Hey there, welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast.

With me today is Dr. Eric Balcavage, who is one of the top thyroid experts in the world, in my opinion,

and he takes a mitochondria-centric approach to understanding

hormones and thyroid function, which I personally think is very smart. And as you find,

if you're familiar with my work, as you listen to this, you'll notice a huge amount of similarities

in the paradigms that we operate from as far as our understanding

and approach to optimizing human health. I think Dr. Balcavage is a brilliant guy, and I think

if you're struggling with thyroid health, especially this podcast has a must listen,

but given how rampant thyroid issues are, I think really

everybody needs to know how to optimize their thyroid function. And again, this is a very

systems thinking approach to thyroid function, which I think is really a smart approach.

So with no further ado, I hope you

enjoy this wonderful podcast with the brilliant Dr. Eric Balcavage. So welcome Dr. Balcavage, such a

pleasure to connect with you again. Yeah, thanks for having me. So you are a thyroid expert

and you're one of the most respected thyroid experts out there

in the functional medicine world. And what is interesting about you and what I love about your

work is in a in a sea of thyroid experts and I think functional medicine experts in general, who have positioned

hormones at the top of the hierarchy and sort of the most upstream thing that is controlling

our physiology. You have written a book and put forth an idea that says, hey, hormones

are not the thing that are the big boss that's controlling everything else. There's other stuff

that's upstream of that. And in particular, you've put a huge emphasis on the importance of

mitochondria.

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