California Medical discoveries which profoundly affect the lives of millions are rare. Penicillin was such a discovery, so was insulin. There is now a breakthrough which potentially may affect many more lives than either one of those. It is the illumination of an extremely common, yet until now unrecognized condition which causes hypometabolism .
Enzymes are the specialized proteins which facilitate every chemical reaction in the body.
Human enzymes are designed to operate at a constant temperature of 98.6 degrees. When the temperature drops more than 0.4 degrees below that, symptoms appear from every part of the body due to the fact that enzymes are not functioning correctly. For many years patients have been coming to doctors complaining of symptoms such as cold hands and feet, intolerance to cold weather, nausea, headache, fatigue, irritability, dry skin, dry hair, loss of hair, insomnia, weight gain, weight loss, and many other vague complaints. This sounds like hypothyroidism, and it may be that, with or without a disturbance in homrone levels which appears as an abnormality on lab tests. It may be that some people simply need more thyroid hormone than others to maintain normal metabolism.