Naturopathic thyroid care in Ontario

A Naturopathic Doctor in Ontario can order a full thyroid panel and work on the nutrition, iron, gut, stress and sleep factors that affect how you feel. Thyroid medication, including levothyroxine and desiccated thyroid, stays with your physician, and we coordinate rather than compete.

TSH, free T3, free T4, and the two antibodies that identify Hashimoto's thyroiditis: TPO and thyroglobulin antibodies. Depending on your picture, reverse T3, ferritin, B12 and vitamin D come alongside. Your family doctor may run some of it under OHIP; the rest is passed through at cost.

Not a replacement for thyroid hormone where it is needed, and anyone suggesting otherwise is not being straight with you. What naturopathic care does add is the surrounding work: iron and ferritin, selenium, zinc, vitamin D and B12, gut absorption, and the timing and co-factors that affect how well replacement is absorbed. For subclinical or borderline results, that surrounding work is sometimes the whole conversation.

In Ontario a Naturopathic Doctor can order and interpret thyroid blood work, which is what lets them investigate rather than only advise. They cannot order a thyroid ultrasound or uptake scan, so where a nodule or a structural question is involved, that goes through your physician. Care runs alongside your existing thyroid management, not instead of it.

The most common cause of an underactive thyroid: the immune system slowly attacks the gland. Antibodies are often detectable years before TSH moves, which is why a normal TSH can sit alongside real symptoms. Nutrition, iron, vitamin D and gut health influence how it progresses.

Yes, both under- and over-active thyroid can cause diffuse shedding, and low ferritin often travels with it. Treating the thyroid and the iron together is usually what turns it around, slowly.

Because normal is a wide range, because free T3 and antibodies may not have been checked, and because iron, B12, sleep, cortisol and blood sugar produce the same fatigue, cold and fog. A Naturopathic Doctor checks the whole set.

At Fitra Health the first call is free, the first 60-minute appointment is $249, and follow-ups are $99 for 30 minutes or $199 for 60. Lab work is passed through at cost. Most extended health plans cover naturopathic visits, and we bill more than 30 insurers directly.

OHIP doesn't cover naturopathic visits. Most workplace and private extended health plans do, up to an annual maximum. We bill through TELUS eClaims where your insurer is on the network and issue an insurance-ready receipt where it isn't. Visits are HST-exempt and may qualify for the medical expense tax credit.

No. You book directly. Bring any results you already have and your Naturopathic Doctor starts from there rather than repeating work.