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Women coming off birth control in their 30s or 40s. Definitely by 40s, ladies. Like, I understand if you're using birth control for birth control to prevent a pregnancy, but if you are using birth control because you don't want to bleed, it's time to grow up and just stop. This isn't good for you. Welcome to the new and completely reimagined Thyroid Fixer podcast, a podcast that refuses to sound like every other health show out there. 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 you've hit your breaking point. And I'm here to tell you. Good. Because this is where everything changes. This is where you finally 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 we do things differently. This podcast gives you information you can actually use. Real tools, real direction, real answers so you can take back your energy, your metabolism, your hormones, and your life. Every episode will leave you with something actionable, something that moves you forward, something that reminds you that you're not crazy. You're finally being heard. This is Thyroid Fixer Podcast. And this. This is where you rise. If you are exhausted, gaining weight, you have brain fog, you just feel off, and you're tired of doctor hopping and wasting money. Listen closely. So many women bounce from provider to provider, trying supplements, protocols, and then functional approaches that never truly address the thyroid. Months turn into years and you're still stuck, feeling like garbage, wasting your precious life. So this is why we offer a thyroid and hormone solution call. It's not a lab review. It's not treatment. 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I need to talk to every woman who's been told your labs are normal while your body is screaming at you and rebelling against you. Fatigue, brain fog, the weight that will not come off, mood swings, hair loss, feeling dismissed, frustrated and confused. I get it. And that is exactly why I wrote my new book the Thyroid Fix. The no nonsense Guide to Fix Fatigue, Fogginess and Fat that Won't Budge. That just says it all and it is now available for pre sale. So I need your help to spread the message. I am giving you an ask as my listener and a promise at the same time. If you pre order the Thyroid fix, my promise to you is to continue delivering all kinds of free advice, information, content, education, empowerment. Because that's what I love to do. Whether it's here in the just fix your thyroid Facebook group or I'm on live. I will give you everything I possibly can if you do me one favor which will be a favor for yourself as well and pre order the Thyroid fix. Now. This book is not another list of supplements, vague advice. It's not a diet plan. It's not filled with recipes. It is a clear, honest guide. It is the Thyroid Bible. It is the last thyroid book that you will ever need because it teaches you how to read your own labs. No other book has done that. It teaches you what medication and dose you need. No other book has ever done that. It will help you to understand why you are being misdiagnosed, why you're being under treated and why you can't talk about hormones, weight loss or menopause without talking about the thyroid. I called it Thyroid Bible because like I said, this is going to be the thyroid book of the next few decades. When you pre order, you're not just supporting me, you're telling the publisher. This message matters and it needs to get out to the world and it needs to get into the hands of women who have been ignored for far too long. So will you go to thyroid fix book.com and pre order a copy of yours today? It'll be shipped to you on May 12th and you will get free entry to our all day live event where I will be there answering your questions live, teaching live and bringing in amazing guests for you to also connect with and ask your questions too. So thyroidfixbook.com pre order yours today. You know, millions of women are told that birth control is totally harmless yet they gain weight, feel exhausted, lose hair, and they're told that their labs are normal. Does this sound familiar? Is this you? Here's the reality. We know that the stats show that one in eight women are going to be diagnosed with thyroid disease. In my clinic, it's much greater. It's one in two. I mean, granted, everyone that comes into my clinic, it's 100%. But when we look at the general population, that 1 in 8 stat, that is not accounting for all of the women who are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, just like I was. So the real stat should be 1 in 2. 50% of women will develop thyroid disease in their lifetime. Now, birth control can actually unmask hidden hypothyroidism. And the reality is, if you are or have been on birth control for more than 10 years. Now, I am not speaking from a pedestal here. I am not holier than thou. I absolutely was on birth control for more than 10 years. Really? From age 16 to age 30, I took synthetic birth control. Why? Because I didn't want to get pregnant. But the harsh reality is that if you were on birth control for more than 10 years, you are at a 2. I believe it's 243. Maybe it's 283. 243 or 283. Either way, it's really damn high. Percent increased risk of hypothyroidism. And of course, women get hit harder than men. That's across the board because we have these fluctuating hormones. And then you add something like synthetic hormones into the mix and it's a double, triple whammy. So if you feel like your body changed after starting birth control and no one warned you, then we need to talk. Now. By now, if you're listening to this show, you know that the thyroid gland is the master. It is the metabolic master gland. It runs the show from head to toe. It runs the show. So, yeah, it's going to affect your mood, your weight, your fertility, your brain function. And we know that T4 has to convert and become T3. Free T3. Only those free hormones are active. Right? This is just a general nice overview. So your thyroid gland produces T4 and T3. T4 has to convert and become T3. It has to become free T3 specifically because the cell receptor sites in your body can grab onto free, unbound T3. There's no receptor site anywhere for T4. It has to become T3. Even in the free form, free T4, no receptor site for it has to transform and become T3. Now, there's also something that we don't talk enough about and that is thyroid binding globulin, tbg. This is the doorway into the hormone conversation. This bridges the gap between birth control and your thyroid. Here's why thyroid binding globulin, Think about the name we talk about, sex hormone binding globulin. You've heard me mention SHBG before and how if we have too high of an SHBG in our labs, if it's above an 80, then we want to take something like SHBG fixer to lower it. Because that sex hormone binding globulin is like a sticky train. And that sticky train delivers your testosterone and your estradiol a little bit of T3 to your receptor sites on your cells that need testosterone, estradiol and T3. Well, thyroid binding globulin is really the main train for T3. That's really the train that T3 likes to jump on. Some T3 will jump on the SHBG train, most T3 will jump the TBG train. So let's just hold that thought. Let's hold that thought. Now, when we're looking at birth control, estrogen and tbg, oral contraceptives, oral birth control will raise your estrogen even in a low estrogen birth control. Because remember that even back in the day, even I remember asking my doctor because I heard, well, wait, estrogen will cause me to gain weight, so can I have a low estrogen one? And that's really where women, women would get the bloating or the water retention or the weight gain symptoms from birth control is because it had a higher amount of estrogen. And you're giving this to basically a young girl that has abundant estrogen in her body. She doesn't need more in the synthetic form. But when you do that, then a state of estrogen dominance occurs, Problems galore, galore. But even if you are on a low E birth control, you're still exogenously bringing in a small amount of estrogen into your body that pretty much already has enough and that estrogen signals the liver to produce thyroid binding globulin. All oral forms of estrogen, which we do not use, by the way. When we are dealing with a perimenopausal or menopausal woman needing estrogen, we'll use a cream, we'll use the patch, we'll even use injectable if we have to. But we will not use oral for a variety of different reasons, a variety of different safety reasons. Including the fact that it increases your risk of blood clots. But the other reason is that it has to do a first pass through the liver. And that first pass through the liver is what increases thyroid binding globulin, tbg. Now that TBG is going to bind to the free hormones, your free T3 and to your free T4. So when it binds to your free T4, it's not going to even allow that inactive T4 to convert and become T3. So it's binding to both free unbound forms of your thyroid hormone. This is why when your doctor tests your TSH and you're on birth control, he or she will say, well, you are normal. Air quote normal. You're within normal limits, you're fine, you're normal. But you can still feel hypothyroid because they're not even looking at your free T3 or your free T4 numbers to see are they low. And then of course, they're not looking at it through a functional lens of are they optimal. So absolutely you can get increased fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, depression, hair thinning. All those hypothyroid symptoms can occur just from starting birth control. And it's not necessarily the synthetic hormones, although synthetic hormones in birth control have their own set of issues and symptoms that we can discuss later. It's basically bpe. Cause those synthetic hormones, specifically estrogen is passing through the liver, is increasing your thyroid binding globulin, which is binding to your thyroid hormone, making the whole situation worse. Now that's only one component. We, we cannot end there. That's only one component. Now, before we go on to other components of birth control, I know what is going through your head right now. If you are a woman in midlife, you're saying, well, what about bhrt? So if estrogen can increase thyroid binding globulin, and I see this question in the just fix your thyroid group all the time. If estrogen can increase tbg, well then when I start on biodental hormone replacement and I start taking estradol, is that going to affect my thyroid levels? The answer is maybe, but probably not. So here's the deal. Like I said earlier, if you are using a transdermal estrad, if you're using a cream, a gel, a patch that bypasses that liver first pass. So it's a much, much smaller TBG effect. Much smaller. So minimal, minimal thyroid effect, you really shouldn't notice it at all. If anything, you might need a small, teeny tiny little adjustment. Maybe here's a little bit more T3. If your reverse T3 is okay, we'll go up in your natural desiccated thyroid maybe just a little bit. We're not going to increase your T4, but we, we'll increase your T3 or your NDT containing T3 just a little bit. You might not need any kind of adjustment. You might be totally fine as long as you are not doing oral estrogen. Now, in my world, if you're doing oral estrogen, you need to get away from that doctor because that doctor does not know what they're doing with hormones. Any good hormone doctor will not use oral estrogen because of its significant increased risk of blood clots. That's huge. But also because if you are using oral estrogen in BHRT form, you are going to increase your tbg. It's a much stronger effect. And that will lower free thyroid hormone and that will require a thyroid hormone adjustment to the medication, to your thyroid hormone replacement that you're taking. You have to remember distinct differences as well between BHRT and birth control beyond the delivery method. Number one, birth control contains super physiologic levels of estrogen, synthetic progestins. It creates endocrine disruption. It creates ovulation shutdown and metabolic stress. Vhrt, however, is physiologic dosing. We dose BHRT lower than or even equal to what your body naturally produces. So even if you are doing the Wiley protocol or rhythmic dosing, you are still physiologically dosing. That's another name for rhythmic dosing is physiologic dosing, not supra physiologic dosing, just physiologic dosing, meaning in tune with what your body does. When we're using bhrt, we are using hormones, we're using molecules that are bioidentical, identical to the hormones that your body naturally makes as opposed to synthetic. We are restoring deficiency. We're not stacking more synthetic hormones on top of your own hormone production. And the problem with birth control is that not only are we stacking synthetic hormones on top of your own production, those synthetic hormones produce a shutdown, that negative feedback loop. Which is why we see women coming off of birth control suffering for sometimes six months to a year because their own progesterone levels have been totally tanked. Estrogen levels fall into the basement. Women coming off birth control in their 30s or 40s, definitely by 40s. Ladies, like, I understand if you're using birth control for birth control to prevent a pregnancy, but if you are using birth control because you don't want to bleed. It's time to grow up and just stop. This isn't good for you. Use a rhythm method. Use a condom. Have your husband get a vasectomy. I don't care what you do, just stop using birth control. But for my young peeps, I get it. You don't want to alter your life plan. Pregnancy isn't in the plan. Use the birth control until you're in a stable relationship and then figure it out. And then become an adult and figure it out. Yes. You know, I'm always going to be blunt. It's funny. I actually put that section in my book and there is a section on birth control. But I had to, per my publisher, I had to soften it way, way, way down. Because in the book I actually say, it's time to grow up, ladies, and be an adult and stop using synthetic birth control for your birth control. There are plenty of other methods that don't require you to put synthetic hormones in your body. Increase your risk of cancer, increase your risk of blood clots, increase your risk of hypothyroidism. If you are in a monogamous relationship with another adult man, then, you know, I actually paused there and I was like, oh, what about this whole, like, what can I say? Sex wise? Female, male. No, I'm just going with it because only a man with a penis and sperm can get a woman pregnant. So the only reason a woman will, or female or whatever you want to use will be on birth control is because she does not want sperm to enter her and create a baby. So we're just, we're just getting real here. We're not being politically correct whatsoever, but we are being scientifically correct, which many people want to throw out the window when they're talking about sexes. Okay, anyways, okay, ladies. You know, as we get older, our bodies just change. Sometimes in ways that leave us feeling less in control. And as women, we're all navigating the ups and downs that come with aging, especially when it comes to hormones. So that's why I am super excited to share something with you that's been a game changer for me. I have been using the bioidentical hormone creams from Hormone Solutions by Karen Martell. Dear friend, dear colleague, someone I trust tremendously. And let me tell you, I'm a little bit obsessed. So these creams are unlike anything I've tried before. And I am a. An anti aging junkie. Skincare junkie. They're clean over the counter. They contain USP grade Hormones, which means they're high quality and effective without any harmful ingredients. And the best part is you don't need a prescription to get them. Karen's creams are designed to help with the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. And I have noticed a real difference in how I feel and how my skin looks. So the Estro 2 rejuvenation cream, my favorite in particular, has been a little miracle for my skin. Not only does it help to balance hormones. Bonus. But I've been using it as a face cream, and research shows that estrogen on the skin can actually reduce fine lines, shrink pores, even help build collagen. So it's like a mini facelift in a bottle. And it's totally affordable, too. So what I love about Karen's products is they are all about helping women reclaim control over their bodies because, let's face it, we deserve to feel good as we age. So these hormone creams are just like hitting the reset button, going back in time, giving you that sense of balance we all crave. So if you're ready to take back control, feel your best. I highly recommend trying Karen's creams. She has Progesterone, Estradiol, the E2, my fave. They come with a 30 day money back guarantee, so there's nothing to lose. And you can even get 10 off your first purchase with my code Dr. Amy D R A M I E. So check the link in the show notes. We are going to give you a personalized link, but you got to use the code Dr. Amy for 10% off. And I hope you get them all and tell me what you think. Back to the topic at hand. So as we are kind of growing up, my belief is that our health really should be front and center and that we should figure out ways to not put dangerous synthetic hormones into our body. But yeah, no, my publisher wanted me to soften that up. I had to be all nicey nicey in the book instead of more blunt and in your face like I am right now. But my podcast, I can say whatever I want to, so therefore I am. Get off the damn birth control. Once you're in a solid relationship where you can have that conversation or go get a copper iud. I mean, yeah, okay, there's gonna be. Well, you can have a copper excess then with the car. Okay, well, balance it out with some zinc and figure it out. But it's way better to me when. When we're looking at the best of the worst situation here. I would say all day long I'd rather do a copper IUD than a synthetic hormone IUD or synthetic birth control. There it is. So let's talk about progestins, because I mentioned that as well. And most of the time when we're looking at birth control, it's usually a higher amount of progestins to estrogen. Especially if you run with the low E style of birth control, that's going to have a lower estrogen profile to the progestin. But progestins are not natural progesterone. Progestins are not progesterone at all. Progestins will bind to multiple hormone receptors and act kind of almost like a stress hormone. Actually, progestins disrupt cortisol signaling, which is why we're saying they act like a stress hormone. You wonder why you gain weight and are retaining water and are bloated when you're taking birth control. Hello. It's because it's acting like a stress hormone. Disrupting cortisol signaling worsens insulin resistance. Gee, why am I craving sugar and carbs? And why am I gaining weight? Well, because you're literally creating your own insulin resistance by taking the synthetic hormones. It increases inflammation. So this excess cortisol from the progestins blocks T4 to T3 conversion. We know that cortisol is responsible for increasing reverse T3, so this is making the entire situation worse, and we're still just getting started. This is only connection number two. We haven't even gotten into the autoimmune layer. So synthetic progestins behave more like endocrine disruptors. Synthetic progestins behave like endocrine disruptors. That is totally different from a bioidentical protective progesterone. When we bring in natural bioidentical progesterone, we get the opposite effect. We get cortisol balancing, cortisol lowering, anxiety reduction, improvement in sleep, improvement in T4 to T3 conversion. Huge difference. Basically, Jekyll and Hyde. Progestins and progesterone are two completely different things, you know, Side note, it was funny as I was going through my cancer journey and we discovered that I had atypical cells. So this is before we discovered the cancer. I had atypical complex hyperplasia, atypical cells in my uterus, and my gynecological oncologist looks at me and says, well, I really think that we should put you on birth control to get some progestins in you. And I said, well, I'm on bioidentical progesterone which does a much better job at protecting my uterus. In fact, I'm on oral cream and suppository vaginal progesterone. He goes, well, I still think that we should put a Mirena IUD in. I'm like, that's still progestin. You're putting progestins in me when I just got done telling you that I am taking a boatload of bioidentical progesterone, which, squash it completely destroys progestin's profile. It's totally different. You're talking about two different things. I'm talking about something that protects against cancer, you're talking about something that literally causes cancer, and you're going to put it in me. Huge difference. Okay, now let's get into the autoimmune layer. So synthetic estrogen shifts the immune balance. Synthetic hormones, estrogen and progestin can actually provoke immune dysregulation and can trigger Hashimoto's or Hashimoto's flare. So if the genetic gun is loaded, the hormonal shifts can pull the trigger. So here we have a woman, let's say, with a genetic predisposition for autoimmune, she has it in her family, and she starts on birth control. The introduction of synthetic hormones, maybe, because she has to. I'm already giving that pass. I get it, I get it, I get it. I'm okay with it if you're using it young. But the risk is still the same. I mean, just because we're saying, hey, it's okay because you want to prevent pregnancy, and we get it, the risk is still the same. That doesn't negate the risk. That does not negate anything that we're talking about here. Whenever we have hormones on a roller coaster, hormones going up and down, hormones being disrupted, the endocrine system being shaken, thyroid binding, globulin increasing, that creates a chaotic event in our bodies. Just like puberty, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause. Hormonal shift times during a woman's life, Hormonal chaos. It's a roller coaster. I don't care how natural pregnancy is, is a huge stressor on the body. And that hormonal roller coaster and that stressor can turn on the Hashimoto switch, can turn it from the off position to the on position. That is why birth control can literally contribute to the onset of Hashimoto's to turning on that autoimmune switch. We already know that it increases your hypothyroidism risk. So that 243% increase risk over 10 years of birth control is directly correlated to an increased risk of hypothyroidism. They don't specifically say Hashimoto's in that study, but they do say hypothyroidism. But when we look at it, 95% of all hypothyroidism is Hashimoto's. So essentially, you are increasing your risk of Hashimoto's. You're increasing that autoimmune attack. You're turning that autoimmune switch from the off position to the on position. When you introduce hormonal chaos into your body, maybe it's because you got pregnant naturally and it's this beautiful thing, but your hormones are still chaotic. Maybe it's because you're going through perimenopause and menopause into what I call thyroid. That's when the thyroid presents itself as an issue. Well, the technical definition is when the thyroid gland shits the bed after the age of 40 due to fluctuating hormones. So that can occur. And then on top of that, we have just the, in general turning on of Hashimoto's because of the introduction of synthetic hormones into the body. The shutdown of our own hormones. I mean, this is all chaos, right? We bring in synthetics, we increase tbg, we shut down our own production. Our body doesn't even know what to do. And if those synthetic progestins increase cortisol, Cortisol increases, reverse T3, now we have more chaos in the body. And yes, an autoimmune attack can ensue. And then there's the gut, thyroid, birth control connection. Birth control alters our gut microbiome and significantly increases permeability. So we always talk about the gut lining, the gut wall being like tile and grout, although that's what we used to think. But now, if you think of the grout as being little open swinging doors, things can get through. Toxins, we call them lipopolysaccharides, lps. Basically, they are permeable toxins that weakens the gut lining and allows for things that were never supposed to be passed through that gut lining into our bloodstream. Never supposed to go through. Now they're getting through. Birth control destroys that gut lining and increases permeability. Now, the gut is a major thyroid conversion site. So anytime we have permeability, leaky gut. Leaky gut increases our risk of Hashimoto's or all autoimmune conditions, but it also decreases T4 to T3 conversion. So now we have elevated reverse T3 because of the disruption in our gut. And we have another layer of increased risk of Hashimoto's because of the leaky gut situation caused by birth control. There's also nutrient depletion that occurs with birth control. Zinc, selenium, B vitamins, and magnesium, which are all required for thyroid function, decrease with the use of synthetic hormones or birth control. Now, who's the group that are, I would say, at the most risk? So higher risk women gonna be? Anyone with a family history of thyroid disease, postpartum, if you're over 35. That's what I'm telling you. Get the hell off of birth control for over 35. High stress if you already have insulin resistance or picos if you have an autoimmune history or if you were symptomatic even before starting birth control, you were at a much, much greater risk of that birth control hitting you really, really hard in the face within really the first couple months, up to a year of taking it. Some women won't actually notice the impact until they're taking birth control for a couple of years. Some will notice it right away. So what do you do? What do you do? What do you, what do you do if you're on birth control? Okay, so we're not saying to stop the hormones. If you are in that young category and you are using it to basically save the trajectory of your life. Right. Maybe not in the plans. I get that. And you need to take the birth control. Fine. What I want you to do is pay attention to your symptoms. Get a full thyroid panel. You know what that includes? TSH free T4, free T3, reverse T3 and the antibodies. Check your nutrients and make sure that you are taking something like T3 Conversion Fixer. Take magnesium, vitamin D. Take all of those nutrients. You want to support your gut, you want to manage stress. And if you are on thyroid medication, I want you to know then an adjustment might be necessary. Now let me put a caveat to that. If you're on T4 only and you're taking birth control, you're going to be screwed. I'm sorry. Like you know that. I'm never going to lie to you. I'm not going to sugarcoat anything. If you are on T4 only, you already have a thyroid problem and you're taking birth control, you are going to be screwed. You are going to gain so much weight, be so symptomatic. Yeah, you need to change. You need a different practitioner. You either need to come work with us and hell yeah, I'll Give a Shameless plug. It's my podcast and we prescribe to all 50 states. Why wouldn't I? Advanced Thyroid Hormone Clinic. We know thyroid. We know hormones. We could do this in our sleep. We would never keep you on T4. Only we personalize treatment. We can adjust the thyroid treatment based on the birth control. If you come in, you're like, listen, 25 years old, starting a career. I'm dating around. I'm having fun. Okay, stay on the birth control. Let's ingest your thyroid medicine. Not T4. Only, you know, we're going to use T3 and we're going to use it in the combination of the dose that's right for you to get you optimized. And we'll tweak the medication dose to override the binding of TBG so that you are asymptomatic and you feel great while you are doing everything on your end to keep your nutrient status supported, support your gut, manage stress, all of that. So my closing message to you is this. All of us women deserve full information of everything that we are choosing to put into our bodies. Your symptoms are real. You do not ignore them. They are gifts given to you by your body to direct you in one way or another. You already know that normal labs don't equal optimal health. They do not. You need optimal labs, not just normal. Normal is a setting on the dryer. Birth control is not thyroid neutral. It is going to affect thyroid function. Which is why, if you think about it, how many, how many women are on birth control or have been on birth control? Of my friends, 100%. 100% of my friends took birth control. We need the correct answers and education and empowerment of these women or of you listening so that you can stay on top of things and you don't have to suffer while trying to protect your future. Now. Bhrt. Totally different. Totally different. Don't even put it in the same class as birth control because it's real. Hormones, totally safe, should not be avoided in some instances, can be used in place of birth control, especially for using birth control to treat something like pcos or heavy bleeding. And that's one more thing I want to add on that I should have said earlier, but let me say it here. If you are using birth control because of heavy cycles. I already said, if you're using birth control and stop bleeding just because it's inconvenient for you to have a cycle, just stop that. Grow up. Come on, stop. No, we don't do that anymore. This is in 1985. We know better now we have the education. Now we know what these synthetic hormones do. Stop what you can do if you are having heavy cycles is progesterone like real bioidentical progesterone. That's what we will use for pms, PMDD and heavy cycles. It's not going to prevent pregnancy, but it certainly is going to help with symptoms that oftentimes doctors will give you birth control for progesterone Anti anxiety Progesterone helps with sleep. You don't need progestins for that. And if you do have atypical complex hyperplasia in your uterus, highly recommend bioidentical progesterone. So my goal of this is not to scare you. It's to always, always, always empower you through understanding your own body so that you can be empowered to make the right decisions for you. And you might still choose to use birth control and that's fine. Just be aware and know what it's doing to your body so you can make the best choice for you. As always, thank you so much for listening. Share this with every woman you know who is on birth control because they either need it now or they're going to need it in the future. Thanks so much for listening. The information shared on the Thyroid Fixer Podcast is intended solely for informational and educational purposes. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 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