Beyond the Thyroid

Send us Fan Mail Beyond the Thyroid - Episode 56: On Levothyroxine and Still Don't Feel Well? 5 Myths Keeping You Stuck You were diagnosed. You started levothyroxine. Your TSH came back normal. And you still don't feel like yourself. If that's where you are, you're not imagining it -- and you're not alone. A significant portion of people on levothyroxine never fully recover, not because they aren't trying hard enough, but because the treatment approach they've been given is built on a set of ...

Send us Fan Mail Beyond the Thyroid - Episode 55: Is It Really OK to Ignore a Low TSH? What We Actually Know About Thyroid, T3, and Your Heart A social media poll made a bold claim: low T3 causes atrial fibrillation, and high-dose T3 therapy with a suppressed TSH is the fix. Dr. Dana Gibbs took that claim seriously enough to spend an entire episode on it -- because the stakes are high and the evidence is more complicated than the poll suggested. In this episode, she walks through what thyroid...

Send us Fan Mail Beyond the Thyroid - Episode 54: Hashimoto's, Self-Advocacy, and Building solaia.tech with Lindsey Patrice Perez Lindsey Patrice Perez was nine years old when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease. What followed were years of fatigue, brain fog, dry skin, and weight struggles and years of being told her labs were fine. She learned to track her own symptoms, push for expanded testing, and show up to appointments with a concise one-page clinical brief that changed how her ...

Send us Fan Mail Beyond the Thyroid - Episode 53: How to Actually Find Your Food Triggers — The Big Six, IgG Testing, and the Elimination Protocol (Series Finale) Five episodes in, you now have the full picture of why food reactions happen, what drives cravings toward the foods causing them, and why blanket elimination rarely works. This episode is where all of that becomes a plan you can actually follow. Dr. Dana Gibbs walks through the Big Six foods responsible for most cyclic food sensiti...

Send us Fan Mail Beyond the Thyroid - Episode 52: The Food Reactions Nobody Recognizes -- And Why You Crave What's Hurting You Think about the one food you absolutely could not give up. The one you eat every day, the one you reach for when you're exhausted or stressed or just not feeling well. That food is probably the first place to look. In this episode, Dr. Dana Gibbs explains why the most common and most disruptive food reactions look nothing like a classic allergy -- and why the foods ca...