YouTube health commentary by McCall McPherson arguing that a recent study found even mild/subclinical elevations in TSH correlate with increased heart disease risk. McPherson contends thyroid function should be optimized earlier to prevent cardiovascular disease and criticizes mainstream medicine for waiting too long to treat hypothyroidism, by which point patients often have metabolic syndrome, diabetes, high cholesterol, and heart disease.
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A study came out this month that shows even mild subclinical levels or elevations in TSH correlate with increased heart disease risk. Mind you, this is what we preach all the time at modern thyroid clinic. People's thyroid needs to be optimized to prevent heart disease. And everyone in medicine is still talking about how, oh, progressive thyroid. If you treat people too early and they don't have true hypothyroid or you use T3, you could create cardiac issues. No, what's actually happening is we are waiting so long to intervene with these people that they now have heart disease. By the time Someone's TSH is 10 or above, these people already have metabolic syndrome, diabetes, high cholesterol heart disease. Even this study shows subclinical hypothyroidism. The hypothyroidism that medicine is refusing to treat already have heart disease markers compared to people who are euthyroid or perfect thyroid function. Important.