Join Dr. Shook as he discusses How Low Progesterone Can Cause Low Thyroid Problems and Low Metabolism.
When looking at thyroid function you have to consider:
P – Production
T – Transportation
S – Sensitivity
D – Detoxification
If your doctor is not thinking about these pieces of the thyroid hormone puzzle then the entire picture is not being considered.
Dr. Shook consults with people around the world and across the US to help them investigate the factors contributing to their thyroid problems and often thyroid autoimmunity (the #1 cause of thyroid problems).
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We so poorly over here in UK with our thyroid 🙁 wondering if I need to travel to US to get better?
I hope not Rose. You know I work with a lot of people in the UK.
The Office of Dr. Brad Shook I think I would like a call & a quote from you please as I’m not well. Thing is can you prescribe t3 if I need it? I don’t even know if I’m
On correct thyroid meds. I’m so swollen in my belly I look 9 months pregnant all the time. I’m 5 stone over my normal weight. It’s horrendous. I’m normally very slim lady and I can barely walk around I’m always out of breath etc, heart racing on any exertion etc. When I raise my t4 I feel very ill. Worse when it should make me feel better. Thank you
The Office of Dr. Brad Shook my ESR & CRP are high & docs doing nothing about it
Does progesterone have to be tested at a particular time of the month for ladies please?
Day 21 is supposed to be ideal when it’s at peak.
Do you consult with post thyroidectomy patients?
Hi Gina. Yes, I work with a lot of post thyroidectomy patients.
My doctor is recommending Duavee for HRT which is conjugated estrogens & bazedoxifene. She said that it is safer than other oral HRT with progestin, but I read that it is just as risky. Is progesterone HRT more appropriate for perimenopause since it converts to estrogen?
Jo-Ann, I’m sorry I don’t know enough about this and these combinations to give you specific Direction.
Unfortunately once you get into the world of hormone replacement things get complicated very quickly and there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty on what is best.
Thank you for responding, I understand what you’re saying. I am still really struggling with this.
can a painful ingrown toenail on the little toe drive it?
Christine, pain does drive a stress response but I don’t know how much that’s contributing in your individual case.
The Office of Dr. Brad Shook ehh, me either. i don’t think it has anything to do with it.
Dr could you tell me why I got a super bad reaction to progesterone, I mean really bad! I wonder if it is because the body is sort of attacking TPO or progesterone?
JU, that’s a really complex question and sometimes that’s hard to answer. One of the things that you have to do is listen to your body because sometimes when we use vitamins, supplements or medications we get an abnormal response and may not be able to understand why, so always listen to your body.
I can tell you that progesterone does not typically convert into significant amounts of Downstream hormones like estrogen and testosterone but I have seen it happen so I’m not sure exactly what’s going on but you do have to listen to your body.
It may have something to do with increased TPO and the fact that your body is attacking it.
Something to consider would be looking at the factors that would drive imbalances in your steroid hormones and try to support those.
Wish I could give you more specific information of this is a really complex question and topic. Even when you’re working with someone clinically you try to look at all the factors that you can and put together a strategy that’s going to work but ultimately you have to observe how the person responds.
I hope this helps.
You are assuming we all understand “blood sugar”.
Emily Shirley Dr. Shook has extensive videos regarding blood sugar. Go to his website.
Hey Emily! We got a lot of videos on blood sugar if you’ll just visit our Facebook page and look at the videos tab you can search by the term blood sugar.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for helping out Jo-Ann!
You’re welcome.
I hear you talking a lot about blood sugar. How do we know we have an issue with this or how do we balance it?
Karen, absolutely! Blood sugar is a huge issue. When I’m working with someone clinically I go through a process of prioritizing their biochemistry because you’ll find that they’re often underlying physiological processes that are being neglected that are contributing to a lot of the symptoms that someone is having, blood sugar is one of those.
My order of prioritization tends to be inflammation, Tendencies towards anemia, blood sugar. You would be shocked at how many times I find major issues with these physiological processes that are contributing to the majority of the person’s problems.
The main take-home here is you cannot neglect basic physiology.
So many times I see people that are going to doctors for more peripheral or for lack of better term exotic or less common causes of the symptoms that they’re presenting with and these Basics are being neglected resulting in the person never really feeling well because the basics are not being addressed. I’m referring to problems like adrenal fatigue, fibromyalgia, even things like Lyme disease and mold exposures. Granted these are all potential problems but if the person has blood sugar imbalances they’re not going to feel well or have normal hormones, neurochemistry or be able to recover optimally.
If you go to my page the office of dr. Brad Shook, and look through our videos we have a ton of videos on blood sugar. It’s a very important topic.
Sorry about the rant. Hope this helps. Have a great day!
The Office of Dr. Brad Shook thank you! I will watch those videos for sure.
I will definitely be calling your office soon. I feel like I have been chasing my tail for a long time and can’t seem to get well. I have a great doctor but I can’t get my energy back. It’s been years now and despite a lot of testing nothing has really improved.
How do you test for high/low cortisol?
Margaret, there’s several different types of tests that you can do but if you want the cheapest and probably easiest way to do it you can do it first morning cortisol at a standard laboratory like LabCorp or Quest. We use a variety of test clinically sometimes will do a 24-hour 4-point salivary or urinary test.
The Office of Dr. Brad Shook Thank you for your reply. It’s just recently I’ve been waking a couple times during the night with fight/flight symptoms, heart pounding and vivid dreams. Not under any stress in my life so confused as to what’s going on. On 100 Eltroxin past 20 years fluctuating from high/ low. Doc says I don’t have hashimotis. Last TSH was 23.5
Do you have a video on blood sugar balancing?
I have a lot of videos on blood sugar. Just go to our facebook page, and click on the videos tab,, then search for “blood sugar” and you should find several videos. Hope this helps.
Very helpful thank you so much
I needed to see this today.
Hey Doc, I am a 45 year old female had cortisol tested and it is low and flat all day and night -don’t have the spike and slow drop like they tell me should happen during a 24 hour time period- and also say my progesterone and testosterone is very low-so wondering your take on that? After watching this video not clear on why all could be low- I have hashimotos and am working with a functional med Dr have been for three years. Take wp nature thyroid 65 grains which we have been slowly able to decrease throughout these three years to half of what originally was taking. Over all things have been gettin better slowly. Been tested for about everything. Have genetic issue gene that holds in toxins and been detoxing on and off and getting things cleaned out. Mold, heavy metals etc. I Take lots of supplements on a paleo eliminations diet taking out food sensitivities. they have put me on 25 mg progesterone and want me to slowly increase that and also want to add .25 ml testosterone and I have seen your videos on sayin testosterone is dangerous as is all hormones and I have expressed concern on that with them and they say without takin the two hormones it will cause increase in cancer issues with me. I just wonder if u have an idea what maybe causing all these hormones to be low??and your thoughts on taking progesterone and testosterone? I am scared about hormones and they tell me to be scared not to take em.
What about post menopausal?
Debbie, same mechanisms, just the estrogen comes for from adrenals and conversion of testosterone to estrone in the body fat through aromatization. The same mechanisms are at play though.
Does that answer your question?
i have low cortisol
Pat Metcalf thought this was interesting and is something I’m going to bring up to my endo
For the love of goodness, every single woman who is perimenopausal has this.
Thank you so much for that well explained process thats affecting my body…Im Cristine ive been suffering polycystic ovarian syndrome for almost 2 decades now. Im obese and unable to bear a child and now im experiencing too much emotional stress but after I watched this video I felt a lot better. Hope to start my life again by being optimistic that things will be alright. THANK YOU SO MUCH.TO GOD BE THE GLORY AND TO YOU DR.SHOOK.
How do you manage blood sugar?
Juice detoxing regular
Very interesting
Really understood this and made sense , thank u
Wow! That really explains a lot for me. I have all these issues