Heavy metal toxicity is a big problem for anyone, but certain heavy metals in the body, particularly mercury, pose extra problems for people with thyroid problems Mercury is a known neurotoxin and can interfere with nearly every system in the body. Remember the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland? Hat makers in the 19th century […]
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Energy Medicine: The Future (and Past) of Health Care When I look back, becoming a holistic health expert & coach was foreshadowed by a period of time when I had moved back to Indiana briefly and was so bored I decided to renew my library card and escape into books. Once an avid fiction […]
Continue ReadingLife got ya feelin’ down? It might just be your adrenal glands. Turns out, modern life is not so friendly to these little balls of stress (hormones), and the accumulated stressors of everyday life in the twenty-first century can have major consequences for your adrenals and your thyroid. In fact, when it comes to your […]
Continue ReadingDepression and thyroid disease: those ugly kissing cousins! We might not immediately associate depression with our thyroid problems. We might initially think, “I feel depressed because I feel bad in other areas of my health.” But research has shown that hypothyroid and depression are clinically linked. In fact, Gary S. Ross, M.D., author of Depression […]
Continue ReadingAttention thyroid sufferers. Special on aisle 12: brain fog. It’s one of the symptoms my community mentions the most when it comes to the most annoying and disruptive symptoms of thyroid disease. Combine it with insomnia, as the disorder so often does, and you’ve got a recipe for total brain white-out conditions. Zero visibility. Of […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re a mom, I can almost guarantee you’ve said this to your kids at one point or another: “Use your words!” It’s usually either because we want them to stop whining/screaming and actually tell us what they want, or because we want them to redirect anger or frustration into words so that we can […]
Continue ReadingOrange Cream Smoothie As you know, I am IN LOVE with The Paleo Kitchen cookbook! I’ve been cooking from it for two weeks now but wanted to try out some new recipes for you this week so I grabbed my camera and got cookin’! Check back frequently for more cooking demos from The Paleo […]
Continue ReadingI was a lover of food and of cooking before thyroid disease. In fact, my career revolved around it. In college, I was destined to become a researcher, an academic, an egghead. I was a psychology major with an interest in educational systems and wanted to learn how we could improve our nation’s educational system. […]
Continue ReadingFor whatever reason, our Saturdays tend to be our most active days in this household. Running out the door and need a quick breakfast that will keep the troops going for a couple of hours and is friendly to your thyroid? Try our Super Saturday Smoothie recipe with ginger for your belly, a little […]
Continue ReadingAnti-inflammatory Turmeric & Cinnamon Tea We’ve got something here in coastal California called June gloom. And let me tell ya – it’s game on! June gloom arrives with a thick blanket of fog that can last the entire month of June. It makes mornings dreary (for me) and requires a nice warming & spicy […]
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