161. McCall McPherson: Why Your Thyroid Is Being Undertested And Undertreated

Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD · May 5, 2026 · 47m

Fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, hair loss, low libido, high cholesterol, and a doctor who keeps telling you your labs look normal. For the millions of people walking around with an undetected or poorly managed thyroid condition, this is not just a frustrating experience but a dangerous one. Because what their doctor never told them is that the most important thyroid marker, the one that actually powers every cell in the body, is only being checked 4% of the time, which means the test they are relying on to rule out a thyroid problem is missing it almost every single time.

In this episode of…