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Thyroid Answers Podcast

Thyroid Answers podcast is focused on providing answers to the most common questions people who have a thyroid problems and thyroid symptoms need and want answers to. The podcast is hosted by Dr. Eric Balcavage. Dr. Balcavage is a doctor of functional medicine, chiropractor, and certified nutrition specialist. His practice focuses on helping people with thyroid conditions improve their symptoms and regain their health using functional medicine.
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Now displaying: November, 2021
Nov 23, 2021

In this episode of the Thyroid Answers Podcast, Kelly and I discuss the hormone Leptin and its tie to thyroid physiology and body fat.

As with most things in the human body, Leptin is not good or bad. Leptin is critical for optimal physiology. But, when Leptin is too low, or too high, or Leptin signaling is disturbed, the result is often constant hunger, increased fat accumulation, obesity, and a host of related disorders.

We do a deep dive to discuss:

  • What leptin is
  • How leptin works when we are healthy
  • How optimal leptin physiology improves thyroid physiology and metabolism
  • How disturbed leptin signaling contributes to hunger, weight gain, and hypothyroidism
  • How cellular hypothyroidism impacts leptin production and leptin signaling
  • More ...
Nov 2, 2021

In this episode of the Thyroid Answers podcast I get into a deep and lengthy discussion with Dr. Miles Nichols to discuss the connection between Anti-Parietal Cell antibodies, Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), thyroid physiology, thyroid autoimmunity, and the cell danger response.

This is my longest podcast to date. I really like the longer format as it provides more time to get in-depth on the topics. Let me know your opinion on the longer format. Do you like it? Not like it? Let me know.

We discuss:

  • What are anti-parietal cell antibodies (APCA)
  • Role of parietal cells in the Stomach
  • The connection between parietal cells, APCA, and B12 status
  • The connection between B12, APCA, and thyroid physiology
  • Evaluating B12 status
  • What is CIRS
  • What causes CIRS
  • The connection between CIRS, the CDR, and thyroid physiology
  • and so much more ...

Dr. Miles Nichols is a functional medicine doctor specializing in Lyme, mold illness, gut, thyroid, and autoimmunity. After Dr. Miles personally struggled with chronic fatigue in his early 20’s, Dr. Miles dedicated himself to figuring out the root causes. He suffered with and recovered from thyroid dysfunction, autoimmunity, a gut infection, Lyme co-infections, and mold illness.

Dr. Miles and his wife Dr. Diane Mueller co-authored “How to Use Your Mind to Heal Your Mold and Lyme” and “Stress Resilience”. They founded the Medicine with Heart functional medicine clinic in Colorado and also the Medicine with Heart Institute that trains other doctors in functional medicine.

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