This is how I'd'do it
25-50mcg did nothing for me, except the first few days. Then I actually got fatter after my own system shut down. And we're talking with a decent deficit too...
So, this way below accounts for individual variance. Turns out I need more than 75mcg to do anything. No muscle loss....(cuz I take dem steroids
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BTW, this is how it's done by some here in Europe. This post, or variations, are on a few other foreign boards.
1. take your morning temp (in ear thermometer) before leaving bed 5 mornings in a row..
2. start your t3 use, 50-100mcg/day
3. keep measuring your temp.
4. after 5 days if your temp is not 0.3-0.6 higher, (so, from 98.6 to between 99.1 and 99.6 for non metric folks) take another 25mcg, if not higher in another 5 days, take another 25mcg. Most shouldn't need more than 150mcg total.
5. keep measuring your temp.
6. when your temp drops 0.6deg 3xmornings in a row- is the temp lower than when you started? if not you have just started to down regulate your own production.
Stop and you will have no rebound; (Ehren's edit: Dunno about that, but it's not so you'd notice). If its lower than when you started, you will have a little rebound, unless you keep your diet tight- keep measuring, and when your temp goes back to your baseline, your thyroid has recovered full function...(Edit: Again, not sure I'd say that, but it's an ok measure).
I tend to run 2days on 2days of, and have not had a temp drop in over 6months...
if you run daily, you will lose fat faster, but may get a temp drop and some rebound. your choice.
the temp approach was originaly developed by:
Broda Otto Barnes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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