I spend thousands of dollars each year to keep my thyroid functioning at 100%. Why? Because it’s the most important hormone in the body, bar none (and it’s also my job!). But here’s the bottom line: There are a few simple purchases that you can make that will help keep your thyroid healthy, so maintaining …
If you have a thyroid problem then there’s also a good chance that you are taking other prescription medications. How do I know? Because a thyroid issue puts you at high risk for problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, and more. But did you know that these prescription medications used to treat these …
Let me guess: You just got back from a visit to your doctor after being told that your thyroid is completely “normal”. But now you are trying to square how you can feel so poorly and have all of the symptoms of low thyroid but still have a “normal” thyroid? Did I get close? If …
It might be tempting to think that you can take a thyroid support complex and call it day. Surely this will help improve your thyroid and give your body everything it needs, right? Not exactly… While supplementing for your thyroid is incredibly helpful, it’s only helpful if it’s done correctly. And not all thyroid support …
Every single day patients with Hashimoto’s reach out to me asking about natural therapies. These questions all have one thing in common: They want to know if there is some alternative to thyroid medication or if it’s possible to completely avoid using it. My answer is always something like this: I’ve personally seen many patients …
Big pharma makes billions selling weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy because they know thyroid patients are so desperate to lose weight. You probably already know that part. But what you may not know is this: There are natural plant-based compounds that activate the same fat-burning enzymes as these medications, without the nasty side …
Look, I’ll be the first to tell you that life as a thyroid patient is not an easy thing. From dealing with doctors and other people who downplay your symptoms to feeling like it’s pulling teeth to get the tests that you need, life as a thyroid patient is not a walk in the park. …
Hashimoto’s is the number 1 cause of hypothyroidism in the US and developed countries. And while that statistic is interesting, there’s something much more interesting about Hashimoto’s… The fact that many people who have Hashimoto’s have no idea that they do. And it’s not because Hashimoto’s is a hard condition to diagnose. Quite the opposite …
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a therapy that you could use that required very little effort on your part and had a profound effect on your thyroid gland? I’ve always told you to be critical of such claims because they are almost always not true. But laser therapy may be the closest thing …
As a thyroid patient, you need to be aware of a very important fact: Thyroid medication will NEVER be as good as your thyroid gland at managing and controlling your thyroid levels. But, just because thyroid medication can’t make up for the real thing doesn’t mean you have to feel poorly. Quite the opposite, actually. …
