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Why is it so hard to regulate thyroid medication with Hashimoto's? There's so many aspects to this, but let's just stick to why is it so hard to regulate thyroid medication with Hashimoto's? So, first of all, I get a lot of people who come in here, like no thyroid medication. So, I mean, if you're not taking thyroid medication, I might try to work on that with those goals. That's not my goal. My goal is to get you as close to remission or in remission, if possible and if thyroid medication can be an asset in that, which it can, then I'm all for it.

But, it's got a bad reputation because I have a lot of people come in here and I'm taking thyroid medication, I'm feeling better, I feel worse, I blew my head off, so that's what we're going to talk about. If you have Hashimoto's, it really is a good thing. If you can find a doctor that's a big if at this point in time, if you can find a doctor or an endocrinologist who understands the whole spectrum of Hashimoto's, but if they simply understood that,

That certain thyroid medications are not good for Hashimoto's patients, which one is it?

It depends on the patient.

In general, one of the worst ones is Synthroid. I've had two people on Synthroid, which is disappearing it seems like. I think it's disappearing because I think the insurance companies are paying more for Leibothyroxin. But Synthroid has like eight different potential triggers in it for Hashimoto's and two of the biggest ones are gluten. Yes, Synthroid has gluten and

food coloring and there's like six other ones. I took it and all of a sudden I started getting heart palpitations, and anxiety, and fatigue, and brain fog. You know, my doctor said it couldn't be from the medication and it is. That's just one kind of generalized example of some of the uniqueness of a medication. There are, most of the synthetic medications only have one hormone in them, It's called T4. Those who haven't been watching any of my stuff over the last, like whatever, how many years, T4 is an inactive hormone, made in the thyroid, meaning it doesn't do anything until it gets somewhere. It's got to get to the liver, it's got to get to the stomach, it's got to get to you cell sites.

Then there are enzymes that cause it to turn into something called T3 and make it active. We need T4 and we need T3. Some people will do well with T4, some people take T4 and they go like, it hasn't made any difference in my thyroid. My TSH is normal, my TSH is high, I don't feel a difference. That person probably has, what's called a conversion problem. They're probably just not changing the T4 in that synthetic to active hormones in the places I just got done saying, liver, stomach, and cell sites. So, that person probably would do well with a little T3. T3 is the active hormone. Now trying to get your doctor to give you T3 is like pulling teeth. There are doctors that are starting to do it now.

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