McCall McPherson warns thyroid patients against relying only on coaches or chiropractors who can't prescribe medication. True hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's usually need thyroid hormone replacement to restore energy. The most effective treatment combines precise medication with functional medicine strategies to reduce antibodies.
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There's a lot of thyroid experts out there that can help you, but if they can't prescribe you thyroid medication, you're just creating another barrier. So lifestyle matters with thyroid issues. It matters with Hashimoto's, and there's a lot of coaches, chiropractors, et cetera, that can help with that. But here's the thing, you are not going to get your life back if you have an actual thyroid problem without medication. It takes both, right? And sadly, what I find often happens is there there will be a doctor online, a doctor that people go to and they assume they're a physician. They assume they can prescribe medication and they're like, no, you don't need medicine. We just need to work on your lifestyle. And they never even know that that person doesn't have the ability to prescribe in their toolbox. And they're sort of strung along and you have to replace the hormones that your body is missing. You're not going to manufacture those with lifestyle. So it is incredibly important that you have someone that can do both. And obviously at Modern Thyroid Clinic, we take a functional medicine approach, right? So we work on your lifestyle. We work to reverse Hashimoto's, to reduce antibodies. But y'all, the most powerful tool in our toolbox is using thyroid medication with incredible nuance and accuracy that switches the lights on and allows people to get their lives back and then have the energy and capacity to work on their lifestyle.
