YouTube segment in which McCall McPherson describes their clinic’s proprietary approach to thyroid lab ranges: every 12–18 months they analyze their patient data to identify lab values associated with symptom-free, vibrant health. They run a full thyroid panel (TSH, free T4, free T3, reverse T3) and check Hashimoto's/Graves antibodies each time to monitor patients and aim to eliminate hypothyroid symptoms.
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The first thing I would say is we have very, very unique optimal lab ranges. We do not go by what is normal and we do not go by what even functional medicine dictates as optimal. In fact, no one uses our lab ranges, or rather I should say we are not using anyone else's lab ranges. They are unique to us. What we did along the years and over the course of time is about every 12 to 18 months, we would analyze our data with our own patients and try and understand where these people, where their labs are when they are not having thyroid symptoms versus where they are when they're not having thyroid symptoms and when they feel healthy and vibrant and at their highest form of health and well being. And so we really feel like we have found significant data points that allow people or that facilitate people with hypothyroidism to no longer be symptomatic. Okay, so again, we do a full thyroid panel. So not only we're not just checking TSH, we run TSH free T4, free T3, reverse T3 every single time we check labs, we run Hashimoto's and or Graves antibodies every single time we run labs. Because those pieces of data are so incredibly important to monitor over time.