Erin Holt’s 6-Month Thyroid & Hormone Protocol Update: What Worked and What Didn’t | Ep 377
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.9 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Is it really perimenopause, or just stress, habits, and thyroid shifts at play? In this episode, Erin is debriefing her 6-month thyroid and hormone protocol experiment.
After noticing changes in mood, cycle irregularities, fatigue, and PMS, she decided to run a full panel of labs, including thyroid markers, sex hormones, a DUTCH test, and a GI-MAP stool test.
Erin breaks down exactly what her labs revealed, the protocols she implemented, and the results she’s experienced that have shifted her energy, mood, and cycles.
Her biggest takeaway? Protocols aren’t one-size-fits-all. With the right testing, lifestyle shifts, and targeted support, you can move from feeling “off” to feeling like yourself again.
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In this episode:
- Why a “normal” TSH doesn’t always mean your thyroid is working optimally, plus the key marker Erin found functionally low
- Erin’s favorite supplements to support thyroid conversion, adrenal resilience, and hormone balance
- Why lifestyle habits, stress, and resiliency matter just as much as labs when addressing hormone health
- The surprising supplement Erin stopped and what she replaced it with that made a “night and day” difference
- Why so many people assume “hormone protocol” automatically means HRT – that’s not always the case!
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Episode 357: Before You Jump to HRT - What Your Perimenopause Symptoms Might Really Mean
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| 0:00.0 | So much of your hormone health is based on your daily habits. How you're living your life. |
| 0:09.6 | Your hormonal picture, including thyroid, will tell that story, the story of how you're living |
| 0:15.4 | your life. And so sometimes I wonder, like, is this really a thyroid issue or is this a habit issue? Is it perimenopause? |
| 0:24.8 | Or have you been ignoring your needs for 40 years? We're so quick to pathologize and we're so |
| 0:31.6 | slow to acknowledge our habits, our behaviors, our patterns and how all of those things impact our physiology. |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, because we do things a little |
| 0:44.7 | differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience |
| 0:49.3 | as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call intuitive |
| 0:54.1 | functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence nutritional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call intuitive functional |
| 0:54.6 | medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. |
| 0:59.9 | This is where science meets self-trust. Your body already knows how to heal, and this show is |
| 1:05.5 | going to show you how. If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to |
| 1:09.7 | follow and share with a friend because you never know whose life you might change. |
| 1:15.3 | Hello, my friends. Today I'm here to tell you all about my thyroid and hormone protocol update or my perimenopause update. I'm using air quotes. You can't see me, but just trust me. I'm using air quotes |
| 1:28.7 | around the perimenopause word. So back in April, I talked about perimenopause and how I was |
| 1:34.6 | experiencing some symptoms that made me question, is it perimenopause? Or am I just like nocebo affecting |
| 1:43.5 | myself? Because it's all I'm hearing about on my algorithm |
| 1:47.3 | on social media. I am being hit in the head with perimenopause content day after day after |
| 1:52.8 | day. So that was episode 357. I talked about perimenopause. You can go back to that episode to |
| 1:59.9 | learn a lot more. I also did another show on perimenopause, you can go back to that episode to learn a lot more. I also did |
| 2:02.3 | another show on perimenopause a few weeks later, episode 368. I spoke with Dr. Dana Minnick, |
| 2:08.9 | and we talked all about perimenopause. So if you want to learn more about perimenopause, |
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