Navigating Thyroid Health: Medications, Diet, and Wellness Strategies

Episode Highlights with McCall McPherson

• Why we can’t put our blind trust in practitioners when it comes to thyroid health and the tools to step into being your own primary healthcare provider for thyroid health
• If you have thyroid symptoms, TSH is not enough
• Labs to get: TSH, Free T3, T4, Reverse T3 (full thyroid function panel)
• Women also need to be screened for Hashimotos with TPO 
• There is not a standardized “normal” range for thyroid labs… it's just based on what the lab dictates as normal and varies by lab
• How diet and lifestyle factors come into play with addressing thyroid issues and activating thyroid issues
• Diet and lifestyle factors that help: bring in more nutrients, experiment with reducing gluten and dairy
• Bring in vs keep out mindset shift when it comes to healing 
• Food ordering for signaling safety to the body: protein first, micronutrient dense 

Resources Mentioned

• Modern Thyroid Clinic’s Lab Guide: what labs you need and what they mean 
• Modern Thyroid Clinic’s Guide: How to take your medication before labs
• 118: McCall McPherson on How to Balance Thyroid Hormones at Home