T), or 3) a combination of both. This particular study suggests 2).”
