When you feel something isn't right, but your blood work is normal - The Naturopathy Clinic

Challenging and investigating the body from a scientific perspective isn’t always popular.

The most common thing I hear from my patients is that they had a really hard time believing when they got their blood work back as ‘completely normal’.

It’s difficult to live a normal life when you have an underly feeling of being tired during the day, when you are reaching for a pick-me-up midday or feeling not like yourself.

Or when your hair starts thinning.

Or you can’t shift your weight quite like you used to. If at all.

It’s hard to accept that you are normal when you feel any of these things.

Could there be an explanation to how your body is feeling?

I’m here to tell you yes.

In the 1970s, modern medicine needed to find a way to deal with the population increase. It created a change in the way traditional doctors treated patients.

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Moving from a combination of pathology and clinical assessment (time asking you about your symptoms) to determine a diagnosis.

The reason this is relevant is that the thyroid hormone, for instance, can only be found in small amounts in the blood.

Whilst the rest of hormones are located in cells, not picked up by blood. This is discovered through symptoms found during clinical assessment.

Hypothyroid, a slowing thyroid, symptoms include fatigue, feeling tired, inability to shift weight, and several others as seen on the image on the right here.

What is hypothyroidism image — **What is hypothyroidism**

But, today, a diagnosis is made when the TSH, Free T3, or Free T4 is within a dangerous hypothyroid range.

However, doctors used to judge these symptoms to diagnose patients, before the 1970s.

I realised after working across Australia in naturopathic clinics, that 99% of the people’s symptoms I was treating were due to hormonal imbalance.

I trained and led more than 50 naturopaths, and I’ve seen thousands of patients.

I love pathology, and I actually think that it needs to go a bit further when testing.

For instance, there’s 3 different markers on oestrogen; however, standard blood tests only test E2.

The thyroid Medicare tests TSH, and unless that is out of range, they don’t investigate the other thyroid hormones. 81% of patients with an under active thyroid, overactive thyroid or thyroid, autoimmunity have a normal TSH. there are actually seven markers that indicate a bigger picture of the thyroid.

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I personally had to ask four different doctors until the fourth doctor agreed to test my antibodies before I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s.

It’s awesome that the doctors are trained to identify dangerous symptoms.

Sometimes, you just may need to dig a bit deeper if you have a hormonal issue.

And that’s where we come in.

We are the hormone experts and help treat imbalances that may include 3 or more of the following symptoms: