The Thyroid Menopause Connection with Ingrid Anderson, RD (Episode 39)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

60 percent of people with thyroid disease go undiagnosed. And if you’re a menopausal woman, you may be mistaking thyroid disease symptoms for menopause symptoms—and suffering from both. The North American Menopause Society calls the thyroid a “touchy gland,” as it becomes imbalanced in about 1 in 8 women. And when it does, it can trigger a cascade of symptoms and, if it goes unchecked, health issues such as fatigue, forgetfulness, mood swings, weight gain, irregular menstrual cycles, high cholesterol, heart disease, and more. This week’s guest, Ingrid Anderson, RD, RDN, CDN, founder of Simply Confident nutrition and co-founder of Core Strength Fitness, specializes in treating women with thyroid conditions like hypothyroidism (low thyroid) and Hashimoto’s Disease (an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid). She is also a wealth of knowledge about how estrogen (or lack thereof) and thyroid hormone interact and what that means for all of us. You can learn more about Ingrid and her work at https://www.ingridrd.com/ **Support the Podcast** InsideTracker: 25% off at insidetracker.com/feistymenopause Nuun Hydration: 30% off at nuunlife.com with the code FeistyMenopause Velorosa Cycling: 15% off at https://velorosacycling.com with code HITPLAY

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers,
0:19.7	and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.1	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:32.9	So I make it a goal to learn something on every episode of this show.
0:38.1	And I've got to tell you, I learned a ton this week, mostly because it's a topic that I didn't know a whole lot about.
0:46.5	Thyroid health.
0:48.3	I mean, I knew the thyroid was very important, obviously.
0:51.1	It manufactures the thyroid hormones that regulate our metabolism.
0:55.9	And the hormones that that gland produces affect pretty much every cell, tissue, and organ in our
1:01.1	body. But I didn't know a whole lot else about it, if I'm honest. So I started doing a little
1:07.0	research, and I found out the North American Menopause Society calls the thyroid
1:11.2	a touchy gland. That's that's actually a quote touchy gland because it becomes imbalanced in about
1:17.4	one in eight women. And when that happens, you end up with hypothyroidism or an underactive
1:23.4	thyroid, which can cause fatigue, forgetfulness, mood swings, weight gain, irregular menstrual
1:29.1	cycles, cold intolerance, unchecked. If you don't take care of it, it can lead to high
1:34.8	cholesterol, osteoporosis, heart disease, and depression. In fact, it can be mistaken for,
1:40.9	if that didn't sound familiar, menopause. Though hypothyroidism is more common,
1:47.6	some women also get hyperthyroidism, where you have too much thyroid hormone, which can also
1:53.3	mimic menopause transition with hot flashes and heat intolerance and heart palpitations.
1:58.9	It's also something that comes up quite frequently on the feisty
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