The Thyroid: over & under - hyper and hypo? - tired or cold? - active or healing?

Gained a bit of weight? Were you told that your thyroid wasn't working "fast enough"? Always feeling cold - hands and feet. Not so sure that taking your temperature will do any good and then be told by your GP that Wilson's Disease is about copper metabolism and don't be silly, it's in your head! Well, it's in your throat and in your perception. And here follows some ideas and concepts for educational purposes only.

Generally, the underlying issue is about not being fast enough to grab the "morsel" or “information” or “piece of something” or item. We have moved past the cave man “morsel” of food being the only important “morsel” type to be able to need control over. How we operate in our environment, now, is much wider in definition and just as important for our survival.

The right side of the thyroid is not being able to be fast enough in grabbing or taking in this desired or perceived-to-be-needed “morsel”, feeling that one is too slow. An example might be that a salesperson consistently loses out on making a deal as a competitor always seems to be a tad quicker at getting the client(s) or deals or the the understanding of an issue. Or not being able to grasp the content of an important seminar(s) or piece of learning and falling behind and feeling it in our gut because we just aren’t fast enough.

The left side of the thyroid is affected when there is an issue around not getting rid of something, or “morsel”, quickly enough. Not speaking up in an important moment, or having a thought / item / contribution at the time it would have been right, and timely, but instead not done / handled fast enough, leaving one feeling too slow, too late. Or not selling some items when the market was right - and then “experiencing” subjectively, of course, the result of slowness causing one to have less. Basically, the conflict is of not being able to spit it out or get it out fast enough.

These would be the very real and subjective feelings accompanying events that cause this active phase of the thyroid to occur - instantly - left and/or right - causing a very natural biological program to be initiated, allowing extra cells to help out, to give you more digestive juices, to ratchet it up a notch or two, so we can grab faster and/or spit it out faster.

So, during this active phase (conflict not resolved) there are more cells of this endodermic tissue - a biological law in German New Medicine (http://www.learninggnm.com) and one doesn’t feel anything - no pain, no coughing, etc - maybe a bit more pep and vigor - maybe some temperature changes - some sleeplessness - middle of the night awakenings - and those cold hands and feet.

When these emotional issues are resolved - the issue has no more traction, no more energy on it - no more time wasted on the conundrum and one feels that the whole grabbing or getting rid of the “morsel” business in a timely manner happens normally again and is of no concern and one is just fine with how things are going, then one simultaneously goes into healing. Those extra cells, that were there to help us in need, are deemed to be no longer needed by your body. Then they can be removed by nature, otherwise one would be hyper with the extra tissue still there. The extra tissue is removed by bacteria (yes, they have had a bad rap but are sometimes useful, too) and fungus (also gets a bad rep), and help “eat up” the extra tissue. And in German New Medicine that is a very natural biological law - mentioned here for educational purposes only... of course...

So, the cells that were developed to enhance the thyroid’s functioning during the “stressed” and challenging, active time are naturally decreased / gobbled up / eliminated by mycotoxins and fungus in this healing phase. In the process they take just a tiny bit of extra tissue along, much like when you break a bone, the bone tissue heals and a little bit of extra calcium is deposited / added at the break site.

So that occasional extra bit of tissue that is removed, is not an issue (and explains why there are different beliefs as to what the optimal temperature is for a totally healthy thyroid / body and that slower thyroids are sometimes seen as a function of aging - but not for all). However, over a lifetime, it could add up and if the active and healing phase occurs often and goes through many cycles, then the eroded tissue can really add up. In the end, even in a person who has had no “morsel” conflict going on, no active or healing phase in the thyroid, who is balanced and happy finally, has thyroid tissue that, at best, is diminished and needs supplementation, just due to lack of existing tissue and often artificial thyroid is prescribed for life - this is then called Hashimotos. From an alternative perspective, I cannot see a different way.

When the active and passive phases are few and far between, then a bit of eroded tissue is not that big a deal - some extra supplementation can allow the ever so slightly less able thyroid to still function well, when well supported - kelp, atomidine, potassium iodide (my personal opinion and shared only for educational reasons, of course)! An alternative health practitioner would call this Wilson's SYNDROME (not Wilson's Disease).

When antibiotics had been taken at the same time during any healing phase (once or more often), then the bacteria for break-down, the mycotoxins and fungus, are not present to do their work. Those extra cells that nature wants to remove but cannot, become encapsulated instead (as a backup program - benign little cysts) - and stay in the thyroid tissue but this encapsulated tissue continues to produce the thyroxine hormone! Then that person has a hyperthyroid because the extra cells are adding unneeded hormone. If this happens often enough, the modern medicine method is to remove part of the thyroid, so the over-production is decreased to about normal (cysts and all).

Had there been the right bacteria available, the excess tissue would have been naturally gobbled up and the person would, maybe, never have noticed. The healing phase would have been characterized by extra sleeping, tiredness, some weight gain, some sluggishness, night sweats, warm hands and feet and then all would be normal again. Often we read that a slow thyroid happens due to stress, so to some degree that is correct and totally not specific enough.

Dr. Chris Lowthert explains all of the above very succinctly :

"According to the New Medicine paradigm known as German New Medicine (see my previous blogs) what western medicine calls "disease" is clearly articulated as a biological program that is run by our very own innate intelligence in order to process shock conflicts that originate in the psyche, physically "register" in an area in the brain that corresponds with the nature of the conflict and which in turn manifests in the body at a location (typically an organ) that is controlled by that part of the brain. This way life (and death) events that appear too difficult to instantly accept get translated into biological events that the body is designed to process over time. This "translation" from the psyche to body in a sense "buys time" for the possibility of resolving the conflict.

"In the context of our evolution, the thyroid gland developed with the digestive system. This is evident today by the understanding that the thyroid gland was once an exocrine gland that excreted its hormones into the intestine. The digestive system derived from the endoderm germ layer, therefore, during the conflict active phase you will have tumor growth. The related biological conflict is related to a 'morsel'. The right side/'wing' of the thyroid is 'not being fast enough to "catch" a morsel'. The left side/wing of the gland is 'not being fast enough to "get rid of" the morsel.' Increased thyroid tissue in the conflict active phase will increase the organism's metabolism and this is the biological purpose of the thyroid tumor. The organism will experience hyperthyroidism. Once the conflict is resolved, the additional thyroid tissue is decomposed by the tuberculosis bacteria. If the organism stays in a hanging healing phase, they will develop hypothyroidism or Hashimoto's Disease.

"The thyroid ducts are derived from the ectoderm germ layer. Therefore, ulceration of the ducts will take place during the conflict active phase. The biological conflict of feeling powerless. 'My hands are tied. There is nothing I can do about the situation', 'something should be urgently done and nobody is doing anything about it!', 'I feel helpless.' The biological purpose of the widening of the duct is to allow more thyroxine to be delivered to the bloodstream to help the organism gain control by increasing the metabolism. Once the conflict is resolved, the organism moves into the healing phase and the ulcers are replenished. Thyroid cysts or tumors will be formed.

"As you can begin to see, the changes that take place at the organ level have important biological meanings that help the organism survive the unexpected biological conflict."

by Dr. Christopher Lowthert, DC, German New Medicine® Practitioner and Teacher

Some people have been diagnosed with Hashimotos who were not needing lifetime supplementation at all and just proper support during the healing phase and should have been left alone and given time to sort out how not to activate the thyroid into overdrive again and again and again and to see if there are any “tracts” that need emotional / psychological help. Some Hashimoto “sufferers” have both alternating hyper and hypo thyroid. Just like that, we are told! There must be a weird little extra-terrestrial in there turning little knobs!
           
As we know, it has also been difficult for orthodox medicine to sort out what a real hypo thyroid is, too, and now we can see this has been a mixed blessing.

All of this applies to the TISSUE of the thyroid gland. The tubuals in the thyroid (as opposed to the glandualr tissue0 are a different challenge and can be seen with symptoms such as goiters.

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