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Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

How to (Successfully) Treat Thyroid Disorders

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5774 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Do you struggle with a thyroid disorder? Are you a clinician treating patients with hypothyroidism and struggling to get optimal results? In today’s podcast, we showcase some of the most essential clinical pearls when it comes to treating thyroid disorders taken from a recent issue of the Future of Functional Medicine Clinical Newsletter.
https://drruscio.com/how-to-successfully-treat-thyroid-disorders

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.

0:15.4

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0:22.9

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0:30.6

The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat

0:36.4

any disease. Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show.

0:44.8

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Dr. Rucho Radio. This is Dr. Rucho. And today, let's discuss a case study, which exemplifies how we can improve thyroid health and overall health after using gut-based therapies.

1:00.6

We'll also go through a very important set of updates to our thyroid treatment algorithm.

1:08.9

We've added some very important facets to that algorithm outside of

1:14.6

medication use, which I think were a long time in coming, and I'm very happy to have them here.

1:20.6

And then also cover one additional study on the incidence of thyroid disease, which also, of course, is very important because, as you

1:29.2

know, and you probably heard me discuss in the past, we sometimes portray hypothyroidism as a

1:35.9

extremely high likelihood, and we should amend that. We should be able to give patients a

1:43.0

risk association that is representative of the data

1:47.4

because we want to strike that balance of educating them and prompting them to action,

1:52.9

but also not scaring them and putting undue fear into their minds.

1:58.0

So let's jump in here and go through all these bits and bites. Before we do,

2:04.9

a reminder that all this information is taken from our future of functional medicine review,

2:11.0

which I was previously referring to as a newsletter, but now I think it's more representative to call

2:15.5

a newsletter and database because as a few

2:19.5

examples we have in there now the and have had in there the thyroid algorithm we also have a review

2:29.0

on gastrointestinal markers for fungus and which ones should you use, which ones should you not use,

2:37.9

and how and what are we using in the clinic.

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