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Ultimately, the best thyroid hormone treatment that you can be on. My favorite, favorite, favorite medication is the one that works for you and the combination that works for you and the dose that works for you. Welcome to the Thyroid Fixer podcast where we dive deep into the world of thyroid and hormones, especially for you ladies 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. 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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 going in 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. NDT versus T4 and T3, like Synthroid, Liothyronine, Cytomel, Tiroscent versus maybe T3 only versus compounded. There's so many medication choices out there. And the bottom line is the best, best, best thyroid treatment is the one that works for you in the combination that works for you, in the dose that works for you. There is no one size fits all. And the most important message I can give across every single episode of the thyroid fixer podcast is that you are a unique individual and you deserve to be treated as such. So your thyroid treatment should always, always be tailored to you. Thyroid optimization is a nuanced art. It really is an art, and it's a gift to be able to do this. And this is something that I really, really pride myself on and my entire team, because they've all trained under me and they've been with me for so long. I, I, I really am proud that that is what we do. That is what we specialize in. And we don't just advertise that. We do it. We nuance it to you, we listen to you, we hear you when you say that. These are the symptoms that I'm struggling with now. We're going to set expectations. If you're complaining a month in that your symptoms haven't gone away, obviously we're not quite there yet. We can't get you optimized in a month. But when we do work on optimizing your thyroid, we're working to find what that exact beautiful combination of thyroid hormone replacement is for you, for your body, for how you process it, for how you convert T4 to T3, for how your cells pick up T3. It's a very, very nuanced art. So I just want to lay that foundation first. Now, when you're looking at the different medication types, there's a couple of different categories. We're going to break this down, and then we're going to really help you to better understand those medication categories and really what it means for you and for your treatment. Okay. First and foremost, we have. We'll start with natural desiccated thyroid. NDT now. Yeah, it's on the chopping block with the fda. You've heard me talk about it over and over again. If you're not yet subscribed to the newsletter, I give you updates every single week as to what's happening with that right now. We're kind of in this limbo waiting period. I will say that I do believe that certain NDT medications will make it through. That's just my gut feeling. I don't think that they're going to pull everything. I don't think they can. I think the ripple effect will be too great and there'll be way too many of us complaining. So I do believe that a couple of them are going to be pushed through. I don't think that as a supplement company that we're going to win. I don't believe that we're going to be able to continue making thyroid glandular And I do believe the FDA will start coming after different glandulars after that because it kind of opens the door and sets a precedent. However, I do believe that your NDT medication will be safe, at least one or two forms. Now, there are a couple of manufacturers out there, so we have Armour, which I've done a separate episode about, and how they were purchased by ABV Pharmaceuticals, that also owns Synthroid. So there's a little bit of a shady factor going on, and I'm not quite sure how that's going to play out because as I said in the episode, you can certainly go back and listen to it. I also state that, you know, ironically, Ambi just invested in an antidepressant medication. An antidepressant, antipsychotic. Well, what's going to happen if we pull NDT and we put everybody on T4 only? Yeah, you're going to be depressed. You're going to need that, that depression medication. But I digress. So you have Armor, and that's really considered a brand ndt. NP is actually considered a generic NDT medication. So if your provider, let's say rights for Armor brand only, and you take it to your pharmacy and your pharmacy says, says, you know what, that's going to be like $300 a month because your insurance isn't going to cover it. But your insurance will cover NP Thyroid because it's the generic form. That's why it's literally considered brand and generic. The same way that Synthroid or Tirent, those are the brand T4 medications. We'll get to those. Whereas levothyroxin is the generic. So we have NP is the generic form of ndt. Armor is a brand, and there's a new kid on the block called Ren R E N. They are also a brand and really there's no huge difference. So NDT is NDT is ndt. Now, you might be sitting there saying, but I can't take NP thyroid. I do really well on Armor Thyroid. Hold that thought. I get you. Yep. Hold that thought. So when we're talking about natural desiccated thyroid, it's important to note that all NDT medications, I don't care if someone's over here going, this is the best one. This is the best one. They're all 80% T4 and 20% T3. And if you don't convert well, that's not going to be the right medication for you if you have conversion issues. If you tend to push your T4 over to reverse T3, then you probably don't Want to take a medication that is 80%, 80% T4, because you have a really high propensity of that pushing over and converting to reverse T3 and you feeling worse and feeling like your body's in survival Mode. And that 20% T3 is sometimes not enough. Now, what we can do for those of you on NDT, and let's just say your reverse T3 is just a little bit wonky. Like, it's not horrible, but it's a little bit elevated. You're coming in at like a 15, a 16. Then what we can do is add T3 to your NDT. And again, under the category of natural desiccated thyroid, it's always, always, always derived from a pig's thyroid gland. We don't get that many variances from one medication to the next. We really don't. Taking a pig, drying out the thyroid gland. Yes. This manufacturer might put in this filler or this manufacturer puts in this filler. The fillers might be different, but the source of the thyroid hormone is the same. It's the same. So don't be fooled. There's no major difference from one manufacturer to the next. There really isn't. It's all natural desiccated thyroid, 80% T4 and 20 T3. Now, with that, if you find one that you're like, well, you know, I'm doing okay on it, but I'm just. I'm not quite there yet. Or I started on it, and then like, the benefits kind of were there and then they faded away. Well, it might be that you need to add NT3. You might need to change a ratio. So instead of you being stuck at an 80, 20 ratio for NDT, you add in some T3, and now all of a sudden it's like 60, 40, or it's 5050 or it's 40, 60. You've really shifted because the amount of T3 that you're adding in plus the 20% T3 that's in the natural desiccated thyroid medication is becoming 60% of the total thyroid med, where there's only 40% of the T4. So we can do that to better optimize it for you. Again, it's a nuanced start. It depends on you and how you feel and how you convert and how do you utilize the actual thyroid hormone. Now, if you're in that camp where you're like, you know what armor I do really well on, but NP I don't. That is a complete possibility. I've seen it go both ways. I've Seen patients on NP that can't do armor. I've seen patients on armor that can't do np. Ren is the new kid on the blocks. We don't have much data on it, but it's going to be the same thing. It's like you got to kind of play with it and see what jives for you in your body. Sometimes it's the fillers. Sometimes someone can be super, super sensitive to the smallest amount of filler in that medication or however it is compounded and pharma made at the pharmaceutical factory. Right? It's not being compounded in a compounded pharmacy. It's made into a drug. And that's the other big thing with ndt. Everyone hears the term natural desiccated thyroid natural and they think, well, this must be the best for me because it has the word natural in the title. Remember I just said that Abv former Abbott Pharmaceuticals that also owns Synthroid that also manufactures a, a depression anti psychotic medication and many, many, many others. I mean, just look it up. Just look up Avid, Avid Pharmaceuticals or Abbie and see all of the different drugs that they make. They are a drug company, they are a pharmaceutical giant. They are making your NDT at a pharmaceutical factory. I mean, for lack of a better word, it's a drug manufacturer. It's not an organic farmer putting together your rent or your armor. It's not happening. They are pharmaceutical giants. Not that there's anything wrong with that because I love the pharmaceutical giant that makes Lyoth Ironine. Like, please continue to do so. However, it's important to know that just because it has natural in the title does not mean that it's better for you. Again, the best, best the, the ultimately the best thyroid hormone treatment that you can be on. My favorite, favorite, favorite medication is the one that works for you and the combination that works for you and the dose that works for you. And we don't know what that is until we get going. So don't get hung up and think that's it. All I'm going to do is natural desiccated thyroid. That's all I want to do. I'm not going to put lyothyrene in my body. I'm not going to put Synthroid in my body because those are synthetic where natural desiccated thyroid medication is made at the same factory, a Synthroid. So although it's not synthesized in a lab to be identical, because I call those synthetic medications biosynth, they are biologically identical and synthesized to match the T4 and the T3 in your body. Just because they have the biosynth name and NDT has the natural desiccated thyroid name with natural in the title doesn't mean that it's better for you. Ultimately, it's whatever's gonna work for you. How about that? How about you? How about you be open enough to play around and to say, hey, you know, maybe NDT is enough for me. Maybe I need to add in some T3 to my NDT, or maybe I need to change completely. Don't know. You're a unique individual. So we start somewhere, we test you appropriately. We're always looking at that reverse C3 to see how well you convert. We're looking at all of the other factors that come into conversion and see if you need some help in some areas. And then we adjust and we personalize and we nuance this treatment. So that's your ndt. Now, the only other issue I have with NDT and I teach this all the time in masterclasses, webinars. If you have Hashimoto's, and this is a huge point, I say it over and over and over again. If you have Hashimoto's, what is Hashimoto's? Essentially, Hashimoto's is an autoimmune condition. It is where your body, which I always love to use the analogy of soldiers with autoimmune, you have these soldiers that like to go out and they like to attack your thyroid gland. Because these soldiers are very confused and they think that your thyroid gland is a bad guy. Just like if you have rheumatoid arthritis, those soldiers think that your joints is a bad guy. And then if you have Crohn's disease, your soldiers think that your whole gastrointestinal system, including your colon, is a bad guy. Right? Celiac, the villi in your small intestine are bad guys. So these soldiers go out and attack. Now, Hashimoto soldiers literally think that your thyroid gland is an invader and we go out and attack it. The problem is it's not an invader. And ultimately we want to quell those soldiers and keep them in their barracks and keep them from going out and attacking because there's no need. So that's where we add in things like Hashimoto, support by the fixer, which contains black cumin seed oil. I've done podcasts on that. We add in low dose naltrexone. I've done podcasts on that. We go gluten free. We do all the things to lower those antibodies and Push that Hashimoto's into remission for some people when they take a natural desiccated thyroid medication. Natural, desiccated. Natural desiccated thyroid. It is derived from drying out a pig's thyroid gland or. You're going to follow me here. Stop what you're doing and listen. We dry out a pig's thyroid gland. Thyroid gland, thyroid gland. We're literally drawing out invader, putting it in a capsule and giving it to you and saying, here, take this. And then you take it. You go, wow, I feel so much worse. What the hell happened? Well, is it that you're taking 80% T4 and you have conversion issues and it's driving your reverse T3 up, or is it that you're literally taking a thy dried thyroid gland in a capsule and your poor body that has Hashimoto's is literally thinking like it's. It's another invader coming in and your soldiers are going, whoa, it's time for war, guys. Let's amp up. There's an invader coming in. We gotta go get them. 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. And 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'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. And that's the same thing that I tell you happens with gluten. Because gluten, the protein and gluten is gliadin. Guyanin has a molecular mimicry to the thyroid gland. It can trigger an autoimmune attack. Well, what the hell do you think happens when you take the thyroid gland itself? When you take a dried pig's thyroid gland glandular, what do you think your soldiers are going to do now? Does this happen in every single person? If you're sitting there thinking, well, I'm on armor and I feel freaking fantastic, awesome, that's fine, that's good, that's great. I'm not saying that this happens in 100% of cases. I'm giving you things to think about as reasons why you might not be feeling better on NDT medication. Could be the dose is too low. I've talked about baby doses of T3. If you're on 30, if you're on 68 milligrams of NDT, that might not be enough. And it certainly might not be enough T3 to fuel every cell in your body. It might be that you're on that dose or higher and that amount of T4 is pushing up your reverse T3 and keeping you in survival mode. Or it could be that that natural desiccated thyroid in you spurs on an autoimmune attack where literally your soldiers go out and they beat up your thyroid gland, further destroying it, further impairing its ability to produce T4 and T3.3 and impairing its ability to convert T4 and T3, because the thyroid gland does a lot of that conversion in addition to your gut, your liver and your peripheral tissues. So it could be. It could be. I'm giving you things to think about. Now we move over to T4. I've already said earlier, there's brand, there's generic. Now, as we kind of go through the ranks, right, there's levothyroxine. There's nothing wrong with the generic. Yes, it does contain some additional fillers. There are multiple manufacturers of generic medication. So when we're looking at Levo, there's three, four, five different generic manufacturers of levothyroxine, just like there are a variety of generic manufacturers of Leothyrene T3. So we have the generic. That's where we start. Now, in general, this is, again, in general, people do better with a brand T4 than a generic in general. Now, if you are one that you're like, it is literally a $200 difference between Levo and Centroid, then make the Levo work, because it'll work. It'll work. If it's paired up with T3. T4 only will never work. I don't care if you're on the. The bright and shiny terasen or Terase and soul, that will end up getting to. If it's T4 only, you're stuck. You're going to be hypo. But we can make that levothyroxine generic T4 work when we put it with the proper amount of T for you when we dose that T4 at the right amount for you. So there's Levo, then there is Synthroid. Synthroid is the next step up. Now, Synthroid is brand. So when you get that prescription, if you want to use Synthroid Your doctor has to say brand only. Okay, so Synthroid is Brand. Above Synthroid is Tyracent. Above Tyent is Tyent Sole. Nectaracin has less fillers than Synthroid, much more pure. So those of you who are celiac who have celiac disease, you can't even have a speck of gluten, so you can't do the levothyroxine generic. And I'm not even positive about Synthroid. You gotta go to Tyrcin or Tyrcin Soul. Teracin Soul is a liquid form of a T4 medication. Zero fillers. Purest of the pure. These are for my super sensitive people. Super, super sensitive, but please know that it costs more. And the chances of your insurance covering Tyres and Terencel slim and none. And Slim just left town. Now, again, if you have like this Rockstar insurance, fine. But the majority of insurances are not going to cover Tyn or Tyres and Soul. But I want you to have the knowledge just in case. Now you might even have to do some price comparison. If you're like, ah, I'm so sensitive to Levo and those fillers and Synthro, not for me. You might have to do some price comparison between Tyrese, Teresa and Sol and maybe even just a compounded T4. Right. Because it may actually be cheaper for you to have a compounding pharmacy just compound it without any fillers whatsoever than it would for you to spend the money on Terrorist Center Terrace and Seoul. If your insurance doesn't cover it, then we move over to T3. We have lyothyrenine. That's generic form of T3. Sun Pharmaceuticals Greenstone, there's always new. And Sigma Farm, there's always new ones coming up now of those generic manufacturers, and I haven't seen this as much with levothyroxine generic T4. I've seen it more with lyothyrenine generic T3. That the different manufacturer, it can react differently in your body. It really can. So if you've been using, let's say, Sun Pharmaceuticals and. And you're there and you're optimized and you're feeling great, and then all of a sudden you pick up your pills from the pharmacy and you're like, wow, they look different. You call the pharmacy. Are these still, you know, I'm taking the 25 twice a day. These still the 25? Yeah. But we had to change generic manufacturers because we can no longer get Sun Pharmaceuticals from our. Our distributor. We can only get Sigma Farm, you know. Okay. And you try the Sigma Farm for A while. And you're like, why am I all of a sudden feeling hyper? Or why am I all of a sudden feeling hypo? Well, it's how your body is utilizing that particular generic manufacturer's T3. You know, I mean, some people just do. They react a little bit differently from the. The generic to the generic manufacturer. So sometimes it's going to behoove you to call different pharmacies. If you know you're on Sun Pharmaceuticals and you know that that's doing really well and your particular CVS can't get Sun Pharmaceuticals anymore, call Walgreens, call Walmart, call Costco, call different pharmacies and see if they can get Sun Pharmaceuticals in. As long as that generic is not being totally discontinued, see if another pharmacy will get that in for you. Because that shift in generic manufacturers can shift your body. I know. I have a. I had it happen to me years ago. Okay, next up, we have Cytomel. Now, it's completely and totally flipped from the T4 theory of brand versus generic to the T3 theory of brand versus generic. I actually see people do better on the generic, and it's obviously more affordable than going to Cytomel brand. There was a chart that I saw with a breakdown of fillers years ago. So I don't know for sure if this is still the case. I will look it up. I will update you as I'm saying this out loud, but years ago, when I saw the chart of. Okay, here's the fillers that are in Levothyroxine, synthrotiracin. Here's the fillers that are in Lithyonine versus Cytomel. There were more fillers in Cytomel brand T3 than there was in the generic T3 Lyothyronine. So most people do really, really well on the generic ly authority. Nothing wrong with that. And I will tell you, I was on Cytomol for a little while and wow, it went to like $700 a month. My insurance just stopped covering it. It was stupid. And then I changed the generic and I did totally fine on it. There was really no major difference. Now there's. There's not another step up. It really is that simple. When it comes to T3 lyoth, Ironine with a variety of different manufacturers, and Cytomel, the brand, there's no higher tier of that. And again, I consider the T4 and the T3 Levo Lyo, Synthroid, Cytomel. I consider those to be biosynth, Biosynthetic, biosynth. Meaning they are biologically identical to what your body makes in terms of thyroid hormone. You're not doing better going to the NDT if it doesn't work for you. I certainly could never take natural desiccated thyroid medication because the 80T4 I don't convert. I've given the story of my, my dear patient Amanda. She's just amazing. And she came to us from another clinic as well who had her on NDT because they hyper focus on T4 numbers and they have people test at the 4 hour mark after they take their medication. So she was showing this beautiful free T3 number, but her damn reverse T3 was in the 20s. Nobody was paying attention. They only wanted to give her more NDT. She came to us. You know what? She's T3 only. She's just like me. She doesn't convert at all. Once we got her on the right thyroid treatment for her. Nuanced, nuanced start. Not everybody gets put on T3 only. But you're going to get put on T3 only if you got a reverse T3 problem and you're in the 20s. Nuanced art. So we put her on T3 only. She lost a crap ton of weight, living her best life, has more muscle now than ever. She's amazing, gorgeous, beautiful, sweet. And her husband actually jumped on board and started taking care of his health as well. Nuanced, nuanced, nuanced. So maybe, maybe NDT is doing phenomenally for you. Fantastic. Okay, good. Keep riding that wave because here's the absolute bottom line. I've already said one bottom line is my favorite thyroid medication is one that works for you and the combination that works for you and the dose that works for you. The other bottom line is you always go by how you feel. I can dump on you all kinds of information, all kinds of data and none of it matters. If you're not feeling your best, if you are on any or all of the treatments that I just spewed out, if you're on NDT, if you're on NDT and T3 if you're on T3 only, if you're on T3 with a little bit of T4, if you're on majority of T4 with a little bit of T3 and you are not feeling your best, something needs to change. We gotta tweak something. Now we can look at the other factors too. There's hormones, there's cortisol, there's insulin, there's all the things. Right now we're focused on thyroid and thyroid Medication. And what do you need? You just have to experiment, preferably with someone that knows what they're doing so you don't waste your time and money and. And figure out that exact, nuanced, beautiful combination that works with your body. But knowledge is power. I always want you to know what you're taking, what's in it, what it does. Like, if I stop you on the street and I say, all right, Janet, what thyroid medication are you on? I want you to be able to say, I'm on armor 60 twice a day. T3, 10 twice a day with my armor. Beautiful. And I'm gonna go, janet, how do you feel? I feel great. For the first time in my life, I've stopped shedding hair. I'm actually losing weight. I'm not gaining weight. Looking sideways at a brownie. This is amazing. But then if I stop you on the street and I say, rebecca, what thyroid medication are you on? Well, you know, I'm on 60 milligrams of Ren Pharmaceutical twice a day, and I'm on 5 micrograms of T3. How do you feel, Rebecca? You know what? I thought I was feeling a little bit better when I started on it, and now I feel worse. And I lost, like, two pounds, but now recently, I've gained it all back. I don't know if it's water weight. I'm tired all the time. Well, then that's not right for you. Then that's not right for you. Just because it works for Janet doesn't mean it's going to work for you, Rebecca. So we need to find the exact treatment, combination, dose, and type of thyroid medication that is going to work for you. We need to dig and say, hey, did that Ren. Did that armor cause an autoimmune attack? Or do you just maybe need some T3 to balance that out and change the ratio? I know it's confusing out there, and you're not supposed to know how to do this on your own, but the more knowledge and power I can dump into your brains, the more powerful patient advocate you will be. And you will know where to spend your money, and you will know where to invest your time and energy in working with someone. And you're going to know immediately whether or not they know what they're doing, because at the end of the day, I want you to be the badass human that you're meant to be and live your best life. So thank you for listening. I hope I broke this down beautifully for you, and I'm always going to invite you to go over and join if you're not yet in there. 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