Dr. Amie Hornaman on The Root Causes of Hashimoto's, Testosterone, & Hormone Replacement Therapy and more

The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Ari Whitten

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast guest is Dr. Amie Hornaman, most well-known as The Thyroid Fixer. She was a figure competitor and powerlifter who gained 25 pounds eating chicken, broccoli, and asparagus while hitting the gym twice a day. Biologically, it didn't make sense.

It took seven doctors before she got diagnosed with Hashimoto's, and the sixth one made her cry in her car, praying that something was wrong because, as she told me, "if something was wrong, we could fix it." The seventh doctor gave her Synthroid, and after five months, there was zero change. Not one pound lost, no energy gained, hair still falling out.

In this episode, she explains that nearly all diagnoses of hypothyroidism are Hashimoto's, the autoimmune form, where your body attacks your thyroid gland. The conventional standard of care is to check only TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone), even though TSH doesn't identify an autoimmune disease.

This episode is especially important if you've been struggling with thyroid symptoms and haven't been checked for thyroid autoimmunity.

(This episode was originally released in Dec 2022)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. With me today is Dr. Amy Horniman,
0:13.2	who is also known as the Thyroid Fixer. And she's the founder of the Institute for Thyroid and
0:19.9	Hormone Optimization, which is an
0:21.9	organization with transformational proven approaches to address thyroid dysfunction and
0:26.5	support people in returning to their full optimal health. We cover a lot of interesting novel
0:34.3	stuff in this podcast. I also ask her, her take on this sort of landscape of opinions
0:40.3	of different thyroid experts with different hypotheses and different approaches, different
0:45.3	paradigms of how to fix thyroid dysfunction and improve thyroid function. And I think you're going to get a lot of insights from this podcast, particularly if you are someone who has or maybe has early stages of hypothyroidism. And even if not, I think this is definitely worth listening to because you may eventually have it. And you'll get a lot of insights here on how to help prevent it as well.
1:13.1	Dr. Horneman is a wealth of knowledge and I think you're going to really enjoy this.
1:18.0	So with no further ado, here is the podcast. So welcome to the show, Dr. Horneman.
1:22.9	Such a pleasure to have you. Thanks, Ari. I'm happy to be here. Yeah. So first of all, tell me how you got
1:29.1	into teaching about and helping people with hypothyroidism. Is this personal for you? Or how did
1:36.5	you end up becoming the thyroid fixer? Yeah, like so many of us, right? Pain to Purpose story,
1:42.6	going through our own set of health circumstances.
1:45.5	If we rewind about 25 years ago, I used to compete in figure competitions, NPC, figure,
1:51.8	fitness. And I also did some powerlifting. It did some fitness modeling. Very active.
1:57.5	And I had done many, many shows. So it's for those listeners who don't know, you are on a strict diet.
2:05.3	You're doing chicken and broccoli and asparagus and you're tracking all your food and you're
2:09.3	hitting the gym twice a day because you want to present basically a lean, tight, muscular physique on stage and then you're being judged. Sounds crazy, right? I think we are
2:19.3	a little bit crazy who do that too. So I had done many of these before. I did not approach a show
2:28.7	prep lightly because I came from a family with obesity and I was a chubby kid when I was younger too.
2:36.8	So I would always kind of bite the bulge.
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