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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone, welcome back to

Dr. Rucho. This is Dr. Munker Rucho. And today, there's a few different directions I'd like to go.

I would love to share with you a number of new studies on probiotics, but before we do,

I just can't help myself.

I really want to cover this study that was just published on thyroid hormone replacement therapy.

Now, you've likely heard my perspective on this, which is the functional medicine

field is a bit too quick to run right to something like WP thyroid, nature, throid, some sort

of desiccated thyroid hormone that has T4 plus T3, or using something like

Leboatheronxin T4 plus citamil, T3. And it's not to say that these desiccated or combination

approaches of T4 and T3 should never be used.

But again, we've been repeatedly showcasing the research literature

and the clinical outcome data that we're documenting at the clinic that support.

We shouldn't make this the first thing that we do.

And boy, it just seems to be this human constant that people have a

hard time evaluating risk, right? And they, they jump to extremes, all or none. And it's,

it's harder to just have this simple codification of, well, start with T4 plus, as we've advocated so many times in the

podcast, the diet, lifestyle, and gut health foundations work. Now, one way of thinking about

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