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The Amazing Benefits of Butyrate For Thyroid Patients

The Amazing Benefits of Butyrate For Thyroid Patients

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Thyroid patients: what’s the single best thing you can do to improve your gut health right now? It’s not taking probiotics… it’s not taking supplements… and it’s not going on an all-meat diet… Although all of these things have the potential to help, there’s one thing that trumps them all:  It’s naturally increasing your production …

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5 reasons thyroid patients should take t2 thyroid hormone

5 Reasons Thyroid Patients Should Take T2 Thyroid Hormone

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T2 is the only thyroid hormone available over the counter, and most thyroid patients have never heard of it.  But taking it has the potential to dramatically improve your thyroid symptoms and help you lose weight. Here are 5 reasons why I strongly believe every thyroid patient should consider taking it: #1. Healthy People Create …

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how to build your own natural desiccated thyroid blend

How to Build Your Own Natural Desiccated Thyroid Blend

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There were a ton of thyroid patients who were hit in the proverbial face when Nature-throid and WP Thyroid were taken off the market.  And it looks like the hits keep coming with the recent targeting of NDT by the FDA. For many patients, NDT has been one of the most effective thyroid medications available (not …

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Weight Loss With Hypothyroidism You’re Doing it Wrong

Weight Loss With Hypothyroidism: You’re Doing it Wrong

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Does having hypothyroidism mean that you have to accept being overweight forever? Not at all.  The reality is that you can have a thyroid problem AND have a normal weight.  But getting to that point means that you’ll have to go against the grain and against standard advice.  This is because the standard recommendations of …

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The Best Hair Supplements All Contain This One Ingredient

The Best Hair Supplements All Contain This One Ingredient

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Do you want to know the secret ingredient that all of the most powerful hair supplements have in common? What’s crazy is that this ingredient is right under your nose and you probably never realized it.  The ingredient I’m talking about is silicon and it’s probably the most underappreciated hair regrowth ingredient out there.  But give …

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Do GLP-1 Agonists Cause thyroid cancer

Do GLP-1 Agonists Cause Thyroid Cancer (Wegovy, Saxenda, Victoza, Etc.)

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Do the most popular weight loss medications of our time like Wegovy and Saxenda cause thyroid cancer? There’s a very high probability that they do and this is particularly concerning for most of the people that will be reading my blog, because, spoiler alert, it’s pretty much all about thyroid-related problems.  Even though that’s the …

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