Is your thyroid to blame for weight gain? ā with Dr Amie Hornaman
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
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šļø 30 August 2024
ā±ļø 50 minutes
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Summary
You will have heard of menopause, but what about thyroid-pause? Dr Amie Hornaman, who is known as the thyroid fixer, joins Liz to help midlife women with thyroid issues get their lives back.
Amie shares her own experience of thyroid problems, and walks us through common indicators that you may have an underactive or overactive thyroid, such as weight struggles, hair changes or brain fog.
And Amie also reveals why thyroid issues are far more common in midlife than you might think, and shares lifestyle changes that may help here.
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| 0:00.0 | I can honestly say that 98% of women over the age of 45 who are moving into |
| 0:08.3 | pereminopause and menopause you have a thyroid problem it's called |
| 0:11.3 | thyroid pause you know you you put a woman on |
| 0:13.2 | HRT and her world lights up. A lot of those symptoms go away or get better. But if |
| 0:18.5 | they don't, if you're still like you know I'm doing all this but that weight just isn't coming off in fact |
| 0:24.9 | and every time I look at a brownie I'm gaining a pound like what gives then let's |
| 0:29.5 | move and look at your thyroid. Now, how are you feeling overweight, |
| 0:36.0 | fatigued, maybe frustrated by hair loss? |
| 0:39.0 | Well, Doctor of Clinical Nutrition, Amy Hornerman, |
| 0:42.0 | is here to explain why it could be your thyroid. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm Liz Earl and this is the Liz Earl well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second |
| 0:52.2 | half and my mission well I'm sure as you know by now it is |
| 0:56.4 | finding ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing especially in our |
| 1:02.2 | health and our well-being today. |
| 1:04.0 | Now I recently had the great pleasure of meeting Dr Amy Horniman at the Health Optimization Summit in London |
| 1:11.0 | not that long ago and I sat in on one of her absolutely brilliant |
| 1:15.6 | lectures and I have to say I was completely blindsided by what I did not know |
| 1:22.0 | about the thyroid and I have to say here at Lizzar Wellbeing also we get a lot of questions. You know when I talk about nutrition and we talk about iodine supplementation for example, one of the most common questions that come up time and time again is, |
| 1:33.8 | is it safe to take with lever thyroxin? I have a thyroid issue, could it be pereminopause, |
| 1:38.4 | you know, what's going on with my thyroid? So Amy is a doctor of clinical nutrition and she is dubbed the thyroid fixer. |
| 1:46.7 | She's the founder of the Institute for Thyroid and hormone optimization and the |
| 1:52.1 | creator of the Fixer supplement line. |
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