Foods for a Healthy Thyroid: Hyperthyroid and Hypothyroidism | Dr. Neal Barnard Exam Room LIVE Q&A
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
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Summary
Millions of people suffer from thyroid dysfunction. Could their diet be the problem?
Dr. Neal Barnard explains the role food can play in rejuvenating the thyroid as he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
The pair discuss the causes and evidence-based solutions for hyperthyroid and hypothyroid issues, including specific foods and nutrients such as iodine that can regulate the health of the gland.
Dr. Barnard also shares why Ceylon cinnamon may be particularly helpful for thyroid health during The Power Foods Focus segment.
Topics
- Understanding hyperthyroid and hypothyroidism
- The importance of iodine
- Avoiding weight gain with hypothyroidism
- Eating healthy after thyroid removal
- Ceylon cinnamon is good for your thyroid
- How to determine if high cholesterol is due to genetics
- Is black salt healthy?
- Tips to limit sodium when you don't cook
Chuck also remembers his loving mother-in-law, Shelby, who lost a six-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. This episode is dedicated to her.
Dr. Barnard is the author of The Power Foods Diet: The Breakthrough Plan That Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss.
This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | It's challenging in two ways. |
| 0:05.0 | One is the symptoms are no fun. |
| 0:07.0 | You're gaining weight for really no reason. |
| 0:09.0 | Your energy is low. |
| 0:10.0 | It can trigger mood problems where your depression kicks in. It's sort of like you just are out of gas. |
| 0:16.4 | And the other problem that people have with this is sometimes it takes a long time to get diagnosed many times because the |
| 0:25.0 | symptoms are so vague that the person doesn't go see the doctor at all. |
| 0:29.5 | So we think well of course I'm depressed I've got work problems or I've got family issues. |
| 0:35.3 | Of course I don't feel right, I'm just getting older, and we kind of let it slide. |
| 0:39.5 | But doctors can diagnose this really quite easily with a couple of |
| 0:43.6 | simple laboratory tests very very simple. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:55.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs |
| 0:59.4 | coast to coast and around the world in great cities like Phoenix, Arizona, Newport News, Virginia, and |
| 1:05.6 | Guadalajara, Mexico. |
| 1:08.4 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:13.0 | This is episode 11 of season 7, number 510 overall. |
| 1:18.6 | And let's give some numbers to set the table today. One out of 20 people will have hypothyroidism |
| 1:26.8 | here in the US, while many others will struggle with hyperthyroidism. |
| 1:34.2 | And today we are on a quest for hope and for answers. |
| 1:38.4 | How much of this could be driven by diet |
| 1:40.9 | and what foods can help. |
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