How many people do you know that make a New Years Resolution to lose weight, get healthier and get happier? Whatever that number was, there is a good chance that a similar amount of people have failed to reach those goals.
Many people with hypothyroid problems struggle with these goals. Many more people that are either pre-hypothyroid or undiagnosed hypothyroid struggle as well.
Look good, feel good and be healthy. Why is that such a tall order? What are we doing wrong?
I propose the following solution...not the solution to your hypothyroid problems (way too many factors for one post), but the solution to how you go about addressing your hypothyroid problems: take a history lesson.
100 years ago, if someone had hypothyroid problems, it was as obvious as looking at their neck. Gross iodine deficiency was the main cause of thyroid problems (while subtle iodine deficiency is one of the leading causes of subclinical hypothyroidism today) and caused goiters. Thyroid cancers, congenital malformations and neck trauma still existed, but not nearly as prominent as iodine deficiency.
Iodine deficiency and hypothyroid problems are still a problems of today, but there are new problems that have helped propel hypothyroid problems to all new levels. Toxicity, allergens, chronic stress, nutrient depleted food, sedentary lifestyles, hormone mimicry, synthetic medications, compromised detoxification and distressed immune systems are all modern day problems at significantly high levels.
These are all things that are from our environment that are either new to our planet, or at much greater levels than ever before.
If we make the right changes, add what's needed, take out what's killing us and develop healthier habits, we can address hypothyroid problems for what they really are: symptoms of poor lifestyle. In case I didn't make that clear, most thyroid problems are symptoms, not the core problem.
Addressing symptoms can sometimes mask the problems, do nothing at all or even make matters worse.
Addressing the problems is a much better approach to addressing hypothyroid problems. In the past, that solution was to give more iodine to the iodine deficient person. Today the problem can stem from multiple causes, all of which need to be addressed.
So here is the take some point: your thyroid will only work when it is healthy enough to do so. Make health your priority instead of being free of disease.
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I am 38 year old woman and a mother of three boys. I started experiencing hair fall about five years ago and was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Since then I have been on synthetic medicine but my hair fall continued to be a problem. I switched to desiccated bovine thyroid and now I can feel the changes.
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