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What About Low Body Temperature -- Wilson's Syndrome

See Also:

Commercial Web Remedy For Low Body Temperature

Wilson's Syndrome: The Thyroid's Role in Depression, Anxiety, and Other Symptoms

Actual Body Measurements -- KL

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I, Karl Loren, have had a consistently low body temperature for many years -- and thought nothing of it.

By "low" I mean that any time I measured my temperature, it was at least one full degree lower than the normal 98.6 degrees, and most of the time it was a full TWO degrees subnormal.

I was not aware of any symptom or adverse bodily function or feeling, so I ignored this condition for many years.  I even assumed that it was "normal" for some people to have a low body temperature.

Until!

One day I read some stuff that suggested that low body temperature could also mean that there is some health problem.  I began researching.  Click here for many pages I wrote on this subject before I heard about "Wilson's Syndrome."

One of the first things I read was about how low body temperature was probably caused by not getting enough oxygen during your sleep -- having less than normal oxygen in your blood, and that the remedy was to get an air filter that would put out ozone.  I got one.  I slept better with it, but the body temperature did not change.  Click here for that story.

I was then pursuing this matter of not sleeping well and discovered something called "sleep apnea" and found, by golly, that I had that problem.  You can click here to learn more about that.  I now sleep every night with a "apnea mask" to deliver extra air to my nostrils, to make it easier for me to get more oxygen into my lungs during sleep, and to keep the blood oxygen levels up.  But, after some time enjoying a better sleep with this "apnea mask" I found that the body temperature had not changed -- it was still lower than normal.

Click here for some scientific studies on sleep apnea.   Click here for my article about sleep apnea.  Click here for a Medicare Form that can get you a mask at low cost -- the one I use.

So, I finally did MORE research, heard about this "thing" called "Wilson's Syndrome" and investigated it.

Most of the rest of this article, then, is about low body temperature and the fancy name given it --  Wilson's Syndrome.

I started writing THIS page on June 17, 2003, when I had been on the "treatment" for Wilson's Syndrome for less than 24 hours.  If you are anything like me, and have this condition, but have never even heard about it, you may find this article very useful.  If you don't have this condition, I'll bet you know someone who DOES have it but doesn't know about it.

Let's see.

As is often true for research on the web, if you know the name, "Wilson's Syndrome," you will find lots of information.  If you search for "low body temperature" you SHOULD find Wilson's Syndrome, but you may not.  This condition was named after Dr. Wilson.  His description of this syndrome is an excellent one to read.  It appears that the web referenced below is his.

Also, as always, there is a web that is the first listed on the web and probably gets most of the visitors and attention.  The address for this web is http://www.wilsonssyndrome.com/ ...

We have found that a low body temperature is a strong indication that there is something wrong that can be fixed, particularly with W-T3 therapy and/or WTS medicines. Just like a fever (high body temperature) is a good indicator that "something's wrong" and can cause people to feel terrible, so can a low body temperature. In fact, a low body temperature is more than enough to explain almost all of the health problems listed to the right. You can have a low temperature even if you feel hot all the time, we urge you to check it with a thermometer.  (Source)

Click here to see some of their pages.

That page actually has a quite good explanation of how this syndrome works, and the solution.

Unfortunately this web site cannot sell you the products to use -- they are prescription drugs.  So, in order for them to make any money they have to claim that an herbal preparation they sell is "just as good."  I have not tested their herbal product, so don't know for sure, but the mechanism here is so straight-forward that I would not even attempt to use the herbal approach.  The prescription drug is actually a hormone that is exactly the same as you already have in your body -- but this treatment puts MORE of it in your body than you usually have.

What you "usually" have is less than should be there -- so the drug is bringing your body levels of this hormone back to the proper balance.  It is not an expensive remedy, so I would NOT recommend listening to all their stuff about the "alternative herbal approach" but go for a doctor to give you this treatment.

Here is a simple explanation.

The thyroid is a gland in your body, in the neck area, that produces a hormone, called "T4."  T4 is a well known hormone.  When a doctor wants to test your thyroid he will usually take a blood sample and look for "T4."  You can have Wilson's Syndrome even when there is plenty of T4 in your blood.  In fact, if there is a shortage of T4 in your blood you probably don't have Wilson's Syndrome.

As T4 moves around in your body it gets converted into a different form of hormone -- called T3.

It is the T3 that does all the good things for your body -- like speed up metabolism so you can lose weight and have so you have more energy.  When people talk of "low thyroid" they generally mean a sub-normal amount of T3, not the T4.

This has caused much confusion to people who "have their thyroid" checked by a doctor who doesn't know about this Wilson's Syndrome. The doctor does the usual test (for T4) and tells you that your thyroid is "normal."  That is true in a very limited sense.

Your thyroid is working OK, but you are NOT getting the necessary Thyroid Hormone that does so much to control many body functions -- that is, you are not getting enough of this T3 stuff.

It seems that there is a substance that prevents the T4 from being converted to T3, and the remedy is to feed a lot of T3 to the body to "use up" the stuff.

I do not advise trying to treat yourself for this condition.  Here is one valid set of reasons.  "WTS" stands for "Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome:"

Although patients can often start feeling better with WTS meds within the first few days, it can sometimes take a couple of weeks before getting noticeably better. WTS Medicines are aimed at conditions, not symptoms of conditions. Consequently, when people want to try WTS Medicines we suggest that they decide beforehand to try taking them daily for a month or two, not a day or two. People who try WTS Medicines without working with a doctor sometimes don't do as well because they tend not to take the WTS Medicines as seriously and tend not to take them as consistently as indicated. (source)

You are going to be taking T3 on an extremely rigid time schedule, carefully keeping track of your temperature several times per day and adjusting your dosage accordingly.  It would be very easy to be casual about this and not get the results.  That is why I do not recommend trying to "do-it-yourself."  In my case the dosage changes every three days -- unless . . .

The pill that I am taking is "sustained release."

T3 / Sustained Release and the treatment of Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome

The T3 medicine that is currently on the market (Cytomel) is instant release. But Dr. Wilson and other doctors have found that Wilson's T3 therapy is far more effective and far better tolerated when the T3 is mixed with a sustained release agent. This appears to be best accomplished by skilled and experienced pharmacists with specialized equipment. This equipment is capable of evenly mixing a small vial (the size of your little finger) of pure T3 powder, into an amount of material that would fill about half of a bathtub. It is essentially impossible to make this medicine very well by hand using a mortar and pestle, and many pharmacists seem to underestimate how carefully the medicine needs to be mixed (see previous page).

Once the material is mixed it is usually packed into capsules of varying strengths that are to be taken twice a day. The capsules are prescribed by doctors.

When Dr. Wilson first started treating Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome, Cytomel (instant release) was all he used. When he had about 300 patients at a time on Cytomel, he would get about 6-8 beeper pages over the weekend from patients having complaints and 2-3 of those calls would be about some pretty worrisome side effects. When Dr. Wilson thought of and started using T3 mixed with a sustained release agent (see WTS history) he would go 6 months without a page.

When T3 with a sustained release agent is taken properly according to the Doctor's Manual, it is generally very well tolerated and the benefits can be amazing.  (source)

I recommend you study this material well -- if you have a low body temperature, check out this Wilson's Syndrome. If you have that, it is relatively easy and cheap to treat and can make an enormous difference in your health and life.

Here are some of my personal experiences with this therapy.

I write this on July 3, 2003, after about 25 days of doing the therapy.

On this therapy I started with a dose of 7.5 mg of the T3 hormone -- a prescription item.

I stayed on that dose for three days, then increased the dosage by 7.5 mg, to 15.0 mg.

I increased the dosage every fourth day, meaning there were three days with the same dose.

It is vital, per the instructions, to take the two daily doses of this sustained time release exactly 12 hours apart.  The instructions say not to vary by more than 3 minutes.

I chose 8 AM and 8 PM.  I thought it would be easy to remember those times, and most of the time I did.  But there were several times when I was doing something and completely forgot -- I took the pills anyway, even if an hour or two late.

The AM pills were easy to get right.

During the time during the day you are supposed to take your temperature, three times, not including the early AM and the evening when, generally, body temperature is normally low.

So you might take the temperature at 10 AP, 1 PM and 4 PM.  This turned out to be easy to miss on.  I had many days when I completely forgot to take my temperature and had only one, or two temperatures within this time range, and separated by at least three hours.

I also discovered, and I may be peculiar, that if I took my temperature at 11:02 AM, for instance, and then again at 11:04, to see what was going on that the temperature changed by a full degree.

At first I thought this was a defective thermometer and bought two new, rather expensive, digital thermometers. The instructions said to use a "mercury" thermometer, but I have so much trouble reading that that I didn't do it more than a few times.

I found, eventually that the temperature was erratic and could be one whole degree higher or lower after just five minutes.

I still don't understand that, except the instructions imply that it is very difficult, very "tricky" to keep the T3 levels in the body steady -0- presumably that means that the temperature can also change quickly.  I am not sure.

Finally, today, 3 July 2003, I've had several temperatures above 98.6.  This is the goal -- to get three readings in the proper range, at normal.

But, one of the random readings today was 99.0 at noon and 97.3 at 12:23 PM.  You can review ALL my measurements HERE.

I haven't tried to get answers from the doctor yet, but feel that I have probably gotten to the 98.6 normal on a stable basis.  I'll see how the rest of the readings go.

Then, if I can, I'll ask the doctor. But, I'm ready to do the next step which is to gradually decrease the dosage of T3 all the way to zero -- hoping that now the temperature will stay at normal, and the treatment is successful.

I have not had any dramatically sudden changes in symptoms, other than temperature.  In other words, I was not overly tired anyway.  I do feel more energy, and I definitely sweat more than I did.  So, that is about all I have expected.  I am very satisfied with the remedy and the result.

I am pleased that my temperature is staying near 98.6 degrees and expect to get off the hormone and that the temperature will remain normal.

(If it drops, but not as low as it originally was, I can go right back on the treatment for a second run, and expect that run to be faster and easier.)   Since I leave for a cruise to Alaska on August 1, 2003, I do not plan to "go back" on the remedy, if needed at all, until after I return from Alaska.   I am also scheduled for cataract surgery on August 18, so I would wait until a few days after that, if I do see the need to repeat the remedy.

I'm pleased with my success on this treatment.

Don't expect this type of result with any non-prescription substance.

Karl Loren

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Dear Karl,
Wilson's syndrome does not exist!!

Dennis Wilson found that he had all these patients that exhibited overt symptoms of thyroid disorders, but their blood tests were all "normal!!" It never occurred to him that blood tests are notoriously inaccurate. Temperature fairly accurately mirrors thyroid [and adrenal] function. Like all medically-trained personnel, Wilson assumed that the under or over functioning thyroid gland just had to be "replaced". And Wilson invented various forms of T3 and T4 to accomplish that task. It never occurred to Wilson to ask the most obvious question....why is there a thyroid disorder???

In order to be more useful to your quest for thyroid data, I'll adopt your strategy and provide a reasonable amount of data for you to ponder. Just to preface the data, I have been treating thyroid disorders for 25 years and have developed a protocol that will restore thyroid function, under, over or nodules. We never replace thyroid function, we actually restore thyroid function back to normal, indefinitely. Yes, it can and is being done. Best wishes, Earl Conroy, New Zealand

Thyroid Regeneration:

Thyroid regeneration can be accomplished quite readily and has been accomplished with thousands of people worldwide.

It is not important whether one has hypo thyroid [Hashimoto’s thyroiditis] or hyperthyroid [Grave’s disease] as all forms of thyroid disorders respond to the HRP.

Nodules may take a bit longer to resolve.

Auto-Immune factors:

The primary reason for thyroid disorders is the presence of an auto-immune factor. That means that the body’s immune system is making antibodies that are deployed to destroy the auto-immune vector or toxin as well as infected tissues.

Medical “authorities” will tell us that auto-immune diseases occur when….” the body makes a mistake” and sends antibodies against its own tissues.

However, it’s crucial to understand that…” the body….never makes a mistake!!!”

If the immune system makes antibodies to destroy or eliminate thyroid vectors, toxins  or tissues it’s because there is a vector or toxin present that is causing the destructive process.

What are vectors?

Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease.

The most common vectors or toxins that cause auto-immune reactions are: 1-amalgam tooth fillings 2-some root canals and tooth or other infections 3-chlorine / fluorides in water and other “water purification chemicals.” 4-unfermented soy products, like tofu, soy milk, soy isolate 5-other heavy metals, lead, cadmium, strontium 6-radiation from microwaves, cell phones, computers, microwave ovens, nuclear power plants, overhead power lines. 7-pathogenic micro-organisms, like mycoplasma, candida, Chlamydia, e.coli, coxsackie virus, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, etc.

To restore thyroid function, it is advisable to eliminate the vectors and toxins causing the auto-immune reaction. Meaning… 1-have amalgam removed from teeth by a trained, competent dentist 2-filter tap water [any water] 3-eliminate unfermented soy products 4-remove sources of radiation and heavy metals from your environment or change your environment. 5-pathogenic micro-organisms: Once the above vectors/toxins have been removed then the Hormone Regeneration protocol [HRP] will eliminate the pathogenic infiltration that causes the auto-immune destruction of the thyroid gland.

[Karl Note:  I had all my silver fillings replaced many years ago, and have taken "metal removing oral chelation" for 20+ years.  I probably have less metals in my body than most people.]

The HRP also clears toxins from the intestines, liver and kidneys, restores operational function to these organs, eliminates irritable bowel or ‘leaky gut syndromes’, de-toxes the liver and gall bladder, restores necessary intestinal bacteria, reverses any tendency toward endometriosis, homocysteine build up [which appears to stimulate arterial plaque formation], diminishes or eliminates depression and substantially increases the synthesis of SAMe [s-adenosyl methionine] and glutathione, two very powerful anti-oxidants and metabolic enhancers.

[Karl Note:  I have done the world's best detox -- and doubt there is anything better.]

This is accomplished in a 2 to 3 week fairly intensive detox protocol. The HRP is not a “replacement” exercise but a significant step toward restoring the full range of healthful vitality and well-being.

[Karl Note:  My detox took 7 hours per day for 42 days -- in a sauna, exercise, and massive vitamins, etc.]

Thyrodine then will supply the crucial nutrients that restore natural, normal thyroid function, indefinitely. PMS, Menopausal and Gynecological symptoms, Prostate Enlargement: The protocol also addresses female steroid hormone balance and prostate enlargement through the detox process and clinically proven herbal formulas.

The HRP has been designed in a clinical setting to optimize the entire health spectrum. It accomplishes this by addressing the most frequent health problems found in over 30 years of naturopathic practice. When following the protocol by distance [through this web site or clinic distance shedule], every factor has been simplified to make it easy and practical to accomplish at home.

A New Lease:
But remember, this a life-restoring procedure. It takes dedication and a willingness to utilize the procedures that have restored health and well-being to thousands of folks all across the world.

What may occur if I choose not to use the Hormone Regeneration protocol?

Then, very likely, you will go from doctors to specialists to natural therapists, to untold blood tests, in a frantic search to “replace” the diminishing or excessive thyroid hormone without ever addressing the true cause of the disease.

RAI-Surgery:
In some instances of hyper thyroid you may even be advised to accept RAI or radio-active-iodine to destroy the thyroid gland or surgery to remove it. In the experience of this clinic, it is almost never necessary nor desirable to even consider such a radical and mutilating option, ever!

Medieval:
The thyroid function is so crucial to all metabolic and biochemical processes in the body, in protecting against disease and for stimulating energy and immunity, that to compromise thyroid function by totally inadequate and antiquated “replacement” or destructive procedures is medieval thinking at best.


Gluco-SAMe:
One of the new additions to the protocol is a biological remedy called Gluco-SAMe. This formula addresses many factors we have found to be part of the thyroid disorder. Briefly, the ingredients in Gluco-SAMe are designed to ….

1-Restore blood sugar balance, high or low
2-reduce or eliminate homocysteine build up which directly contributes to arterial plaque formation, which is a cause of heart attacks and strokes. 3-reduce or eliminate the presence of endometriosis in the uterus. 4-form a pre-cursor for SAMe or S-Adenosyl methionine, a potent aid to both phases of liver detoxification. 5-form a pre-cursor to the formation of glutathione, perhaps the most potent anti-oxidant in the body that combats free radicals which cause aging and tissue and organ destruction. 6-an excellent source of ‘B’ vitamins, minerals, key amino acids and methylating biologicals which aid in the detoxification process. 7-An excellent source of magnesium. 8-S-Adenosyl methionine (SAMe), promises to be the most potent, multi-purpose anti-aging, anti-disease therapy ever introduced! A natural metabolite of the amino acid methionine, SAMe appears to be a non-toxic, anti-aging, health-enhancing blockbuster that could do wonders for every one of us. 9-What is SAMe? SAMe is a natural metabolite of the amino acid methionine. SAMe is of great importance because it is a co-factor in a number of critical biochemical reactions. SAMe is the precursor for three fundamental biochemical pathways and it is found in almost every tissue of the body. SAMe has been used in clinical studies to treat depression, schizophrenia, demyelination diseases [MS], liver disease, dementia, arthritis, and other conditions. It was recently published in the Journal of Neurochemistry that brain levels of SAMe in Alzheimer's patients are severely decreased.

The Hormone Regeneration protocol is designed to aid in restoration of vibrant health and vitality while regenerating thyroid function.

 

Dear Karl,

Well, I didn't quite expect to see you post my whole message.

If you have responses to this data, you may choose to put my e-mail address out for queries.

I have found that it could be a problem to ask most people to do a month + long detox with all the extras you did.

The detox I advocate is one most people can handle and it does eliminate a lot of unneeded debris.

By accompanying the detox process with SAMe precursors [and glutathione precursors] we amplify the detox capacity of the liver, oppose free radical production,  while overcoming homocysteine excess, lessening a tendency to endometriosis, and supply anti-depression, anti-arthritic, ant-anxiety factors that aid the process considerably.

The idea of "replacement" for normal body functions is a bit of an arrogant stance. This indicates that an understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of the gland in question is lacking.

HRT is a perfect example. However, supplying biochemically identical progesterone does seem to have merit. But to "replace" thyroid hormones is not necessary [if the gland is intact, not destroyed by RAI or surgery] if one simply asks the question...why is there an over or under activity?

This question is answered in my original message. When the auto-immune factor is addressed, most thyroid glands will assume full thyroid activity if then supplied with the crucial nutrients it requires, indefinitely. Should you take this data to a medically trained person for evaluation, I hope that person is conversant with the mechanism of auto immune disorders...beyond the cop out phrase that... the body "makes a mistake!!!"

Earl

Dear Earl,

Well, Earl, I've posted your further message. 

I would not normally go "look up" your address some time later, so place it here (on the web), now, in case someone does read this material and wants to contact you.

waiorama@ihug.co.nz

Regards,

Karl

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