How to Get Your Thyroid to Work Correctly

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about how to get your thyroid to work better.

The pituitary releases a hormone called thyroid stimulating hormone. This hormone tells the thyroid to release T4 and T3. T4 is the inactive thyroid hormone that converts to T3, which is the active thyroid hormone.

If you have low thyroid stimulating hormone—you have enough. If this hormone is high, you need more of these hormones. It’s then going to increase to produce more of the hormones.

The two main problems with a hypothyroid condition:

1. You’re not making enough thyroid hormone (usually T4)

What’s usually happening is something is suppressing the function of the thyroid. Keto and intermittent fasting will help greatly improve thyroid function.

Things that can suppress thyroid function:

• Cortisol

• Estrogen

• Insulin

• Bile/liver

2. Or, you’re not covering T4 to T3

If you’re on the ketogenic diet, you’re already eating foods that will give you the above vitamins and minerals, and when on keto, the need for T3 goes down. Also, if there’s a problem with the liver or gallbladder, you’re not going to convert T4 to T3. Taking bile salts will help improve the conversion. In order to convert T4 to T3, you need cofactors—helper vitamins and minerals.

If you have Hashimoto's, you need:

• Vitamin D

• To do intermittent fasting

• Selenium

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. In this video we're going to talk about how to get your thyroid to work better.
0:47.0	There's a lot of people that have thyroid problems and a lot of people are taking medication for it.
0:54.0	But what about the actual underlying cause and what can we do to correct the function of that thyroid?
1:01.0	And hopefully down the road you'll need less medication and maybe you won't need
1:04.4	any medication at all. So here's the thing you need to know. You have the pituitary, which is in the brain,
1:12.4	it releases a hormone called thyroid
1:14.4	stimulating hormone. The purpose of this hormone is to tell the thyroid to
1:18.9	release T4 and T3. Okay? T4 is the inactive thyroid hormone. T3 is the active thyroid hormone.
1:29.2	So T4 actually converts to T3. We have like 23 times more T4 than we do T3. So this is kind of like
1:39.8	the pre-hormel and it's like the reserve, then this actually does the work in all of the cells.
1:46.7	And it controls the speed of your metabolism, the digestion, your mood.
1:52.3	So if you're cold, if you're losing your hair,
1:55.8	if you're sluggish, mentally and physically,
1:59.1	and you have muscle weakness,
2:02.3	those are all real common symptoms of a slow thyroid.
2:06.0	Now, check this out. This isn't a feedback loop. So as soon as the thyroid-stimulating hormone
2:11.4	tells the thyroid to release T4, there's a negative feedback
2:15.5	that comes up there and tells the pituitary, I have enough.
2:20.1	So if you have low thyroid stimulating hormone,
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