McCall McPherson explains how tighter thyroid hormone control improves fertility outcomes. Keeping TSH below 3 and optimizing T3 availability raises AMH levels and ovarian reserve. The episode covers pregnancy protocols, postpartum care, and low-dose naltrexone for thyroid health.
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Today we are digging into one of my most requested topics which is fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, all of these things. And you all have told me you don't feel like there's enough valuable information out. So let's dig in. I will outline a little bit about how this is going to go so you have an expectation of what to expect. So first I want to really just dig into some studies that support our approach at Modern Thyroid Clinic and then I will provide those studies with you in the show notes so you can find them there. We'll also dig in after that to modern thyroid clinics, approach to fertility, pregnancy, et cetera. So you guys can access that too. I'll take you through our approach during pregnancy postpartum. I also want to touch on LDN and then you all have questions from me from Social. If you don't follow me on Social, especially Instagram, this is where I source all of your questions and answer them for these episodes. So please, please tune in and follow me there. Icalmcphersonpa let's dig. Foreign. So let's talk first about thyroid hormones and their role in getting pregnant, ovarian reserve, et cetera. And I just want to read you some stats. What's really interesting is what I've been saying for years, which is thyroid needs to be perfect when we are pre pregnancy planning. So again, like regular medicine now is essentially saying that anything a TSH Less than 10 doesn't even really need to be treated. It's subclinical, doesn't need to be addressed, wait until it's over 10. But studies over and over and over again show that a more narrow margin for thyroid hormones yields better results. Let's talk about some information. Evidence suggests that deregulated thyroid hormone signaling, particularly reduced T3 availability, correlates with diminished ovarian reserve. Also a more tightly regulated TSH, one study shows less than 3, another less than 1.7, is associated with a higher AMH level, a marker for better ovarian reserve. Not surprising. T3 exposure has been.
