Important Thyroid Tips

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welcome back today we’re going to talk about the  thyroid i have some interesting information i’m going to try to keep this really really simple if  you have a thyroid problem this video is for you i’ve done a lot of videos in the past  on the thyroid this one comes in at a slightly different angle okay so we have two  different situations with the thyroid we have a thyroid condition we have not enough hormones  it’s called a hypothyroidism and then a condition where you have too many hormones that’s called  a hyper thyroidism okay now with a hypo 90 of the time it’s going to be hashimoto’s that’s  an autoimmune issue with a hyper thyroid issue 80 of the time it’s going to also be an autoimmune  condition called graves disease okay so that’s the first thing you need to know um most of  these conditions are autoimmune conditions so they’re really not thyroid as much as their immune  issues and so let’s just kind of go through this with a hypo okay not enough thyroid hormones  and we’re talking primarily about hashimoto’s it occurs eight times more in women now with a  hyper graves um you also see almost eight it’s like 7. 5 times more common women between the  ages of 40 and 60. okay so that’s the first clue another clue is that one of the triggers for  a hypo hashimoto’s is that a woman who gives birth in three to eight months postpartum past their  their birth has higher incidence of hashimoto’s so what does that tell us right there estrogen is  involved and we already know that estrogen blocks the conversion from t4 to t3 now if we switch  over to graves there’s a seven times higher risk of developing this condition a year following  your delivery again involving estrogen so estrogen apparently is a big trigger when you get a a total  t4 and a total t3 measured on your blood test that is not the best test you should get a free  t4 and a free t3 test you’re going to have more accurate data now when we talk about tsh thyroid  stimulating hormone okay which by the way that is not a thyroid hormone it’s a pituitary hormone  your pituitary makes a lot of different hormones and that’s one of them it controls the thyroid  from above from somewhere in your brain a lot of doctors will use the normal value of 0. 4 to 5 as  being normal but there’s some more credible data that states that that normal value for  thyroid stimulating hormone should be 0. 45 to 2.

5 okay not all the way up to 5. that  would be a more of a normal range that i would focus on so if it’s above that then there’s  a problem and also realize that the higher the tsh goes now the next point i want to bring up  is the relationship between t4 and t3 t4 is a pre thyroid hormone and then t3 is the active thyroid  hormone so it has to be converted and there’s a huge problem with a lot of people with the  conversion and so you need certain things to help you convert which we’ll get into in a second  but if you have a thyroid problem and you’re on synthroid you’re taking t4 realize you’re taking  the inactive version your body has to convert it and what you may not realize is that 20 percent  of t3 is produced directly from your thyroid gland and the rest is the t4 so if you’re given t4 only  and not t3 you could be a bit shy on getting the full benefit of the thyroid hormones thus the  reason why you still have these symptoms and the other reason why you may have still have symptoms  and you’re on synthroid is just simply because they’re treating a secondary problem or you have a  problem with the conversions so what would you do if you have a hype o hashimoto situation here’s  some ideas i would recommend taking selenium zinc both of these help the conversion from t4  to t3 they’re also very powerful antioxidants and the inflammation that’s generated from these  autoimmune conditions block the conversion these cytokines block this conversion so this these  two will help reduce that inflammation and help the convergence now vitamin d is just a given  vitamin d helps autoimmune conditions in general and it’s going to lower the inflammation seek help  would be beneficial not just with the iodine but it also has selenium and zinc and a lot of the  other trace minerals and then purify bile salts bile salts help convert t4 to t3 and so they  will increase more thyroid hormone production and if you have a liver problem a fatty liver a  gallbladder problem thickened bile you’re going to be deficient in bile salts and that could be the  reason why you’re not converting thyroid hormones now let’s shift over to graves vitamin d is  essential i would recommend if you’re going to take vitamin d for any autoimmune issue it should  be minimally fifteen thousand IUs twenty thousand IUs up to forty thousand IUs or even more and  the next thing i’m gonna recommend is vitamin b1 why because b1 can lower your estrogen dominance  if you have a hyperthyroid condition one of the things that happens is you use a lot of b1 and  so you’re usually going to be very deficient and you’re also going to be deficient vitamin  d but you’re going to be really deficient in b1 and if you’re deficient in b1 you can have a lot  of the symptoms that will mimic a lot of other conditions so you want to take bottom b1 in fact  i would probably take it with the hypo as well but for hyper cases like graves you don’t  want to take purify bile salts because that’s going to give you more thyroid  hormones it’s going to help you convert more you already have too much so you don’t want to  take that all right so that’s all i wanted to communicate about the thyroid in this video thanks  for watching before you go if you have a question about a product or you’re new to keto and you want  to know how to begin keto or you’re on keto and you need a debug because it’s not going as smooth  i have a keto consultant standing by to help you this is just for the people in the us hopefully in  the future we’ll be able to answer everyone’s call but i put the number down below so  you can call and get some help you