Do doctors believe that an underactive thyroid causes weight gain?
Some more innovative physicians understand that as the bodys engine, the thyroid is intricately tied to weight and metabolism, and recognize that hypothyroidism can cause weight gain, or make weight loss difficult, if often seemingly impossible. Many conventional physicians, however, fail to understand this connection, and do not recognize that hypothyroidism can cause much weight gain. They typically attribute no more than 5 to 15 pounds of weight gain to thyroid disease or metabolic dysfunction. How much weight does hypothyroidism typically cause you to gain? Again, conventional physicians typically attribute no more than 5 to 15 pounds of weight gain to hypothyroidism. However, there are no studies that have been done on people over long periods of time, to assess their caloric intake and expenditure and weight management prior to development of thyroid disease, and after, as well as linkage of weight gain/loss to thyroid treatments. All this is to say that estimates of weight gain
