Caring for thyroid health, with Lucinda Miller
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show, Liz is joined by naturopath and functional medicine practitioner, Lucinda Miller of Nature Doc, for an in-depth discussion on thyroid health.
They discuss the symptoms of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, share vitamin, mineral and dietary changes you can try to support your thyroid health, and drill home the importance of gut health.
Lucinda also shares her personal story of an autoimmune condition called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of The Lizard Wellbeing Show, your weekly fix of great |
| 0:10.5 | chat with industry leading experts bringing you wellness wisdom you can trust. And today |
| 0:17.5 | I'm delighted to be joined. We think it's the fourth time actually by a very popular guest |
| 0:23.5 | and a great friend of mine, Lucinda Miller. We're going to be talking about a small gland |
| 0:29.5 | that plays a huge role in our health. The thyroid, which is shaped like a little butterfly |
| 0:36.5 | and it sits at the front of our neck and it regulates the hormones T3 and T4 |
| 0:41.8 | or triodothyronine and thyroxin which control our weight, our energy levels, our body temperature, |
| 0:48.8 | skin, hair, nail growth amongst other things. These hormones also help to regulate our heartbeat, |
| 0:54.9 | breathing and metabolism. Now, according to the British Thyroid Foundation, it's believed |
| 0:59.9 | that around one in 20 of us in the UK have a thyroid disorder and the figure may be even higher |
| 1:06.9 | as there could be a number of us who remain undiagnosed. Although anyone can be affected, |
| 1:12.5 | the disorders tend to affect mainly women and it seems that dysfunctional thyroid are on the |
| 1:19.2 | rise and Lucinda has personal experience of such with her own condition and of course, |
| 1:26.1 | she is a leading naturopath and functional medicine practitioner and the clinical lead at the |
| 1:31.8 | nature doc clinic. Lucinda Miller, welcome back. Liz, it's great to be back again. It's so lovely |
| 1:38.6 | to see you. Really is and do you know two things here. Firstly, the thyroid and hyperthyroidism |
| 1:47.1 | and all of that in thyroxin. These are common threads that I see time and time again on my social |
| 1:52.9 | media whenever I do an Instagram live, for example. And I'm talking about a supplement or some kind |
| 1:58.4 | of practice. Again and again, the questions come up from readers and listeners. I have a hyperthyroid. |
| 2:04.5 | I take thyroxin is the safe. Can I do this? Can I do that? It's clearly a big problem for many |
| 2:11.4 | and I hadn't realised that it was an issue for you until I received one of your newsletters |
| 2:16.8 | from the nature doc clinic when you talk very openly about your own experience. Tell us about that. |
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