Reverse triiodothyronine

Her progesterone, 6.35. Free T3 is good.

Reverse T3 is nice and low.

Free T4, 1.14. And then her total iron binding capacity, normal at 382.

Transferrin normal at 322.

Free T3 is the third part of the complete thyroid panel that you need to ask for.

The next is a reverse T3.

Now, many doctors have never heard of this test, and they'll say things like, well, I wouldn't even know what to do with that.

I don't even know what that is.

a left-handed and a right-handed.

One is active in the body, the other is completely inactive.

The reverse T3, it does not fit into the T3 receptors in other parts of your body.

Therefore, it has no biological activity that we know of, but it definitely doesn't do what T3 does in the body.

And then every time you go get labs for your hormones, check a full thyroid panel.

And that is TSH, free T4, free T3, reverse T3, and even TPO and thyroglobulin antibodies.

But every time you're going to get blood drawn, especially if you've already understood and see that you have a thyroid condition, check your thyroid.

Because I think the vast majority of women, if they do, I think 80% of them would find that they have a thyroid issue that they weren't aware of.

But again, it's being checked less than 4% of the time.

So we want to check that.

We also want to check your inhibitory hormone, reverse T3.

Think about your coffee cup can only hold so much coffee.

TSH is usually the starting point, but additional testing.

Reverse T3, T4, looking at those things.

Testosterone could be appropriate when symptoms and circumstances warrant it, but don't reduce someone's fatigue to you have low testosterone.

I'm seeing that all the time.

Your free T3 will be low.

Reverse T3 will be high.

And you don't even need a reverse T3.

Because if your free T3 is low, then your reverse T3 is high.

You can induce that.

So to increase that, that also is a sign that you have an iodine deficiency.

And importantly, The liver contains enzymes called diiodinases that participate in thyroid hormone metabolism.

So today, I want to show you the connection between Hashimoto's, your thyroid hormones, your liver, fatty liver, inflammation, toxins, and even reverse T3.

And I'm also going to explain something that I think is extremely important.

Why simply taking a liver detox supplement is usually not the answer.

Diodinase enzymes participate in this process.

Type 1 duodenase or D1 is expressed in several tissues including the liver.

These enzymes can remove iodine from thyroid hormone molecules and help determine whether T4 is converted toward active T3 or toward inactive metabolites such as reverse T3.

Research on hepatic deiodinases shows that the liver is an important site of thyroid hormone metabolism and that liver disease can alter this system.

Or our body...

Instead of converting into free T3, which is what we want to see, it stays in storage or it converts into reverse T3, which is kind of more of a stress situation.

It's the one that elevates when you're in high stress or when you are going through a time of sickness.

It can be useful, but we don't want to stay reverse T3 elevated all the time.

That's not a good state for us.

So if you're only testing your storage version, which isn't telling you how much active thyroid hormone you have, and you're only testing your TSH, you're not actually getting to like, what is your body doing? Does your body actually have that active thyroid hormone? happening at full capacity.

And so I couldn't get anybody to run a free T3 on me.

No one would even do it.

So those are the three basic ones.

I also sometimes check reverse T3, which if we look at the pathway of T4, either it's gonna go to T3 or it's gonna be shunted to reverse T3.

And reverse T3 is inactives.

So while the T3 tells us exactly what's going on and how much the patient's metabolism and cells are being supported, reverse T3 is the dormant form.

And probably you want to know what is the difference and when would we check it, why? So what happens is Our bodies are very intelligent and our bodies care for us.

We have to remember that our body is always looking out for us.

Let's let them rest.

Let's let the body rest a little bit.

We went deep into candida, what causes it to overgrow, why it can be so difficult to identify, and its potential connection to leaky gut, autoimmunity, and Hashimoto's.

We also talk about thyroid testing, reverse T3, mineral imbalances, cortisol, estrogen, and why your labs can look normal even when you still don't feel well.

This conversation gave me a whole new rep, a whole new explore.

And if you deal with Hashimoto's, fatigue, brain fog, or digestive issues, I think you're going to find this one very fascinating.

And those minerals or elements happen to suppress thyroid function.

And the interesting thing is they also suppress T4 to T3 conversion.

They also increase reverse T3, and they interfere with your cellular receptors.

for thyroid hormone.

It's your gasoline hormone, right? It's the active form of that.

The other hormone that can come from that crude oil, that free T4 is called reverse T3, which is actually an inhibitory hormone.

It binds and blocks the same landing spot as reverse T3 because it's shaped a lot like free T3, but in reverse in your image, just like our hands.

That allows it to bind land and sit in the landing spot that doesn't allow free T3 to bind and activate things like your energy, your mood, your cognition.

So it competes for absorption, meaning the higher reverse T3 is, the lower free T3 absorption you get, which can also cause problems, right? It's kind of like putting water in our gas tank.

It's not going to help us very much.

And then we also should be checking our Hashimoto's antibodies with everyone.

One is yes, getting a full thyroid panel and you need that.