It
is estimated that more than 20 million Americans suffer from low thyroid problems or hypothyroidism. One in eight women will develop a thyroid disorder during her lifetime. Weight loss resistance, fatigue, brain fog, irritability, depression, hair loss, brittle nails have all been linked to low thyroid function.
If you have these symptoms, you can go to your primary care physician or endocrinologist and have tests run. Typically they'll run TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) and T4 Tests. If your TSH is high, you'll be given a thyroid replacement hormone drug. In my experience, thyroid replacement hormones do very little to sustainably relieve symptoms in most cases, let alone fix the condition. This leaves many of those suffering with these symptoms left to fend for themselves. As with any chronic
disease, the training in the mainstream system is to diagnose a disease and match it with a corresponding drug. So if your TSH lab is "normal," you're told you're "normal," even if you still have symptoms.
The standard of care for people struggling with low thyroid symptoms is incomplete and inadequte. In functional medicine, we look at a much narrower range that shows ultimate health and function. This detailed lab interpretation gives answers to millions of people in the "gray area." People who have symptoms but are considered "normal" in the eyes of the mainstream care
There are six patterns of hypothyroidism that won't show up on conventional lab tests and are not effectively helped by thyroid replacement hormones.. Learn about the 6 Patterns of hypothyroidism at MindBodyGreen.com
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