Thyroid Health & Testing - Wellness Wednesday with Cindy

[Music] foreign [Music] hi I'm Cindy Santa Ana integrative nutritionist for the Avon clinics and your Wellness Wednesday host today's topic is thyroid health and proper thyroid testing thyroid disease has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and autoimmune Hashimoto's engraved disease are on the rise exponentially as well hypothyroidism it results in a sluggish thyroid and can result in sluggish everything in the body you can get

your thyroid stimulating hormone your free T3 and free T4 and reverse T3 and both thyroid antibodies the thyroglobulon and the TPO are thyroid peroxidase so there are various types of hypothyroid dysfunction that we need to keep in mind and when you get your labs done at certain labs and in certain States the normal lab ranges actually can vary so I'm going to give you an example

thyroid stimulating hormone or TSH the optimal functional medicine range is going to be 0.5 to 2.5 of TSH that's going to keep you feeling better and keep the symptoms at Bay so if you are symptomatic in your thyroid or TSH is out of that range that's probably why so the reason why we like to test all of those markers is because we need to look at

your thyroid antibodies to see if you have Hashimoto's or Graves that's when your antibodies are elevated that's going to be the result autoimmune thyroiditis you could have nutrient impaired or low T4 function from insufficient iodine or stress impaired hypothyroid function with a high reverse T3 or you could have inflammation impaired which means a poor conversion of that T4 to the T3 so we need to make

sure that you're eating organic as much as your budget will allow avoiding toxins as much as possible as possible avoiding toxins in your home Plastics in your water fluoride and your water can impair the thyroid function and just eating a nutrient dense whole food diet while also managing your stress and getting good quality sleep take care thank you