Dr. Balcavage is a thyroid health expert and author of “The Thyroid Debacle,” and he’s challenging everything conventional and functional medicine teaches about thyroid dysfunction. While everyone else focuses on hormone replacement or even immune dysfunction, he’s looking upstream to the mitochondria.
In this conversation, he reveals why cells operate in two modes (manufacturing vs. defense), why jamming more thyroid hormone into the system often backfires, and his surprising top three interventions that usually don’t include supplements or hormones at all.