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What's Really Causing Your Reverse T3 to be Elevated

27 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube explainer (Dr. Tabatha Barber) describing why reverse T3 becomes elevated. T4 (storage) can convert to active T3 or inactive reverse T3; the speaker lists contributors that push conversion toward reverse T3, including high insulin, heavy metals, mold toxicity, certain infections (Epstein–Barr, Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses), estrogen dominance, anemia/low ferritin, and deficiencies of magnesium, selenium, and especially iodine.

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What is causing this? Elevated reverse T3. T4 is your storage. That's your storage. Thyroid hormone. It has two paths that it can take. It has a choice. It can convert to T3. Yay. Happy dance. Or it can convert to reverse T3. Boom. So when it's converting to reverse T3, there are things that are making it convert to reverse T3. High insulin is one of them. Things like heavy metals, mold toxicity, Epstein Barr virus, underlying CO infections like Lyme disease, Epstein Barr, different tick borne illnesses. All of those drive up reverse T3. Estrogen dominance, anemia, not enough ferritin, not enough magnesium, selenium, iodine. Iodine is a big one. If you're iodine deficient, it's going to drive up reverse T3.