I'm on THYROID MEDS and I STILL FEEL TERRIBLE!! | Dr. Rick Hellmann

everybody this is dr. Rick Hellman hey for the Wellness Way in Fort Mill Greater Charlotte area hey I wanted to discuss something that a lot of people have problems with obviously were talking about thyroid this is our third video in a row we're addressing thyroid myths and a lot of people are saying hey I'm on thyroid medication I'm taking the medication my labs are normal but I still feel terrible I still feel awful and you know am I on medication should I be able to feel really great and then also or maybe I was I was evaluated and one of my one of my labs are off and I was given medication and I still feel normal right so even the labs might not be right so big problem and actually last I have a question from the last time I was on it says this is from Missy she said my thyroid men on thyroid meds for ten years every time I try something different I gain like 30 pounds in a week even on meds I'm cold all the time and other problems that should diminish while on these medications what should I do okay so first of all we go back to the flower and the flower it is a master control system that controls hormones there controls the endocrine system and when the thyroid is out of balance for stress you can get cold you could get weight loss resistance of gangway hair nails get really bad skin gets dry get constipated the the thyroid actually houses and secretes a hormone that actually is supposed to get to multiple parts of the body especially the liver but to the periphery of the body gets converted into an active form and supposed to make it to every cell of your body and your cells every 70 trillion cells of your body they have receptors that these actual thyroid hormone can - gets into the cell and then produces energy in the body all right so here's the thing most of you if you were having thyroid issues or you've been diagnosed with a thyroid problem most of conventional medicine would say they're gonna measure if you come in and you have any of these issues whether it's weight problems poor energy digestive problems constipation cold all the time they're going to they're going to evaluate they're gonna run a lap then they're gonna run TSH which is a thyroid stimulating hormone so it's really a brain hormone and then if in the blood if the thyroid hormone is low then then the brain is gonna say hey you need more thyroid hormone so it's gonna so that TSH is gonna go up and your brain is gonna talk to your thyroid your thyroids gonna crank out some more thyroid hormone and you should be good to go there's the thing that test alone is tested a brain hormone but there are multiple other things that need to be tested number one your thyroid has to be tested for production okay so your your thought has to create t4 and a little bit of t3 t4 is a thyroid hormone tyrosine and then iodine's it goes through the proof for the body mainly the liver but also a lot of other places in the body and it gets converted so the t4 gets converted into t3 which is ghost at all the cells but now it has to actually that t3 has to make it to the cell has to bind the cell has to get into the cell and then every cell your body whether it's a heart so long so gut cell doesn't matter those brain cell ends up that that woman has to get into the cell so numb when your thought has to make it it has to release it it has to get converted and then it has to actually go to the cell get carries gets carried to the cell and then gets converted right and goes into the cell and it's you it makes energy for the body so as to do all those things and then also the thyroid itself if the gut is really messed up there's a leaky gut if there's infections bacterial viral fungal there's metals lands up happening there's an autoimmune response when the thyroid can actually get attacked from the immune system right so that needs to be measured so we're talking about a lot of different things and so most panels are incomplete so I can tell you that if you've been tested and your doctor says hey we tested your hormones you're completely fine hey Kelly hey Janet thanks for joining so hey yeah so you know your life you can have a lab but if the lab is incomplete if it doesn't if it doesn't test all those things that I just said then your doctor can said hey your labs completely normal or you could have a brain hormone that's often then they can give you t4 synthroid levothyroxine armor more natural form but then you know that could shift your lab and make it look normal but you can still feel title right because your your hormone may not be getting converted it may be a liver problem or a gut problem it may not be getting it may not be getting carried to the cell it may not even be getting into the cell or your your thyroid may have you may have an autoimmune which is probably 90% of the time so I wanted to I wanted to address that that's a big problem so I actually have a couple of labs so go pre post labs would kind of give you an idea so if you if you have had your thumb tested and they only tested TSH well that's way off now it's supposed to be like a gold standard okay so the gold standard is test TSA someone has thorough attempt so do you test TSH or maybe t4 and then that's it that's completely incomplete right so you could you could be weight-loss resistant you could have no energy you get no you couldn't get any exercise you're wiped out gain away all these problems cold and and you could have completely normal levels guess what if they didn't test other things right so if you want to get tested properly well if you want to know what to get tested then all you gotta do is put it in the chat we'll go back and take a look at it and we'll make sure that you actually get will email you the list of the things that you should get tested no complete everything that the thyroid does and then everything that affects his thyroid that could be really why you're still stuck your house out of balance so this is a patient that actually had had horrible energy couldn't exercise couldn't hardly walk down the street without getting so fatigued no blood pressure going up really really tired weight loss resistant try to lose weight for for years and years and years and just really felt really sick really stressed out oh also one more of the thing that didn't I didn't mention there's also if you have a lot of anxiety if you're in fight-or-flight and your adrenals start to really get overworked your body can create actually something called reverse t3 it will actually keep the thyroid from actually function because if your adrenal if you ever had a whole lot of adrenaline and you're in fight or flight you're like ah you're all geeked up right and if you're if your adrenals are popping out and if your thyroids pumping at the same time your heart could explode I mean it's way too much for your body so what'll happen is if you're under a ton of stress your body will create a reverse t3 to keep your thyroid keep your body from secreting too much thyroid so it's a reverse mechanism so you have to test that as well to see if you're especially if you've been under a lot of stress those type of things you need to measure that as well so this was a patient that she had actually had a thyroid panel done her TSH was really high so they started giving her t4 well she still felt tired still weight was terrible still couldn't exercise cold all those things hair falling out and there she was actually on actually for four medications and nine supplements we see that a lot of times right so there's patients will come in and they're there like half in with medical half in with natural and so they'll end up being on a lot of medications and then just as many or more supplements because they're really treating symptoms for with drugs and supplements but they're just most people are just trying to do it they're you know do it they're just trying to do to feel better you know so it's not a knock on the person but the other that the thyroid tested only TSH and t4 so we did a complete lap complete panel so what we did is we tested TSH t4 t3 reverse t3 vitamin D the hormone that or the thing that actually delivers the hormone to the cell and the facts that you could get in the cell so there's all these things that popped up right so number one the TSH was normal okay so the TSH was normal but the t4 was actually really high so it was flagged why was it hot because they were given a bunch of t4 but here we look at reverse t3 was really high vitamin D was low t3 was low really low okay and so here we have all these different all these different lab values that were up so they were given her hormone her TSH is now normal but she still felt terrible because she wasn't getting she didn't get a complete panel so the doctor was just giving her our hormone and they she had no idea the rest of stuff was happening so number one if you feel terrible you have all these thyroid symptoms you need to get a complete panel taken you need to get your thyroid evaluated properly and if you if you don't know what that is like I said put it in the chat we'll get it to you where you call the office and we'll let you know we'll talk to you about getting you tested properly that's number one number two is that you have to be able to do something now there has to be a plan to actually get your get your thyroid healthy again now we talked about before there one of the biggest things that from the flower is number one is you know gut and liver so if there's an autoimmune issue or there's a guy sure a liver issue this person could not convert her t4 to t3 so it couldn't sure t3 was really low so she ain't even know so the the actual activate of hormone it was it wasn't getting converted properly she was stressed out so her her her adrenal glands were firing off because she was under a lot of stress years and years of stress and so her body was actually had a reverse loop that was stopping her thyroid from functioning so here she is stressed out the body was doing what it was supposed to be doing which was limiting her thyroid so her thyroid was kicking up and it would get can really damage her heart well that's what was going on right so the doctor didn't test this didn't know what the stress levels were doing didn't know that she was under too much stress and it was show so the thyroid was it was it did need any more because I mean it really could have damaged her so in this case we got her stress levels down we helped heal her gut we we got her we got her out of fodder fly and we started giving her thyroid what it needed right so complete opposite of what she was doing right so she was under too much stress she had a reverse mechanism her thyroid shouldn't have been putting out any more hormone actually your body was doing the right thing by keeping him from putting a more hormone and her doctor was giving her woman right luckily didn't kill her right so here we go went from all these all these positive lab results so these very bad things we work with her it's a you know it took about in here it took we started getting results right away but we took about a year we started getting her body back in balance and this would leave or her post-test okay there's not one single marker that's out so everything is within normal limits and you know what I did to address a thyroid there cuz that we weren't treated that way we weren't with her guy we got her liver healthy we helped get her out of fight-or-flight and when those stress responses went down her thought wait was it under as much stress and then the level started normal normalizing we got a proper nutrition we got her detox but of course every years she was able she lost about 30 pounds she was exercising she had like a lot of her energy back so she was doing phenomenal and that was you some medications for a year so you know the answer to your question you know Missy is everything I seem to do gains 30 pounds I gained 30 pounds a week when I try to do something different and even though I'm on meds I'm cold all the time and other problems should shouldn't you know other these other problems that should diminish while on meds what should I do right well first of all you should get your lats I mean your thought were tested properly because obviously if you're still cold I don't know what these symptoms are that you're having so the things relate to your thought but I probably can guess what they are that means number one that you're tested was your test was incomplete and it wasn't that your body just wasn't lacking a thyroid hormone he probably there's probably years of stress there's probably some kind of issues and there's probably some commercial issues but you don't know and I wouldn't know until you were tested properly so the answer that question is you need to get a complete panel you need to have somebody read it and understand and that knows how to understand how this works and then you have to get your body back in balance and there's no reason why you should be gaining 30 pounds in a week when you try to get off of it there's the juice tea you need somebody to help you right give you the answers you're looking for so if that if that helps you know what I hope I was able to address some things we'll recap again I'm one you need a complete panel TSH is not enough I know it's the gold standard but it's completely incomplete completely complete you need to address all the factors of and then only that but you need to have somebody be able to take a look at as well the nose that understands the full function of the tower and how it addresses all the other organs as well so I hope that helps we are going to be doing or going to be doing a talk tomorrow night right if you're in the formal or Charlotte area and you have a thyroid problem if your labs are normal you're taking medication and you still feel terrible you need to come to this workshop because we're going to break it down like why you feel the way you feel we're going to talk about all these things I've been addressing the last you know three three nights on on these Facebook logs and you'll get the answers you're looking for you know we have about literally posted we have five CSUN we literally have five seats left we're next to sold out I hope that I know there's always people that are out there you know they're the praying they're saying man I'm just praying for my answer I feel terrible and I just want someone to give me some answer how I can get my life back well guess what if you're if you're in this area come on out we'd love to meet you if you know somebody that has a thyroid issue and having thyroid symptoms and they're just frustrated and they're stuck and then they they want to go into the New Year with a different you with a different plan or they want their life back you won't get through Christmas but then 2019 you know and you want to be the best year you've ever had share this with somebody let them know like I said if you're not in the area we can also we could if there's enough responses we can do a zoom webinar we could do doing aligned virtual is a great way to go now um I could get on with you virtually and we can we can do a webinar and we can teach the same thing we're teaching here at here at the office but we like literally over the five spots left there's an event right linked up there right near the corner you click on the link you get your tickets and you come in tomorrow night at 6:30 here for Mill South Carolina we start right at 6:30 and we're gonna be addressing these style issues so hope to see you there remember guys like it share it hey Nico great to see you buddy hey Ryan hey thanks for coming on but if like I said like and share with anybody that has any authority issues click on the vent part link come on out and let's see if you could you know can help you you know get your life back or get you a little bit educated more educated on the problems that you're having you guys have a great night thank you Kelly thanks so much yeah it is great info I wish more people would know more about this and they would be suffering so much but look forward to seeing you guys next time on our next live you have a blessed night