Thyroid Function & Autoimmune Reaction

Description

The Test Your Thyroid Complete home test kit measures your blood levels for the two key thyroid hormones; Free thyroxine and TSH. These give an immediate view of your thyroid function and ability to regulate your metabolism.

To completely assess your thyroid function analysis, we also precisely measure blood levels of several key biomarkers: Free triiodothyronine (FT3), Thyroxine, TGAB and TPO antibodies.

This gives a complete in-depth view of your thyroid function, ability to regulate your metabolism and indicates if your thyroid is under attack from your immune system. Many thyroid disorders result from an autoimmune disease, so this is an important consideration.

The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located in your neck. The thyroid produces hormones which act on other parts of the body to influence and regulate their metabolism (energy usage).

When your body releases too much thyroid hormone (Hyperthyroidism – an overactive thyroid) or too little (Hypothyroidism – an underactive thyroid) then some cells and tissues in your body work faster or slower than they should do resulting in symptoms such as palpitations and excessive sweating or tiredness and weight gain.

This test panel first tests for two key Thyroid hormones; Free thyroxine which directly increases metabolism, and TSH which is released by the pituitary gland to regulate thyroxine production.

As thyroid disorders are common but often difficult to diagnose, this test builds on these core thyroid tests by also including further diagnostic analysis of Free triiodothyronine (FT3), Thyroxine, TGAB and TPO antibodies.