
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 Cellular Hypothyroidism in Thyroid Disease
From an allopathic perspective, hypothyroidism occurs when you've lost 90% of the function of the thyroid gland and your TSH rises above lab range. Until that happens, there's not a diagnosable thyroid disorder to them. But ultimately, what causes hypothyroid signs and symptoms is what's happening at the tissue level. If I don't have sufficient T3 at the tissuelevel, I'm going to probably have signs and symptoms of hypothyroidistan.
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