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The Role of Thyroid in Hypothyroid Problems
T4 is prescribed as a brute force method to get thyroid back in the body because it's critical for all systems of physiology, but it didn't tell you anything about the current reserve. The first step is to figure out what the root cause actually is, which is via lab work. If guessing worked, then labs wouldn't exist and people wouldn't have hypothyroid problems. So I'm really big on getting lab work done.