Testing

• How can you tell if you're not correctly converting T4 to T3?
• Is it worth spending the money on adrenal or gut testing now, since I probably won't be able to follow any treatments due to the pregnancy? Should I wait to do the tests?
• I live in New York and I’m having difficulty getting the tests that you recommend. However, I can get others. The stool is CBSA, and the saliva is Labrix. Will they give me the information that I need?
• What does it mean if my neutrophils are high?
• What does it mean if my lymphocytes are low?
• I asked my endocrinologist to order a CMP. He didn't know what it was. What is the CMP?
• Can having advanced testing done prevent people from qualifying for things like life insurance in the future, providing the tests reveal something negative? Is it better not to know and just eat and live healthy?
• I have 17 reds on the Root Cause Assessment. High risk is magnesium deficiency, hypothyroid, sleep, SIBO, blood sugar imbalance, parasite, H pylori, dietary trigger, dental trigger, adrenals, mercury, Lyme, infection, yeast and gut. Where do I start?
• What would be your suggestion for a doctor who isn’t open to these tests? Would you just do them yourself, like through your program?
• What does it mean if I have low TSH, but also low T4 and T3?
• Why does my doctor continually test for triiodothyronine?
• I scored "red" in all but 1 category on the root cause assessment. Is there any way to see what questions correlated with which root causes, in an attempt to see which root cause is most likely for me?
• How do blood tests outside the U.S. work?
• How can I convince my GP to have a breath test done?
• Do you recommend we use ELISA?
• Do you have an estimated time frame to get saliva test results?
• What can I do to get thyroid levels up? How often should I test?
• Are high levels of alkaline phosphatase unusual for Hashimoto’s?
• Have you seen antinuclear positive test in Hashimoto’s?
• My A1C and my cholesterol were elevated? Do you see that sometimes, when people start their thyroid medications, their cholesterol is elevated?
• What happens if my thyroid lab numbers are outside of the functional ranges listed on the handout?
• Is it only after you do all these tests, only then can you heal?
• My thyroid gradient chart numbers are on opposite extremes. Can you explain why this would be an issue?
• What do my thyroid panel test results mean? My TSH is low, free T4, T3 uptake are normal, and thyroxine is normal.
• I got my leaky gut test back and it said I was within the range. What should I do next?