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information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone,

welcome back. Today, let's discuss a number of very exciting and hopefully insightful updates

in hormone health, specifically thyroid, female hormones, and menopause.

And let's jump right in with a few studies on thyroid health specifically.

And these studies in part help us to better understand if you have Hashimoto's,

how at risk are you to then develop hypothyroid? Because these are

separate things. Hashimoto's is, yes, the most common cause of hypothyroidism, this thyroid autoimmunity,

but understanding what the likelihood of becoming hypothyroid is crucially important.

Because, as I hope these studies will portray, all too often, healthcare providers are, I think, unintentionally, but nevertheless, misleading healthcare consumers to believe that if they have thyroid autoimmunity, let's say

Hashimoto's specifically, that their risk of developing true and full hypothyroidism is quite

high. And in fact, it's the inverse. And let's go into a few studies that help us to understand

this. And with that knowledge,

we can intervene at the appropriate level. So the first study attempts to answer the question,

what risk factors predict progression from subclinical hypothyroid to hypothyroid.

So just as a reminder,

SCH or subclinical hypothyroid is a condition wherein your TSA is above the cutoff,

so 4.5, but it's not above 10.

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