232: How To Protect & Heal Your Thyroid
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
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🗓️ 17 September 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Here's the deal guys: your thyroid is about way more than your weight or your metabolism.
Whether you have a thyroid issue or you don't, we all must ensure we're doing all we can to protect & heal this critical endocrine gland.
Every single cell in your body has receptors for thyroid hormones.
Your overall health, metabolism and body composition all depend on the health of your thyroid.
Even if you don't have a thyroid gland and you're on synthetic thyroid hormones, you absolutely can & will from many of these strategies.
In today's episode I share my recent thyroid issues and what I'm doing about them along with what your thyroid is, what it does and some of the things you can do to protect and heal your thyroid.
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How to Protect & Heal Your Thyroid
What is your thyroid?
Your thyroid is a small gland in your throat. It's an endocrine gland, secreting hormones your body needs for nearly every bodily function.
What does it do?
Your thyroid controls the metabolic rate of every organ in the body. Remember that your metabolic rate isn't just about body weight. It's about energy & fuel. Metabolic rate refers to the ability & efficiency of your body to get the energy & nutrients it needs from fuel you consume or fuel stored in your body as well as the ability & efficiency of your body to store fuel in the form of fat, muscle and bone.
Your thyroid regulates & influences countless bodily processes including breathing, heart rate, menstruation, muscle development, fat burning, sleep, body temperature, cholesterol production and more.
What can you do to protect and heal your thyroid?
In today's episode, part 1, we talk about the importance of blood sugar balance, gut health and bacterial balance. We'll go into many more strategies in part 2. For now:
- Control your blood sugar by limiting processed foods & following the Golden Rules of Carbs & Fat Loss
- Minimize stress
- Support your microbiome
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Resources
Chris Kresser's Free Thyroid Report
Metabolic Effect Adrenal & Thyroid Protocol
The Paleo Cure by Chris Kresser
The Hormone Cure by Sara Gottfried
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:06.7 | Through education, motivation and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.8 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.9 | Good morning everybody. |
| 0:25.9 | I always want to say good morning because I'm recording in the morning but I know you |
| 0:31.4 | aren't always listening in the morning so good morning, good afternoon, good evening. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:38.8 | Thanks so much for hanging out with me. |
| 0:40.5 | I am Elizabeth Benton and I've been working on this particular episode for a while. |
| 0:47.1 | That's not usually the case. |
| 0:48.9 | I usually crank them out pretty quickly but today we're going to be talking about thyroid |
| 0:54.3 | health. |
| 0:55.4 | I get a lot of questions about this from people who think they might have a thyroid issue |
| 0:59.2 | or people who have a known thyroid issue or fear that they might get one and it's a really |
| 1:06.8 | common challenge that can be very, very frustrating and this is a critical issue for all of us. |
| 1:15.0 | Whether we have a thyroid issue or not because if you do, we want to make it better and if |
| 1:21.2 | you don't, we want to make sure you keep it that way. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm speaking here and probably the reason it took me a while to put this together. |
| 1:29.4 | I'm speaking here from recent and deep personal experience. |
| 1:34.7 | This episode kind of came together as a result of my own personal research for my own life |
| 1:41.3 | because I was very recently, just a couple of weeks ago now, diagnosed with some thyroid |
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