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The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It
557. How Big Pharma Plans to Erase Your Thyroid Treatment and the Receipt History to Prove It
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You have questions about your thyroid, about your labs, what they mean. What about your hormones? What about insulin? Why are you gaining weight? Why are you so tired? Why are you losing your hair? Why won't my doctor listen to me? Why won't my doctor test these things? All of these questions that you have running around in your brain and you know that if you just had the answers that that could push you over the edge into optimal health, that you could be that badass human that you are meant to be. Well, I got you covered there because I am going live every single week in the just fix your thyroid Facebook group. That is my Facebook group. A beautiful community just filled with amazing people. Where I am in there, my nurse practitioners are in there, my health coaches are in there. There are patients in there that have been with me for so long, they're experts in their own right, and they answered just the way that I would. So we have you completely covered in this group. So not only can you post your question every single day, every single hour, if you want, you can mark your calendars for our weekly live Q and A sessions where you get to ask your question to me and I'm going to answer it live on air. And not only that, we are doing product giveaways. We're doing working with our team giveaways. You're going to want to be in there and actually be live on that call. If you're at work, go into the closet. Just shut the door. Take minutes for yourself. Take a half an hour for yourself. Take an hour for yourself so that you can get the information that you need to bring yourself into optimization land where you're not looking sideways at a brownie and gaining weight at the same time, where you can feel amazing every single day. Because that's my goal for you. You know that I love, love, love to answer your questions, and this is the place where you can get them answered live. Are you absolutely frustrated with working with doctors that keep telling you that you're normal and everything is fine, or are you frustrated with going the functional medicine or integrative medicine route and you're still not getting optimized? Maybe because they're focusing on other things other than the thyroid and hormones, or they're not a thyroid and hormone expert. Listen, just because you go to a functional medicine practitioner, it does not mean they know what they're doing with your thyroid and with your hormones. They might tell you they do, but the reality is, if you claim to be good at everything, you're really good at nothing. That is why we focus on thyroid and hormones now? Yes. What else is involved in thyroid and hormones? You got insulin, you got your adrenals, you got cortisol. Of course the gut is important, of course it is. Nutrient deficiencies, all the things. But we look at all of that and the bottom line is you could do all the gut healing protocols, detoxes, adrenal fairy dust sprinkling that you want to do. And if your thyroid is in the toilet, if you're not being treated properly, if your free T3 is low, if your reverse T3 is high, if your hormones are in the tank, then it doesn't matter. You're going to be wasting your time, you're going to be wasting money, you're going to be throwing a bunch of supplements at it, just getting more and more frustrated and getting supplement fatig. You need to work with people that will hold your hand, actually care about you, ask you how you're feeling, not have a cap on any kind of dosing. Oh, that drives me crazy too. All those docs out there that say, well, you can't go above XYZ dose of T3. That is complete BS. Do not listen to them. Or doctors that tell you that hormones cause cancer. No, no, do not listen. We can get you to optimization land where you feel amazing, where you're not gaining weight, looking sideways at a brownie, where you have consistent energy through the day, your hair is not falling out, and yes, you actually poop and detox every single day. That is a win. So you're going to want to book a call with my team and this is totally free. And this is where we go over, hey, what have you tried? What has worked, what hasn't worked? Where are you at on the frustration spectrum? And, and here's how we can help. And we are going to tailor a program for you and your needs to get you to optimization land. Because I always talk about it. It's a beautiful place to live and I invite you all to join me there because in optimization land you are confident and strong. You want to go out, your brain works, you have energy, you have motivation and you feel so good every time you get dressed. Oh, and you have a libido. It's a beautiful place to live. So I'm going to invite you to click the link below. We always put it in the show notes how to work with us. So you're going to book a free call, no obligation. We're just going to go over everything with you and at least you'll have some guidelines and Know what your next steps should be if you really want to get optimized. We got you. We've been doing this long enough. You're not a tough case. I always say that. But it is time to put you first. Because like I say, we only have so much time on this planet. Let's live it in optimization land because you deserve to be the badass human that you're meant to be. So I look forward to seeing you in one of our programs so we can help you level up and bring you into optimization land. Welcome to the Thyroid Fixer podcast, where we dive deep into the world of thyroid and hormones. Especially for you, ladies and gentlemen, navigating perimenopause and menopause. And really for anyone struggling with hypothyroidism. I'm your host, Dr. Amy, thyroid and hormone specialist and CEO of a global telemedicine practice where we prescribe the right thyroid treatment and bioidentical hormones to all 50 states and most of Canada, helping you become that badass human that you're meant to be. So if you're battling weight gain and hair loss, you can't lose weight no matter what you do. Your energy levels are plummeting and your libido left town. Then you're in the right place and you have found your tribe. Remember, I want you to embrace every inch of that badass woman that you truly are. So if you're ready to dive in and fix things, let's get started. In episode 551, we went over the FDA and their ongoing attempt to ban natural desiccated thyroid medication, what that means for you and why that really sets a bad precedent for many other detrimental things to come today. I want to go back through the history just so you can have the full picture and then, yes, we still want to update you on what's going on with that FDA ban and what does it mean for you? First of all, I think, you know, a lot of times we just accept things at face value. But while this could get me banned off of Spotify and Apple, the bottom line is we need to look way deeper, especially when our government comes out and says, we're doing this for your safety, we're doing this for your good. Right there. That should raise a red flag in your mind that there are some money being exchanged and dollar signs behind the statement. So today I want to go through and really unpack for you, which I think this is going to be super eye openening the history of thyroid medications and their tie to the fda. So let's just recap. Anyone who, let's say, hasn't been around for the month of August, hasn't been on social media or did not listen to episode 551 can always go back and listen to that. The FDA at the beginning of August 2025 released a statement and this letter. This statement was sent to all manufacturers of natural desiccated thyroid medication, as well as all manufacturers of glandular thyroid supplements, including myself here at Fixer Formulas, because we have thyroid glandular by the fixer. And the really interesting part of the letter that they released was that they outright claimed that the reason they are coming after thyro glandular supplements is because they contain T4 and T3. Now, this is interesting. When I personally back up to 2001, when I was working with my mentor at the time, he had a supplement store and I remember picking up a bottle. It's no longer even out there anymore, but it was a company that made a thyroid glandular. This is the first time I ever saw a thyroid glandular. And I remember looking at it going, okay, this is bovine desiccated thyroid. So they're taking out a thyroid gland from a cow, drying it out, powdering it, putting it into a capsule. Okay, cool. Well, what's ndt? Natural desiccated thyroid is dried pig thyroid gland. Okay, so what's the difference if we're drying out the gland of a pig versus drying out the gland of a cow? What the hell's the difference? Both are going to contain T3 and T4. And I couldn't even tell you what episode this is, but I do have an episode out on thyroid glandulars where I, I flat out say, you know, there's no little guy picking out the T3 and the T4 from the bovine glandular that has to go into supplements versus the porcine or pig glandular that goes in the medication. They're one and the same, just coming from a different Animal. Both contain T4 and T3 because every living creature has a thyroid gland. You know, every living mammal has a thyroid gland that produces T4 and T3. So when you dry out a cow's thyroid gland, guess what it's going to contain T4 and T3. Okay, so FDA definitely coming after thyroid manufacturers. I fully understand. We're not going to win this battle. We're just not. We're not going to win this battle. What might get pushed through at the end of the day is natural desiccated thyroid medication. One or two makers of NDT might actually get through. Now we're fighting for this. Really the only way this is getting through is because we are fighting for it. Because right now the FDA is classifying natural desiccated thyroid medication as animal derived thyroid. They're classifying it as an unapproved biologic. So they flipped this over and they started calling the meds and the supplements biologics. And because of that, you have to file a biologic license application, I. E. You have to get approved by the FDA to manufacture this drug or supplement. Right now, the FDA is citing that 1.5 million patients are on natural desiccated thyroid versus 24 million on Synthroid or Synthroid and Lyothy or Cytomel. And the letter actually instructs prescribers to. To transition patients to the FDA approved medications like Synthroid and Cytomel. So what does this mean? This is really a systematic removal of choice for patients. And we know that the removal of NDT will just further push Synthroid into more and more hands. I have a hard time believing that despite the FDA putting in lyothyonine as an option for prescribers into their letter, how many are actually going to do it? Like, we had to pull teeth to get doctors to prescribe NDT in the first place. Now you think you're going to get them to prescribe LI no, people are going to be on T4 only, and they're going to get sicker and sicker. And this all ties into the historical data. So let's look at the historical parallel. Synthroid's own shaky past. In 1997, there was a Federal Register notice. The FDA declared all oral levothyroxine products as new drugs. And manufacturers had to submit NDAs or risk removal. Huh. Okay, so they tried to ban Synthroid levo back in 1997. In 2001, the FDA said that Synthroid has this history of problems and cannot be recognized as safe and effective treatments and threatens market removal. Now, at that point in time, Synthroid had been on the shelves for 40 years. Unapproved. Just as a reminder, natural desiccated thyroid was the first, the very, very first thyroid medication to hit the market. The first. Now we're going all the way back to the late 1800s. It was the first thyroid medication ever to be used. Well, here comes Synthroid in mid-2000s. No, mid-1900s. And the FDA decides, you know what, we're not quite sure about this now, why they would do this. I don't have an answer just yet because we know that the general rule of thumb for Prescribing or the standard of care is to test your TSH. If TSH is high, give T4, pat you on the head, kick you out the door and wish you good luck and tell you we're going to test you in six months. That is conventional medicine standard of care for thyroid. So when we're looking at the removal of Synthroid, that gets a little bit interesting. So that was back in 2001. After 40 years on the market, Abbott at that time rushed NDA to FDA and Synthroid was finally approved. So they pushed them through that process and the FDA said, okay, now you're approved, you can stay. So basically NDT is in the same shoes as Synthroid was in 2001. Now let's move on the business power move. ABV's chess game. So ABV is a big pharma giant with Synthroid as its cash cow. Now here's something interesting and I want you to wrap your mind around this. ABV acquired Armor Thyroid via Allergan. Now, one company owns both the number one T4 drug and the leading NDT drug. So AbbVie, who owns Synthroid, buys Armour. Okay. ABBVIE is also expanding into depression drugs, which will totally come back around. And I'll tie that together for you. So now add the sponsors, this armor versus T4 clinical trial. Okay, that's interesting. When a drug company sponsors a clinical trial to compare both drugs that they own and manufacture. Now, they're only enrolling, and this is actually going on right now, they're only enrolling patients with stable TSH levels, meaning within normal limits. And they're only enrolling patients on Levo with TSH levels within normal limits. So that means that you could be on crappy T4 only, which we know doesn't work. Your TSH could be a 2, a 2.5, a 3, a 4. And they're going to call you normal, just like your doctor would. Just like that standard of care, conventional sick medicine doctor will call you normal. I'm using air quotes here. Normal when you're suffering on T4 only, which never ever works. And your TSH is still in the sick range, it's nowhere near the optimal functional range. So that's what we're going to look at in this study. Okay, so let's set that stage right there. And it's really designed to show no added benefit from Armor because here's the thing, they are looking for proof that Synthroid is the be all end all because Synthroid is their cash cow. So if we can prove that all you need is Synthroid, all you need is T4 monotherapy. Look, when, when we tested patients and we found that armor thyroid actually pushes their TSH low. Now, what have you learned from me thus far in listening to a multitude of episodes over 500. Right. If you're an avid listener, you know the answer to this. What happens when we add in any kind of T3? So even if that T3 comes as the 20% T3 that is part of natural desiccated thyroid, so armor is roughly 80% T4 and 20% T3. So now we have 20% of T3 coming into a person's body in whatever dose it is. What is that going to do? Even if it's a baby dose, even if it's not enough T3 to get you optimized, what is that going to do to your TSH level? It's going to drop it, it's going to plummet it, it's going to push it down below a 1, and you're going to be flagged as if you have hyperthyroidism. Now, very interesting. You know, in that FDA letter that went out at the beginning of August, it actually said that, you know, we're just really concerned that this NDT medication is, it's, it's, it's overstimulating people and it's making them hyperthyroid. So that's bad. They never stated in the letter how they're determining that. Are they looking at a TSH that's below a 1, that's actually flagged low like most patients on any kind of T3 will have? Is that what they're using to put in this letter, to completely wipe out a drug that's used, as they state, in 1.5 million people, which, I'm sorry, that's still a lot of people. But now also remember that that is not counting the natural desiccated thyroid compounded medications. So all in all, we estimate around 4 million users of NDT medication. 4 million will be affected. All right, let's go back. So here's this study, here's this clinical trial rather literally designed to show no added benefit from armor. So you're sitting back and asking yourself, as am I, why does a company want to basically cannibalize their own drug, a drug that they own? They're looking to prove its ineffectiveness. Now, is this all designed to tie into the FDA's ban? Not sure. However, we do see a rather shady history of rigging of free T3 ranges to lower them, to basically normalize Poor conversion or to normalize a low free T3. Very, very interesting. So if you look up ClinicalTrials.gov you'll see an entry for Armour versus T4 study and you can see all this for yourself. So now we move to 2019. This was the gaslighting patients Pub ed study, we'll call it that. So this study wanted to see why all of these patients are starting to become advocates for themselves. Why are they asking for tests that aren't just tsh? Why are they becoming smart? Why are patients all of a sudden becoming smart? Well, we have the rise of the Internet with the rise of Facebook groups such as mine. Just fixtures our Facebook group, by the way. It's a great group. We have a rise of patients and thyroid sufferers everywhere talking to themselves. We have a rise of podcasts and health related podcasts such as this one and many others talking about the alternative treatments out there for your thyroid. I found that back in, in the early 2000s, late novel, 1999, 1998. I found the T4 only doesn't work for me. I had a gateway computer that I had to Google search. I don't know if it was still dial up Internet at the time. Remember when you had to walk away and literally like brew a cup of coffee and come back and then you were connected to the Internet? That's where I found all this information about this beautiful thyroid hormone called T3. Holy cow. And it's active and T4 is inactive and T4 has to convert to T3. And why am I only on Synthroid here? So that was well before 2019. But now we fast forward. Whoa. Now we have way too many patients out there with brains actually questioning their doctor. Why are these patients not putting their doctor on a pedestal and calling them God? That's how it should be. Right? So now we have the PubMed study that shows that 46% of doctors see patients requests for thyroid tests as a barrier. Quotes like adherence to patients requests may lead to harm. That really highlights the medical system's dismissal of your own patient advocacy. It's saying in a nutshell that how dare you as a patient request from your doctor, any other test outside of tsh, you know, that actually creates a barrier for us and that might create a barrier for your proper thyroid treatment. Are you kidding me? Is this where we are right now? I think it is. That we are being muffled. We are being smothered. How dare we actually speak up now? If you look back, Abbott, remember I said AbbVie, formerly Abbott had a free T3 test recall in 20, 18 and 19. Huh, that's interesting. And the reason they list is that the potential for a mistakenly lower free T3 result. So they're saying, you know, total T3 assays, total T3 tests, they might show depressed results due to this reagent carryover when testing. So the stuff, the assay, the kit that we use to test people's free T3 and told T3. Yeah, that might not be right. Like, we're. We're showing too many people who are actually super low in T3. We're showing them as low because that's what happens when you're on T4 only, but especially when you don't convert properly. And of course, no one's testing your reverse T3. Come on. Because they already said that asking for additional tests is a barrier. And how dare you as a patient ask for an additional test? So now we got to muddy the waters just a little bit more here and go, well, you know what? And that free T3 test that you as a patient are asking for, we need to change that up so that when you get that low back, when your free T3 comes back at a 2.1, let's make that normal so we can shut these patients up from complaining that they have low free T3. We need to drop the bottom of the barrel so that low actually looks normal. It's all coming together, isn't it? It really gets interesting. So now we're going to weaponize the recalls and we're going to set the stage for the. The struggle is real when it comes to losing weight. Listen, I know because I've been there. You're trying all the things. You're doing the diet, you're tracking your macros, you're getting to the gym, you're going to the Pilates, you're doing all the things, but it's not working. It's not working. And this is independent of a thyroid problem. Maybe you have a thyroid problem. Maybe you have low hormones, or maybe you don't, and you're just like, I just have a really crappy metabolism that I am putting on weight or I can't lose weight no matter what I do. Then you need some help. But what you don't need is a stimulant fat burner of the old days where you literally thought you were having a heart attack. You need something that is actually going to work to increase your metabolism without jacking up your heart rate. Enter thyroid fixer. Yes, I know it's called thyroid fixer, but I named it after myself and the brand because it's my baby, it's my child. It's a product that I have been studying for 15 years and using it on patients for 15 years before I brought it to you. Thyroid fixer contains T2. And what this does, I call it the forgotten thyroid hormone. No, there's no tests for T2, but your body does produce T2 in small amounts. T2 will increase your basal metabolic rate, literally the amount of fat that you're burning at rest. It's also browning white adipose tissue. So this is why you jump into cold plunges. Or maybe you're like, I don't want to jump in a cold plunge to brown your white adipose tissue. That helps with insulin resistance, it helps with metabolism, it helps with inflammation, helps with overall health. So that's a good thing as well. And here's the other thing. With T2, it's not going to affect your thyroid. So many of you know, if you take T3, if we give you T3, or if you abuse T3 when you're not supposed to, it will have a feedback loop, a negative feedback loop on your thyroid. And you're going to either look like you're hyperthyroid or you're going to shut down your own Thyroid Production. T2 doesn't do that. It's working at the cell level to just simply increase your metabolism. That's a win all the way around because now you're going to burn fat, now you're going to lose those extra LBs, and that's ultimately what we want. It also bonus, helps with ATP production at the mitochondrial level. This means steady energy through the day. No highs, no lows, no caffeinated red bull spikes, just really nice steady energy through the day to keep you going. So you want to add in thyroid fixer and just literally watch your body change over the next couple months. Because listen, I mean, it's, it's time. Well, it, it's time all year long. I mean, there's no good time of year to lose body fat. We want to be in shape. We want to look, feel, and perform our best. Add in thyroid fixer and your body will absolutely thank you and then you'll come back and you'll thank me, Dan in 2020 and 2021. And I know many of you were victims of this nature throid. Nature throid was beginning to be pulled from the market. NP thyroid was flagged for potency issues, and the FDA used these cases to justify stricter regulations. So instead of improving supply Chains. FDA just pushes the this biologic classification and for it forced many smaller manufacturers out. As you all know, we lost nature. Throid totally lost it. Now the bigger picture is the profit pipeline. So Abby's ownership of both Synthroid and Armor shows a monopoly strategy. It just does. And the removal of NDT isn't, has nothing to do with your safety. What did I say in the very beginning? If the government comes out and says this is for your safety and the safety of your children, it's a red flag. Look for the dollars, just follow the money trail. Don't think too hard. It's like deciphering, right? If it's like he says, she says, right. Do you ever see that with like men are from Mars, women are from Venus. If he says this, he really means this or she hears that. Well it's the same thing. If a government three letter Alphabet soup agency says it's for your safety, I want you to hear in your mind, we need to make money. This is about money. Has nothing to do with your safety whatsoever. Just as long as you know, you know what this actually means. You'll be good, you'll be safe. So now let's move a little bit further here into present day. So we already know that this NDT ban is happening now right now the last I heard just to bring you up to date is that Armor Thyroid abvies ABV Armor has submitted an FDA approval application or the biologics application and one other company has. Now there's some rumor that NP Thyroid has as well. We're not quite sure what the Thyroid Health alliance is fighting for. What we have banned together to fight for is for the FDA to expand their deadline for these companies to push through approval so that maybe we can save one or two for you all for anyone out there that's on NDT medication and feels great and just wants to get continue feeling great. And you know that Synthroid and or Lyothyonine do not work for you and you want to be on ndt. I hear you and I want that for you because again, whenever I'm asked what's your favorite thyroid medication? It's the one that works for you in the combination that works for you in the dose that works for you. So if you don't have options, how are we going to find that sweet spot? So I've said this before in many even social media videos. If you are on natural desiccated thyroid medication and we know that the natural desiccated thyroid glandulars in supplemental form will be Gone. I myself as a supplement manufacturer received that letter from the FDA that states, hey, your supplement basically contains T4 and T3 and should be classified as a biologic. And, and therefore you got to go. We certainly do not have billions of dollars to push a supplement through NFD approval process. That's only for big pharma. The makers of Synthroid have that kind of money. The makers of Synthroid and Armor Thyroid have that kind of money and have that kind of pull and have the lobbyist to get it through little old Fixer supplement company does not not. So we're going to lose the supplement manufacturers are going to lose the stock that we have right now in Thyroid Glandular by the fixer on my store. That's it. When it's gone, it's gone. So what I'm actually telling some of my patients to do because you can't stock up on natural desiccated thyroid medication, but you can stock up on bovine supplements. I'm telling you to stock up because again, when they're gone, they're gone. And you know, this is the whole thing. Everybody thinks it's not going to happen. It's going to happen. Who knows when you go deeper like this and really look at the history, who knows what's going to happen with NDT medication? If it were as simple as, oh well, they have to go through an approval process and we just need the FDA to realize that they've tried. They, they submitted the applications, they're in the process. So it's not fair to kick them out of the process when they're already in the process. That would be sensical that, that would just make way too much sense. Way too much sense. So what they're going to do, they're going to try to push NDT medication out so that Synthroid rules. ABBVIE wants Synthroid to be the be all end all. And there's another reason why too. So we'll tie it together. So they want to restore Synthroid profits. They want to crush NDT medication. So stock up on the bovine glandulars. And here's the other really, really interesting component that was released recently. Now before I tell you this, let me just state this fact. Depression medication, all depression meds, Antidepressants are a 20 billion dollar industry. Billion with a B. AbbVie buys the rights to a new novel psychedelic for depression. This is August 26, 2025, this is released. So August 6, 2025 the FDA releases that letter to Ban NDT, the makers of Synthroid T for only who also own Armor, who are basically trying to cannibalize their own product by putting out a study that shows, that compares Armour and Synthroid on patients just solely based on their TSH values being in the normal quote unquote standard lab value range, which is obviously going to show that armor thyroid makes you hyperthyroid. They now announced a deal with a private neuroscience biotech, Gilamesh Pharmaceuticals to acquire the latter's lead pipeline candidate. Brett. Psilocin is the name GM2505, a novel therapy being developed for treating major depressive disorder. It's a psychedelic compound, it's in phase two of studies and it's used for treating moderate to severe major depressive disorder. Well, what's going to happen if we put all y' all on T4 only? What is going to happen when we make you non optimized? You know, you're floating along, you're feeling good, you're optimized on your NDT med. What's going to happen when we pull that and ban it and you're forced to use T4 only? Oh, but wait, the FDA letter said that the prescribers and providers can use T4 and T3. Yeah, good luck with that. How's that gone for you so far? There's even functional and integrated practitioners out there that are scared of T3. I, I fired a couple of them from my team because they had a cap in their mind about the amount of T3 they would give a patient. So if you need 50 mics twice a day. Oh, nope, no T3 for you. They wouldn't go above 10 in conventional medicine. Forget about it. Half of em don't Even know what T3 is. Do you know, I had a friend that went to her doctor, now she's up in Canada. So it's a, it's a lot trickier up there. She goes to her doctor and she, she's telling her that, you know, she had a discussion with me and that based on her reverse T3 being elevated and her being on T for only forever that she needs some T3. We want to add in some lyonine because that's going to help bring up her low free T3 and it's going to help bring down her high reverse T3. And the doctor literally said she, she didn't know what L thyronine was. She knew that T3 was a thyroid hormone. She had learned that along the way. She did not know what lyothyronine was. A doctor, a prescriber did not Know, a basic thyroid medication that could save your life. So if we can put y' all on T4 only maybe with a baby dose of T3, which, what do I say? Baby doses do more harm than good. You add in that little baby dose that isn't quite the dose for you and you're going to get sicker because it's just enough to shut down your own thyroid production. But it is not enough to give every single cell in your body what it needs, that thyroid hormone, the active thyroid hormone. Every cell in your body has a receptor site on it for T3. There's not enough. There's not enough to feed every cell. Oh, and by the way, your brain has more receptor sites on it for T3 than any other organ. So if we can pull that beautiful T3 from you, give you T4, only cross our fingers and wish on a rainbow that you convert. For any of my new listeners, it's really, really hard to convert T4 to T3. My favorite saying is that it's like running 10 tough mudders in a row. There are a multitude of things that get in the way and really, in this day and age of how we take care of ourselves or don't, or even just, I'm sorry, just the toxins, the chemicals that we're exposed to, the viral loads, the. That's enough to block conversion of T4 to T3. So, yeah, good luck. Good luck converting that T4 only to T3 and feeding your brain what it needs. What's going to happen now? You're going to need an antidepressant. You're going to need an antidepressant. Just as a reminder, AB V, the owner of Synthroid, the purchaser of armor, two days ago banned together and purchased a novel psychedelic for major depressive disorder. Now you might be sitting back going, all right, Dr. Amy, isn't that a little bit, a little far fetched? Aren't you stretching there? Am I? Only you can answer that. I just gave you the whole history. I pieced it together for you. I pieced it together with the help of a friend of mine who sent me all of this. And when you put it all together, wow. Wow. Now we know that this has been happening for decades. Big pharma trying to control. If we can get everyone on T4 only, the brains won't work and people will all become just basically tired fat sheep who will believe anything. But this has been going on for decades. If we can keep you on T4 only and shut you up and not have you ask for any additional testing because that would be a barrier to your treatment, remember? Then not only can we keep you on those depression drugs, the antidepressants, not only can we keep you on the antidepressants, we can also put you on a BP med and a diabetic medication and a statin. And big pharma wins with that when essentially all you need is the right thyroid medication, which might actually be NDT for you. Or maybe it's T3, you know, T3 added in. When you look at that history, it blows your mind. So again, you're not crazy. This system is designed to keep you sick. So we have this 12 month transition window right now. Here's what I'm going to encourage you to do. First of all, get current labs and document your response to natural desiccated thyroid medication. If you're on it right now and you feel great and I've seen you all write in comment on my Instagram post, I thank you so much because all of that information just fuels me. So many comments like I finally got optimized. I finally am feeling the best I've ever felt in decades. And I'm on NDT. I'm on armor, I'm on NP thyroid, I'm on a compounded T4 and T3. Document what your labs, all of them free T3 and reverse T3 are the two most important document what that looks like. Prepare to advocate for yourself because what that means, I don't mean you could send this into your senators, your congressmen, they're not going to know what your labs mean. But you at least have the documentation and you have the right to say I am feeling the best I have. My free T3 is in the optimal range. Sure, you could put it on there and then I'm going to direct you Join my just fix your thyroid Facebook group. I'm in there weekly with a Q A so you can bring your questions to me every single week and I will keep you updated. Jump on my newsletter list. I'm putting updates in there. Anything and everything that I learn about this Mess, I will 100% keep you updated all day long. Keep you updated. And by the way, we do have links down in the show notes that you can scroll down to and click for the Facebook group. You know we fought for synthroid patients in 2001. It's just time to do it again. It's just time to do it again. And last but not least, if you are an ndt, I am going to encourage you to stock up just in case on the thyroid glandulars. Just do it now. Keep the stock. You know, here's the little side note about supplements because I get this question all the time too. They really don't expire. I mean, they will after like 15 years. They'll start to lose their efficacy. But as long as you're not sitting your supplements outside of the bottle, like in the sun or in a bowl of water, I mean, seriously, they're going to keep. They're going to keep. I have plenty of supplement bottles from five years ago that are still as effective. It's that, guess what, the FDA makes us put an expiration date on the bottle and it can't exceed two years. So we have to say this is only good for two years. It's good for much longer. I mean, how many of you have even medication bottles that you look and you're like, oh, I should throw this out. The expiration date, it's old. Guess what you just did. Then you went to Rite Aid and you bought a brand new one, didn't you? And you threw out that old one. That still works. But that expiration date made you buy a new one. Problem with the expiration date on thyroid glandulars is there's no way to buy a new one once they're all gone. Stock up, keep them. Great replacement for natural desiccated thyroid medication. And by the way, I'll just say it here, I do actually have a discount code for our thyroid glandular. It's FDA 10. FDA 10. That's my way of giving the FDA the bird and allowing you all to save a little bit in your stock up process. You know, we just have to realize what's going on and fight our best fight and pray that at the end of the day we can all keep our options. Because as I said in episode 551, this ban of NT medication but also of thyroid glandulars, it's just setting a precedent and it's opening a door for the FDA to start poking around at other supplements. So if and when they get this through, I truly believe that they are going to start sticking their fingers in other glandular based supplements. Now I've been asked, oh my God, is this going to affect thyroid Fixer? No, no, it's not. I don't see that happening anytime soon. But it is going to start affecting adrenal glandulars, liver glandulars, spleen glandulars, things like testicle glandulars. Like that's in my nuts. Fixer for guys. I do believe that they're going to start getting their greedy little hands into other areas and especially if there's a supplement that can be a drug, right? So that's what Thyroid Glandular by the fixer is. It's essentially T4 and T3 in capsule form in over the counter form. I said that years ago when I picked up that supplement at my mentor's office and said this is going to be banned one day. Little did I know it would be 26 years later, but I knew that it would be banned one day because I think this contains T4 and T3. It just does. So just fight for yourself. Do whatever you can to protect yourself and your thyroid because it really means your whole life. It's how you feel. It's your mood, it's your cholesterol, it's your blood pressure, it's your insulin and your A1C. Again, would we just say diabetic drugs, satins cholesterol, blood pressure controlled by the thyroid, your mood controlled by the thyroid. Let's not let them win. Too much shady stuff going on. 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