The promise of sugar alternatives is that you get to enjoy incredible sweetness without any of the unwanted side effects of excess sugar. In other words, you literally get to have your cake and eat it too. But is that really true? Sort of, and we will talk more about that later. But the starting …
The thyroid gland is a highly active tissue that requires a lot of nutrients to function at 100%. One of those is a mineral called magnesium and it just so happens that most thyroid patients are not getting enough of it. Why is it important? Because your thyroid uses it to: So if you are …
NDT is an acronym for a class of some of the most popular thyroid medications that exist. You’ve heard of these medications, even if you don’t know them by this name. This class includes medications like Armour Thyroid, NP Thyroid, and the newest, Adthyza. By the way, Nature-throid and WP Thyroid are also on this list, but they remain unavailable so we will just ignore them …
There are two things that thyroid patients pay way too much attention to: Their weight, as measured on a scale, and their intake of carbohydrates. I’ve already explained why measurements on the scale are horrendously misleading, which you can read more about here, so today I want to tackle the carbohydrate part. Both of these topics …
