Why is the thyroid glands so important? I'm gonna explain how it works hey I'm
Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to truly master health by
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small insignificant gland that sits right around your Adam's apple is one of
the most important glands in the body and one of the most overlooked and
misunderstood so we're going to talk about first why it's so important and
then what is often being overlooked so the thyroid is the accelerator if you
will it's the thermostat it sets the speed and the temperature of the whole
body it determines for every cell in the body how much that cell does of whatever
that cell is supposed to do the thyroid gland makes thyroid hormone also known
as thyroxine or t4 so the t4 means that the thyroxine hormone in that state has
four iodine atoms attached to it and then it gets into circulation meaning
the blood takes it around the liver takes one of those iodine's off and
turns it into t3 and now that thyroid hormone is activated it's now in its
active form and it can do its work in your body you have approximately 40
trillion cells they used to say it was about a hundred trillion but someone
recounted and now the official count is more like somewhere around 40 trillion
and how many of those do you think have thyroid receptors meaning they depend on
the thyroid to tell the cell how much it's supposed to do or in other words
without the thyroid telling it what to do without the presence of thyroid
hormone that cell is not going to perform its work the way it's supposed
to it's going to slow down well the answer is every single cell in your body
has thyroid hormone scepters that means when the thyroid
gland slows down every cell in your body slows down so your metabolism slows down
which can lead to weight gain so for those people who have cut out the sugar
and they've cut back they exercise and nothing happens to the weight chances
are pretty good that there's some thyroid involvement there there's an
overall reduction in energy production which leads to fatigue or what is
popular called chronic fatigue syndrome since everything has to be a syndrome
these days it leads to reduced production of hydrochloric acid and
digestive enzymes so now you can't digest the food you get GERD or
gastroesophageal reflux disease you get indigestion you get malabsorption and on
and on and on you have decreased peristalsis meaning the motility the
movement of your intestines they're supposed to push the food forward that
all slows down leading to constipation there is a reduction in the speed of
nerve impulses even so now you have slow thinking and brain fog lack of focus and
there is a slowdown of anabolism or repair of building things so what that
means is everything that breaks everything that needs repairing
everything that is degenerated now it doesn't heal and recover as fast as it
could or should so healing is is compromised the list could go on and on
and on because every cell in your body could be affected so this is a big deal
and it's one of the most common things that we find in our office that the
thyroid gland is not working properly and in the vast majority of cases it
means it's hypothyroid meaning it is slowed down it's underperforming eighty
to ninety percent of hypothyroid in the Western world at
least is something called Hashimoto's thyroiditis and that means that the
thyroid gland is inflamed because of autoimmune attack that your own body's
immune system is attacking it and the reason it does that is that your immune
system is confused because you have degeneration and toxicity what we have
found is that when there is a hypothyroid there is virtually always
some component of toxicity or immune problem or pathogen presence that has to
be handled before that thyroid can fully recover so in the medical model there is
a poor understanding of what all this means because to them all they measure
is thyroid stimulating hormone which is a pituitary hormone it's a hormone that
tells the thyroid to produce more hormone so if you need more thyroid
hormone if the body senses that hey things aren't happening fast enough then
there is a message that the the pituitary senses that there's not enough
and now it tells the thyroid to make more thyroid hormone by producing more
TSH so the TSH tells the thyroid to make more t4 and then when there is enough t4
then the t4 feeds back and says okay we have enough so in the medical model and
measure TSH and if it is high meaning there's not enough thyroid hormone they
simply give you synthetic t4 synthetic thyroxine and this synthetic hormone
feeds back and tells the pituitary that okay we have enough and now the medic in
the medical model all the criteria are satisfied but most people at this point
still feel really lousy they don't have the energy they haven't really fixed or
improved any of these things lots of books written on the topic
because in order for the thyroid to work in order for the whole mechanism for the
whole system to do what it's intended we need the hypothalamus we need the
pituitary we need the thyroid the liver the gut flora
we need your immune system and we need there to not be toxicity so in a case of
hypothyroid usually we have several of these that have to be addressed in order
for that whole system to recover we can't just look at one little piece and
say oh look TSH is high let's throw in one component and ignore all the others
and that's why people keep feeling really really bad even though they get
enough synthetic thyroid hormone to fix to normalize the level of TSH but again
that's not really addressing the problem it's not allowing the body to go back to
functioning with all the systems performing optimally so what I would
suggest find someone who measures more than just TSH or even better what we do
in our office is we use something called nutrition response testing which is a
different method of evaluating the body and finding imbalances at a very very
early stage and then helping the body address the root of the problem not just
throwing in one thing to try to compensate for something that is low so
let me know if you have more questions on this topic it is a huge topic and I
did a bigger video before a longer video that explained a little bit more about I
wanted to put it together like this as well because there's so much confusion
on the topic so the longer video you can check out here and if you enjoyed this
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problem and 99% of people out there are just getting synthetic thyroid hormone
to remedy and it is not doing much good so please share this video and with as
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