Listener Questions on Thyroid, Diabetes, Keto, COVID Vaccine
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today’s podcast is another in a recurring series devoted to questions from listeners.
We have a diverse batch of questions today. Listeners inquire about the potential relationship between diabetes and thyroid function, whether the COVID vaccine has a negative impact on gut health, whether POTS reactions and headaches are common symptoms of fasting, and more.
There’s something here for everyone. Listen and learn.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
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| 0:30.9 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or |
| 0:36.1 | treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information |
| 0:39.6 | without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone, welcome back to |
| 0:45.8 | another episode of Dr. Rucho Radio. This is Dr. Roushio back again with Aaron Ryan. And more |
| 0:51.8 | listener questions shall we attempt to answer? Hey, Erin. Hey, yes, we have more |
| 0:58.6 | listener questions. Thank you, everybody, for submitting your audio questions and written questions. |
| 1:03.2 | We've got a lot to get through today, so let's get started. This first question is from Mary. |
| 1:09.6 | Hi, Dr. Rucho. So I have yet another question for you about the relationship between the gut and the thyroid, |
| 1:15.6 | but I have not been able to find any great answers on the details of my particular situation. |
| 1:20.6 | So essentially my question is, can diabetes or blood sugar dysregulation affect thyroid function. The very, very short version of my |
| 1:30.8 | situation is, it looks like I've recently become pre-diabetic because of a genetic condition I have |
| 1:36.4 | that does progressive damage to the pancreas. And I've also been having hypothyroid symptoms. |
| 1:44.0 | And my thyroid labs showed slowed thyroid function compared to a couple years ago, but not full-blown hypothyroidism. |
| 1:51.8 | So while I work on stabilizing my blood sugar, I'm trying to parse whether the slow thyroid is a separate issue or not, and whether those symptoms could likely |
| 2:02.8 | be resolved by stabilizing blood sugar or if I need to work on this separately. Brief background, |
| 2:08.3 | I've also been dealing with severe intestinal permeability and histamine intolerance for |
| 2:12.7 | over a year at this point, and that's because of a medication I'm taking that has affected my |
| 2:18.7 | GI tract, but which I have to keep taking because of its benefits in other ways. So I also |
| 2:25.3 | assume that it's possible that maybe just the overall inflammation and stress from that has |
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