No one knows what hypothyroidism can do to the body unless they experience it themselves…
When I tell people I felt miserable, like an 84 year old living in a 28 year old body, it wouldn’t even begin to describe the laundry list of things that I felt were wrong…
Low energy
Poor sleep
Hair loss
Brain fog
Gained 40 pounds in one month
… and then there was cold feet and hands…
I felt alone with all these things going on until I started meeting others who were experiencing the same with different variations…
Cold feet & dry skin… cold feet & swelling… etc…
Cold Feet
The most common sign that something is off with your hormones is cold feet…
Hormones are important for body temperature regulation… if your hormone production is low, your body temperature will begin to drop…
You will notice this most by experiencing cold feet or cold hands or both…
This is why people start to swing from being cold to developing heat intolerance if they try to regulate body temperature without addressing hormone production first…
Tingling, numb, or pins & needles sensation in feet
Autoimmune disease means that your gut flora isn’t working for you and rather starting to work against you…
When your gut flora works for you, it helps you regenerate (build new tissue)…
When it works against you, then different parts of your body start to degenerate (break down)…
If your nerves start to degenerate and your autoimmune condition keeps you from regenerating then your feet can feel numb, or get a tingling or pins & needles sensation…
Improving your gut health is one way to improve your body’s ability to regenerate…
Foot Infections
Your immune system is meant to protect you…
When your immune system is weak, you are more likely to get foot infections like athlete’s foot…
I used to wear boots and thick socks to try to keep my feet warm, but any kind of sweat would easily give me athlete’s foot where my skin would dry and crack between my toes…
Itchy Feet
The first sign that I was about to get a foot infection was itchy feet…
Itchiness is common with autoimmune diseases because the body is essentially fighting off all kinds of infections…
There’s levels to itchiness…
It can get so bad that you break out in hives…
Smelly Feet
Body odor in general is a sign that your body is toxic… your body’s main detox method is sweat…
If you have excessive sweating especially if your feet sweat, that turns your skin into breeding ground for bad bacteria… bad bacteria produce the toxins that smell and give you body odor…
Bad bacteria is what turns your immune system against you…
Toenail alterations
Brittle nails, ridges, cracking, curling nails… these are signs that you’re becoming nutrient deficient…
Yellow nails will begin to form as the nail weakens and fungus begins to grow… fungus is another type of bad bacteria that you don’t want on your body and much less in your body…
Yellow soles of feet
Pigments are colors… when a leaf turns from green to orange, that orange is a pigment called beta-carotene… beta-carotene is what the body uses to make vitamin A…
When you have a weak immune system you stop digesting food as effectively and start losing the ability to turn nutrients into vitamins…
When your body can’t turn beta-carotene into vitamin A, it will begin to store that excess beta-carotene on the outer layers of your skin… just like a leaf turning from green to orange, your hands and feet will turn yellow when you start to decompose…
Dry, flaky and cracked feet with calluses
Dry skin, brittle nails, hair thinning and falling off are all signs that you are not regenerating properly… the body naturally sheds skin and rebuilds new tissue…
When it can’t rebuild new tissue it start to build up layers of “dead skin” that turn into a thick outer layer, especially around your heels… it continues to build up until it cracks…
Swollen Feet
Swelling is another way your body fights off infections…
When you have autoimmune disease, you are constantly fighting off infections… this can happen all over the body… usually you start to see it with bags under your eyes and start to spread out… your feet are prone to swelling since gravity pulls many toxins down…
This is one reason why inversions or elevating your feet can help…
Foot pain and cramping
When you start to put some of these together and you start to understand that your body may be losing the ability to turn nutrients into vitamins like vitamin A & D, you start to understand pain…
Vitamin D is what helps keep your bone density… without it, your bones and joints begin to degenerate…
It becomes quite painful to step on your heel since it feels like the bone is making contact with the ground and pain shoots up the leg…
How to get more energy and lose weight
As you can see there is a common pattern with all of these different variations…
Good gut flora helps you regenerate… most of these issues stem from the inability to regenerate…
Your gut flora is also what produces energy for you…
Most people think that low thyroid means they can’t produce energy… it’s actually low energy that will lower thyroid function…
If you have poor gut health, you can’t digest food properly and turn it into nutrients…
If you get gas, bloating or constipation then your digestive system needs work…
Improving your gut health is the most effective way to get energy and lose weight…
I gained 40 pounds in a month even though I was eating “healthy” and exercising…
I say “healthy” because my definition of healthy eating has changed dramatically… I used to think eating lean meats and veggies was the way to be healthy…
Regardless, it doesn’t matter how healthy you eat if you have bad bacteria in your gut because then whatever you eat, you are feeding bad bacteria…
Bad bacteria are considered bad because they don’t turn food into nutrients and vitamins for you… they don’t make hormones for you… they actually inhibit digestion and put out toxins… those toxins are what your body is trying to fight off…
One way your body protects itself from those toxins is that it stores toxins in your fat cells…
When you gain weight, you don’t produce more fat cells… you have a fixed amount of fat cells… instead, what happens is that your fat cells expand as they get filled with toxins…
Gaining weight simply means that you are accumulating toxins…
To lose weight I started to focus on detoxing…
The best way to detox is to clean your gut…
When you clean your gut you create an environment for good gut flora to grow and bad bacteria to go away…
This is what we’ve been sharing here at Hypothyroidism Success Story to help people get more energy and lose weight…
Watch this video with Terra, a mom who shares her story about how she got rid of her foot pain and swelling, got more energy and started to lose weight…
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