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Hi, everyone.

This is Dr. Rucho.

Welcome back to another episode of Dr. Rucho Radio.

And let's jump in and talk about a very interesting case study where improving gut health and supporting female hormones led to a great outcome

and we'll detail what that great outcome specifically meant in a moment. And in the same case,

there was no need to directly address low T3. So yet another case study that if you understand the situation

between gut and thyroid appropriately, you understand when to act and when imbalances in the

thyroid or symptoms that look like thyroid symptoms are actually just smoke and the fire is actually the gut.

The other thing I want to elaborate on is a review of the evidence for combination thyroid hormone

therapy. So this is where one would combine both T4 and T3 hormone in one preparation,

as is in nature thyroid or nature thyroid or WP thyroid, as compared to T4 alone therapy,

as would be used in something like Synthroid. And the evidence here gives us a pretty clear answer to the question in terms of what is best.

And surprise, surprise, it is at odds with what the majority of the field would have you believe.

So we'll jump into more details on these in a moment, but per the usual for this

month of September, I wanted to make sure to make you aware of the fact that this information

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