Before T3: What Dr. Wilson Suggests Trying First

The WT3 protocol gets the attention, but Dr. Wilson’s own treatment page starts somewhere else: with what a person can change without a prescription. The passages are scattered across the treatment cluster, the herbs page and a few articles. This guide collects them in the order he seems to intend — conditions first, then food and movement, then herbs, then the point at which he says the prescription protocol is what’s left.

First principle: the condition can lift on its own

If left untreated, Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome can

1. Sometimes correct itself over a period of months to years
2. Often persist indefinitely and worsen, especially at times of severe stress

Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome is often a result of people becoming physically and/or emotionally overwhelmed. Such stress can cause the body temperature to drop and symptoms to develop. The problem can be so severe that the body cannot recover a normal temperature on its own, so the symptoms can persist.

— Restoring Metabolism Without a Prescription

Some people are also able to normalize their temperatures on their own with diet, exercise, stress reduction, and rest.

— Thyroid and Depression

What he lists

The first thing patients with Wilsons Temperature Syndrome can try is changing their current conditions. Anything that can enhance patients’ physical or emotional well-being has a chance of turning their Wilsons Temperature Syndrome around.

• Eliminate as much physical, and emotional stress as possible
• Short bursts of high-intensity cardiovascular exercise for a few minutes every day
• Also, some resistance training (yoga, isometric, or weights) for a few minutes every day
• try to sweat out toxins by sweating profusely 3 times a week (up to an hour at a time)
• 3 healthy meals (as organic as possible) with no snacking in between (it’s good to balance the amount of time spent in the fed and non-fed states)
• Avoid processed foods and added sugar
• Get plenty of rest

— Restoring Metabolism Without a Prescription

That is the whole list, as written. Nothing exotic; the emphasis is on stress and on short, intense effort rather than long workouts.

Shivering on purpose

The “short bursts” item became a programme of its own, built on a reflex:

It’s easy to see why the body shivers to warm up when its body temperature gets too low. It’s also easy to see how this efficient activity can help people with chronically low temperatures (Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome). One minute of shivering (Fastercise) can raise your body temperature by one degree Fahrenheit.

But it’s not just in the moment. Some people who practice Fastercise daily have found that their average body temperatures tend to rise over time.

— Treating Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome

He is the developer of Fastercise and the interested party in those sentences; the treatment page links his book and app so readers can judge for themselves.

Herbs and nutrients

The herbal side of his work comes through his collaboration with Dr. Michaël Friedman, described on the biography:

In the process, he learned that Dr. Friedman was using herbs to help people normalize their temperatures and Dr. Wilson was amazed at the results. He and Dr. Friedman started an herbal supplement company, Restorative Formulations, to make Dr. Friedman’s formulas available to many other physicians.

— Dr. Denis Wilson, MD, the biography as published on the original site

Note the commercial interest in that passage: it is disclosed on the site, and readers should weigh it. The herbs themselves, in his articles, are adaptogens aimed at stress — ashwagandha most often:

Adaptogens can be defined as substances that increase the body’s resistance to stress. Know anyone who is under any stress these days? Ashwagandha, known scientifically as Withania somnifera and as Indian ginseng has been used for over 3,000 years as an adaptogen and was believed to benefit the thyroid, the adrenal glands and the nervous system, especially during times of stress.

— Ashwagandha- a plant that can help you handle stress

And, for the adrenal side of the picture, the list he gives:

Improvements in lifestyle and nutrition (such as adding more vitamin C) are crucial. Also, herbal support for the adrenal glands can be extremely helpful, especially when it comes to helping your body to better withstand stress. These herbs include Holy Basil, Rhodiola, licorice, ashwaganha, Eleuthero (Siberian ginseng), astragalus, and others.

— What is Adrenal Fatigue and Why is it Such a Controversial Diagnosis?

After a pregnancy specifically, he names three nutrients: “iodine, iron and selenium” (the postpartum article). The long page on the subject is Herbs and Nutrients Support Organ Function.

This is also the order the certified practitioners commit to. The fourth of their tenets: “I optimize body temperatures through the use of lifestyle, nutrition, dietary supplements and/ or thyroid hormone” (the guidelines) — hormone last.

Where he says it stops being enough

More severe cases of Wilson’s Syndrome may require the WT3 protocol by prescription to bring the temperature up and correct the symptoms. Getting the body temperature up is the one thing that has an excellent chance of helping almost all bodily functions. The body temperature is the one factor that can affect virtually every chemical reaction in the body. Currently, the most reliable way to reset the body temperature is with the Wilson’s T3 protocol.

— Restoring Metabolism Without a Prescription

What “more severe” means is a clinical judgment, and the manual’s caveat that he does not treat people who feel well even with a low reading applies here too (Caveats).

How you would know if any of it is working

The same way as everything else on this site: the temperature log, kept before and during. A rising daily average is his measure; a symptom count going down (the checklist) is the other.

More on the site: Nutrition, supplements and lifestyle — the hub; The WT3 Protocol, Explained — the prescription side; Find a practitioner.

This is a reader’s guide compiled from Dr. Wilson’s published writing; every quotation is his and links to its source. Herbs and supplements interact with medicines and conditions; nothing here is medical advice.