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Balancing Thyroid Hormone Levels: Understanding TSH and Medication Impacts

19 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how TSH and thyroid hormones work in opposite directions: when T4 or T3 goes up, TSH drops, and vice versa. Medications like Synthroid, Levothyroxine, Cytomel, and Armour lower TSH by raising hormone levels.

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TSH goes down (TSH is suppressed by higher T4/T3).

Synthroid, Levothyroxine (T4), Liothyronine/Cytomel (T3), and combination/desiccated products such as Armour and NP.

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What I want you to understand is that as our thyroid hormone production goes down, our TSH goes up, and vice versa. If our thyroid is making too much hormone, too much T4, T3, then our TSH level goes down. Or if we take it as a medication, T4 like Synthroid, Levothyroxine, or T3, Lyothyrenine, Cytomyl, or the combination of the two armour and NP, that will lower our TSH level because it's increasing our T4 and T3 levels.