Welcome everybody to today's episode of the Lindsay Elmore show. This episode is all about the thyroid.

So when people are diagnosed with problems with their thyroid, it can be one of those like rabbits that you're constantly chasing because the thyroid is not something that's just in balance or out of balance.

It takes a long time for things to fluctuate and to really understand the patterns of the

fluctuation because the thyroid is supposed to behave differently at different points during

the day.

Today I interviewed Donna Mazola.

She's a pharmacist who was diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is the most common cause of low thyroid in the United States.

Here's the thing.

It is also an autoimmune disorder that can be healed through nutrition

and diet similarly to other autoimmune disorders. We talk today about all of the different

nutrients that play into the development as well as the pervasiveness of

Hashimoto's. We go far beyond just iodine and really dig deep into the mechanisms of how do

minerals like magnesium and selenium and zinc play into Hashimoto's.

We talk about foods. We talk about an amazing study all about Brazil nuts outperforming

selenium supplementation. It is a great conversation and it is so critical that we as me as your host and you as the listeners inspire people to understand that a diagnosis of a thyroid disorder is not the end of the world.

And there is something broken in our modern medical

system in the way that we treat thyroid disorders. What do we do? When someone comes in and they say,

oh, you have low thyroid. Well, people just supplement with a thyroid supplement.

Levo thyroxin, synthroid, even though they are medications, they are still simply supplementing with thyroid hormone.

The problem is that thyroid balance goes well beyond what you can just supplement. Because if you're supplementing,

but you can't convert into active T3, well, that's a major problem. Plus, if your thyroid is out of balance, 9.999 times out of 10, your adrenal glands are also out of balance. So there is an interplay

with all of our endocrine system that makes it so critically important than we do more than

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