Health & Wellbeing Podcast #1

I’m excited to share with you my first podcast! In this recording I discuss with fellow Naturopath Lisa Costa-Bir thyroid health. Lisa has personally experienced both hyperthyroid and hashimotos, and she has a passion for supporting thyroid health and stress so I’m super grateful she helped out for this podcast.

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Unfortunately there are a few recording hiccups in this podcast where I found that the recording had stopped itself so it sounds a bit funny in some bits, (still getting used to the software), but the message is still there, and these problems should be ironed out for the next ones :).

Podcast breakdown:

1:30 The prevalence of thyroid conditions; sub clinical thyroid problems are frequently going undiagnosed and taking into consideration more factors than just blood test results, the rate of thyroid problems (hypothyroidism in particular) would likely be much higher. TSH alone is not enough.

3:50 TSH can be artificially suppressed.

4:30 Reverse T3

6:15 Causes of elevated thyroid antibodies

7:47 Foods Lisa recommends for people with thyroid disorders

10:45 Wheat and thyroid

12:00 Soy and thyroid

14:14 Nutrients for the thyroid and how thyroid problems can cause reduced absorption of nutrients

16:35 Look the adrenals and stress first

18:38 Oestrogen, progesterone, PMT and thyroid

20:43 Thyroid medications – You need nutrients for it to work properly

22:00 Iodine and the building blocks for thyroid hormones

23:40 Vitamin D

25:30 Thyroid and Iodine in Preconception, Pregnancy and Post-Partum

30:22 Thyroid and Depression

31:26 Thyroid and Cholesterol

34:30 How long does it take to improve thyroid function?

35:35 Sleep for thyroid

37:44 Basal body temperature and salt in the morning

38:20 Our favourite thyroid herbs