233: How To Protect & Heal Your Thyroid
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Elizabeth Benton
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🗓️ 20 September 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Did you listen to part 1 of how to protect & heal your thyroid? If you're wondering how to improve thyroid health, this series is right for you! Make sure you start with part 1!
You absolutely can improve thyroid health. You can protect your thyroid and prevent future problems.
You can & you should!
Your thyroid is about way more than your weight or your metabolism.
Every single cell in your body has receptors for thyroid hormones and your thyroid plays a role in just about every aspect of health.
Your overall health, metabolism and body composition all depend on the health of your thyroid.
In part 1, we covered what the thyroid is & what it does. I shared my recent thyroid diagnosis and the symptoms which preceded it.
In researching how to improve thyroid health & function, I've shared several diet & lifestyle strategies that will make a big difference!
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How to Protect & Heal Your Thyroid - Part 2
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?
- Control your blood sugar by limiting processed foods & following the Golden Rules of Carbs & Fat Loss
- Minimize stress
- Support your microbiome
- Get enough vitamin D via food, sunlight and/or supplementation
- Cut out gluten and gluten-like components (corn, oats, etc)
- Identify & eliminate food allergens (even mild ones!)
Common food allergens include dairy, eggs, wheat, grains, nuts & seeds
The food allergen test I am taking can be purchased here - Consume enough (but not too much) iodine
- Eat selenium rich foods like brazil nuts, turkey, chicken
- Eliminate trans fats and limit unsaturated fats
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Resources
Chris Kresser's Free Thyroid Report
Metabolic Effect Adrenal & Thyroid Protocol
Gluten reactions can last up to 6 months (research)
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. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.7 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:28.5 | I am Elizabeth Benton and you are tuning in for part two of our How to Protect and Heal Your Thyroid Series. |
| 0:39.4 | So if you did not listen to the last episode which was part one, I encourage you to please go back and do so |
| 0:47.8 | because today's episode will feel a little bit incomplete if you have not listened to part one. |
| 0:55.8 | In part one, I talk about how this idea of protecting and healing your thyroid is actually very |
| 1:03.4 | important for everybody. Even if you do not have a known thyroid issue, even if you do not have a |
| 1:11.0 | thyroid, even if you've had your thyroid surgically removed, this is very important because |
| 1:18.0 | the thyroid impacts every aspect of our health. This is not just a fat loss thing, this is not |
| 1:24.3 | just a metabolism thing and if you're thinking, well, if I don't even have my thyroid, it doesn't |
| 1:28.5 | mean that your body will not respond to supporting these accessory organs, it absolutely will. So this |
| 1:37.6 | is very important for everybody. And I also shared in part one that I was recently diagnosed with some |
| 1:44.9 | thyroid challenges that I'm working to resolve right now. This is where this episode came from, |
| 1:50.0 | from my own research, diving in to find answers for myself and to share with you guys what I will |
| 1:57.2 | be doing differently so that I can be as healthy as humanly possible for me. So please, if you haven't |
| 2:05.4 | already, go back and listen to part one. We talk about what the thyroid is, what it does. We |
| 2:13.5 | talked about my recent diagnosis. We talked about the first couple of strategies that you can employ |
| 2:20.7 | to protect or heal your thyroid, the importance of controlling your blood sugar and following what I |
| 2:26.2 | call the golden rules of carbs and fat loss, which I go through in episode 195 of the podcast. We |
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