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treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information

without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hi, everyone. Today I spoke with

Sarah Thompson, who is a board certified acupuncturist and herbalist, and also a certified functional

medicine practitioner and a doula.

And we went to the topic of maternity, pregnancy, and how to have a healthy baby.

I learned a lot in this episode. She corrected me early on in the podcast that there was a

difference between a midwife and a doula, which I wasn't really clear on the delineation

between the two. And I have to say,

I was very much so impressed with her depth of knowledge, but also her practicality. There's a

very important clarification she makes on thyroid levels during pregnancy and how the most of the day consensus guidelines are finding that

a TSA of 2.5 or above can be considered subclinical hypothyroid and require and benefit from

treatment, which was incredibly insightful to know, and that this is not often caught by

obstetricians, and this is something that you really want to

refer to your endocrinologist for. We also discussed Hashimoto's in pregnancy, the importance of

healthy progesterone levels, and some easy nutritional factors that you can use to intervene upstream to make

sure that progesterone stays healthy throughout pregnancy. A very important discussion on iodine

and its impact during pregnancy. Gut health, exercise, stress, toxins, and COVID were other topics that we discussed.

Again, this was a great conversation. I very much so appreciated the fact that she was

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