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Hey, everyone, this is Dr. Ruchel.

Let's talk about if you need to be on thyroid hormone.

Now, we've done a couple posts about this in the past,

kind of alluding to the fact that hypothyroidism and the corresponding utilization of thyroid medication, like li-thyroxin seems to be overused,

in my opinion.

And this is especially by probably well-intentioned, but more progressive, integrative,

and functional medicine providers.

And I think it's a problem that needs to be called attention to, and we all need to work a bit more

considerably to stop the overuse of thyroid medication. Now, I'd like to share with you a

study that really found this. And here's, I think, the bottom line for people. If you're not

feeling well, you want to feel well. Thyroid hormone, or being hypothyroid is one promise that circulates that, well,

if you could find this elusive hypothyroidism, get on medication, you could then feel well.

That's all fine and good.

But what we don't want to do, the other thing that we're trying to counterbalance against

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