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

Today, let's discuss sluggish thyroid. How would define this in terms of your lab values,

and if this is something that I've treated can help you. And I want to start by just

calling out the fact that in conversations online regarding healthcare, there is clearly a novelty

bias. There's all these rewards for educators discussing how things can help you. And this is good and we want to do this. We want

to put every potential therapeutic option to help you on the table. Yes, 100%. However, we also want

to have a filter so that if something cannot help you, you understand that because the more

effort you exert in the wrong direction, the longer it will take you to cross the

finish line toward the goal that you have, presumably, of resolving your symptoms.

So we're always wanting to weigh these things and not just fall into the novelty bias of

here.

Here's another thing you could do without any filter to assess efficacy.

Just as a quick primer, you've probably heard this, but thyroid function, thyroid hormone,

is important because every cell of your body has a thyroid hormone receptor, and the thyroid hormone

stimulation dictates cellular metabolism and therefore can affect the function of cells, therefore organs,

and because of this can affect a wide array of systems and lead to a number of symptoms.

So like many things, problems with thyroid have a very non-specific list of symptoms that it may cause.

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