Triiodothyronine

50% of women going through menopause are going to end up with a thyroid issue.

Every cell in your body has a receptor site for T3, your bioactive version of your thyroid hormone.

So one of the things that the thyroid needs is calorie.

It's not that fasting tanks the thyroid.

So the question is why... and how that relates to maybe a better option so this video mainly relates to those people who want to continue to do conventional care they don't want to do alternative care and or they're already on synthroid okay this is a really important video for those people you know a lot of times when you get hormone therapy whether it's estrogen therapy or even thyroid therapy you're given this one hormone but i have an interesting question if you're getting treatment for the thyroid okay with one hormone and the thyroid produces more than one hormone what's happening with these other hormones or let's say for example you get a thyroidectomy the complete thyroid removed, right? And then they treat it with one hormone, which is T4.

So what about the other hormones? What about T3? What about T2? What about T1? That's right.

And what about calcitonin, right? Calcitonin is another hormone in your body.

And guess what? It's produced by the thyroid gland.

So I think it's really important to understand that these glands make more than one hormone.

And if you're going to get treated with Synthroid for some reason, I would bring up the argument for taking armor thyroid.

It comes from a natural source, an animal source, but at least armor has T4, T3, T2, T1, and calcitonin.

It was what they used before they developed Synthroid.

It cannot really do its job in that form.

Before your body can actually use it, before it can warm you, lift your mood, sharpen your mind, and drive your metabolism, the T4 has to be converted into a different active form that people call T3.

T4 is the check.

T3 is the cash.

And you cannot spend the check.

It has to be cashed first.

So the test comes back normal because there genuinely is plenty of the storage form.

But if that person's liver is congested and overworked, the conversion stalls.

And so we want to look at things like T4, which is your active thyroid hormone that's produced in the thyroid gland.

And that is converted into T3, which goes throughout the bloodstream to all the cells, the receptors for thyroid on your cells.

We also want to look at free T3, which means unbound thyroid hormone.

That's that thyroid hormone that's actually floating through your bloodstream.

It's not attached to proteins.

It can go into the cells and do its job.

We also need to look at reverse T3 and T4.

So looking at how that feedback loop is happening and going back up to the thyroid and impacting it.

Because, Ailey, you have a head full of hair, right? And I don't know the density of your hair because I've never examined it.

I have a lot of hair as well because I take T3 and T4 as well.

But I have very fine, thin hair.

So my hair is going to look different in a lost perspective than yours is going to.

Yeah.

Now, what do you guys think about thyroid? All the overdoing of the T3 prescriptions?

It's, it's weird to me because thyroid replacement is, is pretty easy.

You know, you know like it's not a hard so first off your tsh dropping some is normal right like to some degree because well now there's not as much need for thyroid stimulating hormone because you're taking this exogenous source like some of you know people like oh my god my tsh drop like that's fine now if it's a zero and you're having side effects like like jeff is mentioning that's yeah you're you're hyperthyroid and the range the range is fairly applicable to most people, but not everyone needs to be at the very top of the range.

The other thing is that we obviously need to look at total levels and free levels.

And we also have to think about, you know, I mean, there's conversion in there and there's all this other stuff, but we have to think about TSH is responding to the amount of basically free T3 in the blood or T3 in the blood, but it's also responding to, It's also responding like how much of that is actually binding actively and working.

So let's say you have like two people and they both have a free T3 of, I don't know, like 3.5. That seems pretty good.

You know, you'd be like, all right, that looks good.

And there's so many people on things like Synthroid, Levothyroxine, which is just a T4 hormone.

So it's the ingredients to make the active T3, but a lot of people don't convert well.

So we have some strategies to help those people too.

Right.

And I'll often see that iodine is low in many people.

And I was saying for the thyroid, the T3 and the T4, which are your main thyroid hormones, the T3 is three molecules of iodine.

The T4 is four molecules of iodine.

So that's pretty much what your thyroid is made up of is iodine.