Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. Did you know that the toxic level of blood lead was just halved from 10 down to 5. This means that everyone who previously had a level

over 5 who could have been having toxicity symptoms was told that their level was normal.

Well it's not so different with thyroid hormones.

Just a few years ago the level of T.S.H. which is the main thyroid hormone we checked to see if there's a thyroid problem, had to be

over 10 to be diagnosed with hypothyroidism.

That level has now been brought down to 4.8 in most lab cases, and there's even controversy over whether

that is low enough.

Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place for the whole truth about health that lets you take your health back into

your hands. I'm Dr. Aviva Ram, and this week we're going to be talking about thyroid testing.

What you should ask your doctor for, what you might

need to get, and what those levels should be.

Just recently a patient came into my practice feeling fatigued, moody, she was having

heavy periods, no sex drive, and was bothered by constipation.

She also wasn't sleeping well.

She was waking up too early in the morning and just couldn't fall back to sleep.

And she gained seven pounds in just a couple of months

even though she hadn't changed her

eating habits a bit. All of these are signs of hypothyroidism. We talked. She

really didn't feel like stress was causing her symptoms. Nothing in her life was that troublesome.

She had no outlier symptoms that suggested another diagnosis.

She wasn't feeling depressed, other than feeling fatigued and overwhelmed.

She was pretty sure something was wrong with her thyroid,

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