One of the most ingenious things “they” did was to label everything natural as “quackery”… go to just about any forum and ask if there are any natural remedies for hypothyroidism and swarms of people will come out to defend the notion that meds are your only option and nothing else works…
… but what if you’ve tried that and it didn’t work?
What if you did everything your doctor told you to do and still feel like complete and utter $h*t…
This is when people start looking for alternatives… maybe an endocrinologist… or maybe you start seeking out naturopaths and functional medicine practitioners… this starts out as a good experience. Before, you feel dismissed by your doctor because they don’t seem to listen to how you feel. They only look at lab numbers and not much beyond your TSH levels.
So when you seek alternative medicine, it feels good to be heard, to be seen… it feels good to know that they are going to help you find what’s really going on and hopefully find a solution… before you know it, you’ve spent thousands on consultations, labs, and you find yourself on strict diet protocols and a stack of supplements that deep down, you know isn’t natural…
We are meant to get our nutrients from food, not supplements…
The only reason you would need supplements is because you are not getting the nutrients you need from food. The problem is that the food you are eating isn’t giving you the nutrients you need… the solution isn’t supplements, it’s changing the food you eat so you get the nutrients you need from food and that’s what I’m about to share with you…
Natural Ways to Boost Your Thyroid
I used to think I was just aging. I felt the need to lay down more and more until I started feeling too exhausted to do anything. I had no energy or motivation to do anything including things I loved doing like hiking and mountain biking…
The fatigue was only one item on a laundry list of things I was experiencing including brain fog, poor sleep, sore for days after exercise…
… and then there was stomach pain from gas and bloating…
When I started looking into what was causing this, I realized this was more of a gut issue than a thryoid issue. You don’t get gas from an underactive thyroid. You get gas because you have some wild yeast in your gut fermenting food…
The bloating comes from the gas building up pressure in your gut…
Once I figured this out, I realized that the reason I had yeast overgrowth to begin with was because my body had been demineralized. Bad bacteria grows in your gut when you lack minerals…
You are supposed to get minerals from food… food is supposed to get minerals from the soil… but most food today has no minerals because the soil has lost a lot of minerals… so what are we to do if the soil loses its minerals?
That’s where the first natural remedy for hypothyroidism comes in… sea salt.
Salt is the best source of minerals we can introduce into our diet, but I want to make sure you understand the difference between natural sea salt and iodized salt (not natural).
Natural sea salt is loaded with minerals which are good because minerals are what your body needs to use the energy it produces. Think of every cell in your body as a battery that stores energy. You are a mass of energy. You have energy stored in every cell of your body… but if you don’t have minerals, then you can’t use the energy and that’s why you may feel like you have no energy, when in reality you may not have the ability to conduct electricity in your body because you lack minerals.
Think about how you use the energy in a battery… you take a conductive mineral like copper so that you can power electronic equipment right? No copper, no conductivity, no energy.
The same applies to your body.
If you don’t get minerals from food, then you have no conductivity and therefore no energy.
Holistic Approach to Hypothyroidism
One of the biggest misconceptions about hypothyroidism is that the thyroid is underactive due to an iodine deficiency… this leads to many people spreading the worst advice you could ever follow, which is to eat more iodine-rich foods and take all kinds of iodine supplements…
If you search for the definition of Hypothyroidism, you will come across an article by the National Institute of Health… and one thing they make clear is that Iodine deficiency is extremely rare in the United States.
They also say that hypothyroidism can be cause by TOO MUCH iodine in the diet. So people that follow the advice to eat iodine-rich foods and popping pills with iodine, selenium, ashwagandha and other herbs will find that they are making things worse.
Many thyroid supplements have biotin as an ingredient because it’s supposed to help with hair loss… but biotin can make your TSH lab numbers show a falsely low level… this can create the appearance that something is working when in reality is just being masked.
A holistic approach to hypothyroidism includes looking at all these interactions when trying to fix your laundry list of symptoms, whether it be weight loss, hair loss, brain fog, muscle aches, etc.
You also have to pay attention to how your body reacts to what you give it… if you get heart palpitations after taking something, that’s a clear sign that your body does not like what you are giving it. The more you look into natural remedies and experience a boost in energy, you will see a clearer picture to what works, why it works and how you ended up here to begin with.
How to Increase Thyroid Hormone Naturally
Adding minerals (sea salt) to my diet gave me a boost of energy and improved my digestion (no more gas, bloating or constipation)…
That win was what I needed to get the confidence that I could do something about this despite being told that “there’s nothing you can do about this other than take meds…”
I started looking into hormone production and this was a big breakthrough for me… I learned that the body needs vitamin D for hormone production. Vitamin D is actually a pro-hormone… I think of it like a hormone template that your body takes and uses it to make other hormones including thyroid hormone…
That’s when I decided to get my vitamin D levels checked… something my doctor never asked me about. Interestingly enough, when I asked my doctor to test my vitamin D, I was shocked about their response which was something along the lines of “what have you been reading online? I can test, but it won’t tell me anything helpful…”
Really?
Well, I got tested and found that my vitamin D levels were low at 22ng/dL… that may not have been helpful to the doctor, but it told me everything I needed to know to work on my hormone production naturally…
Many people make the mistake of taking a vitamin D3 supplement, which is NOT natural… supplements are usually made by radiating sheep’s wool with UV light to make cholecalciferol (D3)… this needs to be digested…
If you have low vitamin D, then that means you have poor digestion… that means that if you take a vitamin D3 supplement, you could be raising your vitamin D levels because labs test for vitamin D3, but if your body can’t break that down (digest), then you end up with vitamin D toxicity…
So what’s the natural way?
This is where you learn that hormones are made by probiotics…
Probiotics are what digest food for you… they break down and build stuff in your body… they are the ones that turn hormones produced by the glands and turn them into the active form like converting T4 into T3… or turning vitamin D into hormones like testosterone and estrogen…
Probiotics are what digest food for you and turn it into energy that your body can use.
If you want more energy, then your goal should be to cultivate healthy probiotics in your gut… and you do this by creating an environment in your gut where probiotics can thrive.
How to get more energy with Hypothyroidism
The key to get energy is learning how to create an environment in your gut for probiotics to grow… minerals are just one of nine steps I use to create this environment…
Sadly, most doctors don’t have a clue about this… thyroid supplements, and programs that promise to “fix your thyroid” don’t understand this either…
I am not a doctor… I only know about this because I was an avid home brewer and studied fermentation, though not for health purposes… I was not into health back then… I was only growing probiotics (brewer’s yeast) to make beer…
… but when I learned that probiotics are what make hormones… all bets were off… I needed to try making the probiotics in my gut as healthy as I could for myself, even if no one else followed…
If you are…
- Too exhausted to move.
- Struggling to stay awake
- Low energy is affecting your work
- Can’t say yes to active play with your kids (family is frustrated at you)
- You’ve tried the diets
- You’ve tried the supplements
- You’ve adjusted your dose up, down and sideways at this point
… then I’m excited to share with you my Energy Blueprint… I journaled everything I did for over seven years to get rid of thyroid fatigue.
I took out what didn’t work and left only what worked…
I started sharing this with others via my free email newsletter.
When you subscribe to our email newsletter you will learn each step I took to get more energy…
You will start by improving digestion… the first thing you’ll notice is no more gas, bloating or constipation… no more dry skin…
Once you tip that domino, the next step is to improve your sleep… you will learn how to get deep restorative sleep so you wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day…
Your mind will be sharp in the morning… and if your hair is thinning or falling out, you will notice it start to grow thick and strong again.
… and because everything you do is completely natural, the energy you feel will last all day without having to rely on caffeine or thyroid supplements.
So, you’ll notice when you come home after work, you’ll have energy to play with your kids, workout or do whatever activity you feel like because you will have the energy left to do so!
