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🗓️ 20 September 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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We're back with another new episode of the podcast. This week we have fantastic guest Dr. Amy Myers joining us. Listen in as we talk about her new book The Thyroid Connection, functional medicine, thyroid issues and autoimmune thyroid conditions, research, treatment, etc.
Guest: Dr. Amy Myers
Website: http://www.amymyersmd.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmyMyersMD
Twitter: @AmyMyersMD
Check out Dr. Myers' new book The Thyroid Connection. And check out the prizes you can win in the giveaway when you preorder the book.
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0:00.0 | Hey folks, thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Paler Solution Podcast. |
0:05.0 | Before we get to the fun, here's a quick word from one of our sponsors. |
0:09.0 | So I first started having trouble sleeping when, I guess I was probably in my late 20s and my boyfriend's sister at the time, who was my best friend at |
0:20.5 | 33 was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she had four children under the age of eight at the time and that became a very stressful situation. |
0:30.0 | I'm not a mother, but I have a little taste of what motherly and household and duties and stress of life can happen and I think that's really when my sleep trouble started. |
0:43.4 | Life stressors, like what Leah just described, |
0:46.6 | are at the root of most all sleep issues. |
0:49.6 | And just like Leah, most people turn to pharmaceutical sleep aids for help. |
0:54.8 | So I would go back and forth between Ambien or Xanax just to come take the edge off or |
1:00.8 | Larazepam. I had a friend that's a nurse practitioner and she's like, |
1:04.4 | I take lorazepam every night, try that, it's better than ambient. And I know this sounds |
1:08.4 | so horrible and I can't even believe I'm talking about it like hopefully because there was a time when I would just be mortified |
1:14.8 | that anyone would know but so yeah pretty much every night for seven eight nine |
1:20.3 | years. |
1:22.3 | Leah was able to stop using these sleep aids after finding Doc Parsley's sleep |
1:26.1 | cocktail. |
1:27.1 | And of course I was skeptical as anybody who has really bad sleep issues and have been |
1:32.0 | dependent on pharmaceutical grade |
1:34.4 | products to help them sleep would be and I started drinking a sleep cocktail |
1:39.7 | every night and it probably took I don't know three or four nights before it |
1:43.8 | started working and if you have trouble sleeping and if something helps you sleep |
1:49.0 | especially if it's not bad for you you know you to keep doing that. So I have religiously |
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