Evidence-Based Interventions for Thyroid and Female Hormones

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Typically, this podcast segment covers thyroid and female hormonal health research updates, but this episode also includes updates relevant to diet and lifestyle. Don’t miss out on hearing the unique relationships between:

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and heavy metals
Graves Disease and long-term antithyroid drug supplementation
Phytoestrogens and peri/post menopause
Meditation and depression
Fish intake and cognition
Sauna therapy and athletic performance
Red ginseng and chronic fatigue

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
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0:30.6	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or
0:36.1	treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information
0:39.6	without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone, welcome back to Dr.
0:46.4	Rousher Radio. This is Dr. Michael Rucho, and let's do more on the research. And this time, we'll go
0:53.0	into details on thyroid and female hormones.
0:57.4	I decided to change my lumping, if you will, to include thyroid and female hormones together in one
1:05.9	podcast. Mainly the info here will be on thyroid, but there is overlap between these two especially in
1:12.9	symptomatic presentation and you will see and we have discussed in the podcast in the past
1:18.8	some women for whom they're working with the provider that has this hammer of thyroid and they
1:24.0	become a nail and it's clear when they've come to see us to the clinic for a second
1:29.0	opinion that you don't have hypothyroidism and you definitely have symptoms of female hormone
1:33.3	imbalances that will resolve your non-responsive symptoms pretty quickly once we address those.
1:38.9	So my hope is by tying these together, we won't take away from the thyroid conversation, but we'll kind of
1:46.3	accent it with a sprinkling on female hormones. So let's jump in. The first study looked at
1:53.9	changes in heavy metals as assessed in the blood in women with PCOS polycystic ovarian syndrome. And what they found
2:05.5	was in this 40 women with PCOS as compared to 40 healthy controls, they found that PCOS
2:14.2	patients had higher chromium, mercury, and copper, and also that the mercury was associated
2:23.9	with higher androgens, which drives the PCOS, which you don't want. Now, it's important for me to
2:31.4	mention here, this was a non-provoked blood sample.
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