Posted by BarbaraCat on September 4, 2003, at 14:06:39
In reply to Re: Larry what do you think about lithium orotate?, posted by tealady on September 2, 2003, at 22:21:50
I keep banging the drum re adequate overall hormone levels. Estrogen directly affects thyroid, whether low or high. Of course, getting my hormones attended to recently by my naturopath will be proof in the pudding. Her feeling is that when human growth hormone levels are down, as mine drastically showed in my tests, most hormones will work only sporadically since low HGH levels basically show that the pituitary isn't functioning well enough to support any hypothalamus/pituitary health. Again, we'll see now that I'm injecting myself daily with HGH.
As far as tyrosine, it needs certain cofactors to work adequately and taken at certain times of day, etc., but I'm sure it poses no cure to hypothyroidism. I have found that tyrosine does give me a lift, however. You might want to download this .pdf eBook that gives tons of info about amino acids and mood health. Patricia Slagle is a little heavy on the nutritional miracle cure theory, but there's a lot of very good detailed info on taking aminos that you probably won't find anywhere else all in one place.
http://www.thewayup.com/ebook/ebook.htm
> > Tyrosine is an energizing amino acid but your symptoms make me think thyroid. Have you had yours checked? Tyrosine is necessary in the phenylalanine/tyrosine/thryoxine conversion and all your tingling symtpoms and some of the rest spell hypothyroid pretty clear to me. As far as Li Orotate, save your moo-lah. I got it in the midst of a hypomanic phase when I ran out of my regular thyroid, wanting to believe the hype that the Serenity people promised - it entered the bloodstream faster, needed less, etc. It was like taking nothing at all. I hung on for 7-8 days and was very disappointed. - BCat
> Hi Barb,
> Yes I've been on thryoid meds for 2 years now. Trying adding in tryosine as the thyrooid meds don't seem to be the complete answer, and don't seem to work as they should do on me either...probably increased fatigue and much more brain fog..but other symptoms much improved.
> I'm now on "armour" plus T4 and tyrosine.
> Jan
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