McCall McPherson says 91% of thyroid patients get levothyroxine, a crude-oil-derived hormone the body can't activate. They stay fatigued, gain weight, lose hair, and feel depressed anyway, but doctors assume the drug works without checking if it actually does.
How is it destroying women's life to be on thyroid medicine? Well, it's destroying their lives because we're stuck in this interesting loop. So, they're on a crude oil-based medication, 91% of them, right? That's pretty much everybody is on this inactive hormone. They can't activate it. So, they persistently have hypothyroid symptoms that really do destroy your quality of life. Again, it's like fatigue, it's weight gain, it's hair loss, it's constipation, it's low sex drive, it's depression, Anxiety, infertility, high cholesterol, diabetes, all of these things, okay? So they're on these meds thinking it's fixing the problem, and their doctor's assuming it's fixing the problem, but no one's checking the right labs to see if their medication is working. We are all simply assuming the medication is working. Our research always operates under the assumption that levothyroxine-based medications work, and they don't, and we don't realize it because no one is looking at the right labs.
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