How to treat an overactive thyroid naturally?

[Nivsch]

I have T3 and T4 in the "normal" range but one of them is slightly above a thyroid expert's book range which is narrower than the health care formal one.

In addition I tend to physical restlessness and I feel very easily too hot and walking in my home with short clothes all the time even during the winter. I lost couple of kgs during last decade in comparison to how I was before and I struggle to gain them back.

I wont get right now into what I think are the reasons because this is a longer story, but I will thank any knowledge and experience insights from you guys about how to help that.

I started an improved nutrition regime with many cruciferous vegetables and tea infusions I heard that calm the immune system and support thyroid and adrenal. Edamame actually does good to me (but not tofu).

I try now seriously to avoid gluten and grains. So far it really helps, but I feel it can be better and that is why I ask here.

And last thing, I suspect I have a fat malabsorption. This is what the naturopath thought and I have read this is common with hyperthyroid.

Can eating the fat seperately from other meals, and as seperate as possible from protein and carbs, help it to be absorbed better?

I will thank you for any help 🙏

Edited March 25, 2024 by Nivsch

[ZenAlex]

Can you post a screenshot of your blood tests?

[Nivsch]

@ZenAlex Yes. 

The results were normal but the T3 was a bit higher than the treshold in the expert's book.

I can add what is written there later.

Edited March 25, 2024 by Nivsch

[Nivsch]

@Michael569 Should I trust the whole 'normal' range as a singular unit? I will show you later the range from the book which is different.

I feel annoyed by the dichotomy yes or no approach of the conventional diagnosis. This doesn't help unless you have a very acute case and only then they "see" it.

But I appreciate the caution you wrote to me from taking supplements and I will try at best only different teas and not anything too concentrated, thanks.

Edited March 25, 2024 by Nivsch

[Nivsch]

@Michael569 I dont know, maybe the TSH is too close to the low treshold, isn't it? Because I feel symptoms.

But yes, it can be the adrenal and not the thyroid, but since everything is connected to everything I would expect it would somehow involve both in subtle senses.

Edited March 25, 2024 by Nivsch

[undeather]

Not only are your thyroid-hormones in the normal range.
There is a rather unconventional "optimal range" used by some endocrinologist - and you are bang in it. (If I have not misconverted the units)

I highly doubt your symptoms stem from your thyroid.
Michael gave you some pretty decent input. I would take that to the heart.
 

Edited March 25, 2024 by undeather

[Nivsch]

@undeather Even if it is not the thyroid, the goitrogenic foods and herbs still make me feel significantly better. Though not to the place I want to be, it is still a siginificant improvement.

Edited March 25, 2024 by Nivsch

[Nivsch]

49 minutes ago, Michael569 said:

I know this is what a lot of naturopaths who live in the delusional world of adrenal fatigue focus, but it is an extremely short-sighted view of the body. I know a few herbalists and naturopaths personally and this is basically 90% of their focus - adrenals, thyroid and burnout. They can't see beyond this and they classify all their clients in these symptom clusters. 

Lol but the conventional approaches are probably worse 😝 

Thank you for the in depth answers. 

I eat whenever I am hungry and not limit myself. This is going on for months so the virus direction is less relevant to me I guess 😬

Edited March 25, 2024 by Nivsch

[undeather]

35 minutes ago, Nivsch said:

@undeather Even if it is not the thyroid, the goitrogenic foods and herbs still make me feel significantly better. Though not to the place I want to be, it is still a siginificant improvement.

Herbs and healthy foods will most likely make you feel significantly better to begin with.
One must also not underestimate the effect of placebo like dynamics in such cases. 
I have seen this way too many times in some of my patients.
Pateint X with symtpoms Y tries food/habit/supplement Z and feels a direct improvement in their health.
Only to later find out the real cause of their ailment being something much more ordinary.

Now, important disclaimer - what you are doign is great! 
If you feel an improvement, more power to you! - It's great that you are in touch with your subjective wellbeing to that extent.
That said, we would love you to consider a more broader spectrum of potential causes.
As Michael said, a lot of naturopaths are caught in a very reductionistic and short-sighted framework.

[Nivsch]

@undeather  Thanks! 🙏🌼 Interesting. I hope it is not placebo. Surely SOME of that isn't.

Thats why I preffer to anyway see what helps people with hyperthyroid here (even if this isn't my case) because I have a thought that it may overlap with another hormones imbalances dynamics with similar symptoms and maybe what helps them will be worth consider to try myself.

Edited March 25, 2024 by Nivsch