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Wilson's Syndrome: The
Thyroid's Role in Depression, Anxiety, and Other Symptoms
(Taken from: "A Brief
Overview of the Thyroid System"
by Dr. Denis Wilson)
You or someone you love may have a number of disturbing
and baffling symptoms. Why baffling?
Baffling, because you may have been to the doctor only to be told that
there's nothing wrong with you and that there's nothing that can be done
to help you. Your reaction may be similar to that of many people in the
same situation, depending on how badly you feel. If you don't feel too
badly you may wonder about your sanity. The doctor may imply, and you may
wonder, if everyone with your age and circumstances feels the way that you
do. On the other hand, if you feel very badly and especially if you feel a
lot worse than you used to, you may become angry because you know there's
something wrong.
Problems with the thyroid hormone system can cause a large number of
varied complaints. Because the thyroid hormone system regulates the
metabolism, or the sum of all the body's chemical reactions, it can have
very far-reaching effects. If the thyroid system malfunctions the entire
metabolism can slow down causing a many classic symptoms such as
migraines, depression, easy weight gain, fatigue, irritability, anxiety,
panic attacks, dry skin, dry hair, hair loss, fluid retention, brittle
nails, and many others. But why do doctors sometimes have such trouble
recognizing and treating these problems?
Briefly, there's a gland in the head called the pituitary gland. There's a
gland in the neck called the thyroid gland. The pituitary gland acts as a
thermostat. When the metabolism slows down too much and the body doesn't
stay warm enough, the pituitary gland secretes a hormone (Thyroid
Stimulating Hormone or TSH) that stimulates the thyroid gland. The thyroid
gland is supposed to respond by making more thyroid hormone, which is
supposed to result in the speeding up of the metabolism. And when the
metabolism speeds up to normal all should be well.
That sounds simple enough, doesn't it? However, there are two areas that
confuse and mislead many physicians. The first is that many doctors don't
know how the thyroid hormone produced in the thyroid gland speeds up the
metabolism. The second is that most doctors don't know a good way of
determining how well that stimulation is working. You can ask your doctor
how the thyroid hormone produced in the thyroid gland speeds up the
metabolism. S/he may respond by saying something about the thyroid hormone
fitting in receptors in the cells of the body. But actually, the thyroid
hormone produced in the thyroid gland (T4) is not primarily responsible
for speeding up the metabolism. It is simply the raw material that the
tissues of the body use to make the active hormone (T3). By far, most of
the active thyroid hormone is produced OUTSIDE the thyroid gland, in the
tissues of the body. That's very important.
You can ask your doctor if s/he knows a good way of determining how well
the thyroid system is stimulating the metabolism. S/he may respond by
saying something about thyroid blood tests. However, many patients have
normal thyroid blood tests and yet still have low body temperatures and
classic thyroid symptoms that respond quickly and completely to proper T3
therapy and often remain improved even after the treatment has been
discontinued.
How can that be? Why WOULDN'T that be? Remember when I explained that the
purpose of the thyroid system was to stimulate the metabolism to make sure
it runs fast enough to keep the body warm enough? Wouldn't it make sense
that measuring how warm the body is would be a good way of determining how
well that was working? Looking at blood tests to see if the body's cells
are being sufficiently stimulated is a little like looking at your car's
gas gauge instead of the speedometer to see how fast you're going. Sure,
you need gas to go but you never know how fast you're going until you look
at the speedometer. A thermometer is like a speedometer. It tells you just
how fast your body is going. A blood test is like the gas gauge; it shows
whether or not you have plenty of raw material.
You say, "But that's obvious!" And I agree. Then where's the confusion?
It's here. Have you ever heard someone working on a problem say something
like, "I tried such-and-such and it didn't work so I tried so-and-so and
it worked so that must have been the problem"? Or how about something
like, "I tried such-and-such and so-and-so and it didn't make any
difference so maybe that's the way it's supposed to be"? This thyroid
mystery is really no more complicated than that. Doctors have been
overlooking Wilson's Syndrome because they haven't had a good way to treat
it.
On the other hand, doctors haven't overlooked hypothyroidism because they
HAVE had a good way of treating IT. In hypothyroidism, the thyroid gland
doesn't produce enough raw material (T4) to run the thyroid system and the
body slows down, developing classic symptoms. That's like a car starting
to run out of gas. And just as running out of gas shows up on the gas
gauge, hypothyroidism shows up on blood tests. When a car runs completely
out of gas, it stops; and when people run completely out of thyroid, they
stop as well. Hypothyroidism can be fatal. Working on this problem,
doctors tried giving sick people with low blood tests some T4 and they got
better! So they concluded, "That must have been what was wrong with them."
However, Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome is not immediately fatal and giving
patients with Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome (who are complaining of symptoms
identical to hypothyroidism) T4 doesn't help very much. So doctors
concluded, "I tried this, and I tried that, and neither seemed to help and
the patients haven't died so maybe they're fine." But just as there are
many cars that don't run properly even though they have plenty of gas,
there are many people who don't run properly even though they have plenty
of the raw material thyroid (T4). If a car has a full tank of gas but
can't go over 30 miles per hour, there's a problem. Likewise, if a person
has normal blood tests but has a low body temperature and classic symptoms
of low thyroid function, there's a problem.
How'd you like to hear a fairly absurd story?
Once upon a time, there was a country that didn't have any cars. One day,
cars were introduced into the country. Of course, the people didn't know
very much about cars. Before long cars were seen parked in odd places like
on the side of the road or in the middle of intersections. It turned out
that the cars wouldn't go very far until they stopped.
One man found out from a tourist what was going on. The cars were running
out of gas! He became a mechanic and was able to help anyone with that
problem. People would push their cars in and he'd fill their tanks with
gas and off they'd go. He even taught his clients to predict when they
might need to bring their cars in based on the readings of a gauge on
their dashboards. Some of his clients brought in cars that wouldn't go as
fast as they used to. The gauges said there was enough gas, and the
mechanic even tried putting some more gas in anyway, but it didn't help.
So what did he think? "Well all cars are different, maybe these cars
aren't as fast as other cars." "Maybe these folks are just imagining
things, maybe their cars are going as well as ever but they just think
they're running slower." "If they are running slower, maybe that's normal
for cars as they get older and there's nothing that can be done about it."
Or how about, "Well they have plenty of gas, and the cars are moving, so
they're fine" (remember up until this point the mechanic knew of only two
kinds of cars, those that move and those that don't because they're out of
gas). These are all fairly reasonable thoughts considering the mechanic's
experience.
One day, his tourist friend returns and shows him how to adjust the
carburetors on some of these cars. Only when he sees the cars speed away
does he realize the cars did indeed have an easily corrected problem! The
medical profession has been overlooking Wilson's Syndrome, and doctors
have been wondering if sufferers' problems have been imagined or normal
because they didn't have a good way of treating it. Doctors aren't
going to realize that Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome is a very common and very
treatable condition until they try the T3 therapy as described in the
Doctor's Manual in a few patients and see some of them reincarnated. The
fact that this story sounds so absurd only shows that we know a lot more
about cars than we do about the thyroid system.
Let's go over the most common thyroid problems and their treatments.
Hyperthyroidism: the thyroid gland produces too much thyroid hormone.
Grave's disease: can be thought of as severe hyperthyroidism.
Hypothyroidism: the thyroid gland produces too little thyroid hormone.
Hashimoto's Thyroditis: white blood cells infiltrating into the thyroid
gland tissue, sometimes progresses to hypothyroidism.
Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome: the thyroid gland produces plenty of T4, but
the body temperature is still low and patients still complain of low
thyroid symptoms that respond well to T3 therapy.
The treatment of Hyperthyroidism and/or Grave's disease often render
patients permanently hypothyroid. There are several kinds of
hypothyroidism (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, as well as those due to
treatment of hyperthyroidism, and those due to Hashimoto's or other forms
of thyroditis).
But they are all treated the same way: giving patients enough T4 to make
their blood tests normal.
Treatment of hypothyroidism (due to any cause) may not be successful in
eliminating the patients' hypothyroid symptoms because the patients may
ALSO be suffering from Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome.
A car can run out of gas, but it can also have a maladjusted carburetor.
Likewise, people can have Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome in addition to
hypothyroidism, but most patients with WTS are not hypothyroid.
The standard treatment for Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome applies to people who
are not hypothyroid, but Chapter 12 of the Doctor's Manual explains how to
treat hypothyroid patients with Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome.
Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome is probably more common than all other thyroid
system disorders combined!
Measuring Your Temperatures
If you have the symptoms of Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome or low thyroid
function, particularly if they seem to have been brought on or worsened by
stress, I urge you to see how fast your metabolism is running my measuring
your temperature! Even if you "know" your temperatures are normal, I urge
you to check them again.
I recommend that you use a mercury thermometer. Digital thermometers can
easily become inaccurate due to being dropped and/or having low batteries.
If you do not have a mercury thermometer, I recommend that you make a note
on a sheet of paper right now, while you're thinking about it, and stick
it into a crack of the steering wheel of your car. That way you'll be able
to easily remember to get one the next time you're out.
Remember to shake the mercury in the thermometer down below 97 degrees
(36.1 C) each time before you take your temperature. Grab the top of the
thermometer and flick your wrist while holding tightly! (It's easy to
fling them across the room and they can break). I suggest you measure your
temperature 3 times a day, 3 hours apart, starting 3 hours after you wake
up, for 3 days. For example, if you wake up at 7am, you can take your
temperature at 10am, 1pm, and 4pm. Add your 3 daily temperatures together
and divide the sum by 3 to get each day's average. If you are female, it's
best not to take your temperature during the 3 days prior to your period
since it's higher then. The temperature should be taken under the tongue
for around 7 minutes. Do not drink anything hot or cold for at least 15
minutes before taking your temperatures. If your temperatures run, on
average, less than 98.6 F (37 C), that could easily explain symptoms of
low thyroid system function. Temperatures of less than 98 F (36.7 C) are
particularly consistent with Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome.
What if your temperatures aren't low?
If your story is very consistent with Wilson's Syndrome, as described in
the book Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome - A Reversible Thyroid Problem, then it
is quite possible that your thermometer is wrong. You might try making
sure the mercury is shaken down below about 96 (35.6 C) or 97 (36.1 C)
before measuring your temperature. Or, you might try using another
thermometer because sometimes your thermometer may read normal, but
another one may indicate your temperature's low. |
Source
Dr. Wilson Biographical
Information
 |
Dr. Wilson hasn't put any
biographical information about himself in his books because he's wanted the
information to be evaluated on it’s own merit. He feels more emphasis should
be placed on what is right, not who is right. Proper T3 therapy
works ... because it does. Nevertheless, many have requested we post some
biographical data on Dr. Wilson, so here it is: |
Dr. Denis Wilson's father
graduated as the top cadet in the U.S. Naval Academy as did several U.S.
astronauts. His father, a decorated commander of a squadron of fighter pilots,
died as a passenger on the transport helicopter carrying him home from Viet Nam
for the last time. This occurred when Denis was seven years old, and the oldest
of his four siblings was 12. With 5 young children in tow, his mother went back
to school, became a real estate broker and started her own firm.
In high school, Denis got
the highest score on the SAT exam out of a class of 840 students, as well as
receiving the Bausch & Lomb Science Award for the student with the best high
school science career. He played on the tennis team, and won the citywide high
school championship for his swimming event in Orlando, FL.
At 17, Denis went to the
University of Florida, using G.I. Bill benefits from his father’s death in the
military. He was accepted into the Honors Program and majored in Chemistry. He
also enjoyed training with the top-ranked college swimming and diving team in
the country.
Then, a special exception
was made and Denis was accepted into the University of South Florida College of
Medicine after 3 years of college, without a Bachelor's degree. While in medical
school in Tampa, he enjoyed working one summer as a professional springboard
diver in the diving show at the dolphin arena in Busch Gardens.
After one year of Family
Practice residency, Dr. Wilson became a licensed physician and began practicing
medicine in Orlando, FL. At about that time, his mother died at the age of 50
from a stroke. After 2 years of private practice, he began taking an interest in
the thyroid system in 1988. By 1989, he had pretty much worked out the treatment
protocol for Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome. He finished his book, Wilson's Thyroid
Syndrome - A Reversible Thyroid Condition (formerly, Wilson's Syndrome -- The
Miracle of Feeling Well), by 1991. In 1993, Dr. Wilson devoted an entire year to
finish the Doctor's Manual for Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome. Since then, Dr. Wilson
has spent much of his time getting the often "life-changing" T3
therapy protocol widely available to those who desperately need it. Wilson’s
Thyroid Syndrome is being successfully treated worldwide, and is appearing in
Medical Conventions, Books, TV, Radio, Magazines, Newspapers, Newsletters, and
the Internet. But Dr. Wilson gives most of the credit for the spread of Wilson’s
Thyroid Syndrome to:
- Patients telling their doctors
- Doctors telling their patients
- People getting treated and
‘reincarnated’, and telling their friends and family.
Dr. Wilson is married, has 5
children, is active in his church, enjoys inventing, and likes technology.
Opposition Dr. Wilson
Faced In The Early Years Of Wilson’s Thyroid Syndrome
In the beginning, Dr. Wilson was the only doctor treating WTS. Neither the book,
Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome – A Reversible Thyroid Problem (formerly, Wilson’s
Syndrome – The Miracle of Feeling Well), nor the Doctor’s Manual had been
written yet. Dr. Wilson wasn’t really criticized so much for his views (because
people really didn’t know what his views were or why he held them), so much as
some criticized what they supposed were his views. Some tried to project the
notion that WTS was all about weight loss. It is obvious from Dr. Wilson’s
writings that WTS is all about the symptoms of hypothyroidism.
The State of Florida was faced with complaints from other doctors about Dr.
Wilson’s treatment of several patients (even though many of those patients
themselves were well pleased with the results they had obtained), and the state
was faced with the expensive proposition of taking those complaints to trial.
(In addition, Dr. Wilson chose to get the word out about his treatment approach
through heavy advertising. This concerned the State of Florida). Likewise, Dr.
Wilson was also faced with the expensive proposition of answering those issues
in trial, especially since there wasn’t one other doctor at the time that knew
about WTS. These events took time to transpire, during which Dr. Wilson was able
to publish the book (WS-MOFW). However, Dr. Wilson’s legal counsel at the time
suggested (perhaps unwisely) that no mention be made of it.
In order to avoid further expense on both sides, the State of Florida and Dr.
Wilson entered into a Consent Agreement (compromise). Dr. Wilson agreed
not to practice medicine for 6 months, pay a fine of $10,000, and not to treat
WTS until it was more widely accepted by the medical community. Since the case
did not go to trial, it was not determined that Dr. Wilson had done anything
wrong in his treatment of patients, nor was it determined that the State of
Florida did anything wrong in bringing this action against him. In the consent
agreement, both sides admitted no wrongdoing. When the 6 months had passed, Dr.
Wilson chose not to begin practicing medicine again right away. He felt that he
could help more patients by getting WTS more widely accepted by the medical
community (by writing the Doctor’s Manual, lecturing about WTS at Continuing
Medical Education Approved Medical Conventions, appearing on Radio and TV shows,
and developing patient education and other materials). The good news is that
there are now hundreds, and probably thousands, of doctors who are reproducing
Dr. Wilson’s fantastic results with the T3
protocol. Patients all over the world are now obtaining relief for debilitating,
and previously baffling symptoms.
Also in the beginning, a woman in her 50’s had a fatal heart attack. Although
she was a patient of Dr. Wilson’s, according to his records she was not taking
the T3 medicine in
a manner similar to the way it was prescribed. After her fatal heart attack, her
daughter filed a malpractice suit against Dr. Wilson saying that it was his
treatment of her mother that caused her death. The case was settled out of court
for about $250,000. It was never proven (because there’s no way of knowing) that
the T3 she was taking,
even in the way that she was taking it, had anything to do with her death.
Furthermore, she was taking Cytomel, not the T3 compounded with a
sustained-release agent that Dr. Wilson now recommends. As a comparison, when
Dr. Wilson was using Cytomel for the T3 therapy in several hundred
patients at a time, he might get 7 to 8 beeper pages over the weekend from
patients having fairly significant side effects. When he switched all of his
patients over to the T3 compound that he conceived of, he would go
6 months without a page.
Incidentally, giving T3
therapy for patients’ symptoms of low thyroid function based on their symptoms
(as opposed to blood test results) is something that has been done for over 50
years. It’s just that Dr. Wilson’s principles and methods are believed, by many,
to be far more effective.
Why Named Wilson's?
Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome needed a name because it had not been
previously described. Quite a few doctors said there was nothing to the
syndrome. Dr. Wilson was convinced otherwise. He stood up for the syndrome, and
the people suffering from it. While others scoffed at the syndrome (and the
patients), he knew it was here to stay and lent his name to prove the point.
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