This past January, I had a list of goals to focus on, and one big one (thankfully) was focused on immune support for my family. (In previous newsletters, I shared that we are currently taking reishi, S. boulardii and astragalus, to support secretory IgA, our own first line of defense in our respiratory and digestive tracts. We are also drinking bone broth …
Recovery
Are Your Adrenals Sabotaging Your Health?
Those of us with Hashimoto’s often blame our thyroid for the many signs and symptoms we experience. Hair loss? Thyroid! Weight gain? THYROID! Fatigue? It’s gotta be the thyroid! Treating hypothyroidism without treating the adrenals is one of the biggest reasons people continue to feel exhausted despite receiving treatment with thyroid hormones. Patients …
8 Benefits of the Infrared Sauna That Can Reduce Symptoms of Hashimoto’s and Hypothyroidism
There are common underlying root causes in Hashimoto’s, including nutrient deficiencies, food sensitivities, an impaired ability to handle stress, intestinal permeability, chronic infections, and an impaired ability to handle toxins. In many cases, a person will have more than just one root cause, and addressing all of these elements can help us feel better. …
NAC for Thyroid Antibody Reduction, Detoxification and Gut Health
A few years ago, I was asked: “If the supplement police came to your house and said you had to give up all but one of your supplements, which supplement would you keep, and why?” My answer: N-Acetyl Cysteine, (also known as NAC for short), because it has numerous benefits on multiple body systems! NAC helps to reduce thyroid antibodies. It also …
Periodontitis, A Trigger For Hashimoto’s?
In the world of functional medicine, we often hear that all disease starts in the gut. (This assertion is attributed to Hippocrates, the Greek founder of medicine himself, who lived over 2000 years ago.) When looking for root causes of Hashimoto’s, we often uncover imbalances in the gut, whether it be Candida, SIBO, leaky gut, or other conditions. A few …
Where Do I Start With Hashimoto’s?
Receiving a Hashimoto’s diagnosis can be overwhelming. Getting on the right medication might be your first step, but where do you go from there? What diet is right for you? Should you do a liver cleanse? Balance your adrenals? It took me three years to figure out the lifestyle interventions for Hashimoto’s that brought me into remission — and to this …
Autoimmune Paleo Diet
There are numerous dietary protocols that can help a person with Hashimoto’s feel better. In some cases, a dietary approach can produce a complete remission of the condition! For me, as a clinician, the goal of the approach is to help your body reset, nourish itself, and reduce inflammation caused by reactive foods — as well as to help you reconnect to an …
Low Dose Naltrexone and Hashimoto’s
Have you heard of Low Dose Naltrexone, or LDN? Since the beginning of my Hashimoto's journey, this medication has been on my radar, and in recent years, I have learned so much more about it. In 2015, I conducted a survey of over 2000 readers with Hashimoto’s, asking for the most helpful interventions in their health journeys. One reader wrote: “Low …
Turmeric for Your Thyroid and Hashimoto’s
I love the concept of using food as medicine, or as I like to call it, food pharmacology, to heal the body. I became a pharmacist because I was interested in the effect that different substances have on human physiology. Medications are an obvious example of how tiny substances can produce a tremendous change in the human body, but what’s even more …
11 Strategies to Overcome Hashimoto’s Fatigue
Fatigue was the most debilitating symptom I experienced with Hashimoto’s. It started eight years before I was finally diagnosed in 2009, after I contracted mono (the Epstein-Barr virus) in college. I needed to sleep for 12 hours each night to be able to function, and by “function” I mean after hitting the snooze button on my alarm clock for two hours (ask my …
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