If you listened to our latest Update in Under 30 episode on Postpartum Thyroiditis and how to implement an optimal risk assessment (before, during & after pregnancy), you’ll have been expecting this new arrival with much anticipation 🐣🤓 because the true value of accurately predicting risk, and at the earliest possible time-point only becomes realised, when we successfully avert or reduce that risk, right?!
And guess what?
The science has well and truly spoken on this one.
However, because success has only been demonstrated with nutritional & nuanced nutritional interventions at that, mainstream medicine sadly has no 👂ears👂 to hear it.
That’s right. Thyroxine, as a preventer during pregnancy or following the birth, has failed to reduce risk – so too yet more iodine…oh lord…not more iodine!! So, as is the case in many conditions where there’s no pharmaceutical fix, there’s no reason to risk assess if you’ve got nothing to offer! We’re in a very different position, with all the tools in our existing dispensary, in addition to our strong foundation in food as medicine. Accordingly here comes part 2 of our PPT – Risks…and now the Remedies and a case workup on a patient where we look at her risks in the rear-view and look ahead to remedies to resolve this condition now. Yep, we been busy this last month with 3 hatchlings🐣🐣🐣 in total and no cyclone to be seen 😶 Stay safe you all!
Postpartum Thyroiditis Risks…
Postpartum thyroiditis is said to affect 1 in 20 Australian women but in reality the rates are much higher and the risk much greater in many of our patients. Given up to 50% of patients diagnosed with PPT will end up with permanent hypothyroidism, a risk assessment radar that works in real time to better predict, pre-empt and prevent the condition is essential. Summarising the research we showcase both baseline risks prior to conception and the best schedule for thyroid health monitoring throughout pregnancy and post-partum.
Postpartum Thyroiditis …& Remedies
Accurately identifying women at an increased risk of developing postpartum thyroiditis only makes sense if we have evidence-backed means to successfully mitigate this risk. As a follow up to our recent related episode on this topic, this one is all about the remedies to implement at each level of identified risk, while also discussing how to treat both a hyperthyroid and hypothyroid phase, should the condition come to fruition. This recording comes together with an extraordinarily helpful clinical tool, a visual summary of what to assess, when along with the appropriate treatment with each new level of risk identified.
You can purchase Postpartum Thyroiditis Risks… here & Postpartum Thyroiditis …& Remedies here. If you are an Update in Under 30 Subscriber, you will find both episodes waiting for you in your online account. You can become an Update in Under 30 Subscriber to access this episode and the entire library of Update in Under 30 audios and resources here.
Cracking the Case: Postpartum Thyroiditis: Risks in the Rearview, Remedies & Resolution
Odds are, you see women who are trying to conceive or are already pregnant. Odds also are that their likelihood of developing postpartum thyroiditis might be higher than most, but do you always know how to spot this? And from there, how to optimally assess them moving forward to know how their static risks they started with, are responding under the influence of pregnancy and postpartum physiology. If we can be clear about this and their shifting PPT propensity, then what we have is an opportunity for effective risk mitigation. In this PPT case we take a look in the rear view at what her risks were, where we could have redressed these and now ask the question, how to treat the PPT and avert permanent hypothyroidism. This case discussion comes together with an extraordinarily helpful clinical tool summarising assessment timepoints and interpretation along with appropriate treatment with each new level of risk identified.
You can purchase this Cracking the Case episode: Postpartum Thyroiditis: Risks in the Rearview, Remedies & Resolution here.
