One Key Reason Why Your Thyroid Hormone Is Not Working

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

If you are still experiencing symptoms of hypothyroidism despite taking a thyroid hormone, a recent study shows promise. The study showed that two-thirds of women with the above condition, who brought their ferritin levels (or functional iron in their blood) above 100, saw their persistent symptoms relieved. Consider testing your ferritin and supplementing it before adding on another medication. Interestingly, 100 is not a cutoff for healthy iron levels in most blood tests, so make sure to take a closer look. https://drruscio.com/?p=30981

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:27.0	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.2	any disease.
0:33.3	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.2	Now, let's head to the show.
0:40.4	Hi, this is Dr. Rucho, and let's discuss a simple nutritional intervention that can help maybe
0:45.3	two-thirds of women better respond to their thyroid hormone.
0:49.7	I'd like to share with you the results of this study.
0:51.3	I'll put the abstract up here on the screen in which they make the comment in two-thirds of women with persistent symptoms of hypothyroidism
1:00.0	despite appropriate lebo-thyroxin therapy, restoration of serum ferritin, excuse me, above 100 ameliorated
1:09.0	symptoms. So when women who have hypothyroidism who are on leopithyroxin and not feeling well,
1:16.3	when supplementing them with iron and getting their ferretin, a marker of iron, above 100,
1:22.6	it relieved the symptoms in two-thirds of women.
1:25.9	So this is exciting.
1:27.0	And I fact-checked this because I wanted
1:29.2	to see where the conclusion is coming from. And so we have to look at another paper here and put
1:35.6	the abstract of that up on the screen. And this study did in fact find in one study, restoring ferretin
1:42.3	to 100 alleviated symptoms in roughly 75% of women who
1:47.0	are non-responsive to lebothyrox.
1:49.0	This was a smaller study, 25 women, and it took about 6 to 12 months for the ferretin
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