[quote]scj119 wrote:
First off, ideal TSH does not mean your thyroid hormones are optimal, it simply means your body isn’t requesting more. It’s usually a good indicator, but in some cases doesn’t tell the whole thyroid picture.
I’m not sure taking so much T4 is a good idea for you. Since you haven’t been able to test for RT3, I’m going to use my “best guess” that your body is converting way too much FT4 into RT3… making T4 supplementation sub-optimal.
My reasoning is that your labs routinely show your FT4 to be slightly or significantly higher in their lab range than FT3 - so your body is probably converting a lot of your FT4 to RT3. If I’m right – and I would NOT stake a substantial amount of money on this - t3-only meds would be a better option, or at least a more equal mix.
That being said, why would poor thyroid function raise your cholesterol?
Also, if you lifted recently before your blood test, that can raise liver markers - I took 3 days off lifting before I had my liver tested, for safety’s sake.[/quote]
Yeah I think the FT4 to Rt3 conversion is probably happening but I will have to get tested for that next year when I am back in OZ. I expected to have it done here in Czech but apparently no tests for it here so yeah.
Agree that the T3 would be a better option might ask for more of that and lower T4.
Cholesterol values do get elevated if you are HYPO. Basically they say not diet related but metabolic related.
I trained the day before most likely it was back. But looking back at previous blood results back to 1999 it was elevated there too. So nothing new and liver markers also elevated most of the time in the last 10 years. Had liver ultrasound nothing detected.
VT - my diet is like this
Meal 1
50grams of protein with about 200ml of milk.
100grams of oats with 300ml of milk
train at 9 or 10 usually
shake
after workout I’ll have 25grams of protein mixed with milk
meal 2
250grams of beef or chicken breast with rice or baked potatoes bit of sweet chilli and mayo.
meal 3
I’ll either have another 100grams of oats with milk 300ml or I’ll make myself a shake which consists of a banana and 125grams of cottage cheese and 300ml of milk.
meal 4
same as meal 2. or occasionally I’ll have baked beans with 4-5 eggs.
Then throughout the day I might eat some bananas etc…
Milk is Low Fat 1.5%, baked potates can be substituted with backed chips (4.5% fat) however I was on basmati rice for 4 months from January to May pretty much everyday. So with my meals I either have potatoes,rice,or baked chips. Meat wise I eat chicken,beef,pork all lean stuff.
don’t drink,don’t smoke don’t eat fried stuff at all, don’t use oil to cook. The only unhealthy thing I have is mayonnaise with sweet chilli with my meat. That is pretty much the only fatty stuff I eat and according to the labels a tablespoon has 1% of cholesterol intake per day. So I might have 2 of those a day. Usually the mayo stuff is cholesterol free so to speak.
If you think the mayo could be a problem I have my doubts. I went on a diet for 3 months no mayo and it made no change at all.
Eating 200grams of oats a day and that is not lowering my cholesterol either.
I really doubt it is food related.
Eating 4-5 eggs daily is really a new addition to my diet have not really been doing it long.