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What Dr. Oz Taught Me About Oprah's Thyroid + Why She Struggles with Weight
Hormonal Hostage: Six Reasons Your Thyroid is Sluggish + Metabolism Slow
When your thyroid is working against you, your body feels slow. Reflexes? Not as rapid-fire as they were 10 years ago. You don’t react as fast to changes in your environment. Thyroid is the hormone of metabolism, similar to the “idle” position in a car. If your idle is slow, the processes in your body…
Read MoreLow Thyroid: Do you have a slow brain, weight gain or thyroid hair?
This week in Mission Ignition we are taking on the thyroid. Thought I’d share. Do you have, or have you experienced in the past… Hair loss, including of the outer third of your eyebrows and/or eyelashes (which indicates both a beauty crisis and a hormonal imbalance)? Dry skin? Dry, straw-like hair? Fluid retention or swollen…
Read MoreWhy the Weirdness with Doctors + Thyroid? Talking Shop with Gena Lee Nolin & Mary Shomon Next Week
It happened again this week. I saw a patient who is 48 and came to me a few months ago because she felt flat sensually and sexually. Let’s call her Daphne. As part of our work together, I found she had a Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) of 3.1 and a low free T3. In other…
Read MoreThyroid: Minimize Goitrogens for Optimal Metabolism + Weight
Here is a great list of foods that slow down your thyroid. They are also known as goitrogens. Isn’t that a weird word? It’s best to avoid these foods in their raw form – lightly cooked is a better option. Caffeine. Yes, not a popular food to give up, but it will help your thyroid…
Read MoreThe Holy Trinity – Or Charlie's Angels – of Vitality: Estrogen, Cortisol + Thyroid (and why they've got your back + your rack, baby)
Step into my time machine. We’re nine years old. It’s 1976. We’re fledgling feminists (already!) and we’re mad-passionately-crazy in awe of a trio of crime-fighting, bad-guy-busting women with brains, brawn and physical agility. And they are just like the hormonal system, when it’s working FOR YOU not against you. They’re amazing. They’re Angels. (They even…
Read MoreWill Sleep for Thyroid
We all know sleep is a good idea. But just how important is sleep when it comes to thyroid health? Turns out that your thyroid’s production of hormone is dependent on several other hormones, in particular the right amount of cortisol, melatonin and growth hormone. Step 1: Nail down your cortisol. I see a lot…
Read More5 Tips to Reclaim Your Thyroid Mojo
Today I’m manhandling 5 mojo-zappers. Five things that I often find are depleting the energy of patients in my integrative medicine practice. Five things I want on your radar. Five things I want you to remove from your life. Now. 1. Dial in your free T3. Free T3 is the active form of your thyroid…
Read MoreThyroid Questionnaire
I love this questionnaire from Dr. Hotze, another integrative physician. It gets to the heart of whether you should be tested for thyroid dysregulation, even if your conventional doc has dismissed your concerns. I also like to use these questions to build a tracker for how you improve with different therapies, as trial-and-error continues to…
Read MoreCoffee Hijacks Thyroid Levels
Do you take thyroid medication? Judging from my integrative medicine practice, I believe we have an epidemic of underfunctioning thyroid on our hands. Most national organizations of endocrinologists have issued guidelines that if you have symptoms of low thyroid function, a TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) < 2.5 makes the diagnosis, yet most conventional physicians use…
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