"I just had my heart broke"
"I can't get my head right"
"I can feel it in the pit of my stomach"
"My low thyroid hormone has got me down?"
It's well accepted that when you feel depressed, it can affect your body in a way that you can just feel. But what is a little less known is that parts of your body can affect your level of depression.
One example is when you have thyroid problems or low thyroid hormone. The thyroid gland is found in your neck and releases hormones that affect every cell in your body. Its main purpose is to control the rate at which the cell works. When there are thyroid problems and low thyroid hormone output is the result, there may not be enough hormone to crank up the cells in your brain. Those cells then act a little sluggish.
How does a sluggish brain make me feel depressed?
There is an area of your brain called your prefrontal cortex. From an evolutionary standpoint, this is a relatively "new" part of the brain. It is the area that makes us human.
One of the jobs of the prefrontal cortex is to suppress our animalistic portion of our brain (limbic system). If this part of the brain is not working as well as it should, your animalistic brain is allowed to take over. This is why some people with low thyroid hormone feel depressed, agitated, anxious, aggressive or feel like they are in a brain fog.
While doing brain specific exercises, eating brain friendly foods and supplementing brain supporting nutrients are all excellent ideas for treating depression (and should be implemented as part of your aggressively conservative plan of attack), you need to address the root of the problem in order to achieve long term success. Identifying where the breakdown in the thyroid hormone production and utilization is absolutely necessary to effectively treat a person with thyroid problems or low thyroid hormone.
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