Time to check your Thyroid?!

Feeling puffy and tired despite your clean diet? Is your hair and skin dry and brittle? Are your workouts lacking because you’re just too tired to really give it your all? Or do you have the opposite problem are you jittery and anxious all the time and have problems putting on weight? Or have problems sleeping? Do you experience heart palpitations out of the blue? If said yes to most of these questions it could be your thyroid. It’s called your T3. We’ve all heard about hypothyroidism. Usually, it refers to how someone has a slow metabolism. The thyroid hormones control the speed at which processes happen in the body or your metabolism. You can also have the opposite problem of too much thyroid hormone: hyperthyroidism. If your thyroid hormones are out of whack it can affect your energy levels, mood, athletic performance, and body composition, in addition to many other things.

Free T3 is the workhorse of all the thyroid hormones. Let me explain how thyroid hormones are produced and work, so you can understand why Free T3 is the stud of the thyroid family. Without adequate Free T3 levels, a person may feel fatigued, have mood problems like depression or anxiety, be inappropriately cold, have dry, brittle hair and dry skin, struggle with losing weight, and/or have high cholesterol. The opposite is true of too much T3. Heart palpitations, an inability to gain weight, anxiety, muscle weakness, and insomnia are all symptoms associated with hyperthyroidism. None of that sounds good, so it would be of benefit if you are having any of these symptoms to see your doctor and ask that they check your thyroid levels including a Free T3 levels.