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The Myths and Misconceptions About Your Thyroid Health with Dr. Eric Balcavage, a Functional Medicine Doctor, Author and Owner of Rejuvagen Center: Episode Rerun

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

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The Role of Thyroid Hormones in Thyroid Disease

When a T4 or T3 binds to receptor, it's essentially turning it on like a key in a lock to a sense. And that's called T2, but nobody, nobody measures that. So therefore, we want a lot of T3 in the cell to turn on the manufacturing process. But that T3 inside the cell also turns off the cell defense cell inflammation cell danger mechanisms because we don't need that right now.

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