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Thyroid Health: Why T3 Medication Matters for Women #shorts

21 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this short discussion, the speakers highlight that some women—especially those around mid‑life who are active and seeking better health—may have impaired conversion of thyroid hormone, leading to elevated reverse T3 and a need for active T3 medication. Dr. Amy notes that conventionally trained physicians are rarely taught to prescribe T3 and often lack the time (typically a 7‑minute visit) to address these nuances. The conversation stresses that patients should not blame their doctors but recognize the limitations of standard primary‑care visits and consider seeking clinicians trained in functional or integrative medicine, such as Dr. Amy or Dr. Tabatha Barber, even if it means stepping outside insurance coverage. The overall message is a call to proactive, informed action for women experiencing thyroid conversion issues.

Again, it's those extreme cases where maybe we'll be a little bit more careful with the T3, but that is not a universal answer that women should be told when they're, you know, 45, taking care of themselves, lifting weights, and my God, they just wanna feel better. They just wanna feel better, and the reverse T3 is showing that they don't convert well. We have to bring in that active thyroid hormone.
I wanna say, as a conventionally trained doctor, We're just not trained to use it. We don't understand it as a medication. I was like, I, I—
that was what I was sitting here thinking, like, the women who are listening need to hear, need to know. And you say this so much, like, it's not the doctor's fault. Like, don't be upset with your doctor, right? Like, they really truly only have 7 minutes with you, and it sucks, but that's just the honest-to-goodness truth. And that's where you have to make the decision. This is kind of where that— I feel like you're going back to the end of your book. Like, you might have to take action and go and see someone like you, Dr. Amy, you, Dr. Tabatha Barber, like, you're going to have to step outside of insurance and you're gonna have to, you're gonna have to do it, right? That's— this is where, like, the action really matters.
Yeah, I had to go on and learn it and get trained in functional medicine to understand the thyroid and how to prescribe T3 medication and, you know, natural desiccated. And so you're gonna have to do something different as the, the patient.