Dr. Westin Childs 
Eating the right foods can reduce inflammation and support your thyroid. Eating the wrong foods can send your immune system into overdrive and make your Hashimoto’s worse. Your goal as someone who has this condition is to eat more of the foods that help you and less of the foods that don’t. These Hashimoto’s superfoods …
Reverse T3 is an anti-thyroid metabolite. The more of it you have in your system, the worse your thyroid functions. This is standard thyroid physiology 101, but here’s the problem: First: Doctors aren’t in the habit of ordering this test, so it’s very unlikely you’ll never know it’s a problem unless you know to look …
Thyroid patients think I’m being facetious when I say if you aren’t careful, your thyroid will steal your beauty. I’m not. And the thyroid’s effect on collagen is a perfect example of why that is. Thyroid hormones are known stimulators of collagen (1) which means, if you don’t have enough thyroid hormone, your collagen will …
Optimizing your T3 is probably the single most important thing you can do as a thyroid patient. And when it comes to increasing your T3 status, you have two options: #1. T3 support supplements. #2. T3 medications. Choosing the right option may feel difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. Because the reality is that …
Do we actually have a depression epidemic? Or do we have an untreated thyroid epidemic? After treating hundreds of depressed hypothyroid patients I tend to think it’s the latter. You see… I’ve found that treating depressed hypothyroid patients with the RIGHT kind of medication at the RIGHT dose almost completely eliminates (or at least significantly …
[Your guide to implementing the right diet to change your biochemistry and bust belly fat] This post is a follow-up post to the blog post “How to lose weight: the interplay of hormones and obesity”, if you need to read that post you can here… Diet is THE most critical component of a healthy lifestyle. …
Taking the right amount of selenium can protect your thyroid gland and help reduce your antibodies (1). Taking the wrong amount can make your thyroid symptoms worse and may even increase your risk of diabetes. Want to make sure this doesn’t happen? Here’s how much you need to take: Patients with Hashimoto’s should aim to …
Levothyroxine is, by far, the most commonly prescribed medication used to treat hypothyroidism and many thyroid patients have no idea the problems that it can cause. This is probably part of the reason that thyroid patients score it a 5.1 out of 10 on average (1) and why so many thyroid patients prefer other thyroid …
If you look at the trend of hypothyroidism over time, you will find that it’s a disease that is increasing. And women, especially, are more prone to developing it compared to men. But how do you know if you have thyroid disease? Do you have to get you have to go see a doctor? Not …
Do you feel like it’s impossible to lose weight with hypothyroidism? It actually isn’t impossible and I will explain how later, but first I need to share a story with you. I had a patient who came to see me in the office recently. She was 43, on levothyroxine (for years), about 60 pounds overweight, …
