Dr. Betty Murray explains why women with weight gain, hair loss, constipation, anxiety, and depression still feel terrible even when standard thyroid tests come back normal. She criticizes doctors for dismissing symptoms without deeper lab analysis, arguing that abnormal thyroid values often underlie these complaints.
What would you say is the most frustrating thing you hear after all these years from women coming to you about their thyroid? What's the thing that's like got your panties in a wad?
The main thing is when women are told that they're normal. And I don't care. I mean, they might have seen even a functional practitioner, right? Because, I mean, you and I both know there's a lot of functional practitioners out there that are jacks of all trades and masters of none. So, they might even have spent money on a functional practitioner or they've bounced from doctor to doctor in the conventional system and they'll come to me and they're like, "Well, it's not my thyroid because I was told that was fine. That's just normal." And it's like, "Well, I'm looking at your thyroid numbers here and these don't look too good and you just told me that you are gaining weight, you can't lose weight, your hair's falling out, you're constipated, you're anxious, depressed, or even like 2 or 3 of those." That really does connect to the thyroid. Let's look a little bit deeper. If your numbers are all screwed up over here, there's a strong connection. So it's people being told that they are normal and everything is fine. It's not your thyroid.
