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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

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What Is the Best Thyroid Medication?

The allopathic camp is traditionally a T4 only camp and the thought process is there's really no difference between Synthroid and generic. So in that model, it's T4 and you provide your medical doctors been trained to provide enough T4 to bring TSH back into a reference range. And then there's another camp that says, hey, screw this whole T4 thing, we're just doing high dose T3 because these people can't convert T4 to T3. But what's not to discuss? If you're taking T4 and feel awesome and your labs are gone and your symptoms have gone away, I'm like right? Because you've got so much thyroid hormone

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