Now that's just silly. I can't imagine why you would draw such an extreme conclusion.
Carnitine is contraindicated for people with hypothyroid because it can lower thyroid levels. For that reason, it is wise for people with hypothyroid to use carnitine with caution, as I said. Caution would include starting low, increasing very slowly, and keeping an eye on thyroid levels to make sure you don't make your hypothyroid condition worse.
Ridiculous, illogical extremism would include going to your death (which I consider unlikely just by avoiding carnitine) or taking a supplement that might cause you problems without sensible precautions.
Hi SOC
There are studies of using carnitine for reducing symptoms of hyperthyroidism. That is true. However, in this specific CFS/FMS situation many have hypothyroid and the main fear of people taking carnitine and the other deadlock quartet is that it increases thyroid output. Based on actual testing of many people here because of these concerns of overproducing thyroid hormone and in my case, routine testing as I've been at this hypothyroid correction for 57 years.
Caution would include starting low, increasing very slowly,
I titrated over a period of a year at the rate that kept healing going strongly. I have never ttaken a large dose and normally advise agains them. Also, knowing the symptoms that requires microtitration to avoid horrendous neuropsychological symptoms I caution people of that.
Ridiculous, illogical extremism would include going to your death (which I consider unlikely just by avoiding carnitine
It was well researched by me and completely logical. Avoiding carnitine would have caused my death just by doing exactly what I was.
I was past typical life expectancy post congestive heart failure diagnosis. I was at 285 pounds and barely holding. Within 24 hours of starting LCF I started shedding pounds of water per day and dropped 45 pounds of water in a month. My capacity for walking level exercise doubled overnight with the very first dose I am now healed of congestive heart failure and weigh 185-195 pounds. That was after putting on 50 pounds of muscle after I was started on carnitine. My heart is restored as well as all the rest of my muscles. My healing was deadlocked on no carnitine. It could have become a permanently DEAD, locked in a coffin any day. The odds were pretty good that I wasn't going to be alive a year later and I would have been in a wheelchair if I had made it that far. Each day delay increased the non-repairable neurological damage and increased the potential of dropping dead from heart failure.
So because of L-carnitine fumarate, I am recovered from FMS, CFS. ME 100%. I have perhaps 75% remission of SACD and not in a wheelchair and not likely to be as long as I continue the entire Deadlock Quartet and other necessary factors. And compared to 10 years ago, I'm taking 13 mcg more of Levothyroxine daily than I did then, and that is based totally on a change in preferred interpretation of tests by my internist. That's a whole lot of no difference.