Dr. Elizabeth Boham

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The Dr. Hyman Show · Is Your Thyroid the Hidden Root Cause of Your Health Issues? · 18 Nov 2024 podcast

Yeah, fluoride. Fluoride. Yeah.

Absolutely, right? They say, okay, you know, we're just going to look at the TSH. And if it's in the normal range... you're fine, or we're gonna give you medication to get it in the normal range, but not really look a lot deeper.

Talking about goitrogens.

you're having raw brussel sprouts or raw you know eating it in a level that's beyond just like a normal food portion yeah right but but as you mentioned if you cook it if you cook it you get rid of a lot of that goitrogenic potential that the part that's going to damn or interfere with thyroid function yeah so you don't have to be concerned when you have cooked cruciferous vegetables but it's that like you said should i worry about having a kale juice every day

Ah, it's a good question. Depends how much kale you put in it, right?

A little bit of kale is fine.

And it depends on the person, of course, right?

Right?

So, you know, that's a good question too. You know, I think that if... Because a lot of people are like, soy is really bad.

I think if we're going with non-GMO organic soy as a whole food, like edamame and tofu, then I'm not concerned. Tempeh, right. Yeah, tempeh. I'm not concerned.

The fermented soy, too, right? Yep.

Or like the texturized soy protein that they put in cereals and bars just to get that protein content up. We, you know, we don't.

That's stuff I, yeah, I tell people to stay away from.

Right, so they typically test your TSH.

Your TSH is your thyroid stimulating hormone. And there's a feedback loop in the body. So if your thyroid level is low, then the body will get triggered to make more TSH.

Yeah, and then that TSH will say, okay, make more thyroid. So if the TSH is high, then the doctor says, okay, your thyroid is underactive and we need to treat it. So that's typical. That's the only thing they test. Often, often.

So what kind of things would you look at? We always start with a full thyroid panel where you look at TSH, but you look at free T3 and free T4. So free T4 is one thyroid hormone that's floating around in your body, but then the T3 is the active form that your body needs for all the thyroid functions to occur. So we look at all three of those at least.

Then we often look at thyroid antibodies, and sometimes we'll even do things like reverse T3 and the reverse T3, total T3 ratio.

So the reverse T3 is a thyroid hormone that the body, when the body is, I always think of it almost as the brake that the body puts on itself. So when the body is saying, okay, I've got to slow myself down, it takes some of its T3, which is your active thyroid hormone, and it converts it to reverse T3, almost in a way to slow down our metabolism. It's a protective mechanism I think of, right?

And it makes sense that we have that in times of stress.

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