153: Is Your Thyroid Broken?

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Environmental toxins, genetically modified food, chronic stress, and the rise in autoimmune conditions have all contributed to an explosion of thyroid problems. Dr. Will Cole joins Lucas on this week’s Yoga Talk Show to explore thyroid health, how you can get tested, treatment options, and the importance of your microbiome.

Dr. William Cole D.C, graduated from Southern California University of Health Sciences in Los Angeles, California. He has his post doctorate education and training in Functional Medicine and Clinical Nutrition. Dr. Cole consults in the Pittsburgh area and phone or webcam consultations for people around the world. He specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors and customizing health programs for chronic conditions such as thyroid issues, autoimmune, hormonal dysfunctions, digestive disorders, diabetes, heart disease and fibromyalgia.

Dr. Cole has been featured numerous times on Pittsburgh news affiliates WTAE-TV, KDKA-TV and WPGH-FOX. He is a health writer for international publications and lectures nationally.

In this Show, You'll learn:

Why there is a rise in thyroid problems
Warning signs to look out for, and how to get yourself tested
To what extent it is possible to improve thyroid function with natural medicine
What you can start doing right away to start nursing your body back to health

Links & References from the Show:

www.drwillcole.com

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Write to us: podcast@yogabody.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Nobody is sick from a medication deficiency.
0:02.8	Nobody is sick from a lack of pharmaceuticals in their body.
0:05.1	There's a reason why people are going through these issues and they may need medications
0:08.5	to help the symptoms, to manage their life, all of these things.
0:12.2	But the reality is we have to ask a question
0:14.0	why do I have this problem in the first place?
0:16.0	Hi it's Lucas here and welcome to the show.
0:22.0	We have a great show today where we're
0:24.0	going to be talking about thyroid health specifically 150 episodes into the
0:28.6	yoga talk show we're changing the format a little bit I hope it helps helps. I hope you find it more engaging, more educational. The whole reason I started this show years ago was to talk to interesting people, research interesting topics and share them with listeners, like you so I hope that's been
0:43.6	achieved I know it's kind of an oxymoron yoga talk show talking about yoga is a
0:49.2	little bit ridiculous since mostly it's all about practice but I've found that taking some time to study and learn
0:54.8	about holistic health nutrition wellness flexibility all of that brings so much to your
1:00.1	yoga practice that you get so many more benefits.
1:03.0	Hopefully that's my intent in any case.
1:05.0	I would also like to give thanks to our sponsor today,
1:08.0	which is Absolute Yoga Academy.
1:10.0	It's my teacher training school, which I founded in 2006 in Thailand, and we now have over 2,000 graduates all over the world.
1:17.0	There's lots of different teacher training programs out there in the world, lots of really great programs.
1:20.8	What we do very well that's different than a lot of courses is we focus on
1:25.0	creating career professionals. So our graduates are extremely successful
1:29.7	teaching for a living, which is not necessarily everyone's goal, but if that is your goal, we're very good at that.
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