When I first started this blog I was oblivious to the common practice of health professionals that has ruined so many lives…
When people find this site and start learning how to get more energy and lose weight, they start to realize one thing…
The one thing I wish people knew before they remove their thyroid is that even after surgery, you are still going to have to make changes to your diet if you want to live full of energy and be able to lose weight…
A common story from those I’ve met who had their thyroid removed was that they started getting thyroid nodules… when they spoke to a doctor they were told that it’s benign and that there was “no need to worry about it”…
Unfortunately, people don’t make any changes because they are comforted thinking that there’s nothing wrong with a nodule growing so they make no changes until they go back and all of the sudden they are faced with that hard decision…
Should you go through a thyroid removal procedure?
I don’t think anyone can answer that but you…
The only thing I can chime in on is knowing that people who have had their thyroid removed have had to make diet changes that if they had done sooner, they would still have their thyroid and it would’ve been easier to get more energy and lose weight…
What Lisa started to understand was that the food that you eat determines the type of gut flora that colonizes in your gut…
If you eat food that lacks nutrients and makes your body toxic, it starts to create an environment for bad gut flora to colonize… that bad gut flora is considered bad because it steals nutrients from the food you eat, and creates toxins…
Toxins released by bad gut flora end up in your fat cells… when you gain weight, you don’t produce more fat cells… the amount of fat cells you have is fixed… what happens instead is that your fat cells expand as they get filled with toxins…
If you are gaining weight, you are not getting fat, you are becoming toxic…
That toxicity is what allows other bad stuff to grow… such as nodules…
Therefore the real problem is that your body is becoming toxic because of diet and poor lifestyle choices…
Removing your thyroid won’t fix the problem which can only be done by making lifestyle changes…
Unless you stop making your body toxic, you will continue to gain weight even after thyroid removal…
To lose weight you have to detox your body…
The changes that need to be made are much easier before thyroid removal… after thyroid removal, there’s no going back…
I’m not one to say that it’s impossible because I have strong faith…
The reason I started sharing this information is because I was told I was going to have to take hormones for the rest of my life…
I didn’t want to go that route…
I felt tired all the time, my hair was falling off, and I kept gaining weight no matter what…
I started researching how the body produces hormones and energy…
It turns out that your gut flora… if composed primarily of probiotics, they will produce energy and hormones for you…
The most effective way to get more energy and lose weight is to get rid of bad gut flora and grow healthy probiotics in your gut…
When I started making lifestyle choices, everything centered around one key goal… how do I improve my gut health…
In doing so, I saw a massive transformation…
I got my energy back…
My sleep improved…
… and I was able to lose weight and get into the best shape of my life…
I felt confident in my body…
I started sharing everything I was doing, not sure if others would be able to do the same…
Then, success stories started to pop up…
I was shocked because what I was sharing was so simple…
It’s the little things that I had to learn on my own as I learned how to care for my body…
Is there an alternative to thyroid surgery?
I believe so…
How simple lifestyle changes can save your thyroid
When I say that the changes were simple, I really mean simple…
Almost too simple…
Like to the point that people read about it the first time and say things like “it can’t be that simple”…
… but it really is all about cleaning up your gut and eating better food…
One of the best ways to clean up your gut is through hydration…
Water and minerals are essential for proper digestion…
They are the raw materials that your body uses to produce energy…
If you don’t hydrate properly and become dehydrated, you will notice your digestion abilities will diminish…
I too went through this…
Gas, bloating, and constipation…
Almost nothing else works if you don’t take care of this one simple lifestyle change…
People ask me about wheatgrass juicing and thyroid support supplements, but none of that works if you don’t fix the foundational areas of your diet which are hydration and vitamin D…
Having your thyroid removed doesn’t fix dehydration or low vitamin D…
Vitamin D is the raw material for hormone production… without it, you can’t make thyroid hormone or melatonin, the sleeping hormone… or dopamine & serotonin, the feel good happy hormones…
I used to have a hard time falling asleep… would toss and turn all night… wake up with brain fog… had depression and anxiety…
Why?
Low vitamin D means low hormone production…
So ask yourself… how is removing your thyroid helping you with vitamin D?
The things you’ll have to do to improve vitamin D will have to be done even if you remove your thyroid…
So why wait?
This is the one post I wish people find before they remove their thyroid…
I can’t tell you what to do, that’s your decision…
All I can share is what has been helping many get more energy and lose weight…
I pray that you make the right choices and wish you the best while making this decision…
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