Low blood sugar can be treated with refined carbohydrate supplementation. Medico logic.
by Healer J. Mark Taylor, Medical Herbalist
Ernie was the name of an old car that four students bought for $40 way back in 1970.
Ernie had no license or registration and, of course, no business being on the road. Ernie was shot from tailpipe to headlight but managed to run nevertheless. Ernie's engine was so bad that instead of using a regular, light-weight motor oil we used the heaviest grade we could find ... plus a healthy dollup of sawdust.
Ernie had to be driven very delicately. In Ernie we would toddle about on back streets, dash off for beer & cigarettes, or simply cruise about seeking to pass time as only youths can. There came a time however, after about three weeks of Ernie ownership, that our nerve began to break for the constant stress of having to evade the law. We decided one day to drive Ernie into his grave by putting the peddle-to-the-metal -- an honorable death for our stalwart pal.
So off we went, four hooting and hollering youths, speeding in our rickety old Vauxhall down Crowchild Trail in Calgary at a top velocity of 50 mph. Ernie was shaking and vibrating. Ernie was rattling and rocking. We turned off the clock and the radio and the blower endeavoring to divert more power to the engine. As a result, Ernie billowed out a huge, thick trail of black impenetrable smoke and oil forcing the following vehicles to slow down and prevented their passing.
We abandoned Ernie on the side of the road, walking away with nary a backward glance. And that is what happens when you stimulate a hypothyroid condition.
It seems these days that health practitioners are diagnosing every third person as being hypothyroid and then prescribing thyroid-enhancing drugs, supplements and/or herbs. Big mistake.
The body is innately intelligent and the thyroid is an integral part of the intelligent body. A thyroid is low (or hypo) for a reason. Hypothyroid (a "sign" not a disease) typically occurs in out-of-shape, inactive individuals who subsist on low-quality or narrowly-restricted diets. Of course the thyroid is low! It is protecting the body from potentially intolerable use and abuse.
Fix the health of the tissues, and the thyroid will once again "rev" the organs and body back up again. [High TSH and lows of both T4 and T3 however may indicate a problem.] Forcing the metabolic rate up in a hypothroid body is simply the human equivalent of putting the peddle-to-the-metal. One can expect in response autoimmune arthritis, chronic fatigue, depression, or some other illness where the body simply fails to act as an integrated unit -- the equivalent of a blown engine.
You want to improve your thyroid? Eat whole foods; raw foods so the body can rebuild itself from quality components (you are what you eat). Use natural therapies such as herbal, dry sauna, and colon hydrotherapy to help the body's systems to remove accumulated toxins from the tissues and organs more quickly. More exercise to promote replacement of old tissue with new. Bull's thyroid extract, iodine-rich supplements, and metabolic enhancers are definitely contra-indicated in my opinion. And get yourself off all those freaking body-wizening medico-prescribed drugs. Putting the peddle-to-the-metal will not resolve your problems. Remember Ernie?