@libbymunronutrition: Your thyroid results came back "normal" and you're still exhausted, still gaining, still losing hair. Here's what was never tested. Standard testing gives you TSH. Sometimes T4 if you're lucky. That's a message from your pituitary about how hard it's pushing your thyroid. It is one number from a condition that has been running your body into the ground quietly for years. 90% of hypothyroidism is Hashimoto's. That means it is not really a thyroid problem. It is an immune problem that shows up in the thyroid. And an immune condition leaves fingerprints all over your bloods, in places nobody thought to look. Thyroid function, properly TSH, free T4 and free T3. Free T3 is the active hormone, the one your cells actually use. You can have a perfect TSH and poor conversion into T3 and feel every bit of it. The immune picture TPO antibodies and thyroglobulin antibodies. This is the marker that tells you whether your immune system is involved. It is the difference between "your thyroid is underactive" and knowing what is actually driving it. What's been depleted Ferritin and full iron studies. Thyroid peroxidase, the enzyme your thyroid runs on, needs iron. B12 and folate. Vitamin D, which modulates immune function and is low in most autoimmunity. Zinc and selenium, both required to convert T4 into T3. Blood sugar Fasting glucose, fasting insulin and HbA1c. An underactive thyroid slows glucose clearance and reduces insulin sensitivity. Then every blood sugar crash pulls cortisol up, and cortisol suppresses conversion. That loop keeps running whether or not you're on medication. Cortisol Ideally a morning reading or a four point salivary. Chronically high cortisol shunts T4 away from active T3. Years of chronically high output eventually leaves you flat, which is a different problem needing a different response. Cholesterol Total, LDL, HDL and triglycerides. Low thyroid function slows the liver's ability to clear LDL from the blood. So cholesterol rises. Women are handed statins and dietary advice for a number that is a thyroid signal, not a diet signal. Liver markers ALT, AST and GGT. A large share of your T4 to T3 conversion happens in the liver. A sluggish liver means less active hormone, regardless of what the thyroid is producing. Inflammation and overlap CRP and ESR for immune activity. Full blood count. And a coeliac screen, because coeliac and Hashimoto's travel together far more often than most people are told. Look at that list again. Cholesterol, liver, blood sugar, iron, mood, energy. Most women are treated for each of these as a separate problem, by a different practitioner, with a different fix. They are not separate. They are downstream of one thing. And you cannot address a trigger you cannot see. Screenshot this. Take it to your appointment and ask for every marker on it. You are allowed to ask. You are allowed to understand your own results. Then comes the part nobody hands you. What each result is telling you to change, in what order, to bring the immune attack down. That's the work I've used to put my own Hashimoto's back into remission after every flare across 18 years, and what thousands of women have now used to do the same. DM me directly or comment HEAL MY HASHIS and I'll send you the link. #hashimotos #thyroidhealth #hypothyroidism #healmyhashis

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