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The Role of Thyroid Peroxidase in Hashimoto's
Doug: Would it be incorrect to say that more women experience symptoms of thyroid issues? Doug: It's absolutely correct. I've just had the experience that I met a males do come to me with hypothyroid is just everyone has a thyroid, but more females come to me. And there's a thyroid peroxidase antibodies, which play a role in Hashimoto's and when you look at the totality of evidence, 17% of females have TPO antibodies, whereas only 8.7% of males have TPO antibody. He says parathyroid could be an entire podcast all by itself because they're intimately connected.