Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.

To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player.

For weekly updates, visit Dr.ru Shoe.com. That's D-R-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.

The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or

treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show.

Hi everyone. This is Dr. Mike Roush. I just want to make a quick preface that the audio that you're about to listen to is actually the audio compendium to a video which has appeared both

on our YouTube channel and on our Instagram page. For your convenience, we want to always release

the audio version of a video here on the podcast. However, it'll be evident in some videos more so than others that the visual aids may be heavily referenced and leaned on.

In some cases, having a depiction of a concept can be very helpful in portraying and making comprehensible that concept.

So in any case, if you are listening to this and

you want the visual aids, please see our YouTube and or Instagram page so you can have

access to those. Okay. And here we go to the audio for today's video.

Correctly interpreting high TSAH is crucial.

We're trying to balance ensuring that your TSAH normalizes, thus prevents hypothyroidism on the one hand,

while also avoiding unnecessary medication, which I'll share with you in a moment.

One recent meta-analysis found that 34% of individuals were on

lifelong thyroid hormone that did not require it. Thankfully, there are clear lab ranges that

guide us in the interpretation and simple nutritional solutions to help lower TSAH. This is Dr. Michael

Rucho, and let's expand on this very important topic.

Firstly, we need to identify what TSA level is considered high.

Now, the lab conoff is anything above 4.5.

However, not everything above 4.5 carries the same weight.

...