Levothyroxine

“synthetic thyroid, you can arrest the progress. These aren't clinical trials. They're not large and it doesn't work for everybody. So I took, I went back to him and I went, look at these studies.”

“And it might not work for me forever either. But the thing is, so now I'm on a low dose of levothyroxin and I'll be on that low dose for the rest of my life. But that's better, I think, to still have a thyroid and be on this low dose than to be on a much larger dose and not have one for the rest of my life.”

“This is what estrogen is doing. This is why we're replacing it. I have to. If you're giving a patient levothyroxin or Cytomel, this is why, and this is what's going to do. So when the patient, when you suspect that, hey, a big part of what's going on here is hyper-arousal.”

“But when your T3 is low, there's an 80% chance it's not the thyroid. Yet in 100% of the cases, we put you on thyroid medication, levothyroxine, synthroid, Armour Thyroid. So the question is, where does the other 80% come from?”