There are foods that give you energy, help you sleep better and make it easier to lose weight…
There are foods that do the opposite…
The reason I started this blog is because I was eating all the wrong foods…
The result was that I was tired all the time, had brain fog, my hair started falling off and I kept gaining weight no matter what…
I felt miserable…
Everything changed when I was told I was going to have to take hormones for the rest of my life and something inside of me just refused to accept that as my faith…
So I started to dig in to figure out how does the body produce hormones?
How does the body produce energy?
Everything pointed to the gut flora… the little probiotics that live in your gut, that’s what produces energy and hormones for you…
This was such a breakthrough because for the longest time I was under the impression that if could figure out how to boost my thyroid then I would get more energy…
I had tried all kinds of diets and thyroid support supplements, but nothing worked…
Once I learned that trying to fix my thyroid wasn’t the way to go, and started to focus on my gut flora instead everything changed…
I got my energy back and was able to finally lose weight…
The best diet to get more energy
The most effective diet to get more energy is a diet that helps you grow healthy gut flora… a diet that helps you do this, isn’t exactly a set of recipes… and it’s not about taking probiotics either because probiotics can only grow in the right environment…
To understand the diet I used to get more energy you have to design your diet so that you can grow healthy gut flora…
How do you grow probiotics?
The first thing you need to grow healthy gut flora and get more energy is proper hydration…
This may sound almost too simple, but I personally didn’t drink enough water… I was dehydrated, which is why I was dealing with gas, bloating and constipation…
Hydration is one thing I did to help with that…
The best diet to get better sleep
I used to feel tired all day, but when my head hit the pillow I would have a hard time falling asleep… I would toss and turn all night…
I’d wake up and walk like a zombie…
Turns out that my hormone production was low…
I wasn’t just struggling with low thyroid hormone… I had low melatonin as well, the sleeping hormone… and serotonin & dopamine, the feel good, happy hormones… which made me feel anxious and depressed…
To produce hormones you need to start with vitamin D, which is technically a pro-hormone… all other hormones are made from vitamin D and cholesterol…
This was interesting because vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin which means you need to eat healthy fats to help raise vitamin D… this was contrary to what I believed…
I used to think that eating lean meats and veggies was a healthy diet…
Then I started to understand that lean meats isn’t good for hormone production… you need to include more fats… this scared me at first because I was getting fat and eating fat was counter intuitive…
… but I was at my whit’s end and willing to give it a try…
When I started eating more healthy fats and working on my vitamin D I started to notice my hormone production improve and it changed the way I thought about healthy eating…
The best diet for hair loss and weight loss
Hydration helps you digest food… vitamin D helps your body absorb nutrients…
Are you getting enough nutrients into your diet?
This was the complete game changer…
I realized that the reason why my immune system was weak was because I was malnourished…
I didn’t grow up eating an ancestral diet… I grew up eating a modern diet…
I used to love pizza, burgers, and wings…
So when I started learning about eating an ancestral diet I was a bit grossed out and weirded out… but since my hair was falling off I decided to go for it…
What is an ancestral diet?
Our ancestors used to consume a full nose to tail diet and root to fruit to get all the nutrients the body needs…
A nose to tail diet means that you don’t just eat the steak, you also eat the meat organs…
This may sound weird to most people like it did for me… but once I started to incorporate this into my diet, I felt my gut flora improve dramatically and that’s what helped me grow thick strong hair again and made it so much easier to lose weight…
Eating a diet that helps you grow healthy gut flora is the best diet for someone looking to get more energy, sleep better and lose weight!
How to get more energy with Hypothyroidism
They 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!
