McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Understanding TSH The Brain's Signal to Your Thyroid

4 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Single-speaker YouTube presentation (by McCall McPherson) explaining that TSH is a brain-derived hormone that indicates how hard the brain is asking the thyroid to work; the speaker emphasizes that TSH does not directly measure thyroid hormone output and will provide visual demonstrations via screen-share to illustrate the point.

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Your TSH is a hormone that comes from your brain. It tells us how hard your brain is asking your thyroid to work. It doesn't directly tell us about your thyroid output hormones. I am going to share my screen with you guys so that if you happen to be tuning in on YouTube, you can understand what I'm talking about. So your TSH is simply a mechanism that tells me that I utilize to gauge how much energy is going in to produce this patient's thyroid hormones. What is the energy in versus the energy out? We can't gauge someone's output of energy simply by how much they are using to produce it, right?