Sentences with phrase «need less thyroid hormone»
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From the reading that I have done, this is not unusual, and many Celiacs experience a need for less thyroid hormone once off of gluten.
http://www.thepatientceliac.com/
When your thyroid gland produces less hormone than your body needs, a condition called hypothyroidism occurs.
Dr Tom O'Bryan (gluten expert) quoted a study recently which showed that when people went on a gluten free diet they needed 50 % less thyroid hormones than when eating gluten.
By contrast, when circulating thyroid levels are higher than needed, the hypothalamus and pituitary gland produce and release less of these hormones, thereby decreasing the amount of thyroid hormone in the bloodstream.
The T4 hormone is an active thyroid hormone, but it is less physiologically active than T3 and needs to be converted to T3 by our bodies.