“The thyroid gland provides an unchanging basal level of thyroid hormone to keep the basic metabolic rate of all cells at a constant level, and provides the overall set point of this endocrine axis.” 1
By looking at my thyroid this way, I see it kind of like a thermostat. But messing with the thermostat most likely isn’t going to do very much if the furnace is broken and making noises.
What helped me finally start resolving my thyroid symptoms, was learning how to support my liver. I did this by learning how to eat real food and cut out chemicals etc that I figured out were not working well with my body. I cover the general idea of being toxic, how I started eating better food, and how I support my detox pathways in general here http://whyiodine.com/what-is-detox/ I expand on my liver support below.
Eventually I learned how important stomach acid and fat digestion are for general health and thyroid health specifically. I had dealt with minor stomach acid symptoms for a long time, and avoided certain types of meals due to their fat content without even realizing why.
Common symptoms of low stomach acid:
Cramping
Heartburn
Nausea
Acid Reflux
Burping/farting
Bloating
Constipation
Diarrhea
Infections
Trouble eating meat
Undigested food in stool
Skin issues
Food allergies/intolerance
Deficiencies
My stomach acid wasn’t too bad. I supported it with good food and some nutrients known to help rebuild acid over time, like Taurine and unrefined salt. By the time I tried The Stomach Acid Challenge test, I was able to feel “heat” with just one Betaine HCL & Pepsin pill, which indicated that my stomach acid was high enough, and I did not need to support it. If I continued to have stomach acid symptoms, I would have researched The Stomach Acid Challenge and look for details on different situations and how to understand them better. Wink wink.
Common symptoms of Poor Fat Digestion
Diarrhea on a regular basis
Smelly poop
Light-colored poop
Floating poop
Sticky poop
Skin rashes
Weight loss
Hair loss
Burping and farting after meals
Queasy feeling after meals
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I avoided certain meals due to their fat content, or anything that caused my body to have a hard time digesting the fat it contained. I worked on my fat digestion with coffee enemas, ox bile supplements and digestive enzymes.
I also went through several rounds of kidney stones around the times I remember always avoiding fatty meals. This was most likely due to improper fat digestion causing more of the oxalates from my diet to end up in my blood stream. Usually, calcium binds with oxolates in the gut, so it can then be excreted. But when fat is not digested properly, the fat binds with calcium instead, and the oxalate is absorbed into the blood stream. 2
Oxalates can contribute to many health ailments as they build up in various tissue. Although we don’t have any science relating oxalate buildup to specific thyroid issues, we do know they are able to build up in our thyroid. 3
Digesting fat is important for many other reasons. I focused on fixing my fat digestion so I can absorb more nutrients, and hopefully allow the oxalates in my thyroid to be reduced. I also take probiotics, a quality b-complex, and chelated magnesium with a small amount of chelated calcium to help support my body for this.
Then I learned about a process called methylation. This is the core of our nutrient engine, and allows our body to do so many important things. One of those things is converting up to 80% of our T4 -> T3. But the path our system uses to get to this T4 -> T3 conversion is usually inhibited by deficiencies and low cellular function. I start getting into the technical part of this in relation to our thyroid on my page about selenium http://whyiodine.com/selenium/
I learned how to support my methylation system and start rebuilding my cellular nutrient engine. This is how I not only support my body, but detox my cells of the funk I have been loading them with since before I was even born.
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