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Hey, everyone, this is Dr. Roo Show.

I just want to share a quick update regarding thyroid TSA and why you should be really

careful in terms of what you are told you should do about a elevation of your TSAH.

You've hopefully heard some of my criticisms of the field of functional, natural, and integrated

medicine regarding how overzealously we're interpreting small perturbations and findings on thyroid labs.

And this certainly includes people I work with in the clinic. In fact, I just had a patient

this morning and she had previously a TSA of 6.3. So the cut off on most labs is 4.5. So she was, according to the conventional lab ranges, slightly elevated.

And this is known as subclinical hypothyroid.

When that minimal elevation of TSA is paired with normal T4,

this is known as subclinical hypothyroid,

meaning you're not true hypothyroid.

Why this is so crucially important is because the data here are fairly clear in showing that most of these cases will spontaneously remit or will spontaneously all on their own with no treatment or therapeutics or support go back to normal. Now, what was so interesting here is that while working with me, she was also doing some local testing with her NP, her nurse practitioner.

And I advised her, let's not be too quick to act on this 6.3, this elevated TSA paired with normal T4 and also normal T3.

Let's retest in a month or two, especially given the fact that

she had been improving symptomatically.

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