No one understands what it's like to have Hypothyroidism, unless they've experienced it themselves... you don't just feel tired all the time...

Laying down is exhausting...

Moving is exhausting...

Doing anything but sleeping at night makes you feel like you're lugging around an elephant with you wherever you go...

Good news is, it doesn't have to be this way...

There is a natural way to get your energy back and feel like yourself again that doctors don’t tell you about...

You don't have to believe this yet... but keep reading because this was me in 2012:

When I say I used to feel exhausted, I'm talking about bone-deep fatigue…

It wasn’t me being distant, dramatic or lazy…

It wasn’t me being just tired or run down…

It was the kind of exhaustion that lives deep in your bones...

It’s hard to explain what a flare was like without sounding dramatic…

The fatigue was crippling…

Not “I could use a nap” tired, but the kind where standing up required me to grab onto a wall...

I'd wake up feeling like I'd been hit by a Mack truck, even if all I did the day before was exist...

When this happened, my body felt sore and beaten up, like it had been through something physical and brutal…

My muscles and joints ached constantly and deep like everything was inflamed and heavy…

I felt weak, dizzy, and slowed down, as if I was walking through mud…

Things that were normally manageable suddenly felt overwhelming… Simple tasks required planning…

I would sit in my kitchen without moving… just enough energy to feel unmotivated…

I would feel low and sad for no reason like a flattening of everything...

The flares would happen even when I did everything right...

My entire system felt like it was under siege… like my body was pulling the fire alarm because of steam from the kettle, and refused to shut it off...

Everything suddenly got louder, harder, and heavier at once...

I was doing everything I could just to get through the day...

If you've been living like this, you know that:

I was desperate to find a solution and I did what most people do in this situation...

I went to see doctors, did everything they told me to do... I would feel better for a week or two and then I'd be back to feeling miserable....

... and when I tried to tell my doctor I didn't feel better, he told me it was all in my head...

Labs did all the talking for me... they just offered me anti-depressants instead of listening to how I felt...

If you've been gaslit, or felt dismissed by your doctor, you're not alone... this is more common than you might think... it's what made me look for alternatives and start reaching out to others who were struggling the same...

After talking to other people with hypothyroidism, I was discouraged to learn that they’d been on medication for over 5 years (one had been on it for 20 years!!!) and still had not gotten better.

Are you kidding me??

Was hypothyroidism some sort of cruel fate dealt to me?

No way… I was not going to go down just like that... Not without putting up a fight.

This wasn’t going to be the end of my story... this is where it would begin...

I began to try EVERYTHING:

I talked to endocrinologists and sought out naturopaths and functional medicine practitioners...

I cut out gluten...
I cut out dairy...
I cut out sugar...

Got their expensive labs... took their "proprietary" iodine, selenium, Ashwagandha formula supplements...

I did their intermittent fasting, whole 30, keto and paleo diets...

I tried everything, nothing worked...

How could it be that we have an advanced medical system and we haven't figured out how to help our bodies produce thyroid hormones naturally?

I was at my whit's end about to accept this as my new normal when I came across what changed everything for me... 

The more I looked into this the more I was led to the notion that probiotics are the key to natural hormone production… but something was missing…

Taking probiotics alone didn't work either... so there had to be something missing that would help my body produce thyroid hormones naturally...

The missing piece came to me while I was researching why I had gas, bloating and constipation... and I read something that mentioned yeast candida...

That was the first time I connected the dots... because the first time I ever read about yeast candida was in a beer brewing book...

I don't think I would have considered what I did next had I not been at the end of my rope to be open to trying a completely different approach…

This may sound weird, crazy, or stupid at first, but it’s a true story…

The answer to my indescribable fatigue was sitting in my brewing library the entire time...

Normal people→go see a doctor to heal (this was the old me as well)

New Me→I opened up my beer brewing books…

Cheers!

Jorge

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