334: Is Your Thyroid Hurting or Helping You with Dr. Izabella Wentz

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, you will learn:

Peak times that thyroid issues may occur
How to treat different types of thyroid issues
What is Hashimoto's and why might you be suffering in silence from it?
Why 90-97% of women are not correctly diagnosed
Best approach to diagnose and treat thyroid issues in midlife

Dr. Wentz is trained in functional medicine through The Institute for Functional Medicine, Kalish Functional Medicine, and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, and holds certifications in Medication Therapy Management as well as Advanced Diabetes Care through the American Pharmacists Association. In 2013, she received the Excellence in Innovation Award from the Illinois Pharmacists Association.

After being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in 2009, Dr. Wentz was surprised at the lack of knowledge about lifestyle interventions for Hashimoto’s, hypothyroidism, and autoimmune conditions. She decided to take on the development of lifestyle interventions as her personal mission in an effort to help heal herself and others with Hashimoto’s.

After two years of researching Hashimoto’s and Hypothyroidism, she decided to combine emerging knowledge with her quality improvement expertise to run rapid tests of change on herself that led her to discover the root cause of her condition. She has summarized three years of research and two years of testing in her book: Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause.

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0:00.0	another interesting thing is that not a lot of people realize, but one of the peak times that women
0:05.0	may have new onset thyroid issues is going to be during perimenopause, right? Yeah. And so you're
0:09.9	blaming menopause for that when it's actually your thyroid. Hi, I'm Natalie Jill and I help women
0:17.3	in their 40s, 50s and beyond redefine, rebrand, and laugh with aging.
0:21.7	Welcome to midlife conversations.
0:24.2	On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated information that is relevant in this
0:29.9	point of our lives now and break it down simply with actionable steps you can implement
0:34.9	to level up your life.
0:36.7	I also regularly interview some of the
0:39.0	most inspiring people living their best midlife years now. On this show, I cover topics about
0:44.5	our shifting hormones, weight struggles, our mood and focus changes, raising teenagers, our
0:50.0	relationships, career changes, beauty, and more. If you are new here, I encourage you go back
0:55.0	and listen from episode one when this podcast was previously called Listen Up for the full
1:00.0	transformative experience. Today on Midlife Conversations, I've got my friend Isabella Wentz.
1:07.9	Now, she's a pharmacist by trade, but she's a best-selling author. And I specifically
1:12.0	wanted to have her on today to talk about thyroid. This is her expertise, thyroid and adrenal.
1:18.3	She's got a very real story around this. And I know us, me included, you listening, thyroid is a big
1:25.3	topic, especially in midlife. And I have a lot of my own personal
1:28.4	questions. I myself have low thyroid. So I've got questions for you about that. People listening, we hear hypo, hyper. I don't, I want to get to the bottom of what the difference on all of that is, how we can treat things. When do we need medications? When do we can we treat things naturally? What can we do naturally? So thank you so much for
1:44.8	being here today. Hey, Natalie, it's so good to be here with you. Thanks for having me. So let's start,
1:50.7	let's back up. How did thyroid become such an interesting topic to you? When did this become of
1:55.0	interest to you? So full disclosure, I was never interested in thyroid health during pharmacy school.
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