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Would you like to know the secret that integrative doctors use with hypothyroid patients to help them feel better better than you get with standard thyroid
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medications? Well, watch this video and as I walk you through it, I'm going to talk to you about the prescription thyroid medication that integrative
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doctors like myself use with many, many patients to help them feel better and to get better results than your standard thyroid therapy.
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I'm Dr. Mark Stangler and I've been practicing integrative medicine for 30 years. Nesticated thyroid extract is a medicine that integrative doctors like
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myself use all the time to help patients with hypothyroidism to not only feel better but to have much better results on their lab tests as well. Now,
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desicated thyroid extract is not a standard thyroid therapy. You won't find many doctors using it outside of us integrative doctors. However, it is a
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prescription drug that's available from standardarmacies as well as compoundingies. Now, desicated thyroid extract is also referred to as natural
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desiccated thyroid and it's produced from the powder of porcene thyroid and then made into tablets. The word desiccated means to be dried out or in
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this case dried animal powder. It is available like I said in United Statesarmacies and in Europeanies as
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well. It contains a ratio of T4 to T3 of 4.2:1. Now in the human body the main thyroid hormones are T4 and T3. Now,
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some people don't like that it has T3 because they're worried about overstimulating effects of T3. However, T3 really is the key. It is the dominant
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thyroid hormone that gets into your cells and drives energy and metabolism.
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So, with desiccated thyroid extract, you're guaranteed to get that active T3.
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We know some people genetically don't convert the T4 into the more active T3 very effectively. and desiccated thyroid
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extracts from the early 1890s to the mid1 1970s was the preferred form of therapy for hypothyroidism. Then these synthetic drugs came on the market and
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became the normative prescription by doctors for hypothyroidism. However, desiccated thyroid extract never went away. Still available inarmacies today
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and still actually very popular amongst patients and integrative doctors because of the results that we see with patients compared to the standard synthetic
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thyroid medications. Now, according to the FDA, 1.5 million patients received prescriptions of desecated thyroid
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extract from the years of 2024 to 2025 from outpatient retailies. In recent times, the FDA has voiced concern about
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the safety and effectiveness of desiccated thyroid extracts and they want the manufacturers to have improvements in the way they're
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producing their thyroid hormones. So, it looks like they're going to be getting that worked out here in the next few months, which is a good thing. Now, desiccated thyroid extract is unique in
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that it also contains the thyroid hormones known as T2 and T1. We know in the human body these hormones are produced, but they're not available in
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any medications other than desiccated thyroid extract. T2, for example, has been shown in studies to increase the metabolic rate. It activates fat
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breakdown. It lowers lipids. Studies have also shown that it reduces body weight. It reduces fatty liver. It reduces triglycerides. So there are some
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unique effects to this T2. One small human study where they gave people 300 micrograms only of T2 daily for 2 weeks
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again they found that people increased metabolic rate and it decreased their body weight significantly without making other changes or without side effects.
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T1 there's less known about it but again the human body does produce it and it's found in desiccated thyroid extract and it has a balancing effect on the
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stimulating effects of T3. T3 again it improves heart output, heart rate, systolic blood pressure and coronary
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flow and T1 has a balancing effect on preventing that over stimulation effect of T3. So very unique. We can see why in
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the human body we have all four thyroid hormones and only desiccated thyroid extract has these four hormones as well in terms of prescriptions. Now there's
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been several studies that have been done regarding treating hypothyroidism with desiccated thyroid extract and they compared to other forms of thyroid
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replacement. For example, a study done in 2024 where they reviewed a number of different studies found that desecated thyroid extract improved quality of life
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scores better than the other traditional thyroid replacement therapies. And this is very helpful because patients feel better on the desiccated thyroid extract
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or at least a lot of them do compared to your standard levothyroxine therapy.
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Another study done actually in 2024 was an online survey where they assessed quality of life scores in people on different thyroid extracts and they
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found that those taking the desiccated thyroid well they reported a quality of life superior to that of just a standard levothyroxin therapy only as well as you
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would expect when they checked blood levels the T3 levels were higher in the participants taking the desiccated thyroid extract. Another interesting
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study published back in 2013 found that desecated thyroid extract caused modest weight loss and nearly half of the
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participants preferred desiccated thyroid extract over your standard levothyroxine. So again having that active T3 and probably that T2, you can
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get that metabolic effect. So, if you're on traditional thyroid replacement therapy and you're still experiencing hypothyroid symptoms, even though your
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lab tests look pretty decent, you have symptoms like fatigue, difficulty losing weight, feel cold all the time, poor cognitive function, brain fog, dry skin,
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constipation, or other symptoms, consider working with an integrative doctor that can prescribe you desiccated thyroid extract. It is one of the
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secrets that integrative doctors use to help patients with hypothyroidism feel much better. If you like this video, make sure you click the like button and
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look for other videos I have on hypothyroidism, natural treatments for hypothyroidism, and a variety of other topics regards to integrative medicine.
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If you're on thyroid medication but still don't feel like yourself, you're not alone — and there may be a reason why. Dr. Mark Stangler walks through the prescription therapy integrative doctors have relied on for decades, why it contains hormones your current medication likely doesn't, and what recent studies say about patient outcomes. Worth a watch if you've ever felt like your labs look fine but you still feel off.
