Call It Fatigue, Medical Guesswork, and a Diagnosis No One Saw Coming

Call It What It Is

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

So many symptoms, so few answers. Until now.Camilla shares the diagnosis that changed her life forever with thyroid specialist Dr. Izabella Wentz.

Hear how easy it is to chock up symptoms to stress and our busy lives, when there could be something else going on in your body!

Find out what that was for Camilla and how she’s now thriving… not just surviving.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.0	Call it What It Is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Lettington, an IHeart Radio podcast.
0:28.4	Hello, hello, hello, call it crew, and welcome to another episode of Call It What it is.
0:33.4	I, Camilla Lettington, I'm flying solo for this episode today.
0:41.6	And before I tell you guys about our amazing special guests that I'm really excited that we have on today,
0:45.9	I want to talk a little bit about last week's episode.
0:52.6	So obviously, I revealed that I had Hashimoto's hypothyroidism.
0:58.3	And I have to say, you guys, the feedback from all of you has just been really incredible and has felt so supportive. And I've been reading so many
1:06.8	of your comments. And I'm overwhelmed, honestly, by how many of us in this call at community
1:14.2	also have thyroid diseases or you've had your thyroid removed and you're experiencing
1:23.4	very similar symptoms. And I asked you guys, for any questions you had to send them
1:31.2	our way and you guys absolutely followed through. One person I kept seeing come up online was Dr.
1:39.6	Isabella Wentz. Now she is a pharmacist and a functional medicine expert who became a leading voice in thyroid
1:48.8	health after her own diagnosis of Hashimoto's hypothyroiditis in 2009. So many of you
1:58.0	have read one of her books. It just kept coming up and it was called the Hashimoto's
2:03.6	protocol. And I'm very happy to welcome her onto the podcast. Dr. Wedd's welcome to call it what it is.
2:12.6	Thank you so much for having me, Camila. Such a pleasure to be here with you. Can you tell us a little bit about your
2:18.8	journey? Sure. So in full disclosure, I was never interested in the thyroid gland during my own
2:25.0	training. It wasn't until I was diagnosed myself with Hashimoto's in 2009 after about a decade of some
2:32.4	really confusing and debilitating symptoms is when I decided that I was going to figure out how to get myself better and then I was going to help others do the same.
2:42.5	So I became a Hashimoto's expert by ways of being a bit of a human guinea pig and being my own experiment.
2:50.3	I think it's amazing to have a doctor and talk to somebody that actually understands the
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