HYPOTHYROIDISM – DR RON ROTHERNBERG

So why is there more hypothyroidism? Is it more awareness or is something different in the population? Well one reason is that hypothyroid children will now survive whereas before better sanitation, antibiotics perhaps they didn’t, so hypothyroid children will survive and live to reproductive age then they may be attracted to another hypothyroid mate who shares the same slow lifestyle and they might reproduce and then we could have more hypothyroid genes in the population. Environmental toxicity, heavy metals, xenoestrogens, there’s more autoimmune thyroiditis than ever and also previously it may have been underdiagnosed. Now the causes can be rare, like failure of pituitary control with low TSH secondary hypothyroidism, well if you’d just looked at TSH you’d never pick...