The main difficulty when it comes to taking thyroid is the dosage. It is important to choose the correct dayly dose as well as not taking too much T3 (..) at a time, while enough to help your liver convert T4 to T3
The key challange when it comes to taking thyroid is to figure out the right dosage; dayly as well as making sure you don’t take too much at a time.
Other things that increase metabolic rate offten have additional effects on your body. One such thing is coffee. Here Steve Pavlina describes the negative effect of caffein:
“Caffeine seems to make part of my brain overactive and another part underactive. … I become like a rat in a treadmill, doing more and more but not accomplishing what really matters. I find it very hard to focus on the big picture from a holistic whole-brain standpoint if I’ve consumed caffeine. … I also feel that caffeine blocks too much of my intuition and creativity. I miss subtle sensory input, and my thinking becomes too linear.”
Your experience might differ depening on the state of your health, how long, how and how much caffeine you’ve consumed, but even then you probably should recognize similaritis with this patern.
Basically caffein generaly stimulates the brain, but the depth of thinking decreases, which essentially makes you faster thinker with shorter ‘vision’. While this can be usefull, the problem is that to fully switch the mode back to normal you will have to go through a withdrowal, which for most people whould take at least a week, depending on how healthy you are, how much caffeine you’ve been consuming and off cource whether you are quiting ‘cold turky’ or easing in with low caffein drinks.
In order for coffee or caffeine to actually produce the desired stimulating and pro-metabolic effect your body has to be able to handle that acceleration. Caffeine is just a stimulant; the resources for increased energy spent have to come from the body, therfore the body has to be well nourished. Drinking coffee on hungry stomac will likely cause iritability and anexaity even for relatively healthy person.
If the person is hypothyroid, which means being in low energy state, the ability to store and move around resouses could be seriously decreased, in which case atempting to quikly accelerate their spent is not a good idea. It is a good idea to drink coffee after a meal and adding heavy cream to it to slow down the absorbtion even more.
In case of hypothyroidism the pro metabolic effect that coffee can provide sometimes outwaits the shortening of a ‘vision’, but it depends on the specific situation. I would rather focus on suplementing thyroid.
From personal experience I will say that it is harder to understand the effect of T3, which also should be used with a meal, if you adding coffee to your meal, even if it is not much. If you don’t have them in one meal it’s fine, but if you have to use your T3 with every meal to hit the dayly dose safely, addnig coffee just adds the complexity on top.