Optimizing Thyroid Health and Managing Diabetes with Dr. Soham Patel MD, FACE, DipABLM

Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, Cyrus interviews Dr. Soham Patel, a triple board-certified endocrinologist, to discuss strategies for optimizing thyroid health, particularly in relation to diabetes management.

Key topics include the impact of diet, lifestyle, and environmental factors on thyroid function, with practical dietary recommendations such as eliminating dairy, adopting non-GMO and organic gluten products, and maintaining vitamin D levels. The risks associated with weight-loss medications like Ozempic are also covered.

The episode emphasizes using a whole food, plant-based diet to improve insulin sensitivity and thyroid function. Additionally, the importance of in-person diabetes consultations, resources available on the Mastering Diabetes website, and the benefits of joining their coaching program are highlighted.

00:00 Introduction

01:34 Meet Dr. Soham Patel: A Plant-Based Endocrinologist

03:34 Environmental and Dietary Factors Affecting Thyroid Health

23:09 The Role of Mercury in Thyroid Dysfunction

30:58 The Impact of Gluten and Soy on Thyroid Health

39:59 Reversing Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism: Timing and Strategies

46:13 Understanding T4 to T3 Conversion

49:23 Desiccated Thyroid Medications

52:15 Ozempic and Thyroid Cancer Risk

59:04 Impact of Thyroid on Blood Glucose

01:00:58 Symptoms of Hypothyroidism

01:03:52 Diagnosing and Optimizing Thyroid Levels

01:07:16 Dietary Recommendations for Thyroid Health

01:12:08 Cruciferous Vegetables and Thyroid Health

01:15:16 Final Thoughts and Resources

To learn more at Dr. Patel --> https://cfpen.org

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0:00.0	Nothing is about perfection. It's about progress. Yes, if you do more changes, you see more results.
0:06.1	But it's not like you have to be 100% whole food plant-based to see most of the benefit.
0:12.2	You can be if you choose to. If you say, I need to have a piece of meat, it could be a small serving once a week, not every meal, and you get the balance.
0:24.0	But eat predominantly whole plant foods.
0:26.3	If you want to take it 100%, that's great and good for you.
0:29.9	But don't allow that perfection sense to prevent you from eating more whole plant foods.
0:49.2	Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience,
0:55.4	where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy,
1:00.6	and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the
1:05.9	Mastering Diabetes Program.
1:08.8	Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and how to simplify
1:15.0	your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine.
1:22.3	We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in 1 million people.
1:27.1	We're glad to have you joining us.
1:31.4	Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience. Today we have a fantastic interview with Dr. Soham
1:38.2	Patel. He's a good friend of mine. He lives in Tampa, Florida, not too far away from us here in
1:44.0	St. Petersburg, Florida. And I've gotten to know him over the course of the last couple of mine. He lives in Tampa, Florida, not too far away from us here in St. Petersburg, Florida.
1:45.6	And I've gotten to know him over the course of the last couple of years very well because he is
1:51.6	one of a very small number of plant-based endocrinologists in the entire United States.
1:58.3	You would think that in this day and age, with so much information about medicine and food
2:04.1	and the interaction between the two of them, that there would be a significant number
2:07.4	of endocrinologists that are specialized in disorders of the endocrine system in humans,
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