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so in this video I’m going to answer a

question relating to not having a

thyroid someone wanted to know my

opinion and if there’s any long-term

complications etc first thing I want to

say is that I’m not giving you medical

advice this is not gonna bypass your

what you’re already taking now check

with your doctor before implementing any

of this and this is just for your own

research okay

now over the years I’ve had quite a few

people come into my office after having

a thyroidectomy and they did just fine

so out of all the things that could

happen to a person and all the potential

organs that you can have removed I think

having thyroid out and being on a

certain hormone protocol you could do

quite fine okay so the thyroid is

ultimately controlled by the

hypothalamus in the brain it’s a very

small structure it makes a hormone

called thyroid releasing hormone and

this gland tells this gland the

pituitary to release thyroid stimulating

hormone and then that message goes to

the thyroid and causes the thyroid to

produce and release t4 and a little bit

of t3 okay t4 is an inactive thyroid

hormone t3 is the active version and

what happens is for this to work it has

to be converted into t3

so it actually works through several

organs to being the liver and the

kidneys 80% of the t4 is converted to

the liver 20% is converted to the kidney

to make t3 and then t3 goes into all the

cells and affects metabolism and many

other things and once it’s done its job

there’s a signal that’s sent back to the

pituitary and hypothalamus turning these

off okay so you have a feedback loop now

what a person has their thyroid removed

there are three points that I think we

should emphasize one is you also have

something called a parathyroid gland

that’s right next to the thyroid and you

want to make sure that they don’t take

those out as well okay so you want these

left intact because the parathyroid

gland control

calcium and many other things but

they’re very important glands there’s

four of them okay that’s one the second

point I want to bring up is something

called calcitonin very few people are

talking about calcitonin there’s not a

strong emphasis on this hormone and

because what happens is once you have

the thyroid removed typically you’re put

on a synthetic t4 like centroid which

doesn’t have this in there okay so the

question is where are you getting this

from well let’s talk about what it does

it inhibits osteoclasts what does that

mean well osteoclasts break down bone

okay so this hormone slows down that

process so it actually helps

osteoporosis or prevents it and there’s

even a therapy called salmon calcitonin

used for postmenopausal osteoporosis

okay interesting and also it’s used for

spinal stenosis which is basically the

space around the spinal column is

smaller because there’s a calcium

buildup so apparently calcitonin helps

this condition right here so my question

is where are you getting this okay and

are they leaving the parathyroids now

one way to get this is by taking a

complete thyroid extract complex which

is it’s called armored thyroid you can

check with your doctor on this a lot of

doctors don’t like to use it because

it’s hard to regulate they like to use

just the t4 but I think it’s really

important to bring this up to your

doctor and also ask the big question

where am I getting my calcitonin okay

because when you’re taking a synthetic

version of t4 you’re not getting

calcitonin so that being said once this

gland is removed and you’re on your

hormones okay and everything’s being

adjusted I don’t think there’s anything

that you should do that’s special or

different other than getting on your

healthy keto and in a minute fasting

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