Welcome back to the Healthy Moms Podcast with Katie from WellnessMama.com.

Today we again join Katie as she talks with Dr. Isabella Wins, a pharmacist and autoimmune

thyroid expert who helps people determine their root cause of thyroid disease. In this episode,

they will delve into the diet and lifestyle interventions that can affect thyroid disease

and also help us know how to optimize these factors for better thyroid health. Isabella has offered

her comprehensive overcoming thyroid fatigue. It's a guide to help you discover your own root causes.

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forward slash podcast. Now let's join Katie as she and Dr. Isabella discuss ways to reverse

thyroid disease with diet and lifestyle interventions.

We've talked about obviously what thyroid disease is in the different forms it can take and

the symptoms and how to find a doctor to get diagnosed. This way I'd love to switch gears and

focus on the positive a little bit more and look at things that can potentially help.

And so one question I had from a reader is when is medication needed for thyroid disease and how

do you know? And then the follow up to that would be and what type is typically best to take for

the different forms of thyroid disease? All those are great questions and yeah and I love focusing

on solutions because there's so many different things that people can do to get themselves better.

So feeling better is possible and some people can even get their condition into remission. So

starting off with medications, medications can make a really really big difference in how a person

feels. Generally I would say if somebody is having any thyroid symptoms with Hashimoto's,

they've been diagnosed with Hashimoto's and they have any thyroid symptoms and if their

TSH is going to be elevated that would be a good indication to start on medications. If

their TSH is still within normal limits but they have Hashimoto's, that's kind of a controversial

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