ARE YOU ALWAYS TIRED?

Most Women and some Men are plagued by undiagnosed thyroid conditions!

ARE YOU READY TO SOLVE YOUR THYROID RIDDLE ?

SUB CLINICAL HYPOTHYROID

THE SILENT EPIDEMIC

Be informed & take care of your health!

Fill out your thyroid symptom questionnaire below.

If you score higher than 8 on the test below, contact Aaron to schedule a Thyroflex test.

Do you suffer from any of the following?

Rate your symptoms below from a scale of 0-3

(0-None 1-Mild 2-Moderate 3-Severe)

• _____ Tiredness & Sluggishness

• _____ Dryer Hair & Skin

• _____ Sleep More Than Usual

• _____ Weaker Muscles

• _____ Constant Feeling of Cold (Fingers)

• _____ Frequent Muscle Cramps

• _____ Poorer Memory

• _____ More Depressed

• _____ Slower Thinking

• _____ Puffier Eyes

• _____ Difficulty with Math

• _____ Hoarser or Deeper Voice

• _____ Muscle / Joint Pain

• _____ Constipation

• _____ Coarse Hair / Hair Loss

• _____ Low Sex Drive / Impotence

• _____ Puffy Hands and Feet

• _____ Unsteady Gait

• _____ Gain Weight Easy

• _____ Outer Third of Eyebrows Thin

• _____ Menses More Irregular (28Days)

• _____ Heavier Menses

_______ Total HYPO Score ( 8 )

• _____ Tachycardia (Rapid Heart Beat)

• _____ Palpitations (Skipping of Heart Beat)

• _____ Insomnia

• _____ Shakiness

• _____ Increased Sweating

• _____ Brittle Nails

• _____ Loss of Appetite

_______ Total HYPER Score ( 0 )

• ____ Fibrocystic Breast Disease

Name _________________________M/F____

Height ______ Weight _____ DOB _________

If you scored higher than 8, contact Aaron to schedule a Thyroflex test.

If you answered YES to more than 3 of these, you may suffer from Sub-clinical Hypothyroid.

The All-Important Thyroid

Take care of yourself, test your thyroid!

How you produce and distribute energy is complex; thyroid hormone function has a major impact on all of your energy systems.

Since the thyroid regulates body temperature, your body's ability to keep you warm and to convert the food you eat into energy (metabolism), ensuring your thyroid is working is vitally important to your ongoing health.

Classic symptoms of low thyroid function, or hypothyroid, include:

fatigue
constipation
slow heart rate
dry skin
dry hair
weight gain
depression
headaches
anemia
low libido
abnormal menstrual cycles.

RISKS OF

SUB CLINICAL HYPOTHYROID

• Sudden Death

• High or Low blood pressure

• High Cholesterol & other blood fats

• Vascular (blood vessel) Disease

• Diabetes

• Neurological (Parkinson's like diseases)

• Double Alzheimer's Risk

• Arthritis and inflammatory diseases

• Pregnancy Complications

You may be one of the many whose sluggish thyroid problem did not show up on a lab test .

This is partly because thyroid lab tests do not accurately measure the activity of thyroid hormone inside cells .

Subclinical hypothyroidism is often missed by medical doctors because they predominantly rely on TSH levels, which may miss secondary and tertiary hypothyroidism.

Blood testing can catch more flagrant problems relating to the thyroid gland itself, but it often leaves you with a long list of hypothyroid symptoms and "normal" lab test results.

Subclinical hypothyroidism has been linked with high cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, and osteoporosis which are all important risk factors for heart disease in women.

One of the long standing clinical tests used to diagnose abnormal thyroid dysfunction has been a delayed/slowed Achilles tendon reflex. Prior to 1974, when the TSH blood test became used to screen for low thyroid function doctors used a simple reflex test to diagnose and treat hypothyroidism.

BRACHIORADIALIS

REFLEXOMETRY

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The Thyroflex Test is a specialized device that can assess thyroid function and determine if your thyroid is working effectively and if you are on thyroid medication that you are taking the right dose.

The Thyroflex instrument consists of a reflex hammer connected to a computer which measures reflex time in milliseconds.

A tendon in the forearm is used instead of the Achilles tendon reflex for easy testing while you're seated comfortably in a chair.

A simple 15-minute, non-invasive reflex test done in the office can show us if your thyroid functions are normal or if you are on an appropriate thyroid hormone replacement dosage with 98% accuracy.

This revealing test can help find answers that will:

• Restore Your The Sleep

• Speed Your Metabolism

• Get Your Sex Drive Back

• Give You Energy To Play With Your Kids

• Provide Enough Energy to Exercise and Do Physical Activities Again

• Get Your Weight Under Control

Finding the thyroid dose that is right for you greatly lowers your heath risk and helps you regulate your hormones, neurotransmitters, and immune functions. It also allows us to accurately estimate your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) or how fast you are burning calories.

Be informed & take care of your health!

Fill out your thyroid symptom questionnaire today.

If you score higher than 8, schedule for a Thyroflex test with Aaron.

Further Reading

Hypothyroidism and Thyroid Replacement Therapy

http://www.med-library.net/content/view/191/41/

by Ron Kennedy, M.D., Santa Rosa, CA

What Every Chiropractor (and MD) Should Know About the Thyroid.

http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/21/08/07.htm

by Daniel W. Hough , DC

Dynamic Chiropractic
April 7, 2003 , Volume 21, Issue 08

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