Question: Is there anything you can do to help low thyroid conditions or hashimoto’s thyroid naturally?
Answer: There are at least 24 ways that your thyroid hormones lose their normal effect in your body, and thyroid hormone replacement only works in one of those. In all but one of these cases you can naturally support low thyroid and hashimoto’s thyroid naturally. As a mater of fact, a replacement hormone could create more problems in some of these cases.
Hashimoto’s Thyroid
In this presentation Dr. Shook reviews the latest information on the natural approach to supporting low thyroid and Hashimoto’s thyroid conditions. The scientific literature has demonstrated numerous effects that other hormones, inflammation and brain based mechanisms have on thyroid function and thyroid hormone activity within the body. Foundational body chemistry is often neglected in traditional approaches to chronic health problems because the clinical indicators have not reached a point of being classifiable as a disease process. Dr. Shook utilizes functional medicine which seeks to identify the drivers of disease processes and uses functional laboratory values which are more sensitive, and allow for detection of potential problems before they become a diagnosable disease process.
Dr. Shook explains his approach to supporting hypothyroidism and hashimoto’s thyroid in the video below.
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