billytk1
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Does Ephedra and simialiar products suppress the Thyroid!?!?
I am just curious if there is any connection to Ephedra products (Clenbutrex especially) messing up the bodies natural thyroid production.
I have been taking some sort of Ephedra based product for the past 2-3 years for fat burning/ pre workout purposes (just recently stopped about 2months ago when I switched from Clenbutrex to Redline)............ This may be coincidental but I am very curious about this correlation, I started using Clenbutrex about 6 months ago and had amazing response as far as energy levels and workout performance but found myself with major insomnia, but still continued to use the product...... Now during this time I noticed that along with the insomnia still continuing to persis my hair also started to thin (no balding, no recession, only all over thinning, I still look like I have a full head of hair but, I know that the hair thickness has reduced and become more dryer feeling) Now due to these effects I decided to quit Clenbutrex and went through a horrible withdrawl, my energy levels sucked, I felt depressed for the first time in my life with no reason to feel that way, I felt uninspired to work out, still had insomnia, etc....... I recently as stated earlier switched to Redline and for the most part it is working out for me pretty good, but to get back to the problems I was dealing with..... I mimic thyroid like disorder symptons even though my thyroid tests came back apparantly normal. Has anyone else experienced anything like this or have any feedback on ephedra and thyroid suppression.? anyways now to counteract this, I am thinking of starting a thyroid drug like cytomel or armour and see If can jump start my thyroid again and energy levels back to normal.........
I am just curious if there is any connection to Ephedra products (Clenbutrex especially) messing up the bodies natural thyroid production.
I have been taking some sort of Ephedra based product for the past 2-3 years for fat burning/ pre workout purposes (just recently stopped about 2months ago when I switched from Clenbutrex to Redline)............ This may be coincidental but I am very curious about this correlation, I started using Clenbutrex about 6 months ago and had amazing response as far as energy levels and workout performance but found myself with major insomnia, but still continued to use the product...... Now during this time I noticed that along with the insomnia still continuing to persis my hair also started to thin (no balding, no recession, only all over thinning, I still look like I have a full head of hair but, I know that the hair thickness has reduced and become more dryer feeling) Now due to these effects I decided to quit Clenbutrex and went through a horrible withdrawl, my energy levels sucked, I felt depressed for the first time in my life with no reason to feel that way, I felt uninspired to work out, still had insomnia, etc....... I recently as stated earlier switched to Redline and for the most part it is working out for me pretty good, but to get back to the problems I was dealing with..... I mimic thyroid like disorder symptons even though my thyroid tests came back apparantly normal. Has anyone else experienced anything like this or have any feedback on ephedra and thyroid suppression.? anyways now to counteract this, I am thinking of starting a thyroid drug like cytomel or armour and see If can jump start my thyroid again and energy levels back to normal.........
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