A short YouTube interview/transcript excerpt in which Robert Whitfield MD explains that chronic inflammation (via inflammatory cells and cytokines) can impair thyroid and sex hormone function, producing a hypothyroid-like state. A patient speaker reports post‑surgical improvement that made them unusually sensitive to thyroid replacement — experiencing dizziness, palpitations/anxiety, and needing to halve their dose — and another speaker links symptom resolution to clearing systemic inflammation.
You had basically hypothyroidism from inflammation, inflammatory cells and the cytokines turn off your ability for your hormones to work properly. So your sex hormones don't work properly, your thyroid hormone doesn't work properly. There are other reasons for this, of course, but in your instance, we had to have an early discussion about you becoming really sensitive now to thyroid medication because you actually don't have hypothyroidism, which.
Just so everyone knows, after I got surgery a week later, I was texting doctor, hey, why am I getting dizzy? Why do I have to. I had to sit down in the middle of a walk multiple times because I thought I was going to faint. And I was having, like, almost like. It felt like a lot of anxiety, heart flutter, like, weirdness. And I actually had to cut my thyroid dose in half. This is a week after getting my implants out. I, by the way, when I got them out, was not expecting to get off thyroid medicine. That wasn't what I was expecting.
But it makes sense. If you clear out the issue in your body that's causing the inflammation, then it would. It would be reasonable to think that all these other issues that are being caused by chronic inflammation would start to resolve themselves because the body's no longer as inflamed.
