What you eat can have a significant impact on your mood. Foods that are high in sugar and refined carbs can cause spikes in blood sugar levels, leading to feelings of anxiety and irritability. On the other hand, healthy foods rich in nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and healthy fats can help improve mood and promote …
All too often, those of us with Hashimoto’s disease take our thyroid medications exactly as directed and make various changes to what we eat and how we live our lives, only to continue experiencing symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, hair loss, and anxiety. These persistent symptoms can leave us wondering whether we’re doing something …
Many of us supplement with zinc when we feel a cold or flu coming on, but there’s so much more to this trace mineral than immune system support. Sure, taking zinc at the onset of a cold could shorten the duration of our symptoms by about one day — but even more importantly — zinc …
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Could a Deficiency in This B Vitamin Be Contributing to Your Thyroid Fatigue? As thyroid warriors, we’re no strangers to fatigue — the kind of physical and mental sluggishness that doesn’t resolve after eight hours of sleep or even a full day of relaxation. We often find ourselves crashing on the couch after getting home …
Quality of sleep — especially poor quality sleep — affects the mind and body in several important ways. In addition to contributing to a reduced quality of life, inadequate sleep has been linked to memory impairments, daytime sleepiness, decreased alertness, and health issues such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and depression. Sleep issues have …
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If you’re familiar with my healing journey, you know I’ve been affected by Hashimoto’s as well as Lyme: Two diseases known to cause symptoms such as lethargy, mental fog, joint and muscle pain, poor sleep quality, and many other issues that interfere with daily living. And according to Dr. Izabella Wentz, Borrelia burgdorferi — the …
The thyroid gland may be located in the neck, but inflammation and infections in other parts of the body — the mouth included — can trigger an autoimmune condition such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. After all, the mouth is the first part of the digestive tract and one of the most important, as the oral cavity …
Thyroid disease affects the body in many ways, but eye problems are a lesser-known symptom of having an overactive or underactive thyroid gland. Hypothyroidism, for instance, can sometimes cause the skin around the eyes to swell (known as periorbital swelling) — and other eye-related symptoms may include blurred vision, eyelid abnormalities, watery eyes, grittiness, and …
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How and where we store our levothyroxine (such as Synthroid), liothyronine (Cytomel), and desiccated thyroid meds (like Armour Thyroid and NP Thyroid) may seem unimportant, but improper storage could actually alter the effectiveness of our medications and cause a worsening of thyroid symptoms. As such, how we take our thyroid medications each day isn’t the …
The glandula thyreoidea, more commonly known as the thyroid gland, is a tiny butterfly-shaped organ that sits just below the Adam’s apple in the front of the neck. It produces three types of hormones, including triiodothyronine (more commonly known as T3), tetraiodothyronine (abbreviated as T4 or thyroxine), and calcitonin (a hormone produced by the C …
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