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[THYROID] Function, Dysfunction, Brain Chemistry, and Autoimmunity w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Travis Mash and Dan Garner Barbell Shrugged #657

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The Role of the Thyroid in Thyroid Problems

Today we are talking about thyroid and man, this comes up so much. What is the role of the thyroid to begin with? What makes it dysfunctional because it seems like a lot of people have this issue. We'll create a whole bunch of T4 and then a little bit of T3 and then your liver is going to make some cool proteins called thyroid binding globulins. That binding globulin acts as a vehicle and transporter all around the body. But that's basically kind of the quick rundown of how the hypothalamus pituitary thyroid access takes place.

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