Program Week 1

Here is your content for Week 1. In it we focus on the thyroid and how it affects your body, how thyroid hormone is converted and utilized by the body and what the best testing for measuring thyroid hormone is the cells of the body is.

This material also expands the material that you get in the videos.

1. Transcript:Here is transcript of the video. You can follow along or review it for a recap of the material. In the video Marc covers:

A. An overview of the course.

B. Important basic concepts.

C. How the thyroid works in the body.

D. How thyroid hormone is produced, converted and utilized.

E. The Chinese medical view of the endocrine system and the thyroid, hypothalamus, pituitary axis.

2. References: These are the reference materials used to gather the information provided.

3. The Thyroid Directly Impacts 11 Different Systems of the Body. This details the many systems that the thyroid touches and influences. Almost every cell in the body has receptors for thyroid hormone. Learn how important its influence is and what happens in hypothyroid states.

4. Hashimoto’s Lab Tests. Here is a detailed overview of all the lab tests one could order to thoroughly evaluate the thyroid and all its areas of influence. Marc covers the thyroid test portion in the video. There’s a whole lot more here.

5. Thyroid Transport Graph. This is an illustration from Dr. Ken Hortholf.of the national Association of Hypothyroidism. It’s an excellent illustration of which tests show accurate levels of thyroid hormone and why.

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Best,

Marc