Thyroid Answers Podcast

By Dr. Eric Balcavage

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Thyroid Answers podcast is focused on providing answers to the most common question people who have a thyroid problems and thyroid symptoms need and want answers to. The podcast is hosted by Dr Eric Balcavage and Dr Erica Riggleman. Both are doctors of functional medicine, chiropractors and certified nutrition specialists. Their practices focus on helping people with thyroid conditions improve their symptoms and regain their health using functional medicine.

Episode Date
Episode 232: Why Your Thyroid and Iron Protocols Aren't Working
May 26, 2026
Episode 231: The Low Ferritin Trap
May 19, 2026
Episode 230:   Understanding Thyroid Health: Immune System Insights
May 12, 2026
Episode 229: Why Your Body Reduces T4 to T3 Conversion and Why That's Protective
May 05, 2026
Episode 228: Why Your Metabolism Slowed Down (And Why Nothing Is Fixing It)
Apr 28, 2026
Episode 227: Why Your Metabolism Isn't Broken (And Why You're Still Tired)
Apr 21, 2026
Episode 226: Why Thyroid Medication Rarely Fixes Fatigue
Apr 14, 2026
Episode 225: Fatigue - Why Being Tired Doesn't Always Mean Your Thyroid Is Low
Apr 07, 2026
Episode 224: Iron Deficiency or Defense? Understanding Low Iron and Ferritin
Mar 31, 2026
Episode 223: Why Thyroid "Optimization" Often Makes People Worse
Mar 24, 2026
Episode 222: WHY DOING THE RIGHT THINGS DOESN'T WORK
Mar 17, 2026
Episode 221: Why Low Free T3 Often Doesn't Need to Be "Fixed"
Mar 10, 2026
Episode 220: Why Doing More Is Making You Worse — And Why Recovery Usually Starts With Less
Mar 03, 2026
Episode 219: T3-Based Thyroid Medication — Mistakes, Misunderstandings, and Miscommunication
Feb 24, 2026
Episode 218: Why T3 Works for Some People — and Hurts Others
Feb 17, 2026
Episode 217: Why Reduced T4-to-T3 Conversion Is Not the Problem!
Feb 10, 2026
Reverse T3, T3 Uptake, and Thyroid Antibodies - What They Mean, What They Don't
Feb 03, 2026
Episode 215: Total T3 And Free T3 - What They Mean, What They Don't, and Why Treating T3 often backfires
Jan 27, 2026
Episode 214: Total T4 vs Free T4 - What They Mean, And Why You Need Both!
Jan 20, 2026
Episode 213: AI Is Giving Health Advice—But Does It Understand Your Body?
Jan 13, 2026
TSH Explained: 25 Thyroid Questions Your Doctor Never Answered
Jan 06, 2026
Is Your Brain Keeping You Stuck in Thyroid Purgatory? | Thyroid Shorts #22
Dec 23, 2025
Is T3 Medication Causing You Anxiety and Insomnia?
Dec 16, 2025
Episode 211: Rewiring the Brain for Thyroid Recovery with Dr. Patrick Porter
Dec 09, 2025
TS Epsisode 20: The Real Reason Your TSH Goes Up in Winter
Dec 02, 2025
TS Epsiode 19: Stress and Holiday Hypothyroidism
Nov 25, 2025
Do Thyroid Antibodies Tell the Whole Story of Hashimoto's? – Thyroid Shorts Ep 18
Nov 18, 2025
Episode 210: Hashimoto's Revisited - A Conversation with Dr. Izabella Wentz
Nov 11, 2025
Thyroid Shorts 17: Does Everyone with Low T3 Need Medication?
Nov 04, 2025
Episode 209: Age Stronger, Live Longer with Dr. Mani Kukreja
Oct 28, 2025
Episode 16: Bile, Bugs, and Barriers - The Thyroid Connection You've Never Heard
Oct 21, 2025
Episode 208: Nitric Oxide - The Molecule That Could Transform Your Thyroid Health
Oct 14, 2025
Thyroid Shorts Episode 15: Myth - Low fT3 Means You Just Need More T3
Oct 07, 2025
Episode 14: The Role Your Mitochondria Play in Thyroid Recovery
Sep 30, 2025
Episode 207: Emotions and Trauma as Drivers of Thyroid Dysfunction
Sep 23, 2025
TS Episode 13: Reading Between the Lines of Your Thyroid Labs
Sep 16, 2025
Episode 206: Rebooting Your Thyroid Physiology with Dr. Justin Marchegiani
Sep 09, 2025
TS Episode 12: The Real Reason Your Thyroid Medication Isn't Working
Sep 02, 2025
Episode 205: Understanding Thyroid Labs: What Your Doctor Might Be Missing
Aug 26, 2025
Thyroid Shorts 11: FDA Removal of Dessicated Thyroid Extracts - Why this may not be a bad thing
Aug 19, 2025
Episode 204: How The Microbiome Impacts Your health, Immune System, and Thyroid Physiology
Aug 12, 2025
Thyroid Shorts Episode 10: Does the Cell Danger Response Apply to Everyone?
Aug 05, 2025
Episode 203: The Gut-Thyroid Connection: How Your Microbiome Impacts Your Metabolism
Jul 29, 2025
Episode 202: Missing Strategies That May Ignite Your Weight Loss
Jul 22, 2025
Episode 201: Radiopharmaceutical Therapy & Theranostics: A New Frontier in Thyroid and Cancer Care
Jul 15, 2025
Thyroid Shorts Episode 9: Thyroid Conversion Problems Explained
Jul 08, 2025
TS Episode 8: Why Your Thyroid Belly Won't Go Away And What Actually Works
Jul 01, 2025
Episode 200: Thyroid Recovery Truths: What 200 Episodes Reveal About Labs, Meds, and Real Healing
Jun 24, 2025
Episode 199: GUT Zoomer Deep Dive - Functional GI Testing for Thyroid Patients
Jun 17, 2025
Episode 198: The Vitamin D Deficiency Myth - What the Statistics Really Tell Us
Jun 10, 2025
Shorts Episode 7: The Thyroid - GLP-1 Trap
Jun 03, 2025
Episode 197: GLP-1 and Gut Dysbiosis
May 27, 2025
Episode 196: The Second Mouth with Dr. Nicole Fleischmann
May 20, 2025
Thyroid Shorts Episode 6: The Mental Health - Thyroid Connection
May 06, 2025
Episode 195: Health Crisis and Lessons Learned
Apr 29, 2025
Episode 194: The Foundational Five
Apr 22, 2025
Episode 193: Menopause Madness with Dr. Carrie Jones
Apr 08, 2025
Thyroid Shorts - Episode 5: Why Your Normal Thyroid Labs Don't Tell The Full Story!
Apr 01, 2025
Episode 192: The Perimenopausal Paradox with Jenn Pike
Mar 25, 2025
Episode 191: Weight loss and GLP1 with Orshi McNaughton
Mar 18, 2025
Episode 190: Oral Health and Hypothyroidism with Dr. Michelle Jorgensen
Mar 11, 2025
Episode 189: The Stress Connection with Reed Davis
Feb 25, 2025
Episode 188: The Nutrivore Solution Optimizing Health Through Strategic Nutrition
Feb 18, 2025
Episode 187: Pregnancy Recovery with Janette Yee
Feb 11, 2025
Thyroid Shorts: The Thyroid Management Trap
Feb 04, 2025
Episode 186 The Impact of Air Quality on Health and Hypothyroidism
Jan 28, 2025
Episode 185: Liver, Gallbladder, and Thyroid with Divya Gupta
Jan 21, 2025
Episode 184: The Thriving Thyroid with Sophie Shepard
Jan 14, 2025
Episode 183: Plant-Based Nutrition with Melanie Murphy Richter
Dec 24, 2024
Episode 182: The Glutathione Revolution with Dr. Nayan Patel
Dec 17, 2024
Episode 181: Strategies for Thyroid Recovery with Tara Quintana
Dec 10, 2024
Thyroid Answers Shorts: Can You Recover From Hypothyroidism?
Dec 03, 2024
Episode 180: Organ Nutrition with Chef James Barry
Nov 26, 2024
Episode 179: Thyroid Cancer with Louise Davies MD
Nov 19, 2024
Episode 178: The Origin of Being with Jenny Powers
Nov 12, 2024
Thyroid Answers Shorts: Medication and Lab Timing
Nov 05, 2024
Episode 177: Endometriosis and Thyroid Disorders with Alexandra Middleton
Oct 29, 2024
Episode 176: The Role of the Hypothalamus in Thyroid Disorders
Oct 22, 2024
Episode 175: Improving Thyroid Health with Ayurvedic Medicine
Oct 15, 2024
Episode 174: Headache Help with Dr. Meg Mill
Oct 08, 2024
Episode 173 Health Habits and Epic Living with Dr Sherry Price
Sep 24, 2024
Episode 172: Thyroid Q&A #12 with Tara Quintana
Sep 17, 2024
Episode 171: Toxins, Inflammation, and Chronic Health Disorders with Dr. Tom O'Bryan
Sep 10, 2024
Episode 170: Eating For Fertility with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
Aug 27, 2024
Episode 169: Thyroid Q&A #11 with Tara Quintana
Aug 21, 2024
Episode 168: Blood Glucose Regulation with Dr. Brady Wirick
Aug 13, 2024
Thyroid Answers Shorts: The Thyroid Panel
Aug 06, 2024
Episode 167: The Candida Connection with Dr. Michael Biamonte
Jul 23, 2024
Episode 166: Thyroid Medication is Over Prescribed with Joe El Khoury, PhD
Jul 09, 2024
TAP Episode 165: Breast Implant Illness with Dr. Robert Whitfield
Jun 25, 2024
Episode 164: Thyroid Q & A #10 with Tara Quintana
Jun 18, 2024
Episode 163: Thyroid Transformation with Dr. Heather Stone
Jun 11, 2024
Episode 162: Mold Remediation with Brandon Faust
May 28, 2024
Episode 161: Thyroid Q & A #9 with Tara Quintana
May 21, 2024
Episode 160: The Limbic System as a Driver of Chronic Health Conditions with Ashok Gupta
May 14, 2024
Episode 159: Research Rounds #1 with Dr Kelly Halderman
May 07, 2024
Episode 158: The Thyroid and MTHFR Connection with Ricardo Miranda
Apr 23, 2024
Episode 157: Thyroid Q&A #8 with Tara Quintana
Apr 16, 2024
Episode 156: Thyroid, Fasting, and the Ketogenic Diet with Ben Azadi
Apr 09, 2024
Episode 155: Thyroid Q&A #7 with Tara Quintana
Mar 26, 2024