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TT4 – Total thyroxine, both free and bound 23. Farese, et al. Licorice-Induced Hypermineralocorticoidism (1991) N Engl J Med 1991;
FTI – Free thyroxine index 325:1223-1227.
FT4 – Free thyroxine 24. The liver generates most of the cholesterol needed by the body, delivering it via LDL
Resin T3 uptake carrier molecules in the blood throughout the body. RBCs (red blood cells) lose their
Free T3 – free triiodothyronine mitochondria when they mature. That loss gives them their indented center or squashed
r T3 – Reverse T3 shape, and removes their capacity to generate cholesterol.
When stress is high, the “wrong” iodine is removed, 25. The word sugar commonly refers to white table sugar, sucrose, which is a combination
leaving a non-functional rT3, in effect another of the of fructose and glucose. There are many forms of sugar, each a combination of carbon
body’s protective measures. (O), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O) atoms. They differ by position of at least one O or
TBG – Thyroid binding globulin OH. Position of component atoms determines the structure of a molecule and its func-
Thyroid Antibodies: tion. Specific sugars attached to proteins, fats or cholesterol facilitate functions and
TPO-Ab – Thyroid peroxidase antibodies biochemical processes unique to that combination.
TGB-Ab – Thyroglobulin antibodies 26. Price, W. A. (2016) Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 8th Edition, 23rd Printing.
Thyroglobulin is the predominant protein in the thyroid Lemon Grove, CA: Price Pottenger, p 69.
gland, and in effect stores both thyroxine and iodine. 27. Vitamin C was discovered in 1912; Albert Szent-Györgi and Walter Norman Haworth
19. For further information, see accessible and comprehen- received the Nobel Prize for it in 1937. Although Szent- Györgi recognized that it com-
sive resources on thyroid issues by Datis Kharrazian prised a complex of molecules, political forces insisted it be compressed to ascorbic
DHSc, DC; Izabella Wentz PharmD; and Nikolas Hed- acid. Common convention thus equates vitamin C with ascorbic acid, while those more
berg DC. attentive to subtle differences recognize vitamin C as a complex of synergistic substances.
20. Adrenalin is synonymous with epinephrine. Adrenalin 28. Spermatozoa are the generative cells produced by men, a single such cell being a sper-
is from the Latin; epinephrine is from the Greek. Epi = matozoon. Sperm is the collective term for the spermatozoa, fluid and other substances
above, on top of (apex); nephr = kidney, as in nephron, conveyed in semen.
the functional unit of the kidneys. 29. The three key sex hormones are: estrogen – which promotes growth, or “assembly of the
21. The zona glomerulosa lacks the enzyme 17-α hydroxy- basic building materials”; progesterone – calling for differentiation and function-specific
lase, which is necessary to synthesize cortisol, andro- application of the assembled building materials; testosterone – supporting muscle func-
gens, or estrogens. Only the conversion of corticosterone tion, strength and maintenance. These have to do not only with reproduction of the next
to aldosterone can occur in the zona glomerulosa. Farese, generation, but with maintaining the present physical body as well. There are 3 (or more)
et al. Licorice-Induced Hypermineralocorticoidism forms of estrogen and several forms of testosterone. Progestin, used in pharmaceutical
(1991) N Engl J Med 1991; 325:1223-1227. products such as contraceptives, is a patentable laboratory substance, alleged to be akin
22. Blood volume, peripheral resistance, and cardiac output to progesterone. While commonly conflated with, and used interchangeably as a term
are the key factors affecting blood pressure. Smooth referring to progesterone, progestin is not progesterone.
muscles line the blood vessels; their contraction in- 30. https://www.heartmath.org/gci-commentaries/influence-of-geomagnetism-and-
creases peripheral resistance. Marieb, pp 650-660. schumann-resonances-on-human-health-and-behavior/

POPULAR SPEAKERS AT WISE TRADITIONS 2017

Karen Lyke, MS, CCN, DSc, CGP, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin Amy Berger, author of The
gave us excellent background on presented fascinating information Alzheimer’s Antidote, spoke to a
the HPA axis as a prelude to the on natural chicken production in full house on how a high-fat diet
other talks on hormone health. their home environment—jungle, can ward off the disease.
forest and orchard.

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