What you eat matters, especially when you have a thyroid problem. The right nutrients can support thyroid function, reduce inflammation, and help your body convert thyroid hormones more efficiently. The wrong ones can make things worse. These articles cover vitamins, minerals, gut health, recipes, and diet strategies designed specifically for thyroid patients.
I’ve spent a lot of time debunking the idea that iodine is somehow harmful to thyroid patients. One of the ways that I do this is by explaining how important iodine is for the body, how it’s required for thyroid hormone production, why your body can’t live without thyroid hormone, and so on. This argument …
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 …
Looking for some AIP-friendly dinners to help put your Hashimoto’s at ease? I have you covered… If this is the first time you have heard about AIP, let me fill you in: AIP stands for the autoimmune protocol and it’s a popular diet used to help treat Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. It’s a restrictive diet that removes …
Tons of people, probably including you listening to this right now, are not getting enough magnesium. And this is a big deal because magnesium is used by the body for over 300 different enzymatic reactions [1]. Not having enough magnesium leads to symptoms like fatigue, nausea, stress and anxiety, insomnia, muscle spasms, thyroid problems, headaches, and many …
Many hypothyroid patients believe that diet has little to do with how they feel, but they couldn’t be more wrong. By eating the right, real, whole foods, you can help improve thyroid function, reduce inflammation in your body, and better manage your hypothyroid symptoms. And the best part? These benefits stack on top of your …
There are a few foods that you should be eating daily if you want better thyroid function. Ginger is one of those foods. Here’s why you should eat it every day: #1. It Can Reduce Your Thyroid Symptoms Do you have normal thyroid lab tests with continued low thyroid symptoms? Ginger is here to help. …
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 …
Your liver is one of the few organs in your body that has the ability to regenerate or grow back. Most of the time, when tissue in your body dies, it’s dead forever. Even the Greeks knew about the liver’s ability to regenerate which is why they have the story of Prometheus [1] who was punished for …
Up to 1 billion people around the world don’t get enough vitamin D and there’s a very good chance that you are one of them. Even though we call vitamin D a vitamin, it’s probably better to think about it as a hormone or a prohormone instead[8]. This is because vitamin D has a structure that’s …
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 …
