The Epidemic of False Hypothyroidism Diagnoses
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
4.5 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of the podcast, I’m sharing a conversation I had with Josh Trent about his personal experience being erroneously diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Unfortunately, Josh’s story is very similar to the stories we hear in the clinic every week. Hypothyroidism is a real condition, but it’s frequently misdiagnosed in functional medicine because of a theory about what TSH and T4 lab ranges should be-- even though research and clinical experience continue to disprove this. If you’re wondering about your own hypothyroid diagnosis, lab results, thyroid medication, or how to really get to the bottom of your symptoms and improve your health, I hope you’ll listen to this episode.
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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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| 0:30.4 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this |
| 0:39.2 | information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. |
| 0:44.6 | Hey everyone. Today I spoke with Josh Trent about his personal story journey in being given a |
| 0:52.1 | totally bogus ofothyroid diagnosis. |
| 0:55.0 | And you'll hear a little bit more about this when we do the intro. |
| 0:58.0 | It's actually me going on his show, but I wanted to share the audio here because it's just one of now a growing, growing number of examples of this, this egregious but rampant misdiagnosis that's occurring in the field and kind of being |
| 1:14.7 | called out by people on both sides of the fence. |
| 1:18.4 | And I understand that we're all trying to help people, but this is one kind of theoretical bit |
| 1:23.4 | that really needs to be amended. |
| 1:25.5 | He was diagnosed as hypothyroid, and he even sent me in writing |
| 1:29.9 | what is a provider interpreted for him, which is he has hypothyroidism, flat out, no nuance. And this |
| 1:40.1 | was based upon a TSA of 4.09 and a free T4.05. |
| 1:46.9 | And either I am just missing a whole bunch of research, |
| 1:51.6 | even though me and a few other research assistants alongside me |
| 1:56.3 | have scoured the medical journals for evidence, |
| 2:00.7 | I've been unable to uncover anything that |
| 2:03.0 | is even remotely convincing that we should be diagnosing people as hypothyroid if their |
| 2:08.5 | TSA is not at the normal conventional cutoff of 4.5. And I think we've discussed this on the podcast |
| 2:15.0 | in the past. This comes from a mistaken conflation that, well, when someone's on thyroid hormone |
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