Amy Berger, MS, CNS presentation: Optimizing Thyroid Hormones for Better Results on Low Carb Diets
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2023
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Amy Berger, MS, CNS, www.tuitnutrition.com/, is a US Air Force Verteran and has a master’s degree in human nutrition and also is a Certified Nutrition Specialist. She is an author, writer, speaker, nutrition consultant and active on her blog and social media. For the past 15 years she has developed an interest in low carb and keto diets both personally and professionally using these nutritional approaches with her clients to address health and medical conditions.
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Every medical professional should be required to see this video! Having had Graves’ disease in 1980 and thanks to a great endocrinologist from John Hopkins that taught me everything I needed to know about Grave’s disease and hypothyroidism. And over the last 43+ years the knowledge he passed on to me is still true today. His metaphor for normal ranges of TSH, T4, and T3 are like sizes 7-13 shoes for men and 5-10 for women. While one can fall within that normal range, there is a specific area in each test that is the most correct for the individual!
Starting Keto 15 months ago and within three months feeling the best I have felt since 1980, my TSH level significantly changed shortly thereafter. I had to practically beg my physician to order a complete thyroid panel a couple of times over 6 months. Over the following 8 months (MY) TSH, T4 and T3 levels are back to where I feel the best! I am very grateful for a physician that listens to her patients.
Every medical professional should be required to see Amy Berger’s presentation!
YES!!!! PLEASE!!
Please please please Doctors-LISTEN!!!
This was an interesting video. Now if only she would have told us what to do about it!
I wish that every doctor and endocrinologist that have gaslit me for over 15 years would see this!! I recently finally got them to take TPO and sure enough..I have antibodies. Plus my T4 has plummeted over the years. And STILL the doctor said that she thinks that my 60 pound weight gain, loss of outer eyebrows, pain in my whole body, extreme fatigue plus all the other symptoms are PSYCHOSOMATIC!! I still haven't gotten any help. She finally went along and sent my "papers" to the endocrinologists. But they refused to see me. They wrote a letter and said that there's nothing wrong with me! It's infuriating how I have been treated for all these years. And still no help. Can't afford private doctors bcs I live on disability bcs I can't work. And still...they think it's all in my head. I have been told that by several doctors throughout the years! It's INSANITY alright, but not on my part.
I empathise with you, I suffer the same way and am being gaslit and live in France, it is a worldwide mysoginistic medical field!!!!! This is horrific how they destroy our lives and blame us for it..... I hope you feel a bit better and could find some support
Best talk I’ve ever heard on thyroid! I’d like to add to comment on anyone with thyroid problems: alternative testing for low lying infections, mold & mycotoxins, heavy metals, ELIMINATE all body care products that contain toxic chemicals, household cleaners, packaged foods & learn about oxalates. I took this route and am completely off medications.
ref Dr. Westman - YES, we need a Keto normal range for labs, including Thyroid!
Absolutely!!!!
So informative, so passionate, so Amy! Highly appreciate your work ❤ Please keep going, you are a gift to soooo many people!
Thank you Amy!! Now if I could only GET an appointment with a doctor who understands this! I AM suffering. In Florida it’s hard to even see a doctor, especially if you’re on Medicare … TRUE. I WAITED TWO YEARS FOR FIRST DR. APPOINTMENT 😢. My hubby has to wait 11 months to see endocrinologist and he has diabetes. Not the medical care I received in the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s. Even 80’s. Yet we are paying for some pretty sketchy ‘conditions’.
I was was hypothyroid (probably last 30y) and on bio identical hormones for last 10 years. After about 2 months on carnivore i needed to lower my dose until i stopped it. And about 2 months later i was with no meds, no symptoms. And i have been symptom free since. My fT3 is on the low side but not the lowest. But i am better than i was as a kid re energy, sleep, mind sharpness, mental strenght, looks... everything
If you don't mind my asking, what is your ft3? I'm wondering because it's like to get off thyroid meds but ft3 is 3.0
I've been awaiting this talk after seeing Amy on another med professionals youtube video. So pleased she has pursued this course of learning and sharing and caring! I'm fortunate to have had only a slightly elevated TSH, T3, T4 okay with no real symptoms other than carrying a few extra pounds and a general feeling of 'meh' - I realised that when we returned to Australia from 6 years in Japan, my iodine intake had been drastically cut - so I reintroduced nori seaweed plus other iodine rich foods and within 4 weeks, those niggly pounds came off and my mind cleared itself of it's lethargy. TRE / Low Carb also contribute to an overall feeling of well being.
What’s TRE?
@@betsyeberle8116 time restricted eating - or time window eating etc. - essentially, you consume any and all food for the day within a particular window of time and do not consume anything other than water (or black coffee, tea) during the other time. So, in my case, I eat only between Noon and finish my last bite of food by 6:00pm. And then between 6:00pm and 12:00noon the next day, I do not eat anything. This is an 18:6 logic. Some folks do 16:8, 14:10 or more strictly 20:4 -- this is a DAILY pattern for me, not an intermittent pattern.
Amy, that was massively informative. Thank you for making thyroid more understandable
Really excellent talk Amy. Thank you.
Bravo!! I have been following a low carb/keto lifestyle for 20 years. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s following my 4th pregnancy. It was no surprise to me because I had been symptomatic for a few years at that point. My labs looked just like the first example- low TSH and high cholesterol. My TSH finally reached 30… yes 30 when I was finally diagnosed. Even a small, insufficient dose of thyroid hormone drops my TSH. Because of this I have been on the receiving end of gaslighting from physicians. I finally found an NP that will listen and not be afraid of T3 thyroid hormone… it’s only taken 12 years.
I feel like Amy has absolutely described me here! Most of my adult life has felt like slogging through cold molasses! I have been tested by conventional and holistic doctors (full panel, I believe) and all results have been "normal"! Yet, my symptoms are absolutely descriptive as hypothyroid, most debilitating is CONSTANT sleepiness and feelings of total exhaustion! 😢
I use that exact same description - " slogging thru molasses" and have often said to docs that will ONLY supplement you to the lowest "normal" value how do you know that my normal was not a higher value. I loved an above post that talked about normal shoe sizes ranging from 7 to 13. They keep trying to stuff my size 13 into 7!
I was originally diagnosed at 12 years of age BUT refused meds until age 35 under the theory " that well you still have SOME thyroid function & we don't want to stop it" meanwhile suffering so so many typical thyroid symptons including horrible problems with my menses that male docs insisted had nothing to do w the thyroid😳😰😡. It was a women doc who finally put me on meds but meanwhile I had gained 5-10 lbs a year for 23 years DESPITE being an active "tomboy". So then they would look at me as an obese slug that had self created all her problems by over eating & not exercising and would just dismiss my description of symptoms. Beyond fruatrating!!
In my 70s came to lo carb via prediabetes. Some success have lost about half the weight I need to and feel a bit better BUT still w significant symptoms of low thyroid and struggling with the weight loss. Unfortunately forced into Kaiser by economics and good luck on getting a Dr to actually treat a patient not a protocol.
Me too!! Perfectly describes my battle to get these symptoms resolved.
Thanks so much! Have had several of the classic symptoms listed for many years. I will try to "educate" my German GP with this information and maybe get more than my TSH tested next time, if I'm lucky.
Would love to see the prospective studies done with the low carb community. Be great to help document to challenge the current orthodoxy.
Yes I felt good on a low dose of synthroid, but my TSH dropped very low to almost nothing, well Dr. didn't like that and took me off it, well went back to feeling worse because the paper numbers said it was bad.
Hi, I just subbed after watching your Ren, "Fred Again Mashup" then found this on your channel. I'm 70 years old, and found the paleo diet about 12 years ago. After a few weeks several minor ailments disappeared: bleeding gums, frequent skin rashes, daily niggling headaches, painful arthritic thumb and jaw (which I couldn't open in the mornings!). I maintained this diet (mainly low carb, no grains, good fats - grass-fed butter, coconut oil) for 6 years, lost half a stone and felt great, but from 4 years ago gradually slipped back into more conventional eating. Recently I experienced some health problems so restarted Paleo/low carb and 4 weeks later I feel so much better. Did you know that Ren has to follow a restricted diet along Paleo lines due to the damage done to his body after years of misdiagnoses when he actually had Lyme disease. On his channel there's a clip of him preparing a meal while talking about his condition.
I really enjoyed your reaction, btw. Stay well!
I've had the opposite problem for a few years and can't find a doctor or any information online that can adequately explain why TSH would be elevated (high 4's and sometimes over 5) in the absence of symptoms.
Goooood stuff Amy...
I also recommend Amy's book on Alzheimer's. Especially for medical personnel.
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I'm 68 and for many years, have checked all the boxes for hypothyroid symptoms. I feel cold much of the time and own a sizeable collection of down coats. My outer eyebrows are disappearing. I'm also fatigued and can't lose weight no matter how much exercise I do or what I eat or don't eat. I've been on a keto diet with intermittent fasting for over a month, have hardly lost weight, and feel extremely lazy and tired. I had to cut short a difficult backpacking trip because of how tired I feel. I've had major cold sensitivity, problems with weight loss and fatigue, way before my keto experiment, so obviously thyroid has been an issue pre-keto. My primary care person is useless, since all they do is test me for TSH and declare me normal, based on that test. I'm searching the internet for innovative treatments for thyroid and autoimmune disease, as well as research on keto and paleo diets.
Great , informative, wow!, thanks much for educating all
Great information! Providers need to weigh both objective (lab/tests) and subjective (symptoms) data to see the whole picture for each individual patient. I can appreciate that there are "normal" ranges, but when you only treat the lab results you are doing a great disservice to the patient. A question that comes to mind...why are so many individuals experiencing low thyroid in the first place? Why are thyroid hormone replacement medications the second most frequently prescribed medication, anyway?
Thank you so much for sharing.
Wow! Great job Amy! I work with a Naturopath and she is very diligent about ordering extensive thyroid tests but after watching this I definitely have some questions on the connection with my high cholesterol and the correlation to my thyroid. I am suspicious that there is a connection there for me. Thank you so much for this information!
Amy your talk was amazing! Thank you!
Amazing info! Getting better test asap!
Amazing, wonderful! If only I could find a dr who would consider these ideas 😢
I think my thyroid just very recently blew. My metabolism has stopped. :-( A couple of years ago my TSH was great, but my T4 was at the very bottom of acceptable and my T3 was low. I should have checked reverse T3. I'm a chronic dieter and may have messed up my system. Granted, "this time of life" doesn't help in the least. I agree that everyone is unique and what numbers are fine for one person are not fine for another. I dealt with that regarding other hormones, blood sugar, etc.
I know first hand about how insufficient the treatment is for hypothyroid.. the doctors themselves have no idea how to interpret the labs once you begin to take the exogenous thyroid meds. Each batch of the NP THYROID or Armor is different, and your body doesn't convert it consistently- into T3... so what's the point? Each individual must treat themselves differently on a daily basis and learn how the replacement meds work... I use 3 types of meds... but I'm taking about 1/4th the prescribed amount - much less, b/c the more T4 you take, the more it converts into reverse T3 and then the crappier you feel! Nobody told me this! Very angering.
I need 12,5 % less thyroid hormone supplementation on a keto diet, so it really seems to work.
Dr Berger if you read this please respond… Low Thyroid is very interesting. I am one of those that cannot lose weight and will look into this. Also would like to ad to this equation my Fasting Insulin levels were 12…. They say up to 25 is normal but my research says it should be 4 or 5. One cannot lose weight in the presence of insulin. What are your thoughts on Low Thyroid and Higher than 4 or 5 Fasting Insulin. I believe our familial genes determine our sensitivity to all of the above. 25 maybe ok for some but for others TO HIGH. Stalling on a Keto or Carnevore diet is real. The experts have missed that fact. I have even heard Vinnie Tortorich say if you stall you are doing something wrong. Which is disappointing as he should know better being touted as an expert in this space.
Can we not just take iodine
Maybe make sure your patients are getting enough iodine.
Patients who have Hashimoto’s and are on treatment (levothyroxine and/or liothyronine) don’t need much as we get iodine from the meds. Excess iodine actually is implicated in increased incidence of autoimmune hypothyroidism, so we have to be more careful we’re not getting too much.
Also, my understanding is anyone supplementing with iodine should be making sure they’re getting enough selenium also to keep thing balanced.
We Are not all the same Iodine can be bad for some just listen to Sten Egberg
@@calexprenaspretty sure they said enough iodine NOT excess iodine.
@@micaonyx5301 I understand. I’m just saying it’s very easy for treated patients to end up getting excess since we get so much through meds, and it can end up doing more harm than good. We have to be a lot more careful figuring out what’s enough vs excess, and it wouldn’t take much to cross that line
@@calexprenasWhat makes you think the meds contain iodine. They don't. In the U.S. the primary source in diet is salt and they have been preaching low salt diets for more than 70 years.
calm down lady
Why should she calm down? She has important life-saving information that many don't know about. You wouldn't calm down in a situation like that, you would want to share that information with as wide an audience as possible.
I doubt you would tell a male presenter to calm down. Why would you tell her to? Why are you watching this video if you're not here to learn and if you don't appreciate passion in someone imparting information? Feel free to grab a dictionary and look up any of these words.
I’m doing Keto, not sure whether I should take less levothyroxine? 🙁