Why We Need to Stop Using TSH for Thyroid Diagnosis

TSH is the most worthless diagnostic parameter and you can overdose the people that get too much. They're on T4 and it's making all this reverse T3. And for instance we can talk about the thyroid bioregulator which is very interesting. What happens when people are chronically ill with inflammation, stress, age, whatever it may be, they get pineal, hypothalamic pituitary, thyroid dysfunction so they have a central hypothyroidism. Right? And so we always think that, well it's really easy that when the thyroid levels drop the pituitary response increases tsh. No it does not. This is the pattern of a low thyroid chronically ill, chronically inflamed person is a low normal TSH, a high normal T4 and then a low normal free T3 and a high normal reverse T3. But if most doctors will look at that, they go oh, you got low normal TSH and a high normal T4. Oh, you're a little hyperthyroid. It's the opposite.