119: Dr. Amy Myers - The Thyroid Connection • The Impact of Goitrogens • Hyper vs Hypothyroidism
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Amy Myers is a renowned leader in functional medicine and a New York Times bestselling author of The Autoimmune Solution. She received her Doctorate in Medicine from LSU Health Sciences Center and spent 5 years working in emergency medicine before training with the Institute of Functional Medicine. Amy has helped thousands around the world recover from chronic illness through her dietary-based program, The Myers Way®.
Today's interview is focused on the thyroid, the topic of her new book, The Thyroid Connection.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Before Amy was a thyroid doc, she was a thyroid patient
- Your thyroid regulates every cell in your body
- Hypothyroidism vs. hyperthyroidism
- The lab work Amy recommends for anyone suspecting they may have thyroid dysfunction
- If your conventional doctor says your thyroid is ok... they may be wrong
- What is functional medicine?
- The impact of stress on your thyroid gland
- Ways to combat psychological stress
- How infections can negatively impact your thyroid
- There isn't a great way to test your iodine level
- Two ways gluten can cause thyroid dysfunction
- The diet that supports a healthy thyroid gland
- Most people are vitamin D deficient
- The impact of goitrogens on your thyroid
- Amy's healthy morning routine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 119. |
| 0:03.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Water. Hello and |
| 0:12.8 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:18.1 | Today our featured guest is Dr Amy Myers, a renowned leader in functional medicine, and a New York Times best-selling |
| 0:24.4 | author of the book, The Auto-immune Solution. |
| 0:27.8 | She received her doctorate in medicine from LSU Health Sciences Center and spent five years working in emergency medicine |
| 0:34.0 | before training with the Institute of Functional Medicine. |
| 0:37.3 | Amy's helped thousands from around the world recover from chronic illness |
| 0:40.4 | through her diet-based program the Meyers Way. |
| 0:43.0 | Today our interview is going to focus on the thyroid, the topic of her new book, The Thyroid Connection. |
| 0:48.0 | This book comes out on September 27th. |
| 0:50.0 | You can pre-order your copy right now. |
| 0:52.8 | It's a fantastic read. |
| 0:54.9 | So before we get into the details of the show |
| 0:56.8 | with Dr. Amy Myers, I'm going to give a shout |
| 0:59.2 | out to our new show sponsor, Cora Chair. |
| 1:02.2 | So Jesse and I are really excited to bring an amazing |
| 1:04.9 | company on the Core Chair and what this is is a chair that moves with you. So as |
| 1:11.7 | you probably have heard in previous podcast sitting is the new smoking if we are |
| 1:15.7 | sedentary and not moving our body during the day we are causing long-term |
| 1:19.9 | damage to our body and our health and our back, low back pain, upper back pain and loss of |
| 1:26.8 | productivity. So when you have a chair that allows you to move and it's a really |
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