My grandmother and my mother were both put on thyroid medication. I'm not sure it helped them one iota because it really wasn't supporting the thyroid gland itself. It was just kind of substituting.

And again, I always come back to Vitamin A, my favorite vitamin, but you can't make thyroid hormones without vitamin A. You absolutely just cannot make them.

So you need vitamin A in your diet, that means liver and butter and cream, egg yolks, all those wonderful foods. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for

Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and The Healing Arts.

We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.

I'm your host Hilda Librato Gore. This is episode 124 and it is a bonus episode.

I love doing these because we break all the rules so to speak.

I get to do the announcer's job and we get right into the content without too much delay.

This bonus episode is all about hormone health based on articles in our latest

Wise Traditions Journal. This is critical information because our hormones are

in axis. The hypotheramus, pituitary, and adrenal glands, they function like traffic

controllers of our body functions. We need them to be alert and not sleeping on the job so that

our body does what it's supposed to and good nutrition is what gives them the

fuel to do just that. That's just a small snapshot of what Sally Fallon-Marel

the head of the foundation is going to cover in today's bonus episode.

You're going to get so much out of it.

And I just want to pause for a moment to remind you

that this is March Membership Madness for the foundation.

You can join for only $30.

That's for the whole year. And that's $10 off the regular membership

fee. When you join, you get four quarterly journals, so kind of what we're going to talk about

today, but in depth you'll get all the info the shopping guide which

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