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ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness

074: The Basics of Thyroid Health...What You Need to Know - Dr. Wiggy Saunder

ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness

Ella Lucas-Averett

Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

5704 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

THYROID HEALTH 101
  • What is the thyroid?
  • How do you know if you might have thyroid problems?
  • Auto-immune conditions, such as Hashimoto’s
  • How do you test for it?
  • How do we fix it?
  • How we can start taking care of our thyroid before there is a problem?

Symptoms of Hypothyroidism:
  • Depression and exhaustion
  • Cold feet/hands – tingling in hands/arms
  • Dry and/or pale skin, coarse, thinning hair & brittle nails
  • Puffy eyes
  • Memory loss and poor concentration

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, we are supposed to live full, healthy lives, you know, for as long as we can,

0:04.2

we don't have to just feel sicker and sicker and more tired and tired as we go along.

0:09.7

Welcome. You're on air with Ella, where we share simple strategies and truths from people who are doing

0:15.5

something better than we are, whether it's wellness or fitness and fat loss to just living better and with more

0:21.8

energy or changing your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and succeeding however you

0:27.6

define it. This is where we share the best of what we're learning from the experts and we're

0:32.0

learning more every day. Live better. start now.

0:46.9

Hey everyone, you're on air with Ella and I have brought back one of the guests that you absolutely loved.

0:48.7

Dr. Wiggy is back today.

0:52.1

Dr. Wiggy, you're becoming like the resident MD for On Air with Ella.

0:53.0

How do you feel about that?

0:54.0

I love it. Glad to be

0:54.8

part of it. I'm not even kidding because I have so many questions for you and it's hard to find

0:59.9

an MD, a traditionally trained MD who actually has stepped into the integrative medicine world,

1:05.5

functional medicine world, and really you bring both perspectives and such a robust perspective.

1:12.3

Would you remind everybody,

1:19.6

Dr. Wiggy, who you are? I'd be happy to. So yes, hello everybody, Dr. Wiggy here. So I am a MD, which Ella was saying that this is a little bit of a strange breed to be an MD, but also understand

1:25.9

the integrative and the natural side of medicine.

1:29.6

So the way I kind of look at myself, I'm kind of the bridge between the alternative,

1:35.2

kind of natural medicine community and the traditional medical community.

1:38.4

And I kind of bring all those things together, the best of both worlds and practice what I call

1:44.1

integrative or functional

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