Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Amie Hornaman | Hypothyroidism_ You're Not Lance Armstrong!

13 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube interview segment (Aaron Hartman, MD) in which Dr. Amie Hornaman discusses clinical signs and downstream metabolic effects of hypothyroidism. The speaker notes that a low resting heart rate (example: 50 bpm) can be due to hypothyroidism rather than athletic fitness, and cites related symptoms such as joint pain and frozen shoulder, plus metabolic sequelae including insulin resistance and elevated A1C; mentions some patients on ketogenic diets with low carbohydrate intake.

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My resting heart rate is 50. I'm like, you're not Lance Armstrong. It's 50 because you're hypothyroid and everything is slowed down. So, you know, you have that as those, those big symptoms, even things like joint pain, frozen shoulder, that can be tied in the thyroid. But then down from that, you might see insulin resistance or even. Well, in our world, I mean, we call diabetes a lot earlier than, than conventional medicine would, but an elevated A1C insulin resistance, and you might have people that are eating a ketogenic diet, they're really not consuming carbohydrates at all.