Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

You know, you start having thyroid symptoms, you go to the doctor, they give you a diagnosis,

you have a hypothyroid problem, okay?

When you're put on centroid or some other medication to give you hormones, and then you ask

your doctor, what is causing my hypothyroid problem?

And they might tell you, well, your thyroid hormones are low.

And you go, okay, all right, you go back home, you start taking your thyroid medication,

and about a year later, you're wondering, I don't really feel any difference.

My energy is still low, I still am overweight, what's going on?

And then if you ask the question, what causes a lower amount of the thyroid hormones,

you may get answers like, well, we don't know, it might be genetic, there's still research

going on.

So it can be very, very frustrating because it's not about correcting the thyroid, it's

about managing your thyroid levels.

And if you treat the thyroid with thyroid hormones and you don't see improvements, the question

is, is that the real problem, or is that just the tip of the iceberg?

And what I'm about to talk about is not meant to replace your medical care.

Check with your doctor before implementing any of these suggestions.

The only thing I'm trying to do is raise some really important questions.

If you really get to the root cause of a problem, then the problem results.

If you don't, and you keep managing the symptom, you're basically spinning the wheels and

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