Larry Miller: Dominant gland can change your life

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If you know which gland is dominant you can restructure your habits and take advantage of your strong points by strengthening your weak ones. That sounds more complex than it is and it definitely is out of the normal. But, if we learn and use the information, it can be a life changer.

When we eat one food, do one type of exercise, work at being the master of one subject or only consider one point of view, we lose the overall benefits that life offers. How many brilliant people, who have all the answers for a particular subject, really have no clue about how most other things work? Relying on and increasing the activity, the intensity, of one gland will exhaust the gland, e.g. hypothyroidism or adrenal exhaustion, and severely impacts our mental and physical well being.

When glandular exhaustion happens we find ourselves tired all the time, gaining weight, experiencing impaired mental processes and growing old before our time. This can be very confusing because what we've been doing all our life doesn't work anymore. The usual way most deal with the situation is to go to a doctor and get a prescription drug, like Levothyroxine Sodium (T4; L-thyroxine). L-thyroxine can be beneficial and if your doctor has prescribed it don't stop taking it. But, very often a drug will cover the symptom and remedy some of the problems but there are almost always side effects. Some of the side effects of L-thyroxine include hair loss, increased sweating, sensitivity to heat, mental confusion, nervousness, sudden mood swings, tiredness, diarrhea, shaking (tremors), headaches, shortness of breath. If you are taking thyroid replacement drugs and have any side effects, contact your doctor immediately. One of the other problems that isn't covered in most information is, thyroid drugs cause the thyroid to quit producing thyroxin and the person using the drug remains on it the rest of their life.

I'm going to expand on the thyroid identification for males in this article because I'm a thyroid type, male and very familiar with the problems and some of the answers. Identifying the different dominant gland types is fairly easy and most, but not all, characteristics for males and females are the same.

The thyroid type will have: long fingers, a long face and head (not round or square), small wrists and ankles and be long limbed. Thyroid types are greyhounds not bulldogs or terriers. The fingers and toes are long and tapered. The teeth are small, white and evenly spaced and if any excess weight in accumulated the first gains will be around the waist in a "spare tire." Thyroid types are partial toward sweets and bread, cakes and candy, toast and jelly and prefer their meals early to mid-day. Multiple research studies have shown that sugar is "the only contributing factor to tooth decay" and a large percentage of thyroid types have partial or total dentures by age 60. Most thyroid types prefer 8-9 hours of sleep nightly, exercise is used to calm down (burn off excess energy) and an exercise like basketball, tennis or something with a lot of variety is generally the chosen sport. The thyroid type finds it hard to laugh at themselves, is creative, prefers to be out in the world and traveling as opposed to sitting at a computer or in a office. They tend to be quick tempered, easily depressed and irritable or, lively and entertaining, in other words thyroid types are very changeable.

There's a lot more to making a positive identification and if you can get a copy of Dr. Abravanel's Body Type Program book you will be able to find out which gland is dominant and which others, to a lesser degree, are part of your mental and physical makeup. We're all combinations of the three main types (four for females) and no one I have ever met is only one. Knowing the first, second and third is very helpful and can give answers that only knowing the dominant type can't supply.

Next we'll look at how one student changed her life by discovering her dominant gland and some natural ways to improve thyroid function.

Larry R. Miller has been a freelance writer since 1982 and health/fitness instructor.