Dr. Alan Christianson

If you have thyroid disease and you still don’t feel right, you may know this frustrating pattern: you go in for your annual visit, your doctor checks your TSH, maybe a T4, and you’re told your numbers look fine. But you don’t feel fine. So you leave with the same fatigue, the same brain fog, the same nagging sense that something is still off, a...

What if the reason you still feel unwell is not entirely your thyroid?

For many people with thyroid concerns, the missing piece may be the liver. The Thyroid and liver connection matters because the liver helps activate thyroid hormones, regulate blood sugar, and shape immune activity. When it is under strain, thyroid lab results c...

If you have Hashimoto’s, you may have been told that it is permanent, progressive, and that medication is the only option. That is the standard line. But it does not fully reflect what we see in the medical research.

Many people with Hashimoto’s can lower thyroid antibodies, improve thyroid function, and in some cases reduce or discontinue...

If you have thyroid disease and you are still dealing with hair loss, fatigue, brain fog, or simply not feeling like yourself despite “normal” lab results, there is one number worth looking at closely: ferritin.

Many laboratory ranges list a ferritin level of 15 or 20 as normal. But for someone with thyroid disease, that can be more like r...