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Interpreting my lab results - new to thyroid info

Brand new and currently learning more about the thyroid.

Below are my lab results (non fasted)
after having symptoms of sluggish metabolism, constipation/GI issues, low vit D,
low Testosterone, and a tingling sensation in the neck/thyroid area.
If the labs are all normal ranges, might it be a pituitary issue causing the tingling sensation?
Also, what are your opinions on Lugol's iodine supplementation if I don't have Hashi's?

Im 29, male, 150lbs, extremely active for years now.
Thank you for any help in advance!

TSH          2.09 uiu/ml

T3 Free          3.1 pg/ml
T3 Total        100 ng/dl
T3 uptake       32
Reverse T3     16  ng/dl

T4 Free      1.3  ng/dl
T4 total       7.4 ug/dl

Thyroid antibody  <10 iu/ml
Thyroxine binding glob   19.1  meg/ml



Testosterone total    356 ng/dl
Vit D 25 Total           40 ng/ml
cortisol total             10.9ug/dl
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Lots of previous info here, and good advice from goolarra.  Just wanted to throw in some info I got from a very good thyroid doctor.

"The free T3 is not as helpful in untreated persons as the free T4 because in the light of a rather low FT4 the body will convert more T4 to T3 to maintain thyroid effect as well as is possible. So the person with a rather low FT4 and high-in-range FT3 may still be hypothyroid. However, if the FT4 is below 1.3 and the FT3 is also rather low, say below 3.4 (range 2 to 4.4 at LabCorp) then its likely that hypothyroidism is the cause of a person's symptoms."
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Update on Labs (bloodwork)
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T3 uptake 27.84
(23 - 26)

Thyroxine total (T4) 6.5
(4.5 - 11.7)

TSH 1.87
(.27 - 4.2)

FTI(T7) 1.8
(1.0-4.5)

Free T4 1.13
(.80 - 1.7)

Free T3 (3.16)
(2.0 - 4.4)

Total T3 102
(80 - 200)

vitamin d 56
(30 - 100)

THYROID ANTIBODIES (TG ab/ TPO ab) & Peroxidase Ab
.4  
(<9)

antithyroglobulin Ab
.9
(<4)
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Here is a VERY interesting/confusing update for you. Once again I appreciate all your help thus far.

After getting weekly testosterone shots for 1 month (1cc of Depo Test) my testosterone came in high

Testosterone Total

Before
320

After injections
1034 (160 - 853 ng/dl)

After Bi-weekly liquid Vit D 50,000 injections for 1 month, the
Vit D 25-hydroxy
is still
LOW

BEFORE
40

AFTER
24.95  ( 33 - 100 ng/ml )

In addition, the doc wants to check thyroid again in 3 weeks before prescribing a combo of t3/t4 (not synthroid).
The doctor said the antibody test didn't reveal anything but him not knowing or not discussing the fact that there is 2 different tests for thyroid antibodies concerns me. Could both  TPOab and TGab be included in the thyroid antibodies blood test?

I will do more research but the thing that gets me is if it were a GI issue (intolerance, Crohns, IBS, Celiac), how come the VIT D level hasn't come up with liquid injections if it bypassed the GI ? Could this point more to a thyroid/pituitary ?
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I'd say that's pretty spot on.
I take probiotics and also try to add kimchee to most of my meals.
I also get the bulk of my food from a local organic/free range/pasture raised/grass-fed/raw Farm.
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Avoiding Soy in America is nearly impossible unless you do not eat a single thing that is processed.  Sort of the same thing with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)

look onthe ingredient list and soy oil is used in almost anything creamy.  HFCS is similar and they are often paired together.

But think about this. in the USA, the governmetn subsidizes both the producation of corn and soy beans.  And we ares surprised that corn and soy appear in almost everything. And many of these processed foods are cheap. (Maybe because government subsidy's have artifically kept the prices lower).

So it is only logical that when you incent people to do something you get more of it.  So the farmers are producing more and more and more of soy and corn.

Both of them are also highly genetically modified.  Mostly to be resistent to pests and round up.  As a result the farmers use MORE chemical round up (glyphoste) which kills the weeds but does not affect the soy or corn plant.  By killing the weeds it allows the corn and soy to have higher yields.  Bottom line the farmer gets paid more and get subsidized besides.  Massive production results in people inventing ways to utililze these ingredients. And BINGO you have soy and corn in almost everything.  This should not come as a surprise.

Related back to gut bacteria.  These "roundup ready" plants which are covered repeatedly with ever increasing doses of roundup, are eaten by both humans and livestock that we humans also eat.  While round up process is not used in humans so "THEY" say it is perfectly safe, it is true. However the "good" gut bacteria in your digestive track however use the same pathway that round up disrupts. So it kills your good gut bacteria.  Compound that with the reduced immunity that results from poor gut bacteria and all of a sudden there is a need for increased antibiotics. And what does the antibiotics do? Well of course they kill bacteria.  But they also happen to kill the good gut bacteria along with the bad bacteria that is causing the illness.  And the animals taking antibiotics to both stay healthy and for no other reason other than to fatten them up right before slaughter leave residual antibiotics in the meat.  Which we humans ingest, which kills bacteria.

Botom line is that in America our gut bacteria is absolutely under seige.  Killing the good gut bacteria.  Compound that with the idea that carbs expecially simple carbs of sugar, corn syrup and breads etc are food for yeast overgrowth. This is "bad" bacteria if over populated in the gut. Yet in the USA this is EXACTLY what we are eating.  The almost perfect combination of feeding yeast, and killing good bacteria, causing leaky gut which may need antibiotics which kill gut bacteria and we stay in a constant state of poor gut bacteria health and overall health.

So in the end, we wonder why we have a huge (no pun intended) obesity and diabetes problem. When we subsidize cheap food which is super high sugar and carbs guranteeing low prices, kill off gut bacteria. And then we wonder why a large portion of our society is overweight and diabetic.  When we force low prices of foods which almost deliberately spike insulin and sugar and fat production.  This explains why the USA and other "rich" nations poorest people also have the highest obesity rates.  In every other country throughout history the poorest people can't afford food and are the skinniest.  Yet in the USA the poorest people are the most obese. Why, because the cheap food is exactly the food that produces the physiological response of diabetes abnd obesity.

We as a society are with taxpayer funded subsidy are killing ourselves with the food we produce and eat.

Just my opnion of what I see connecting some pretty seemingly to me at least obvious "dots".
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I don't know anything about testosterone as a medication, but 200 ml would equal 200 cc, no?  I'm sure whatever you're getting as an injectable from your doctor is good quality; you only have to make sure the quantity is appropriate.

Most of us (thyroidians) avoid soy because it can have a negative effect on thyroid hormones.  I avoid it because until the 1960s, it was animal fodder.  Westerners didn't eat soy.  Asians have always eaten soy, but they learned millennia ago that it has to be fermented to be digestible.  

Once again, never having had any allergy testing myself, I've never explored how accurate the skin test is.  My husband was having gut problems a while ago, and he had blood tests for food allergies.  I would assume that you are probably more sensitive than allergic if your throat doesn't close up and you don't go into anaphylactic shock when you eat them.

I suppose they scratch you with the 20 most popular allergens???  Before my husband's blood test, we had to go through a questionnaire to identify what we thought were the most likely suspects, so the test was targeted.  Why test for eggs if you never eat them?  Has your doctor suggested exploring these "allergies" with a more sensitive test?  
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