Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why your body converts thyroid hormone to an inactive form instead of the active one you need. Zinc and selenium help, but inflammation, chronic stress, gut problems, and physical trauma are the real culprits pushing your system toward reverse T3 instead of T3.
What decides whether your T4 gets turned into T3 or reverse T3? Part of it, like I mentioned, is you having enough minerals to make that conversion with zinc and selenium. The bigger factor is, is there something driving reverse T3 production? And what drives reverse T3 production? Inflammation, chronic stress, gut issues, trauma, physical, mental or emotional. Having surgery, having procedures, getting anesthesia, being cut open, having a wound that has to heal. All of these things. Tell your thyroid we need to divert resources and go take care of this situation.
