Does Hyperthyroidism Affect Estrogen Levels?

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Okay. So does hyper thyroidism, meaning too much thyroid hormone, often caused by Graves disease, impact estrogen levels? I actually don't know. I don't know that anything definitive there has been demonstrated. We do know that hormone levels can impact autoimmunity and this may be why there tends to be many autoimmune conditions that have a higher prevalence in women as compared to men. That doesn't happen for every autoimmune condition, but there is a lean in the direction of more autoimmunity in females. So there's the estrogen to hyperthyroidism connection, potentially through the mechanism that most hyperthyroidism is caused by autoimmunity. But what impact does it have in reverse? Meaning what impact does the estrogen have on the hyperthyroidism? I don't think that has really been demonstrated. So not sure exactly what the answer there is. I'll speculate that it is potential that if one has hyperthyroidism that may cause. Well, we could make a speculation here to either direction. Hyperthyroidism, because it increases metabolic rate, may lead to an increased clearance and metabolism and detoxification of estrogen on the one hand, but on the other hand it may actually lead to increased metabolism in the ovaries and therefore increased production of. Again, I don't know that this has been adequately answered. If it has, it has escaped my gaze. There definitely is a connection between hormones and hyperthyroidism. One thing for people to keep in mind, and this is something that you will see in the clinic when working with a hyperthyroid patient, some of the symptoms of female hormone imbalances like anxiety, feeling hot and a racing heart, can also be caused by female hormones. So it is important to try to parse these out and adjudicate if the symptoms that one is looking at are being caused by the hyperthyroidism or as I've seen some cases when the hyperthyroidism is under control A few years later, someone comes in saying, my heart is racing, I'm having hot flashes and I'm having insomnia. And because of their history with hyperthyroidism, they assume it's the hyperthyroidism flaring. You can quantify that with some lab testing. And if the numbers on the thyroid look normal, then consider looking to the female hormones, which fortunately there's some great herbal medicines that can help to balance and correct levels of and then remedy the racing heart, the hot flashing, the depression, the anxiety that can be driven there. So I don't have an awesome answer there to the question technically, but hopefully some of those tidbits help with how to navigate this in your own case.

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