Dr. Eryn Stansfield and Vinny Russo invited me back on their podcast to talk about the thyroid. Check it out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. As y’all know, I love debunking alt med quackery when it comes to thyroid stuff. I think I managed to go the entire episode without cussing while discussing naturopaths and alt med, so in my mind, this was a win. In this episode, we talk about:
- Hypothyroidism symptoms and testing
- Why TSH and FT4 are helpful, but FT3 is not
- Why reverse T3 is useless
- How mainstream docs and alt med practitioners differ in their treatment of hypothyroidism
- Why thyroid “support” formulas can be dangerous
- Usage of pig thyroid
- T3 replacement and when it can be beneficial
- What vitamins, trace elements, and minerals are important for thyroid health
- And more!
You should definitely check out Dr. Eryn and Vinny further at their website, Balanced Bodies. Just reading their bios, you can tell that these are two super-interesting people who are passionate about what they do.
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