In any infertility textbook it is explained that one of the first,
if not the first, condition to be ruled out is hypothyroidism.
Low thyroid function is more than enough to explain infertility.
Unfortunately, the textbooks also indicate that low thyroid function
can be ruled out with thyroid blood tests. However, there are
many patients with low thyroid function that have normal thyroid
blood tests because they are suffering from Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
(a reversible peripheral conversion problem), not hypothyroidism
(thought of as a permanent glandular problem).
For years, some Gynecologists have been giving some of their
infertile patients T3, with good results, even though their thyroid
tests were perfectly normal.
Thyroid blood tests can only diagnose glandular causes of low
thyroid function, not
peripheral causes like Wilson's Temperature Syndrome.
Low thyroid function should be ruled out first in infertility
because it is probably the easiest cause of infertility to treat.
Not only is WTS easy to treat, but it has the added bonus of being
reversible. It can be persistently cured. People can remain improved
even after the treatment's been discontinued.
Patients with low body temperatures and low thyroid symtpoms
may benefit from T3 therapy for WTS and may be able to conceive
when all else has failed.