3 Tests you can do at HOME! Thyroid, Iodine, Candida, Calcium
Thyroid Testing – Dr. Broda Barnes / Iodine
Take a non-digital thermometer and pace it on your bedside table, after shaking down.
In the morning, upon awakening place thermometer in your armpit and hold arm close to your body for ten minutes.
Read temperature and record. (Menstruating females should wait for ovulation to cease before administering this test)
Repeat three times on consecutive mornings. Take the average the readings.
Normal temperature is 97.8 degrees F. Anything under that is varying degrees of hypothyroidism. The lower the temperature is, the more challenging the condition. It is not unusual to find reading of 96 degrees F
Iodine test
Buy a small glass jar of dark iodine at the drug store. Paint a spot on your abdomen, or wrist, the size of a silver dollar immediately after your daily shower. Observe the spot the next day before showing. If it is gone, your are probably deficient in iodine. Continue to paint the spot every day until the spot remains visible on your skin for 24 hours, then stop. The body now should have the iodine it needs… for now. In some saturation the spot will disappear must faster. This just shows greater need for the iodine by the body and indicates to me that the Thyroid needs additional support.
Candia
First thing in the morning, before you brush you teeth, fill a glass with cold water. Spit in the glass. Let the glass settle for about five minutes. If the spit stays on top of the water, the test is over. If the spit starts to cascade into the water, in any form, that is a sign of a Candida overgrowth and needs to be dealt with.
Tissue Calcium Test
Muscle cramping at rest is a primary indicator of tissue calcium deficiency. This test is a way for you to determine the tissue calcium status. If a deficiency is identified, various forms of calcium and calcium co-factors are tested orally to determine which nutrients will be the most effective for normalizing tissue calcium.
Procedure: Place a blood pressure cuff on the patient’s calf. Have the patient tell you when they feel the onset of a sharp, cramping pain. Ask them, have you ever had a Charlie horse? That is what we are looking for.
It is believed that a muscle that can withstand 200 millibars of mercury has sufficient calcium stores. The patient who has cramping prior to 200 millibars is considered to have low tissue calcium. The optimum tissue calcium level is considered to be directly correlated with 240 millibars or more.
If a deficiency is indicated, give the patient (orally) different forms of calcium and/or calcium co-factors one at a time and retest after each supplement. When the right supplement or combination of supplements is found, the patient will have a dramatic rise in the millibars needed so that cramping does not occur.
Calcium Lactate, from a vegetable source, seems to work. Testing the calcium source takes out the guess work.