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Hey, this is Dr. Rishu, and let's discuss if you're a truly hypothyroid.

This is something that I've discussed in the past, but I just got out of a visit with someone

who was told they were hypothyroid and they were put on armor thyroid and they felt terribly

the entire time, actually gaining weight, losing hair, becoming more fatigued, having lower

moods and having trouble with sleeping. Now why might this happen? Well, perhaps you've heard me

comment before that while I appreciate much of what the field of

integrative and alternative medicine does as someone who practices in that field, unfortunately,

I think the liberal use of using thyroid medication and doling out a diagnosis of being hypothyroid

has gotten so bad to the point now where we really need to call attention to it

and amend this problem.

Now what happens here?

Well, in functional medicine, we will sometimes use ranges that are a bit narrower than conventional medicine will use.

And this, in some cases, has merit.

However, we have to be careful with being too liberal in how tight of a range we use because the downside of that is we can start diagnosing people with a condition who actually don't have it, and therefore patients can be treated with treatments that they don't actually need. And this is exactly what is happening more often than not.

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