Hello,
I have a thyroid disorder and am taking synthetic thyroid medication. Unfortunately in the journal insights you can only indicate “if and when” you took your medication but not the dosage. Don’t you think, as a community (especially for those dealing with thyroid problems) that in the journal insight you should be able to indicate what dosage you took. It is so CRUCIAL to see how a certain dosage affects your overall health and I know this would be hugely interesting to health professionals (such as endocrinologists) in order to reasesse your dosage. Don’t you think you should be able to indicate how many mG you took rather than just of you took it or not?
Hope this addition is made soon because my thyroid is all over the place
This is great feedback @Nickster1309, thanks for sharing your feedback—this is such an important topic. Like you mentioned, right now, the Journal allows members to log whether or not they’ve taken their thyroid medication, but it doesn’t currently track dosages. I completely understand how valuable that level of detail would be, especially for tracking how dosage adjustments impact your recovery, sleep, and other health metrics.
I’ll pass this suggestion along to the Product team. WHOOP is always evolving based on member input, so ideas like yours are key to improving the experience. Thank you so much.
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Hello Mr. Durkin,
Apologies for the late response. I actually wrote my Master’s thesis on “Sports performance and thyroid dysfunction” back in 2015 to get my Master in Science Science: Applied Physiology for Sports Performance.
This was just an assignment, so not a published work, yet I did meet and exchange with very prominent Olympians who suffered a brutal end to their careers due to thyroid dysfunction.
All this to say that thyroid signaling and function is critical and impacts performance tremendously. Even when treated, it affects how you sleep (plays crucial role in sleep phases), if you’re hungry or not (hence weight gain/loss), physical performance (especially in endurance sports), and SO much more. The prevalence of thyroid dysfunction has increased by over 650% since 1993 (just reviewing my notes) and I think the insight you were talking about is paramount to tracking physiological behaviors. If Whoop would like to implement a more structured journal entry for this particular insight I think it would be a great addition to the service and one that it can put at the forefront when explaining what Whoop can do. Especially with the release of the 5.0 and MG (which I just received) it would generate even new and greater credibility in it’s ability to track and promote health related insights.
Ultimately I’m writing back to implore the Whoop team to add a more sophisticated approach to thyroid tracking because it is such a genuine bio marker for tracking fitness, and more specifically will directly influence strain, fatigue and recovery scores. You could potentially illustrate what and how dosages affect those metrics.
Please don’t feel it necessary to respond; from your previous message I can tell you understand the potential benefit this has but I just wanted to include a little more background, even though it is hard to get into the scientific literature and give a detailed explanation of how thyroid hormones (especially T4 and T3) impact health and fitness in such a short message.
Thank you for having written back,
I sincerely hope the Whoop product team take this into consideration seriously.
Warm regards,
Nicolas Domise
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Thanks again for the note @Nickster1309. I know you mentioned no need to respond, but I wanted to say thank you for the level of detail here. It’s helpful for the Product team to have detailed thoughts like this for future improvements to the WHOOP experience. Thank you.