With your diet, %BF and diet, you really do not seem to be candidate for diabetes, A1C seems unwarranted. Add CBC, hematocrit [HTC], fasting cholesterol and fasting glucose.
With lower T, DHT will be lower and DHT lab results do not provide any useful information.
You are iodine deficient and need to take higher dose iodine for replenishment. But make sure that there is selenium listed in your vitamins, and how much iodine is in the vitamins.
You seem to have thyroid hypo symptoms. Taking higher dose iodine will exaggerate TSH and the TSH labs are then not very useful.
Thyroid does impact immune system. So does Vit-D. Take 5000iu Vit-D3 per day and then test Vit-D25 to see where you are.
Typically thyroid antibody tests are done as a follow up to other thyroid lab results. Thyroid auto immune problems can be from high TSH, from iodine deficiency with a lack of selenium needed to support critical enzyme processes. Without selenium, inflammation triggers immune processes to clean up damaged cells and immune system can interpret the cellular debris as foreign and then its an autoimmune disease.
Are your outer eyebrows sparse?
Thyroid is sore, enlarged, asymmetric or lumpy?
Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- thyroid basics
- finding a TRT doc
Stop using sea salt. Others in your home are affected too!
Get more iodine, selenium is very important.