Hey everybody and welcome to episode number 7 of the Physician

assistant boards dot-com podcast I want to thank everybody for

tuning in today and today we're going to talk a little bit about the nuances

associate with hypothyroidism. But before we go ahead and get started,

I want to reply to a comment that was left on the podcast by a Lynn's PA, and she said,

great reviews

bad audio and she is 100% right.

For those of you who have been listening to all of the podcast,

I'm sure that you've noticed that there are varying levels of volume and

varying levels of quality. Well I've never actually put together a podcast before

so I'm really learning as I go but it will improve and it will continue to get better as we go along.

I really appreciate you taking the time to comment.

So if there are any other suggestions by anybody else in order to improve this show, please let me know. But with that set

let's get started with hypotheridism. Now we can't really talk about thyroid

disease without touching on the pituitary hypotherlamus axis.

So what does this mean?

The hypotherlamus will produce releasing hormones

that will stimulate the pituitary gland

to release stimulating hormones. Now these stimulating hormones will then affect certain

organs to do function. So the hypotherlamus will secrete something called thyroid releasing hormone.

And this thyroid releasing hormone or TRH will be sent to the anterior pituitary, which

will in turn secrete thyroid stimulating hormone aka T.S.H.

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