Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your healing journey. We hope you enjoy it.

In this episode of the RU. Mestrel podcast, we are continuing our conversation around thyroid

health and focusing specifically on supporting autoimmune thyroid disorders.

I'm invited my friend and colleague Nicole Fennell from at Choose Food Wisely on Instagram to discuss

this topic.

Since Nicole really specializes in autoimmunity,

she's going to share her own journey with thyroid autoimmune disorder. And if you're

wondering who Nicole is, she's a registered dietitian and licensed nutritionist, certified

and integrative and functional medical nutrition therapy. After years of working as a clinical inpatient

dietitian, her personal journey with thyroid autoimmunity led her to eventually start a private

practice that challenged the status quo of what it means to be healthy since following all

of the diet rules is what made her sick in the first place. Her work with those who have

autoimmune thyroid disease is a root cause approach,

bearing a flexible food framework and personalized lab data to create sustainable and realistic lifelong changes.

Nicole takes a nourishment over deprivation approach and helps women mend their metabolism,

banish brain fog, enhance energy, and redefine their relationship with food and their bodies. So you can

see why I would appreciate Nicole's approach, everything that we've ever talked about in the podcast.

You basically summarized it in what you do. But thank you so much for being here, Nicole.

Well, I am so honored to be here with you and just continue that conversation around hypothyroidism, but coming from the lens of autoimmunity, I feel like this is such an underserved and kind of misunderstood population. And so I want to shed some light into this because it's just so common.

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