Best Ever Thyroid Video

A very basic overview of what a full thyroid panel looks like and how to read the numbers.
Discussion of why testing for antibodies is important and how autoimmune issues are potentially detected.
0:00 Disclaimer and introduction
0:46 Hypo and Hyper definitions
1:44 Where is the thyroid and how does it know what to do
2:00 TRH
2:43 TSH
3:12 Reverse T3 and T4
6:00 T4 as a storage hormone and what it converts to
7:55 Online calculators to work out ratios
8:15 How reverse T3 and iodines are positioned
9:15 Antibodies explained in relation to TPO and TG
10:40 What a full thyroid panel looks like
13:54 Symptoms of Hypothyroidism (including Hashimoto's)
16:32 Glossary of terms relating to thyroid
16:50 Other things to consider, such as selenium and iron levels.

Isocaloric carbohydrate deprivation induces protein catabolism despite a low T3-syndrome in healthy men
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11167929/