Thyroid Dysfunction 101 | Ep 244

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Thyroid dysfunction affects approximately 28 million Americans–8 out of 10 of which are women. In fact, hypothyroid is so commonplace that Levothyroxine is consistently one of the top-prescribed drugs year after year. There are a lot of ways to support the thyroid before it gets to this point, so we have to ask ourselves WHY this issue is so common and how we can be proactive about achieving optimal thyroid health.

Like most other areas of our health, thyroid health is multifaceted, and there are plenty of possible causes for dysfunction. In under 60 minutes, Erin breaks down the symptoms of hypothyroid; the impact of root causes such as caloric restriction, liver health, and non-thyroid hormonal balance; things your conventional medicine practitioner might miss in lab results; and the relationship between the energetic body and the thyroid.

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Timestamps:

(5:18) Symptoms of hypothyroid

(9:16) Understanding thyroid physiology

(17:22) Thyroid and diet

(20:22) Relationship between liver and thyroid function

(23:07) Impact of non-thyroid hormone balance

(30:46) Thyroid health, energetic work, and self-expression

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast. I'm your host, Erin Holt. I'm an integrative and
0:07.2	functional medicine nutritionist with a feisty attitude in well over a decade of clinical experience.
0:13.1	I work with women all over the world through my online programs. And I'm also the founder of the
0:18.0	Functional Nutrition Academy, a school in practitioner mentorship
0:21.7	where we help other clinicians level up with functional medicine methodologies.
0:26.9	I've got a bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional healthcare model that are both
0:31.7	systematically failing so many of us. Creating a new model is my life's work, and this is what this show's all about.
0:39.3	Please keep in mind, this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never
0:44.1	be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you like what you hear
0:48.4	today, I would love for you to subscribe to the show, leave a review in iTunes, share with
0:53.0	a friend, and keep coming back for more.
0:55.3	Now give me the mic so I can take it away.
1:01.8	All right, my buds, today is all about thyroid health. So you loved the kind of quick and dirty
1:08.9	hormone episode that I did last week and somebody asked,
1:13.2	can you do the same thing for thyroid? There's going to be a lot of overlap because when I talked
1:18.1	about five different strategies that you can use to get hormone balanced last week, all of those
1:24.6	apply to thyroid physiology as well. but today we're going to drill in
1:28.1	even more specifically to thyroid. Now, levo thyroxine is one of the most top prescribed
1:36.0	drugs year after year after year. It's usually like the top three or four. Levothyroxine is
1:42.6	synthetic T4, which is a thyroid hormone. And this is not
1:47.4	about medication shaming. I mean, I'm glad that it exists for the people that need it. Of course.
1:52.0	This is more about asking the question why. Why is hypothyroid and thyroid dysfunction
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