McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

If you're feeling these symptoms, you need to get a full thyroid panel done...

29 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by McCall McPherson. This content was uploaded by McCall McPherson. This is a YouTube clip titled "If you're feeling these symptoms, you need to get a full thyroid panel done..." (posted 2024-01-29) featuring McCall McPherson delivering a health-focused monologue. He lists symptoms associated with possible thyroid dysfunction — fatigue, brain fog, unexplained weight gain or inability to lose weight, hair shedding, dry skin, low libido, high cholesterol or blood sugar, central weight gain, and cognitive difficulties — and advises getting a comprehensive thyroid panel (TSH, free T4, free T3, reverse T3, and antibodies for Hashimoto's: TPO and thyroglobulin). He criticizes common clinical practice for not ordering the right labs, suggests viewers can self-order testing (link in his profile), and emphasizes there is no reason to have untreated thyroid symptoms.

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If you have these symptoms, get these labs. So if you're walking around every day and you feel fatigue and brain fog and you are gaining weight or like, it doesn't matter what you do, you can't lose weight, your hair is shedding, your skin is dry, your libido sucks, you have high cholesterol or high blood sugar, you're holding weight around your midsection, you have brain fog, you can't think clearly. This often is a sign of a thyroid condition. And medicine does an absolutely poor job diagnosing or managing people's thyroid medications based on checking labs. They are not checking the right labs, y'. All. We are not getting enough information. So if you have those symptoms, in all likelihood, you have a thyroid problem and you need to get a full thyroid panel. Write this down. This includes TSH free T4, free T3, reverse T3, and antibodies for Hashimoto's TPO and thyroglobulin antibodies. Save this for later, you guys. You can order your own labs if your clinician won't order them. I even have a link in my profile, so don't let that stop you. And remember, there's no reason to have thyroid symptoms.