The Dr. Josh Axe Show

The HIDDEN Link Between Thyroid & PMOS

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Josh

80% of hypothyroidism is Hashimoto's. They literally almost never address the root cause of what's going on in the thyroid. It's estimated there could be almost 50 million people in the United States that have hypothyroidism that haven't been treated. Why would taking birth control increase the risk or cause hypothyroidism? So we have to remember that birth control is a synthetic hormone. Is it shuts our brain's ability down to make our own. So it tricks our body. Let's talk about PCOS. Why is it called type 3 or type 4 diabetes? You know, we learn in school you have to be overweight, you have to be insulin resistant, and you have to be anovulatory, or you have to have irregular cycles. So it was all tied to a high insulin problem. But as of May 2023, Yeah. it got reclassified as polyendocrine metabolic syndrome, because we now know that there are actually seven types of PCOS.

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