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

let's discuss a number of research studies in the area of thyroid that can inform our opinion

and help us with the fact that 37 to 61% of you watching

this might be on thyroid hormone that you don't need. And also that there are simple things

that can be done to improve thyroid autoimmunity and help you better understand that thyroid

autoimmunity, although something we want to be

concerned with, is actually not nearly as common as it's often portrayed. And why this matters is

it frees you up from not having to be worried. We want you to be empowered. And if you need a hormone,

sure, but if you don't, let's not fall into the mistake of just going on it because it was theorized that you should.

And again, we'll look at data.

We want to use research to inform our opinion and not subject you to theory or to speculation.

So we'll cover a number of research studies as our list here depicts.

A few of these are in the area known as subclinical hypothyroidism.

This is where there's a mild elevation of TSA.

And we'll detail the evidence.

But in short, data are clear that people

with a TSA of 4.8, of 5.3, of 6.1, don't seem to benefit from thyroid hormone. So we'll

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