Jill was diagnosed with Hashimotos in 2008 which started her own journey in finding answer to a more natural treatment with auto-immunity.
She first went to the doctor with lower back pain and hair loss in search for solutions for her pain.
What is the role of the thyroid?
- Regulate body temperature
- Digestion
- Weight gain
- Cold
- Fatigue
- Brain Fog
- Constipation
What is Hashimotos?
- Auto immune disorder they body attacking the thyroid tissues
- Up to 97% of people with low thyroid disease have hashimotos disease
What do we get tested?
- Conventional medicine has “failed” for thyroid issues as they don’t test for what we need to find out.
- Thyroid Stimulating Hormone test is the most common but still doesn’t find out everything we need.
- Traditional Doctors may only test TSH test
- Get the thyroid panel: T3, T4, Reverse T3 and antibodies
- T3 active form of hormone – feel sharp, energetic and digestion system working
- T4 to be converted into T3 but most people don’t make the conversion due to digestive issues, stress and liver congestion
- Free T4 and free T3 (most important test)- active form of the hormone and tells us what is unbound and body is able to use.
- Reverse T3 is valuable to test. Interpretation varies lab to lab.
- Find a doctor that will do the full panel (www.nourishbalancethrive.comwill do thyroid panel)
What are so many people on Thyroid Medication and how to get off meds?:
- Some people may need to be on thyroid medication
- Hashimotos is an auto-immune system issue
- Slow and reduce the antibody attack on thyroid – tissue destruction.
- Immune system- get antibodies down then you can wean yourself off thyroid meds but must talk and work with your doctor!
- Nourishment and nutrients the body needs to heal then start to make more of your thyroid hormone
- Thyroid hormone replacement is mostly metabolized in the gut.
- 70-80% immune system in the gut
- Heal the gut to improve immune system and teach body how to make own thyroid hormone.
How can we heal the digestive system?
- Improve our immune/ digestive system- better absorb nutrition and start healing the gut
- We can get hair and bone loss on thyroid medication and low thyroid issues…double whammy!
- Stabilize the blood sugar- insulin levels.
- Improve the energy levels with the right macronutrient ratio to balance blood sugar levels
Adrenals, Thyroid and the Gut!
- Hypothyroid is related to Adrenal Function and blood sugar balance
- Cortisol has a 24 hour cycle and optimize the cycle- work for you and not against you
- All roads lead back to blood sugar and the adrenals…address the gut health and blood sugar
- Low thyroid function = fatigue = kick adrenals into gear to create more adrenaline and cortisol
- Adrenals –low function = fatigue = adrenaline and cortisol = hormones slow thyroid
- Lean on adrenals for coping mechanism hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) which are meant to be made in small amounts
- We are over generating the stress hormones because the way we live today
- Negative feedback loop
- More adrenal hormones –more made will slow down the thyroid function
- Most Americans needs adrenal support: sleep, energy and fatigue
- Not to stress about being stressed!
All systems connected!
- Product adrenal hormones- pancreas- insulin- blood sugar
- Balance your blood sugar levels (listen to our last podcast with Jill on “balancing blood sugar”)
- Support your adrenals (listen to one of our many podcasts on Adrenal with Dr. Kalish)
- Get off the blood sugar “bungee” cord everyday as it just produces more stress hormones
Heal your thyroid with nutrition!
- When possible heal your gut and thyroid with nutrition
- Thyroid health is mineral dependent than vitamin dependent
- Adaptagenic herb for adrenal function
- Gut/Digestive healing: glutamine to heal gut wall lining, bone broth or collagen gelatin supplement and a multi-strain probiotic (soil based organism) to repopulate gut with friendly bacteria
- Leaky gut- precursor to auto-immunity with levels of gut wall lining permeability
- Dietary changes, healing gut and reducing toxic environment
- Auto-immunity treatment is essential or the immune system can go attack another system!
Find Jill for coaching as well as her cookbook, books and many resources:
https://www.healthfulelements.com/users/jill-grunewald
https://www.healthfulelements.com/programs/hashimotos-autoimmunity
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