Treatments for hyperthyroidism can involve surgical removal of the thyroid gland or medications that block receptors or interfere with brain-pituitary-thyroid pathways.

“the treatment is you're going to give a drug that inhibits the thyroid gland that's the number one is the medical treatment there there are drugs there basically two types of drug we try to use one type of drug that inhibits It's the enzyme that puts the iodine into the hormone. So there's no way that gland is going to produce thyroid hormone because it's inhibiting that that step that's critical. So you're going to reduce the production of thyroid hormone. Uh there are other forms of treatment as well. Uh there's surgical treatment. Patients can be uh use the drug for a couple of months, bring down the thyroid hormone levels and then go into surgery to remove either remove the whole thyroid or three/4ers of a thyroid because you're going to uh you know reduce the amount of mass of gland that's producing thyroid hormone. And the third form of treatment is radiation uh >> radioactive iodine. radioactive iodine. Uh you”

“one type of drug that inhibits It's the enzyme that puts the iodine into the hormone. So there's no way that gland is going to produce thyroid hormone because it's inhibiting that that step that's critical. So you're going to reduce the production of thyroid hormone.”