The Hidden Epidemic of Low Thyroid Function | Know Your Numbers

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Do you feel fatigued, lethargic, and sluggish, especially when you wake up in the morning? Do you have poor-quality, cracked nails? Are you cold all the time? Do you have dry skin, coarse hair, or hair loss? Are you depressed? Are you constipated? Do you have muscle and joint pains?

If you answered yes to any of the above, you may be one of the 38 million Americans with low thyroid function.

In today’s episode of a new series I’m calling Know Your Numbers, I dive deep into thyroid dysfunction. I discuss why millions of people suffer with undetected thyroid issues, how conventional medicine misses the mark in measuring thyroid levels, how Functional Medicine treats hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, and much more.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Symptoms and prevalence of hypothyroidism (4:29 / 2:29)
Autoimmune thyroid disorders: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and hyperthyroidism (7:37 / 5:37)
What does a healthy, hypo- and hyper- thyroid gland do? (8:55 / 6:55)
Risk factors for thyroid problems (15:58 / 13:58)
Gluten and other drivers of thyroid problems (17:40 / 15:40)
How conventional medicine misses the mark with thyroid testing and treatment (22:15 / 20:15)
The Functional Medicine approach to thyroid testing and treatment (25:21 / 23:21)
Addressing poor thyroid function using diet, lifestyle, and supplements diet (28:59 / 26:59)

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.0	From 2009 to 2019, the percent of our population with low thyroid function went from 4.6% to 11.7%.
0:11.0	So what is going on with a more than doubling of the prevalence of thyroid problems?
0:15.5	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. As I've gotten older, it's gotten harder to fight fatigue and stay strong.
0:22.4	Now it might seem like this is a losing battle and I'm eventually just going to end up without
0:26.7	the strength or endurance to be able to do anything demanding or physical.
0:29.6	That's just a natural progression of age, right? Well here's the deal. I just turned 64 and I got
0:34.7	back from hiking up toward the Everspace camp. In one day we went about eight miles straight up,
0:40.1	I don't know, three, four thousand feet elevation at about 12,000 to 14,000 feet and you know what I felt great the whole time and hike about 10 hours straight so it's possible to stay strong and fit and have endurance even as you get older.
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1:28.0	and use the code Dr-H-E-N
1:30.0	When you're over-tired it's super easy to start defaulting to caffeine to get you through the day.
1:34.4	But that just massive symptoms of why you're tired and it can make things worse in the long run.
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