Barbara S Lougheed

#Thyroid author, researcher, blogger. Had RAI for #Graves' hyperthyroidism; take desiccated thyroid + levothyroxine, have no TSH, but a life again!

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

#Hypothyroid and wondering what your optimum #thyroid dose is? Read 1 woman's experience w/ T4, NDT, T3, and combos! https://t.co/MTNZPsCeXJ

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

@forgotenwords1 @urbanponds101 tulip poplar

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

Free triiodothyronine and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: an observational study and Mendelian randomization… https://t.co/Cx0u4rxUXs

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Must read.I don't know who wrote this, but it's spot on. 🔥🔥🔥

When I was a HS sophomore – decades ago! – my World History teacher was Mrs. Holloway, but we all called her Granny Holloway. She was a slight woman, scarcely 5 feet tall, seemingly fragile, but full of vim and vinegar….you know the type. She could speak for hours about the Fall of the Roman Empire, the Inquisition, the Industrial Revolution, and the World Wars. She never sat while she lectured, never stood at a lectern, but moved around the room making eye contact with all of her students. She was demanding too, and I can’t remember how many papers were sent back to me because she would note “you can do better than this, Miss Schaal.”
One day during class, an office aid interrupted her lecture to hand her a note. She read it silently, apologized, and said she needed to leave the room. We knew it had to be important because Granny Holloway stopped lectures for no one.
We sat in the room talking to one another when the door opened, and in walked Mrs. Abels, another teacher in our HS. She explained to us that Granny had been faced with an emergency, a serious one, and it was questionable if she would even be returning to finish out the semester. We were stunned. Would we get a chance to tell her goodbye? Would we get updates, so we would know she was ok? Mrs. Abels assured us that we need not worry, that Granny was safe but needed time away, and that the best thing we could do for her, and the best way we could show our devotion to her, was to be cooperative with her replacement. Mrs. Abels confirmed that she had been asked and had agreed to step in as Granny’s replacement.
Cheer up, she told us, this could be a good thing. Other teachers still believed in endless homework and projects with deadlines and hard work. She would not bring that into our class. She believed in clean slates. If there were grades that we did not like, she could give us a chance to bring them up. She asked us what suggestions we had to make the semester a better learning experience. Someone mentioned that lectures were boring and we wanted more films. Done, she said. Someone else mentioned that a free day now and then would help us if we needed to catch up on work in other classes. She didn’t see a problem with that. She asked us how we felt about an end-of-semester party. Um, yeah, sounded very good to us. And on and on. Mrs. Abels listened intently and agreed to all of our suggestions, continually emphasizing that her concern was that we have a good learning experience and enjoy the semester. She also reminded us that we were lucky to not be sent out to other classes where we would be working to catch up, and that of course this was all for Granny.
Near the end of the period, shortly before the bell rang, the door opened and Granny sauntered in with her usual Granny Holloway attitude. “How did they do?,” she asked. “Marvelous,” said Mrs. Abels. “They were completely in my hands.”
Granny then faced us and said “And that, my students, is how a dictator takes over a nation. Not with guns or tanks or laws or mandates. They do it using false promises and gifts”
I can’t remember a lesson all through 12 years of public school that made such an impression on me and has stayed with me.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Until the 1970, the majority of the people were fit as a fiddle! No keto, vegan, or paleo diets. No home aerobics or gym memberships. No fancy fitness tech or wellness influencers. They also weren't drinking protein shakes or counting calories.

So, what went wrong? A THREAD 🧵⬇️

[Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD @zoeharcombe]

This makes no sense.
T2D is essentially the inability to handle glucose.
Red meat contains no glucose.
I wonder if the fries, burger buns & fizzy drinks that accompany the hamburger impact T2D? 🤔

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

@mimikmorgan @KingFish3rr Did you go from vegan to carnivore?

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

Required reading for parents . . .

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

[P.D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 @Mangan150]

Eggs are loaded with nutrients and are one of the healthiest foods around.

[J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog]

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed.

Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

[Hy Bender @hybender]

When smart phones make us less smart
https://t.co/ToQQZEyGlU

[Elie Jarrouge, MD @ElieJarrougeMD]

It’s well known that insulin injections cause weight gain.

It’s also well known that drugs that stimulate insulin secretion by the pancreas cause weight gain.

Do you know what else causes excess insulin secretion by the pancreas and weight gain? Excess carbohydrates. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😳

[P.D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 @Mangan150]

Exercise is a stress. It does not follow that more stress is better.

You want the optimal amount of stress to stimulate improvements in health, not greater than optimal.

Many people exercise too much.

[Elie Jarrouge, MD @ElieJarrougeMD]

The Standard American Diet is toxic & fattening because of:

The bread 🍞, not butter 🧈
The bun, not the burger meat 🍔
The seed oil, not the potatoes 🍟
Sugar 🍩🥞🍭🍪🍦, not 🍳& 🥓
Cereal 🥣,🥤 & 🧃, not whole milk 🥛
Margarine, not saturated fat
Fake meat, not red meat 🥩

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

@WitchDrTim What would cause low Vitamin A levels?

[The Minimalists @TheMinimalists]

Are you over-exercising? Featuring @CarnivoreMD.

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

If you have high BP, pay attention to WHAT you're eating, not the number of calories.

[Elie Jarrouge, MD @ElieJarrougeMD]

Salt 🧂 is NOT the root cause of hypertension. Most people who decrease salt intake don’t see a significant drop in blood pressure to come off medications. But, those who restrict sugar and starches see their blood pressure normalize over time and come off most or all BP 💊 💊.

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

Perfect example of why counting calories (CICO) does NOT work.

[P.D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 @Mangan150]

Three Oreos have the same calories as two eggs.

The eggs have 12 times the protein, and will keep you full a lot longer than Oreos.

Egg calories have a dramatically different effect on your body, energy, hunger, and health than calories from Oreos do.

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

@hormonedietdoc Eggs are bad because they're high in cholesterol. Not!

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

This was true for hubby and me. We've kept the weight off for 4 years. Never counted calories, no portion control.

[Barbara S Lougheed @TiredThyroid]

#Hypothyroid #Thyroid Patients: Are you taking more T3 than you need? I feel better combining T4 with NDT. https://t.co/AF5oIetQLA