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Another study has oem softwares 7 ultimate confirmed the relationship between thyroid function and mood. In this oem softwares 7 ultimate study, reported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 2/3 of 65 patients diagnosed with depression from oem softwares 7 ultimate Bipolar Disorder have “sub-optimal” thyroid levels. These patients with low-normal thyroid levels took an oem softwares 7 ultimate average of 4 months longer to respond to their depression medications. You can oem softwares 7 ultimate read about this study and a lot more interesting information on Dr. Daniel Amen’s website picnik software portable. Dr. Amen is oem softwares 7 ultimate a physician who is in the forefront of innovative brain research and oem softwares 7 ultimate therapy.

Two things interest me about this study.

One is oem softwares 7 ultimate that medicine is weirdly compartmentalized these days. There are Thyroid Specialists who oem softwares 7 ultimate will not look at the adrenal, the ovaries or the other endocrine glands, much less the oem softwares 7 ultimate digestion, immune system or other intimately-connected body systems. As I’ve said in a previous post, the body is actually a Metabolic Matrix, all the oem softwares 7 ultimate parts connected and working in harmony. So OF COURSE the thyroid and oem softwares 7 ultimate the brain are connected. Anyone who has taken Paxil and their metabolism goes through the oem softwares 7 ultimate floor (and weight through the roof!) knows that. Thyroid hormone is made from an amino acid (protein) called L-tyrosine, and oem softwares 7 ultimate this is the same protein that makes the neurotransmitters Dopamine and oem softwares 7 ultimate Norrepinephrine. When one is compromised, the others are as well.

The second interesting thing is oem softwares 7 ultimate that this study acknowledges the subtle ways that thyroid function can oem softwares 7 ultimate be compromised. This is not about Hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis or other thyroid diseases. These people were within the normal laboratory limits for oem softwares 7 ultimate thyroid function. They were just a little off, yet it had oem softwares 7 ultimate a profound effect on their mental health and recovery. The relationship of suboptimal thyroid function to oem softwares 7 ultimate mood disorders is all over the standard medical literature (see below). Yet, in most situations a psychiatrist wouldn’t pay attention to oem softwares 7 ultimate the thyroid, or refer to an endocrinologist who would call this oem softwares 7 ultimate “normal”, since it didn’t qualify as a disease.

I have oem softwares 7 ultimate found low-dose thyroid support to be very helpful in depressed patients, both for oem softwares 7 ultimate energy, mood, and metabolism. More on that in a future post.

A new study funded by the oem softwares 7 ultimate National Institute of Mental Health reports that as many as two out of every three patients with bipolar depression may have oem softwares 7 ultimate suboptimal thyroid hormone levels. These slight imbalances, though still within the oem softwares 7 ultimate “normal range,” appear to oem softwares 7 ultimate make these patients much more resistant to standard drug treatments with anti-depressants.

Researchers measured thyroid hormone levels in 65 patients diagnosed in the oem softwares 7 ultimate depressive phase of bipolar disorder. For the next 50 months, they tracked their recovery after treatment with mood-stabilizing drug therapies, including lithium carbonate and oem softwares 7 ultimate various antidepressant medications.

While it’s already well known that oem softwares 7 ultimate both overt and subclinical thyroid dysfunction are strongly linked with depression, the oem softwares 7 ultimate effect of more subtle thyroid imbalances has not yet been thoroughly studied. The study found that oem softwares 7 ultimate patients with low normal levels of free thyroxine (T4) index or high normal levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels were much less responsive to oem softwares 7 ultimate various drug treatments for depression. On average, these patients took nearly one year to oem softwares 7 ultimate respond to drug therapy - at least four months longer than oem softwares 7 ultimate patients who had an optimal thyroid profile.

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One Response to “Thyroid and the Brain”

  1. on 15 Nov 2007 at 1:28 pm Neil

    This is oem softwares 7 ultimate fascinating, especially as I have the low TSH levels and I’m bipolar. Also, my (non-biological)mother has Hashimoto’s disease and has been on Synthroid for about 20 years. Now I’m eager for oem softwares 7 ultimate your next post to learn about low-dose thyroid support, and your oem softwares 7 ultimate personal experience with Parkinson’s Disease. Your book is great, I have a copy.

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