If you’ve been following me for a while then you’ve probably noticed a lot of changes going on with my supplements. If so, maybe you’ve had some questions… We’ve received a lot of interesting questions and assumptions based on these changes including several asking if we are going out of business! Let me put your mind …
Using the right supplements every single day can do 2 very important things for your thyroid: The first is to keep your thyroid gland healthy so you can prevent future thyroid problems. And the second is to support your thyroid gland if it’s not working optimally. In other words, help it function like it would …
Is there ever a situation in which it makes sense to use levothyroxine to treat hyperthyroidism It may sound crazy, but the truth is that there might be. And, yes, just to clear things up, I’m talking about the use of levothyroxine in a patient who is hyperthyroid. I know that intuitively this doesn’t make any sense. …
Vitamin D is probably one of the most important vitamins that you aren’t giving enough attention to. A deficiency in vitamin D not only increases your risk of some unwanted symptoms like depression, muscle weakness, and fatigue… It also is associated with much more serious conditions like diabetes (1), obesity (2), and cancer (3). These are just the general health problems …
When polled, an astonishingly high number of thyroid patients rate the need for new thyroid therapies at 10 out of 10. This number never ceases to amaze me for one big reason: It’s not actually true, we don’t have any need for new thyroid medications or treatments. And in this article, I’m going to explain to you …
Million and millions of thyroid patients are taking levothyroxine to support their thyroid every single month. Unfortunately, many of them, may not be taking it correctly. Thyroid medication is one of those medications that looks for just about any reason to not get absorbed. And for you as a thyroid patient that is a big …
There’s a growing number of people who are doing anything that they can to try and improve their thyroid function. On some level, I don’t blame them one bit. But whenever you do any new treatment or therapy you have to make sure that you aren’t causing more harm than good. Thyroid gland massage is …
In a perfect world, you would be able to go to your thyroid doctor and they would willing to order all of the right thyroid lab tests and that would be the end of it. Your insurance would pay for the cost of the lab tests, your doctor would be able to interpret all of the results, and you’d …
Pretty much everyone loves bread so it can be a gut punch if you’ve been told that it’s something you should avoid if you have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. But is this actually true? Do you really have to avoid bread forever if you have Hashimoto’s? Maybe not… And it’s worth diving into this topic in more …
I can’t think of a more scary headline for a thyroid patient than to hear that the very thyroid medication they are taking may be associated with a heart attack. This is especially important when you consider that heart attacks tend to impact older generations and that up to 25% of people over the age of …
