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Your thyroid is the most important gland in your entire body. From head to toe, it runs the show. If your thyroid is in the toilet, you will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever feel well ever, ever, ever. Welcome to the new and completely reimagined thyroid fixer podcast, a podcast that refuses to sound like every other. We're here to disrupt this entire space, and now you are part of that disruption. If you're listening right now, it's because something inside you finally said, I'm done being ignored. And I'm here to tell you good, because this is where everything changes for you. This is where you say, no more. No more being dismissed by your doctor. No more being told your labs are normal. No more recycled medical advice. No more recycled biohacking advice. No more being told to accept what you know isn't right here. You'll get truth. You'll get clarity. You'll get information you can actually use tools, strategy, and guidance you can apply right now to take back your energy, your hormones, your metabolism, and your life. Every episode will give you something real, something that moves you forward, something that reminds you that you were never the problem, the system was. This is the Thyroid Fixer podcast. This is your turning point. This is where you rise. Get ready. We're about to disrupt everything you thought you knew about thyroid and hormone health. Let's go. 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 answer 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. We 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 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. I completely and totally hear you and I see you and I understand you and I know exactly where you're at. You're gaining weight. You can't lose. You have all the symptoms that no one's listening to. The fatigue, the hair loss, the brain fog. You can't remember why you walked into a room. You don't want to get dressed and go out because you know if you have that glass of wine with your friend, if you have that dessert with your husband or even order an appetizer, you're going to be five pounds heavier the next day and your clothes are already tight. Every single doctor is telling you that you're normal and everything is fine. You've been to multiple conventional medicine doctors trying to use your insurance, hoping to God that somebody has an answer. Then you've dropped thousands of dollars on functional medicine or integrative medicine because you keep hearing how functional medicine gets to the root cause of the problem. But not every functional medicine practitioner knows the thyroid and knows the hormones and can treat you as a nuanced, personalized individual, a unique person. That is exactly what my team and I do. We specialize in thyroid problems. We specialize in hormones. You can't do one without the other. You cannot just see someone for your thyroid and have them ignore your hormones or have them half ass your hormones. They better be a hormone and thyroid expert if you are going to spend your time, your energy and your money. If you are going to invest in functional medicine, they need to be a thyroid and hormone expert and treat you as an individual. They can't have a cap on how much T3 that they're going to give you. They have to personalize your treatment plan to get you feeling your best, no matter what that looks like, so that every system in your body functions at the very top, at the very best. And that is exactly what we do. I made it my mission because I went through this. I was dismissed, I was gaslit, I was misdiagnosed, and I dropped thousands of dollars before I found an answer. That is why I made it my mission to be able to treat people in all 50 states so we can prescribe via telehealth, thyroid and hormones and peptides. Yeah, the GLPs as well, to all 50 states, most of Canada and now Puerto Rico. That is my mission to be able to help you wherever you are, because I want you living your best life. I want you to join me in optimization land where you can go out and love life and go out with your friends and go out with your partner and not gain weight looking sideways at a brownie. Yes, we do have financing options available. I'm talking like 0% or 12 months. The whole thing based on your credit score. We got you. And our programs are affordable. They're completely and totally affordable. And they will get you from point A to point B. They will bring you into optimization land. So please don't waste another moment struggling, please. I want you living here with me, a great, happy life in optimization land. So go to my website@dramy.com, click the Become a patient button so we can have a chat. Let's talk it out. Let's hear what you've done, what you haven't done, what's worked, what hasn't worked, and let's get you on the right path to feeling your absolute best. If you can imagine the best life ever, that is absolutely possible for you. I'm not BSing you. I am not bsing you. I was in your shoes. Many of my patients have been in your shoes. We will get you there. And that is my promise to you. Welcome to another edition of Quick fixes. On today's episode, we are talking about the top three questions that I get on repeat about thyroid. So we're going to go through these nice and quickly, but save this one. This is when you can come back to over and over and over again. Okay, number one, why are my labs normal but I still feel terrible? This is a big one. This is one that I see every single day in the just sexual thyroid Facebook group. So, number one, what does normal actually mean? When you are told that your labs are normal by your doctor, what's happening is that he or she is looking at your TSH or thyroid stimulating hormone. TSH is a brain hormone. It is not a thyroid hormone. So it's released by the pituitary to signal your thyroid to make more thyroid hormone. Now, we can't stop at TSH. TSH is one of those that if it is above a 2. And once again, let's back up. I don't care what that standard lab value range is. I don't care what is next to your TSH on that lab value range. I don't care that it's not marked with an H or an L or colored red to get your doctor's attention. In functional medicine, we use optimal ranges only. So anytime I'm talking about labs, I am talking about the optimal range. That range where you are going to feel your absolute best, where you are going to move into optimization land where you can live happily not gaining weight, looking sideways at a brownie and having abundant energy through the day. Yeah, that kind of land. It's a beautiful place to be. I invite you all to join me there. When you are looking at all of your labs, you want them in the optimal range, not just the normal standard lab value range because that's not going to get you better. As long as you are working with a practitioner that only looks at that lab range that's on your LabCorp, on your quest and and simply looks to see if your result, your number is in that standard lab value range, you're going to stay sick if they're only looking at TSH or quite frankly, if they even tested beyond TSH. Maybe you had your free T3 and your reverse T3 and your TPO and your TGA antibodies tested and you're still getting told that you are normal air quotes. Well, your doctor is still comparing your lab values to that standard lab value range. So let's just take T3, free T3. That free T3 range on LabCorp goes from a 2.3 to a 4.4. That is a wide range. Now where we say that your optimal is the upper quadrant of the range. Meaning take that 2.3 to 4.4, cut it in four and you want to be in that upper quadrant or maybe even a little bit over. It's okay if you're coming in at a 4.5 or a 5. As long as you are feeling great and you're not feeling like you are hyper or over medicated, I. E. Jittery, anxious, sweaty, icky, sticky is what I call it. As long as you are coming in in that optimal range, that is fantastic. That's exactly where we want you to be. Okay, let's keep going. Reverse T3. Reverse T3. We want that below a 12. Again, that standard lab value range goes anywhere from a 9 to a 25. Well, you're not going to feel good if your reverse T3 is coming in at a 20. That means you are on way too much T4 medication. Of course you're not going to feel great, you're going to feel horrible. But your doctor's going to tell you that your labs are normal. We need to look at each lab. Number one, you need them fully tested. You need TSH free T4, free T3, reverse TPO and TGA antibodies. And you want those results to fall into the optimal range, not just the standard lab value normal range. Okay. Number two, why can't I lose weight no matter what I do? I'm trying all the things. All the things. I'm meditating, I'm grounding, I'm red lighting, sauna, cold plunge, supplements, fasting, blue light blocking glasses, I'm going to bed at 10pm all the things. I'm doing keto, I'm doing Carnivore, I'm counting my carbs, I'm tracking my food, I'm getting in my protein. Does that sound like you? You're literally doing all the things. Okay, so why? First of all, when it comes to the thyroid, the thyroid is the master gland. It controls your metabolism. If you get one thing out of this podcast, if you literally hold on to one thing only, it is that your thyroid. Not your adrenals, not your gut, not your hormones, not the heavy metals that you're exposed to that you need to detox from. Your thyroid is the most important gland in your entire body. From head to toe. It runs the show. If your thyroid is in the toilet, you will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever feel well ever, ever, ever. I don't care how many hormones you take, I don't care how many adrenal protocols you do. I don't care how many gut healing supplements you take or how many detoxes you decide to implement. Which, by the way, you can't detox properly unless your thyroid's working. It doesn't matter unless your thyroid is optimized. Optimized, not just normal. That goes back to question number one. Optimize. So you need enough free T3 because T3 gives you that metabolism and attaches to every single cell body. And you need enough T2 because T2 is your metabolism. Thyroid hormone, that's what raises your resting metabolic rate. Your rmr, that's literally the amount of fat that you are burning at rest. I have been studying T2 for. Well, now it's like 17 years. I used to say it was 15 years, but that was back when my fixer formula was released and I introduced thyroid fixer to the world with T2 in it, which is 35 diine. 17 years I have been studying T2. I know the importance of T2. It is vital for your metabolism. It also lowers inflammation. It turns on a gene that prevents fat accumulation. It decreases reactive oxygen species, your ros, basically oxidative stress. It decreases oxidative stress. It improves your lipid panel. It improves your insulin resistance. T2 and T3 are the key components to losing weight. If you don't have both of those on board, if you're not taking thyroid fixer, and if you're on T4 only without T3, you will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. You get the point. Get better. You won't. You're just gonna stay the same. You're never gonna lose weight. Sorry. It doesn't matter. I don't care if you fast 24 hours a day, which really isn't that great for you anyways, or doing the Obad thing 23 hours a day technically, because there's no way you're that time. I'm totally digressing. I don't care what you do. You are not going to lose weight and keep it off. Not even a GLP1. Listen to me. Not even a GLP1 or GLP2 or GLP3. None of them. None of the GLPs will work if your thyroid is in the toilet, if you don't have enough T3 and T2. So people are wasting their money spending boatload. I mean, hundreds of thousands of dollars every single month. And they're not losing weight. They're buying the GLPs. But the GLPs aren't working because they are still suffering and they are not losing any weight. That is because their thyroid is in the toilet. You cannot have a metabolism. A GLP cannot work if your thyroid is in the toilet. I often reference, and I want to tell the story over and over and over again to drive home the point, because so many of you are buying into the rose and the hymns and the hers and the Kia oras and all of that of the world, but you're not losing weight. You are spending like 500amonth on GLPs, but you're not losing the weight. So patient of mine, Barbara, love her to death. Oh, my gosh. She's been working with us for a couple years now, and she Came into the practice, she was a diabetic. I mean, she legit needed a GLP one. She wasn't a Beverly Hills soccer mom just looking to lose 5 to 10 pounds. She needed to lose about 150 pounds. And she was a full blown type 2 diabetic. So she was actually prescribed and Insurance covered a GLP1. So she was on it for many, many months, actually up to a year, I believe, when she entered the advanced thyroid hormone clinic. And we tested her, you know, all the things like I talked about in question number one. And then we gave her T3 and T2 like I talked about in question number two. And we brought down her reverse T3 and brought up her free T3. She was on T4 only. T4 only doesn't work. So she was on T4 only. And she needed T3 and she needed T2. So we did that. And then miraculously the GLP1 started working. Because before that, her A1C wasn't changing. Before that, she wasn't losing weight. With the addition of proper thyroid treatment, T3, T2. The GLP1 then started working along with thyroid optimization. Because when you optimize your thyroid, your A1C is going to get better. Your glucose and blood sugar control is going to get better, your insulin is going to get better. So it was that combination of the GLP finally getting a chance to work because the thyroid was online and working as well. Oh, yeah. And she was also menopausal. And we gave her hormones, which no other doctor did either. They were totally ignoring the fact that her estrogen and progesterone and testosterone were all in the toilet. So she had no thyroid function, no hormones, and she was taking a GLP one. Does that sound like you? Does that sound like you? If it does that, I want you to listen, Please listen. It's not going to work. You're wasting your money. You have to optimize your thyroid and your hormones together in order for a GLP to work. 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, 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. All right, number three, big, big, big top three. These are the top three questions. Now I get a ton of questions and we go live every single week in the just fix your thyroid Facebook group. So I'm going to encourage you to join. It's the most amazing group on Facebook. I'm sorry, hands down, like we, we don't have a bunch of multi level marketers in there that are trying to get your money. We have a real community, love, support, science. We are science based. Yes. Okay. Number three, functional science, by the way, not conventional medicine. Number three, do I really need thyroid medication? It's a big one. It's a big one. So let's unpack it. Do you need thyroid medication? Well, here's the thing. Sometimes you just do. When you have a gland, an organ, when you have something in your body that is no longer of producing the proper amounts of hormones that you need to live, often times you have to replace that with thyroid hormone replacement. Now, I want you to think of thyroid hormone replacement, the T4, the T3, the natural desiccated thyroid, as hormone replacement, not medication. Over here in the medication category, we do have your statins and your antidepressants and your blood pressure medications and your PPIs for acid reflux. Those, those are band aids. Those are the band aids that your doctors will give you to band aid the symptoms that you're bringing to them. And that's not really getting to the root cause. So those are the medications that we do want to avoid. Over here we have thyroid hormone replacement. Now, thyroid hormone replacement is totally different. Thyroid hormone replacement replaces hormones that aren't being properly made by your thyroid anymore, Whether it's been destroyed through the years because of Hashimoto's or whether you, let's just say, have been on thyroid medication, even if it's crappy T4 only for years and years and years and years and years. What happens is it produces this negative feedback loop. Now, what do I mean by that? That's another big question that I see. In our group, a negative feedback loop is when we take a medication and it sends a signal back to the brain. The hypothalamus talks to the pituitary, which talks to multiple other systems in the body, can talk to the thyroid, can talk to the adrenals, the gonads. So there's an HPT access, just like there's an HPA axis and HPG axis. When we're looking at the HPT thyroid axis, what's occurring is that even if you are on craptastic T4 only, that's going to send a signal back to your brain to just tell the thyroid, like, you know what? You don't actually have to produce your own thyroid hormone anymore. This person's taking, you know, enough kind of. It's not measuring whether or not you're optimized. It's just seeing that, you know, there's enough thyroid hormone in here so we can chill out. So the brain, your hypothalamus, talks to your pituitary, which also talks to the thyroid and says to the thyroid, you don't have to produce thyroid hormone anymore. So your natural production shuts down. Now, that's not a bad thing when the production isn't great anyways. I mean, again, it's like keeping an employee and paying them for 40 hours a week and they're giving you five. Like, why are you keeping them around anyway? It doesn't matter. They're not productive. They're not producing 40 hours of work. So what do we do? We replace them. We bring in people that will do those 40 hours of work that we need to get done to run the show. Same thing with your body. We need to replace those hormones, those workers, those messengers, because your thyroid gland is doing five hours of work and getting paid for 40. So I don't know. Do you really think it's like a. A badge of honor or a gold star to not take a hormone like that? Is that. Does that make you proud? It shouldn't. There is no gold star. There's no badge of honor. There's nobody out there handing out trophies for the people who aren't taking thyroid medication. It's just not happening. The people taking the thyroid medication are winning at life because they feel their best, while the other people who are avoiding medication, who thinks that that's a badge of honor are dragging through life overweight. They're going to be on a boatload of other medications anyways, because you're going to eventually get a disease. When you do not treat the thyroid, this is much more than aesthetics. It's much more than how we look and our energy and our hair. That's a big part of it. But you have to think deeper. You have to think about your brain function. You have to think about your heart beating, your blood pressure control, your cholesterol control, your insulin control, because blood sugar is also dependent, like we said earlier, on your thyroid Functioning properly. Now, what kind of diseases will come on when we don't treat the thyroid? Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's. If we're not addressing Hashimoto's as an autoimmune condition, we know that one autoimmune begets another autoimmune. Where we see one, we see more than one. So they just kind of layer on top of each other. And then we also can bring in cardiovascular disease. And this is where you're going to need a blood pressure medication or you're going to need a statin because you're avoiding thyroid medication for whatever reason. Now, if you are just taking T4, I completely understand why you're thinking that, because it's not even working for you. So, of course, if you're on T4 only and you're going, well, why am I even bothering with this? It's garbage. It's not even fixing me. It's not helping me feel better. I get that. It's not that you don't need thyroid hormone replacement. It's that you need the right kind for you in the right dose, in the right combination, in the right amount for you and for your labs and for your body and your unique biochemistry. Of course, I understand not wanting to be on T4 only because we've already said it doesn't work, it does not work. But when we have you on that right combination of thyroid hormones that are dialed in in a nuanced art form way, because that's what thyroid optimization is. It's a nuanced art. When it's dialed in, then you feel your best. And then at that point in time, I guarantee you, your words to me will be my words as well. It's exactly what I say over and over again. You will have to pry my thyroid hormone, and for that matter, my bioidentical hormones out of my dead, cold hands before I let these go. Because this is what gives me life every day. This is what fuels my body. This is what keeps me young and vibrant and feeling amazing. This is what keeps me in optimization land, where I invite all of you to come and join me. All right, thank you. That's another edition of our Quick Fixes. Thank you for listening. And as always, please leave a review and subscribe to the podcast. Because what this does is it makes Apple happy. It sense makes, makes Spotify happy. And therefore, when they're happy, they will show this to more people who desperately need it. If this has helped you, this is going to help someone else. So if you could do your part I would greatly appreciate it. Love you all for watching. 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