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The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It
532. The Silent Epidemic That's NOT in the NEWS
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Dr. Amy
Welcome to the Thyroid Fixer podcast, where I'm all about helping you lose that stubborn weight that won't come off no matter what you do. Get off your couch at 2pm and get through your day with energy and stop counting the hairs that come out of your head. I'm your host, Dr. Amy, and I'm here to help you get optimized with your thyroid and your hormones. It's all part of living our mantra. Better thyroid, better hormones equals a better life. So let's get you back to being the badass human that you're meant to be. Let's approach it from a thyroid and hormone optimization standpoint. Between myself and my guests, you will be loaded down with information to take control of your health and get back to being you. So let's get started. Let's talk about the power of berberine for blood sugar control and for moving you into a state of insulin sensitivity. Now, what does that mean? So when you are insulin resistant, we can look at your fasting insulin number on labs and see that's above a six. You can look at your glucose, your fasting glucose on your labs is that above an 85. Is your continuous glucose monitor that you're slapping on the back of your arm consistently reading above an 85? Is your hemoglobin A1c above a 5.2? If you answered yes to any of those. Oh, wait, let me also add in. Do you crave carbohydrates and sugar through the day? Literally, where your. Your body is screaming at you to go get something from a vending machine or eat something sweet, then that points back to your blood sugar and your blood sugar being out of whack and being on this roller coaster. Now, what this means for you is inflammation. It means weight gain. It means an increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer's. Now, if you're carrying around an extra 20 pounds, you're not really thinking about your BR and the health of your brain when you're 70 and 80. But I'm here to tell you the fastest way to age is to keep your blood sugar on that roller coaster and keep it high. To get control over our cravings, to get control over our weight, to be able to tap into our fat stores for fuel, we need to have steady, regulated glucose. And this is where Blood Sugar Fixer comes in. Blood Sugar Fixer was one of the OG supplements in the Fixer line. And I designed this because I kept seeing over and over again with the patients we were working with. Elevated insulin, elevated A1C, elevated glucose inability to lose weight, carbohydrate, and sugar cravings. And this is where Blood Sugar Fixer comes in. It takes that wild ride, that roller coaster of blood sugar, and it squishes it together to a nice wavelike pattern. Steady, balanced, even. So that your cravings, you no longer get those cravings screaming at you. It allows your body to literally tap into the fat that you're grabbing on your stomach or your thigh, saying, gee, I really wish that this was gone. This big chunk. Yes, it taps into those fat stores and uses that to burn as fuel for energy. But you can't do that if you're a sugar burner. You can't do that if you're insulin resistant. You can't do that if your blood sugar is dysregulated. So what you want to do is bring in Blood Sugar Fixer. Now, I made it more economical. There's a lot of companies on the market that they only have their Berberine at 400 milligrams. Well, then you have to take three per day. The therapeutic dose is 1200 milligrams. I've also seen it at 1000 or 1200 milligrams. And if you take that all at once in one capsule, you might get some loose stool that becomes a little unpleasant to deal with. So 600 milligrams per capsule is what's in Blood Sugar Fixer. You take it twice a day, one with each main meal, and you will start to notice a difference, really, within a couple weeks of your cravings. And then as you are testing, you're going to see those numbers come into alignment. You're going to see the numbers come down on your CGM, your A1C will come into that beautiful optimal range below a 5.2, your insulin will become beautiful once again below a 6. And the bottom line is you will feel better. You will decrease inflammation, you will lose weight, you will gain control of your carbohydrate and sugar cravings, and you will protect your brain. So that's Blood Sugar Fixer. Twice a day, one cap twice a day. That's it. Did you know there's a reason why boosting NAD can actually make us feel years younger? This vital NAD molecule powers cellular energy. It supports our DNA health, it aids in detoxification, and it helps your body remain youthful. But by the age of 50, which I'm there now, NAD levels dropped to half of what they were at 20. 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So that's qualife.com forward slide thyroid with the promo code thyroid for 15% off. So today we're going to be talking about a silent epidemic, an epidemic that no one is talking about. It's not on the news, but it's affecting millions and millions of people, mostly women. And it's keeping them or you stuck in bodies that don't feel like your own. And this is the epidemic of being underdiagnosed, under tested, undertreated, completely disregarded when it comes to thyroid health. And I see this in my practice every single day. Now let's just start with some stats. 20 million Americans, 20 plus million Americans have thyroid dysfunction and the majority don't even know it. So we know we have that stat of 20 million. But then there are multiple millions, double that, triple that, who are not even being diagnosed. These stats that we have for thyroid disease are coming from the medication prescriptions. That's how they get the diagnoses, that's how they get the stats. The amount of Synthroid prescriptions that are out there account for 20 million Americans. What about all the people who are suffering with the weight gain and the fatigue and the hair loss and the brain fog and the constipation that keep being told that their labs are normal, your thyroid is normal. So you walk around thinking, well, everything is normal, everything's fine, right? And it's really not. That's why it is a silent, silent epidemic. But in my world, I scream it from the rooftops. So you can't not hear it. When you're listening to the Thyroid Fixer podcast, thyroid symptoms are often brushed off as normal aging stress. You're told to eat less and exercise more. The whole medical gaslighting vocabulary, it's all in your head. This is just something that happens. Oh, you know that 20 pounds of weight gain you just put on? That's not that bad. And it is, because this epidemic is ruining your life and you falling through the cracks of the conventional medicine system or even the functional medicine world. It's unacceptable. Everything that you're hearing in the medical gaslighting vocabulary are excuses, and they're not actual answers. So I have said this before. I will say it again. Your body. Our bodies were not built to be fat, foggy and fatigued. Our bodies were built to be vibrant, to be healthy. We should not gain weight looking sideways at a Brownie. We should not need a nap at 2pm every day. We should not be counting the hairs that come out of our head in the shower as we collect these little clumps of hairballs and eventually build a small Chihuahua from them. But that doesn't give us an answer as to why our hair is falling out or getting thinner or breaking. It is time that we step up and do something about this silent epidemic. Here's the problem. Number one, we're not catching this early enough. So the conventional medicine system, when we look at most MDs and DOs, you can interview them, you can flat out ask them, how much training have you had in thyroid dysfunction and hypothyroidism? And they will tell you. They learn something very, very simple. You test tsh, thyroid stimulating hormone, and listen when you talk to them. They are convinced, they are absolutely convinced that what they learned is enough to help people. Now, the reality is 50% of everything that they learned in medical school will become obsolete within three years of them graduating. So unless a doctor stays up to date with the latest information, he or she will be behind the times. But here's the thing with thyroid, it's pretty universal. It's timeless. In treatment, not much has changed, and unfortunately, not much has changed in terms of the conventional medicines block in their mindset to learn something outside of what they learned in medical school. So back to that. If TSH is above a 4.5, then you give T4 medication, you give Synthra, you give Levo, you pat that patient on the butt, send them out the door, wish them good luck, tell them we'll test them again in six months. Meanwhile, that person you are suffering with all of the symptoms, and then they just keep getting worse. And you go down all of these rabbit holes trying to figure out what the hell's going on with your body and why it's rebelling against you. And you don't have the very simple answer that has a timeless, proven solution. Yes, it's nuanced. Yes, we do have to tailor it to you and your biochemistry and your body. But it's a simple answer. You have to look at the thyroid, the master gland. You have to start there and then dissect it. So one of the problems is we are not catching this early enough. We are not catching the silent epidemic early enough. But the bottom line is the body is going to whisper before it shouts. Those symptoms that you have in the beginning, the little 5, 10 pound weight gain on the scale. You know, you're getting tired about three days out of the week at around 2pm you try to catch a little cat nap here and there just to revive yourself. Or you're downing three Red Bulls in the afternoon, trying to keep going through the day because you got to finish work and then you got to take your daughter to soccer practice, you got to cook dinner and you got to help the kids with their homework, or you have a big proposal to do for work. You have to keep going somehow. So you literally find the energy somewhere deep down in, provided by more coffee or Red Bull as well, and you just keep going. Meanwhile, I mean, this is creating huge cascade in the body. We won't even get into that with your cortisol and everything that it's doing to you, but you push through it. And then as you push through it, that whole cascade, the cortisol, the stress, the inflammation, the not sleeping, all of that comes back and that whisper gets louder and your body starts to shout. And those 10 pounds become 20, become 30, become 50, 50 turn into diabetes, type 2 diabetes. The A1C keeps climbing, the inflammation keeps climbing, the joints start hurting. Now you're half bald, now you can't function through the day. Everything just gets worse when we don't listen to the whispers in the beginning. So we need to start this conversation earlier. Especially, especially if you are in perimenopause and menopause, where the thyroid and the hormone issues overlap when thyroid pause presents itself. What is thyropause again? It's your thyroid gland shitting the bed after the age of 40 due to fluctuating hormones. This is huge, ladies. This is something we need to pay attention to. This ties directly into the silent epidemic because again, over 40 when those symptoms are prevalent, when the body starts screaming instead of whispering, that is when we need to stop and listen. That is when hormone and hormonal decline. Those symptoms are going to overlap with the thyroid symptoms. Oh, my God. Your life is going to be hell and you're still going to be left with no answers. We need to start the conversation early. We need to test early because the earlier you test, the earlier you treat, the better quality of life you're going to have and long term health that you'll have. So we already talked about the limits of conventional testing. Test tsh, that's what the doctors do. We've had other episodes on all of the different lab markers and what they mean. But in a nutshell, just a big overview. Tsh, thyroid stimulating hormone, is a pituitary hormone. It is a brain hormone. It is not a thyroid hormone. And that brain hormone will essentially put out a feeler in the body to see is there enough thyroid hormone here for us to be happy. If you're hypothalamus in your pituitary sense that there's enough thyroid hormone in the body, it will quiet down. So TSH will actually go down. But if it's like, oh my gosh, there's not enough thyroid hormone here at all, TSH is going to go up. It starts to scream at your thyroid gland, it starts to poke the thyroid gland and say, hey, wake up, you need to work here. You're not doing your job. But here's the problem, and this is where conventional medicine gets stuck. When we look at tsh, if TSH is within normal limits, wnl within that standard lab value range, your doctor's going to ignore you, totally pass by, tell you that your labs are normal. Everything looks good here, Sherry, Just move along. We'll retest you in six months. You're fine. It must be in your head. You need to eat less than exercise more. We cannot stop there. We need further testing. We have to test that full panel to get that full picture. We need to test free T3, reverse T3. We need to test the TPO and the TGA antibodies. We have to get that full picture of you, of your thyroid function. We cannot go by TSH alone because TSH isn't even a thyroid hormone. It's a brain hormone. We will say it over and over again and we're not looking for normal. Normal is a setting on the dryer. I'll say that over and over again. We want you optimal and we want all of those labs in an optimal range before we Let you go. Before we say you're fine, your thyroid is great. What I would say to my patient is your thyroid is optimal or your thyroid is not optimal. And that is telling us a story as to why you're suffering with these symptoms. Do you ever feel like your energy is just off, like you're not fully alive during the day and then you're restless at night? Chances are your circadian rhythm, your body's natural clock, has been disrupted by a lack of sunlight. So what's the solution? This is where I bring in the Mitolux sun lamp. It is designed to mimic the best of the sun, helping restore your body's rhythm. UVB for vitamin D, that helps our energy. Red and infrared light for mitochondrial support. And let's not forget our skin and collagen formation. It's amazing. It's like a reset button for, for your health that you just turn on and then sit in front of and enjoy. And during those long gloomy winters, those long days, it's a lifesaver. No more winter blues, by the way, improves your mood. No more low energy. Improves your energy. So you need to get yourself a Mito Lux lamp. It's so portable, it's so easy. I sit it on my desk, I take it with me to my bathroom, I stick my face in front of it. After I wash my face, put on my serum. It is amazing for your skin, but amazing for your energy, amazing for your mood. You want to go to mitolux.com forward slash Dr. Amy so that's M I T O L U X.com forward slash dash R-A M I E. You're going to use the code? Dr. Amy they are giving me the code to give to you for 10 off. You will not regret it. This is the best, best, best red light, hands down. I have many of them in my house. This is the only one that I use. It is so easy, portable and it works. The most important thing is it works. So mitoluxe.com forward/doctor Amy don't forget to use the code. Doctor Amy now here's why earlier diagnosis and treatment can actually save your life. Early treatment of thyroid dysfunction actually prevents worsening symptoms. Of course, yes. It prevents you from moving into, from that 20 pound weight gain, 30 pound weight gain to moving into full blown obesity, which carries issues in and of itself for your health. It stops that insulin resistance from moving into type 2 diabetes where we then become so inflamed that we're set up for Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's. We're losing our extremities, our fingers, our toes, and that's real your eyesight. Those are all real symptoms of type 2 diabetes and not something to mess with. It's something to get control over right now. And if your thyroid isn't working, your blood sugar, your insulin, all of those signaling pathways will be completely off. Autoimmune progression. Where we see one, we see more than one. So in those beginning stages of Hashimoto's or when we know that it is Hashimoto's, you could be in, in the 10th year of your Hashimoto's. Catch it now, because where autoimmune begins, it doesn't stay there. We have to catch it now, put it into remission with all the tools and strategies that we have in our toolbox and prevent it from moving into other autoimmune conditions like celiac Crohn's disease, Lynn lupus, miss. And it can, it can stack with other autoimmune conditions. Alopecia is a big one, which is why we see excess hair loss with thyroid dysfunction, because oftentimes it's autoimmune. Someone will have Hashimoto's and then it moves into the autoimmune form, alopecia, which attacks the hair follicle. And then it's very, very hard to grow hair back in an autoimmune state because the body continues to attack those follicles, basically killing them off and not allowing hair to come back in that area. Infertility. This is a big one, ladies. You cannot get pregnant, maintain a pregnancy, and develop a baby's brain appropriately. If you are low thyroid, if you have suffered with multiple miscarriages, infertility, and possibly gave birth to an autistic or developmentally delayed child, your thyroid could be at play here. One of the biggest causes of infertility is low thyroid function. And miscarriage is low thyroid function, cognitive decline. This is where again, we already tied type 2 diabetes with the increased risk of Alzheimer's. We are now calling Alzheimer's type 3. 3 diabetes for a reason, that cognitive decline. But thyroid dysfunction alone, Mismanaged, undertreated, undiagnosed, misdiagnosed thyroid function increases brain fog. And I've had so many patients come to me and say that they think they have early Alzheimer's because of the amount of brain fog they are struggling with. Metabolic health, mood, energy. Now we're just talking quality of life. Do we want to walk around 50 pounds overweight, so tired that we're dragging ourselves through the day? Brain fog. That we can't focus, we can't think, we can't hold the conversation. We can't even keep our job. And yes, it can get that bad. Many of our thyroid patients, prior to coming to us, prior to getting optimized, had to quit their job because they didn't have the energy or the brain function to be productive, to be a good employee, to run their business. They've had to shut it all down because of their thyroid dysfunction relationships. Marriages have crumbled because the spouse doesn't understand why the other spouse can't just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and suck it up and just go out and have fun and put on a smile or have sex or want to go on a vacation. Why they're just literally laying there wishing someone would listen to them, wishing someone would understand them. But the marriage takes a hit because it's very hard for another person to understand thyroid dysfunction unless you've walked in these shoes. And that's why I'm walking this journey with you, because I've been there. I've been in your shoes. I know what it's like to be on that side. I also know what it's like to be on this side and be optimized. That's why I can sit here confidently and tell you, and not just from my story, but from the thousands of patients that we've treated. There absolutely is hope, but we need to start shouting it from the rooftops. We can't live in this silent, epidemic world. It's not going to work. Everything is just going to get worse if we do. So we need customized prescriptions, not cookie cutter care. Now, this is prevalent across the board. I can't tell you how much it drives me batshit crazy when I see these online clinics pop up and they will hand out testosterone, my second favorite hormone. They'll hand out testosterone like it's candy to men and women. But when it comes to treating thyroid dysfunction, they will either hand you the same old, same old medication, usually NP thyroid or armor thyroid, which I'll get into that issue in a minute. They won't test you. They won't treat with estrogen and progesterone. Ladies, even if you're in perimenopause and menopause, it is literally a cookie cutter, one size fits all treatment plan. And that's not how the thyroid works. The thyroid is nuanced. It takes, it literally is a nuanced art to get someone optimized with their thyroid. This requires looking at your labs, looking at how you Convert testing, all of the labs that we talked about that are imperative for testing, and then implementing an actual treatment protocol that ties in with exactly what we're seeing in your lab. So yes, it's, it's this nuanced art, but going back to what I said in the beginning, it's not that hard to do if you just take the time and learn and study the thyroid and know what it takes to actually get someone optimized. Sometimes I, I think maybe I should have been called the thyroid whisperer. Because honestly, to, to myself, to my team, I have fantastic nurse practitioners working for me. My entire team thinks and operates in the same way. It's like we're one cohesive brain unit. But you get outside of my team and I start looking at other functional practitioners, other clinics, and I'm like, wow, just don't even use the term functional. Don't even claim that you treat the thyroid because you don't have a clue what you're doing and you're doing more harm than good with these people. So we need customized prescriptions, not cookie cutter care. And those online pop up clinics, yeah, sure, it's a hundred bucks a month to do an online telehealth appointment. You can't talk to anyone. They don't test properly. And literally you are part of an algorithm. You are not an individual person. They want you to think that you are, but you are literally part of an algorithm that spits out certain medications based on where you fall. Well, I, I gotta tell you, you're not an algorithm. You're a human being. And all of us require very unique, unique tweaks to our thyroid hormone care. Now, even these horrible popup clinics won't do T4 only, but we do see T4 only as the prescribed treatment in conventional medicine. T4 only does not work. T4 is your Synthroid and your Levo. And it is the second most prescribed medication under antidepressants in the United States. Everyone is given Synthroid. Papers are written of how T4 monotherapy, I. E. Synthroid only. T4 monotherapy is all you need to optimize a thyroid. Well, okay, I'll put a hundred thyroid patients in the room who have gotten optimized in our clinic and ask them how they felt on T4 only before they came in. They're going to call on this T4 monotherapy study and they're going to call on any doctor that says, Susie, T4 is all you need. Don't you know your body is totally set up to convert this T4 to T3. Meanwhile, we've already talked about this. T4 to T3 conversion is like running 10 tough mudders. It's really hard for your body to do. So for these doctors who claim to know the body, to say that T4 monotherapy is all you need is. That's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. The problem with this bare minimum approach, doctors are treating what's on the paper. They're treating your lab. They're not treating you as a person. A TSH of 4.5, okay, you're going to get that T4. Maybe you'll get a little baby dose of T3 and then they'll stop at that baby dose. Maybe if you have someone that just broke out a little bit of med school, of their med school training and they started listening to some podcasts, they're like, oh man, I'm battling this. I was taught that T3 would cause heart attacks, but I'm gonna give this patient just this baby dose. Well, thank you, doc. But here's the problem. That baby dose of T3 as you're trying to break out of your cookie cutter approach, that baby dose is just enough to shut down this person's own thyroid production, their own T3 production. But it is not enough. It is not enough to provide support to every single cell in their body that has a receptor site on it for T3. It's not enough. Now here's why these natural solutions also don't work. So I've covered conventional medicine, I've covered the way that they are trained, the way that they think, the way that they treat, and the issues with that. Now, what about these natural solutions? Okay, I love supporting the body with lifestyle nutrition supplements, but those aren't a replacement for actual thyroid hormone when you're depleted. They're just not. I actually had a patient recently. Well, let me say this, let me back up and say you can't green smoothie your way out of hypothyroidism. That is a great quote. I'm going to leave it right there. I had a patient recently who had a T3 level just in the toilet. 2.3, way out of the optimal range where we wanted her to be. She was on armor thyroid, which Armor thyroid is 20% T3. So she was getting some, but her T3 was still low. She also had a conversion problem. We'll get more into that later. But many of you know that a conversion problem is when you're reverse t3 is above a12. It's actually hindering your conversion of t4 to t3. And she came back and we said, you know, you need lyothyrenine, you need T3. If we give you more armor, thyroid, more NDT, that's going to raise your reverse T3. It's going to put your body in survival mode. You need T3. And she said, I just want to do things naturally. And she had it in her mind that somehow by taking a prescription medication that was natural, desiccated thyroid, because it had the word natural in it, and that by doing detoxes and chakra healing and yoga and meditation and all these supplements, that that was going to be enough to bring her T3 level out of the toilet. Meanwhile, she's diabetic. We've already talked about how the thyroid gland controls your insulin response and your glucose regulation. She's diabetic, she's on a glp. It's not working because her thyroid is in the toilet and she's taking a GLP medication and still comes back and goes, I want to do things naturally. I'm like, oh, my God, T3 is natural. If we have to use T3 thyroid hormone, no, it doesn't have the word natural in the title, but if we have to use lyothyronine, T3 thyroid hormone, we are replacing the hormones that are no longer being properly made by your body. And that is a beautiful, beautiful, natural thing to do. You're not going to build up more T3 in your system by doing green smoothies and adrenal supplements and detox teas and elimination diets and all these natural things. They're great. They have a place, they have a role. There's a time to do them. But you're not going to build up more T3 in your body. You are going to waste a lot of money on these other programs, by the way. But you're not going to build up T3 in your. In your T3 starved body by doing things naturally. It's not going to work. So we have to stop pretending that healing naturally means avoiding what works medically. I'm going to say that again, actually. We have to stop pretending that healing naturally means avoiding what works medically. Sometimes you have to replace those hormones that are no longer being properly made. So just remember this, you're not broken. You have been misinformed, misdiagnosed, or dismissed. So if you've been told that your labs are normal and you still feel like garbage, it's not in your head, it's in your thyroid. And this silent epidemic is real, it can be fixed. We just all need to find our voice. Which side note is actually hard to do when you have a thyroid dysfunction because you often have voice issues and feel like your throat is swollen. But that's total side note. It just kind of worked right in. We do have to find our voice. We have to find our voice. We have to stand up for ourselves. We have to be our own patient advocate with as much information about our own bodies as possible. We have to demand proper treatments. We have to not settle for inadequate treatment. We cannot settle being told that we're normal when we know that we're not. And we might have to take that next step and get real help outside of the conventional medicine system. And this truly is where functional medicine comes in. But functional medicine done right. Functional medicine done right. You can't just go to a functional medicine practitioner because he or she is in your town and your friend that had gut issues went to Dr. So and so who's integrative and natural and functional. So therefore they're going to fix her thyroid. The thyroid is still a nuanced art. You still have to work with a thyroid expert. You have to find someone that actually knows what they're doing with the thyroid, because a gut expert is a gut expert and a parasite expert is a parasite expert. A thyroid expert is a thyroid expert for a reason. There are some crossing of lines, but when I want a parasite protocol, I'm going to go to the parasite expert. I'm not going to go to the hormone expert. Love the hormone expert, love her over here. Not going to rely on her for a parasite protocol. Going to rely on the parasite queen for the parasite protocol. And that is what you have to do with your thyroid. You have to be working with a thyroid expert. Not just functional medicine, for God's sake, Not just an endocrinologist, an actual thyroid expert. That is what will get you to the next level. That is what will get you out of the same old, same old of treatment, of treating you the same way. The cookie cutter approach. Take your thyroid seriously because again, it's going to whisper. Those symptoms right now are a whisper. Or maybe they're allowed chance, but they will start to scream. And it will start to impact your body in a way that is beyond aesthetics, is beyond just getting through your day with some extra energy is beyond your hair. It will start infiltrating your health and your lifespan and your disease state. And that's when gets real. And when you start moving into heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's, that's when shit gets real. So why don't you start with a master gland? We break out of this silent epidemic and we demand to be heard. For our voices to be heard that you need real help and real treatments that actually work the information shared on the Thyroid Fixer Podcast is intended solely for informational and educational purposes and it is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always consult with your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition treatment or before making changes to your health care regimen, including medications, supplements or other therapies. Use of the information provided in this podcast does not establish a doctor, patient or client provider relationship between you and the host or between you and any other healthcare professionals featured on the show. 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