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The role of hormones and your health
Fibromyalgia
Many patients come to our clinic having been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS). This can be a painful and
debilitating health problem closely associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Epstein-Barr Virus. The problem with FMS is
that, until recently, medical science did not really have any idea what caused it, nor how to treat it.
Recent meta-analyses of many research studies have narrowed the playing field considerably. Study after study shows that
there is a major link between the ability of your thyroid gland to produce a hormone called
triiodothyronine (T3) and the incidence of FMS. At the Center for Hormonal Healing™, we always check
the T3 level. Time after time we find low T3 levels in the FMS patients. T3 has the ability to send sufficient amounts of
oxygen to all the muscles of the body. In FMS patients, it is as if the muscles are so starved of oxygen, the patient aches
all over almost all the time. By restoring the T3 levels to an optimal range, we see dramatic improvements in the
symptomatology of the FMS patient.
One other common complaint of the FMS patient is profound fatigue. Since the thyroid gland runs the metabolism of the entire
body, we see that a low T3 level corresponds directly with the FMS patient who is complaining of constant fatigue. As the T3
level is optimized, the fibromyalgia lessens dramatically and the energy levels improve.
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"As the T3 level is optimized, the fibromyalgia lessens dramatically and the energy levels improve."
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