What does this mean?

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Been reading on how T3 "attenuates" insulin. What does this mean? Does this mean that if I take too much T3 I will get fat? Huh??? I will produce too much insulin? Thus making me more hungry? Eat more? Go hypo? Become irritable? Etc etc?

There are MANY articles on this on the web. This here is just one of them....

Thyroid hormone potentiates insulin signaling... [Br J Pharmacol. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI

 

[96banshee]

Attenuates- weakens the intensity of... To weaken or reduce the effects of.

 

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Attenuates- weakens the intensity of... To weaken or reduce the effects of.

Then why when I was taking T3 my insulin levels came out HIGH on blood work? But came out in the normal range when I stopped taking the T3? Weird.

 

[96banshee]

No clue man. Guess thats something you would have to ask nelson, radar or stevesmi. I had to look up the word my self. We don't use big words like that down here in the south. Lol

 

[96banshee]

Just read a portion of the article you posted..... And it contradicts the meaning of the word attenuates unless I misunderstood. I did notice that it said at high levels that it actually increases insulin levels in plasma.... Maybe it lowers levels only until a certain dose then if too much is given it reverses and spikes it right back up. That's what I'm thinking..... I'm def no pro or even remotely close at this though. I'm kinda curious myself. I'll keep reading the article. I really wanna look into peptides but dint understand them at this point so I'm not gonna dive off into them until I think I understand them. I'll keep am eye out on this post. Maybe I can learn something as well.