Your thyroid is not the reason you feel tired all the time…
… but I get it. Everyone tells you that fatigue is a symptom of low thyroid… so naturally most people take that to mean…
My thyroid isn’t working and that’s why I’m tired…
But I’ve met many people who have good thyroid function, and they too feel tired all the time…
I’ve met people who get labs that show they have regular thyroid levels, and they still feel tired all the time…
I’ve met people who are taking thyroid medication, and they are still tired all the time…
That’s because the thyroid isn’t what makes energy…
Here’s a key insight… nothing produces energy…
First law of thermodynamics says: energy is neither created nor destroyed…
Energy is transferred from one medium to another…
To get energy, you have to take energy from a source like food and transfer that energy to your body…
Probiotics do that for you…
If you feel tired all the time it’s because you have poor probiotic function, not because of poor thyroid function…
One of the easiest ways to improve probiotic function is hydration…
Minerals are the key to getting rid of thyroid fatigue and helping your body produce hormones
One of my discoveries that helped me understand how to get more energy happened while I was researching why I was always gassy, bloated and often constipated…
I used to feel like my belly would bubble up and expand as the day went on. My jeans would feel tighter than when I first put them on in the morning.
While researching about why this was happening, I came across an article that mentioned yeast candida overgrowth as the cause of being gassy. This clicked immediately because my background is in brewing beer.
I never thought of yeast candida as a “health topic.” I had read about yeast candida as being a wild yeast that could ruin a batch of beer. Brewing beer uses brewer’s yeast, which is a probiotic, so regardless, I was pretty familiar with yeast and how it behaves and grows.
That’s when I realized that if I had yeast candida overgrowth, it meant that the probiotics in my gut were not properly digesting food, and that’s why wild yeast and other bad bacteria step in…
… because food can’t just sit in your gut… something has to break it down and that’s the role that bad bacteria play in your gut. You don’t want them to grow, but they do have a purpose.
Anyway, the question then was, why did probiotics not do their job to digest food?
The answer came to me from a brewing lesson on brewing light beers.
The difference between regular beers and light beers is that light beers use grains called adjuncts (like rice or corn) which have lower “protein” content (which is what makes a beer feel heavy), but it also lacks nutrients. As a beer brewer, it was important to know that mixing in adjunct grains that lacked nutrients with barley could dilute the nutrient content of the brew too much.
What happens when you dilute the nutrients of the brew too much is that brewer’s yeast (probiotic) will not digest the sugars… but other wild yeast like yeast candida or yeast albicans would happily step in and eat the nutrient-less sugar…
This was so mind blowing to read from a brewing book because doctors never asked me about me lacking nutrients… so I started to look into what these nutrients were, and it turns out that minerals are what make probiotics do their job.
Probiotics turn food into energy that your body can use…
Probiotics make vitamins for you…
Probiotics make hormones for you…
… but only if they have the nutrients they need…
Probiotics need a full spectrum of minerals. Most of these minerals are found in natural salt. Not all salt is natural. Iodized salt (common table salt) is not natural and it has no minerals.
Sea salt has minerals, but you do have to watch out for contamination… but regardless, salt is where you go to get minerals. You don’t buy thyroid supplements for energy to get these minerals because you don’t know if they are natural or if they come from a lab…
I personally sourced out pure pink Himalayan Salt which comes in large crystals. I don’t recommend the stone ground pebbles you find at grocery stores because they have contaminants.
The reason I am harping on contaminants is because contaminants give rise to bad bacteria and wild yeast… and if you are fighting thyroid fatigue, then you need to know that what you are really fighting is bad gut flora…
How to get rid of thyroid fatigue
I started making SOLE salt using the pink Himalayan crystals (that means I dissolved the salt in water), and I would add it to my drinking water…
I also sourced out other salts like salt from the Great Salt Lake in Utah, which is very high in magnesium and you can find it sold as ionic magnesium. Between these two salts, I gave my body all the nutrients it needed so that the probiotics in my gut could digest food for me…
This is one of the first things we do in our programs… we have people mineralize their water and we start to see how it improves digestion….
… because when your probiotics digest food, they turn food into energy your body can use… and you feel more energy!
If bad bacteria like wild yeast digests food for you, then you get that 3pm thyroid crash, you struggle to stay awake, and get gas, bloating or constipated…
Digestion is key for hormone production as well… in fact, we think of hormone production as energy production… in order for your body to produce hormones, it needs amino acids… in order to get amino acids, you need to be able to digest proteins…
The body uses amino acids like tyrosine to make thyroid hormone. That’s what the “T” stands for when you hear thyroid hormone T4… it means tyrosine with 4 molecules of iodine…
You can’t get tyrosine amino acids if your body isn’t digesting protein properly.
Amino acids are the building blocks the body uses to make things like grow hair, skin and nails… which is why people that have low hormone production often times will see their hair start to get thin or fall off… nails get brittle… skin gets dry and ashy.
So improving your digestion will have an effect on other things like growing strong thick hair…
Once you feel your energy levels improve and your digestion working well, you will have set the foundation to get your body to produce hormones…
Now, I am very well aware that doctors tell you that your thyroid can’t produce hormones and there’s nothing you can do about it… I was told the same thing…
…. but after doing my own research and experimenting on myself, I started to find ways to boost my hormone production… and every time I found something that helped me with hormone production it boosted my energy levels…
I’ve started fighting thyroid fatigue back in 2012. It took me about seven years before I finally figured out how to get energy that lasts all day without relying on caffeine or supplements.
The key is minerals and other nutrients… people who try this reach out to us and share their success story and we hope to one day hear from you…
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