Hormone replacement causes your organ to shrink

Taking Testosterone or Thyroid hormone or really any hormone causes the corresponding organ it is trying to help to work less and over time weaken.

I’m going to make this short and sweet because the concept is very simple. If I decide to use a machine to do my lifting from now on, the muscle that was originally doing the work now sits and weakens over time and shrivels up. This same thing happens to any organ when we take hormones like testosterone or levothyroxine to “balance” things. From that time forward your organ will not have to produce the hormone in as high of a quantity and over time will weaken, and its ability to create that hormone will be reduced even further.

From that time forward it is a juggling act to try to get the right amount of drug whether it be testosterone, thyroxine, or whatever. The body uses complex checks and balances to maintain perfect hormone levels, but when we take the hormone in the form of a drug the system is thrown off and the body’s ability to create homeostasis or balance becomes more difficult.

Sometimes hormone therapy is just plain needed, such as when the thyroid has been removed due to cancer or other situations. However, I believe that for most people it shouldn’t be the first approach we use. Wouldn’t it make more sense to find ways to support and strengthen the organ first so that your body can truly keep balance and the organ can continue to function?

So many people, even young people in their 20s and 30s even, are being prescribed thyroid and testosterone and once on it for very long, they will likely be dependent on it the rest of their lives.

There are ways to support organ systems that are weak. The right nutrition, and protomorphagens from bovine organs (including the thyroid and other hormone producing organs) and herbal combinations specific to each organ, can give these organs the boost they need to return to functioning well again.

Many people think they may be hypothyroid due to their symptoms. They feel fatigued, gain weight, feel cold, have thinning hair, dry skin, brain fog, depression, constipation and other symptoms. So, they get blood tests to determine if they need to get on thyroid medication. Often TSH, T3, T4 levels etc. confirm they have a low functioning thyroid, and also there are those whose blood test comes back normal even though they have many of the symptoms. However, if your tests show normal but you have many of the symptoms, just know this: by the time blood test show TSH and T4 levels demonstrating a weak thyroid, that person’s thyroid has been struggling for many years, so if the blood work show that you are fine, you may not be, and your suspicions that your thyroid is weak may be true.

If you suspect weak thyroid, or even if you have been diagnosed by your blood work to have a weak thyroid. Or if you have been shown to be low testosterone, it is the same principle. Before taking hormones dedicate a few months to giving your organ focused specific nutritional support. Many people have been successful and return to feeling great again.

At Ellis Chiropractic we can evaluate your symptoms, and your blood work, get you started on nutritional protocols designed to support your organs and then reevaluate over the months how symptoms and blood work respond. As a last resort you can always go on hormones later.