The Most Accurate Thyroid Tests & How Healing Your Gut Can Fix Your Thyroid: A Case Study

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

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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

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🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

If you are using the wrong thyroid test you could miss the fact that you are hypothyroid because your labs say you are normal. The best test to use is known as the dialysis/LC-MS (I will explain what that means momentarily). It’s also important to understand when your thyroid-like symptoms are being caused by your gut, not your thyroid. I will share a case study where 100% of thyroid-like symptoms cleared after improving the patient’s gut health. https://drruscio.com/thyroid-tests-healing-your-gut-can-fix-your-thyroid/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and
0:13.7	functional medicine. To make sure you're up to date on this and other important topics,
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0:22.9	That's DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.
0:26.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.2	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now, let's head to the show.
0:40.3	Hey, everyone.
0:41.2	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, and this is Dr. Rousho.
0:43.9	And today, let's dig into what will hopefully be some insightful information regarding
0:48.3	gut and thyroid.
0:49.6	First, I'd like to discuss with you a review of a research paper which has outlined the fallibility
0:57.0	or the lack of accuracy with some of the standard methods for testing T4 and T3.
1:07.0	And also, I want to illustrate a case study which helps answer the question, do we treat the gut first or do we treat thyroid first?
1:17.1	And this was a great case.
1:18.8	It's not always one or the other.
1:21.6	Oftentimes treating the gut first makes the most sense, but not always.
1:25.9	But this case was a prime example of how you can see
1:31.1	abnormalities in a thyroid test that are actually just a manifestation of a problem in the gut.
1:39.1	And so this case presented with GI findings plus thyroid hormone imbalances. The remedy was focusing on the gut and
1:48.3	actually some female hormone support to write those imbalances. And this is a key point because
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