Thyroid Hormones and the Tests That Monitor Them [Kindle Edition]

James M. Lowrance (Author)

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Product Description

The metabolism of the body is regulated by thyroid hormones. These include the T-4, T-3, Reverse T-3 and TSH (the last one being a pituitary hormone).

The levels of these hormones are tested to determine thyroid function and to detect hormone disorders but some of them continue to be retested at regular intervals, to monitor thyroid hormone replacement therapy as well.

Thyroid patients who are better educated in regard to these hormones have better ability to be proactive in their treatments and communicate with their doctors so that they recieve the best possible results from their hormone replacement therapies.

NOTE: This ebook is approximately 8,665 words in length. It is not an extensive medical journal but rather contains aspects of information on the subject that most laypersons would be seeking.

The Chapters:

1. The Purpose of Thyroid Function Hormones
2. The Best Blood Tests of Thyroid Function
3. Interpreting Your Blood Lab Results
4. TSH for Monitoring Thyroid Hormone Therapy
5. Newly Diagnosed/Treated Patients
6. Differences between Diagnostic and Treatment TSH
7. Thyroid Supplements Vs Thyroid Hormones
8. T-4 versus Combination T-4 and T-3 Hormone Medication
9. Symptoms of Thyroid Hormone Imbalance

I, Jim Lowrance - the author am a treated hypothyroid patient. I have served as Editor and forum moderator for Thyroid Health at BellaOnline.com and as a general health writer for Suite101.com, where I have been awarded Editor's Choice Awards.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 41 KB
• Print Length: 26 pages
• Publisher: James M. Lowrance (July 27, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001DC441K
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,503 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

A husband, father and grandfather, I've been a contract salesman most of my life. During the early 1990s, I marketed an outdoors product I invented and that I formed a small corporation to patent, manufacture and sell called the "Rod Floater" (now a registered Trademark). I traveled the U.S. making presentations to groups of Wal-Mart zone and district managers and received authorization to sell the product in two regions of Wal-Mart stores for five years.

I also sold the product to Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's and Academy Stores, all of which still carry the product and I landed a national promotion for the product with Kerr-McGee Oil company who began using the product to promote their "Mystik Brand" outboard motor oil in 1992. In 1996 I licensed the product to TTI-Blakemore, a major fishing tackle conglomerate, from which I am still paid monthly royalties from sales of the product.

I invented and marketed five additional outdoors products, also getting these into Wal-Mart stores and afterward sold them outright rather than licensing them. I learned a great deal about invention marketing during those years and was privileged to meet the CEOs of many well-known companies. I was also invited for television and radio appearances and met with the T.V. hosts of many fishing shows and was featured in the May 2001 issue of Inventors digest magazine. I enjoy writing books, e-books and articles on the subject of invention marketing.

I received a diploma from Liberty University for completion of theological studies in 1996. I served as a youth minister, Bible teacher and guest speaker in fundamental, evangelical Christian churches, from 1983 to 2001. I enjoy writing books and articles on Bible subjects as well.

In 2003 I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism; "Hashimoto's thyroiditis" being the cause. This autoimmune form of thyroid disease that causes destruction of the thyroid gland resulted in my also developing "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", due to a compromised immune system with severe co-morbid "Adrenal Fatigue". I also suffered severe anxiety symptoms, including panic attacks early into the onset of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (Hashitoxicosis). A common heart murmur I was diagnosed with in my teens called "Mitral Valve Prolapse", also worsened in severity of symptoms, with the development of these other health disorders.

My eventual receiving of a diagnosis was a difficult process with proper diagnostic testing not being ordered by the first doctors I sought treatment from. These types of issues were inspiration for me to become proactive in my own health care and to self-educate myself on these health disorders, which I have done extensively since 2003. I now enjoy sharing this information with other patients experiencing my same health disorders, through e-books, books and articles.