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083 // What are the Best Supplements for Hashimoto's? · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Out of the over 20,000 supplements that are on the market, how do you know which
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  ones to take if you have Hashimoto's?
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  It's a great question, and it might be one that you have asked because it's
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  been asked of me many times.
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  And that's what we're going to talk about today on the Health of Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Thank you for joining me. I am Esther. I'm a registered nurse.
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  I'm a holistic health educator.
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  I'm the mom of four boys, and I have Hashimoto's. And so you you better believe
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  that I have dug into this topic a lot.
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  So I first started learning about supplements in nursing school,
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  probably, you know, before that, but when I was in high school,
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  I didn't pay any attention.
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  And then in nursing school, I discovered that, or I was taught.
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  That nobody really needs supplements.
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  You can get everything that you need from your food. Well, I graduated from
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  college, and then I was introduced to scientists and doctors who were We're
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  like, well, no, actually, our food is more depleted than it used to be.
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  Our environment is more toxic and more stressful physically and emotionally.
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  All of the ways it's more stressful, which causes more nutrients to be needed by our body.
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  And so, yes, you actually do need supplements.
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  And so I learned that early out of college. And at first I was conflicted and
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  I researched. That is my go-to.
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  When I have a question, I dig into the research and I do not want hype.
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  If somebody sends me an ad.
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  Or a reel or any type of marketing, I am immediately like, no,
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  nope, do not send me marketing, send me science.
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  So I dug into the science and I realized, you know what, the scientists and
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  the doctors who are telling us that there's actually less nutrients in our food
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  and more of a need for nutrients,
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  they are the ones that are correct.
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  And I will give you this quote by a famous doctor.
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  His name is Dr. Mark Hyman, and he is one of the leading doctors in the functional medicine world.
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  And he says this, if you eat only wild food that you hunt and gather,
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  drink pure clean water, breathe clean air, have no chronic stress,
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  and are exposed to no environmental toxins, and you sleep nine hours a night,
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  then you don't need vitamins. But the rest do.
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  So I don't know about you, but I fall into the rest of us category there.
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  I do not eat only wild foods that I hunt and gather.
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  I drink my own water and I think it's clean.
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  I breathe the air in the country.
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  We have less pollution than in the cities, but still it's, you know,
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  we've got stuff in the air because airplanes fly overhead and tractors and stuff spray the crops.
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  Around my house. So I don't always breathe clean air. I do have chronic stress.
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  I am exposed to environmental toxins and I do not sleep nine hours a night.
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  So like you, I need vitamins. And what we're going to talk about today is like all of the supplements.
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  We're going to talk about what is helpful and I'm going to lead you through
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  my flow sheet of or flow chart of what do you need when.
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  Now, of course, at the end of every episode, I give you the disclaimer because
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  that's what we're required to do in the United States.
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  We have to give you a disclaimer if I am educating you about stuff.
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  So here's the disclaimer at the front today. It'll also be at the end.
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  This education that I'm providing has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
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  Any product that I talk about today is not intended to diagnose,
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  treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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  I am providing education to you as how your body works, what impacts Hashimoto's,
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  and what impacts a healthy thyroid, and what tools can be used.
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  I'm not prescribing or recommending treatment.
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  You, as my listener, you will be
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  making your own decisions based on the information that you have learned.
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  My job here as your holistic health educator is to educate you,
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  to give you the information that you need and that you want in order that you
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  could take the next step.
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  So let's go through my flow chart.
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  It is already on a blog post for this episode.
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  So on the website healthwithhashimotos.com you can go to the podcast and you
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  can see a blog post for pretty much every single episode.
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  Today's blog is already up. The transcript is not up there yet because obviously I am them.
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  I do the transcript after I speak it, but the flow chart is already there.
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  So you can go to healthwithhashimotos.com.
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  You can head down to the show notes. There's a clickable link and you can look at this flow chart.
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  Also after the flow chart, there's a little printable picture so that you can
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  fill it in and write down what you want after you learn the information.
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  All right. So at the very top of my chart that I've created,
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  I created this first for my clients, my private clients.
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  I want you to know that you are the CEO of your own health. You've heard me
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  say that before. You make the decisions.
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  I am here to help educate you. Your doctor is on your team to help educate you.
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  Obviously, if you have any questions, consult with your doctor.
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  We are all here to support you as the CEO of your own health.
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  Now, the foundation of any supplement plan that you do, the foundation is actually
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  sleep, stress, and hydration.
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  That is how I see it. Because at the root of your health are those three things.
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  How much and how well you sleep, your stress level, and then how hydrated you
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  are. When we're dehydrated, things don't work well.
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  So those are the three things that you always want to be focusing on.
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  And those three things can change daily.
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  Make sure that you're working on them.
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  When you go to the website and you look at that second page of this flowchart,
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  there's a spot that says, how are you, or one way that I will work on these
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  foundations of health over the next two weeks.
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  I always want to encourage you to pick one thing to work on.
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  If you pick too many things, then nothing gets done.
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  So how are you going to work on sleep, stress, and hydration?
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  Okay, and then after that foundation of health, now we go through the different
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  things to look at for like products.
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  So number one is activation.
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  Activating your own body's pathways is so important.
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  We have different pathways within our body that slow down as we age,
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  and we can activate them to speed back up, to do what they're supposed to do.
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  You've heard me talk about some of the pathways before.
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  The NRF2 pathway is my favorite because it controls the oxidative stress.
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  It controls how much damage is being done.
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  It controls your body's creation of antioxidants. antioxidants.
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  It is so powerful. And you have a different pathway called the NRF1 pathway.
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  The NRF is a really long word and it's just, you know, chemical or chemist speak
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  because they discovered it.
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  And so the NRF1 pathway, it controls your mitochondrial health.
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  So that's the little energy production of your cell.
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  Those are obviously very important too. Almost every single disease comes down
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  to or has some mitochondrial component because you need healthy energetic cells to work well.
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  And then also you can activate other things like your own collagen production.
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  Now, about a year and a half ago, the first activator of collagen came onto
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  the market, at least the first one that I know of.
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  Now there have been additional ones. The collagen market, the collagen industry
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  industry is growing by billions of dollars.
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  So maybe by the time you listen to this, there will be even more products on
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  the market that help you activate your own collagen production.
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  The one that I choose, I just shop at the activation company.
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  It's called Life Vantage. A lot of their products promote the activation of
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  your body to do what it's designed to do.
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  And then other products come alongside and give like the needed ingredients.
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  Because obviously, if you're going to create a whole bunch of antioxidants,
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  you need the raw ingredients to do that. So I shop at LifeVantage.
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  You will see the affiliate link down below in the show notes.
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  It's also on the blog so that you can go there.
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  The activating collagen that I use is from LifeVantage.
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  It has 10 different types of collagen in it.
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  Most collagens on the market have one type or two types, but you have so many
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  different types of collagen in your body.
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  And why is this important if you have Hashimoto's? It's because your gut is
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  so important for immune health.
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  And you have probably heard me say on the podcast that everybody with an autoimmune
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  problem has a genetic component, a gut component, and one or more triggers.
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  Well, activating the different pathways addresses that genetic component and addresses the gut.
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  When you are helping your gut by providing it with better collagen,
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  well, then the lining can be a little healthier. year.
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  So collagen, well, we think of like hair, skin, and nails, which we obviously
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  want to improve, especially as somebody with Hashimoto's.
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  We also want to work on our gut. So activating your body to do what it is supposed
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  to do, that is number one.
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  After that, we move into supplements. So activation, I don't see as a supplement
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  because it's different.
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  It's activating your body to do what it's supposed to do. Whereas supplementing
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  is filling in the gaps, filling in the diet, supplementing to where you don't get enough.
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  And the first thing that we supplement is omegas.
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  Providing your body with the building blocks that it needs is so important.
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  Most Western diets are deficient in omega-3s, and you need omega-3s for healthy
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  skin, healthy nerves, mental function, and so much more.
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  And depression and anxiety, well, they run rampant in today's society.
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  But also when you have hypothyroid, you are at a really big risk for depression.
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  So we want to make sure that our brain has the ingredients that it needs to be healthy.
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  We always want to support our body in doing what it wants to do and your body
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  wants to be well. So the first thing we.
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  Second thing is we supplement with the healthy omegas, and then we supplement with minerals.
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  Most people are deficient in not one, but many minerals.
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  And minerals are required for every single enzyme reaction in every single cell.
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  And you have trillions of cells in your body, and they all need minerals for the enzyme reactions.
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  Every time you move your muscles and relax your muscles, those need minerals
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  too. So a multi-mineral can be helpful.
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  I talked, was it last week, about magnesium at bedtime.
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  So a multi-mineral is going to be different than just like a big mineral like magnesium or calcium.
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  I do a multi-mineral every single day and you can do that in different ways.
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  I'll talk about the what different brands and things in a minute.
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  It. So you're going to supplement in the holes, so omegas and then minerals,
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  and then I look at other supplements.
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  Because when you're activating your pathways, you are creating antioxidants,
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  but you still need some in your diet, and you still need the healthy foods to
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  provide things like phytonutrients.
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  Those are basically colorful nutrients.
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  There's also carotenoids. If you hear carotenoids. What do you think of?
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  Do you think of carrots? I do.
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  Carotenoids are the orange ones. They're really good for your eyes.
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  They're good for your skin. They're good for other things. Did I say skins?
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  Skin. You only have one skin.
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  Flavonoids, resveratrol, maybe you've heard of that one because it's in red wine and grapes.
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  There's a lot of different micronutrients that we need,
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  that you might not be getting in your food. So if you're not getting them,
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  then what do we call the things that are plugging the holes? Supplements.
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  So there's three things that we supplement, the omegas, the minerals, and the others.
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  Now, some of these things that we supplement are related to the root causes.
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  I have done a couple episodes on vitamin D because it has been linked to Hashimoto's
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  and it is one of the root causes.
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  So obviously vitamin D would be something that you supplement if you're not getting enough of it.
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  And if you live north of Chicago and it's past the fall solstice,
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  you know, past fall, you can be outside all day naked and you can still not
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  get enough vitamin D from the sun exposure.
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  So we supplement in the winter. And if you're outside enough in the summer,
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  then maybe you don't need to test your vitamin D.
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  It's really cheap. It's like 40 bucks and you can do it from home.
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  There are other nutrients that you also need in order order to have a healthy thyroid.
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  Iodine is one that there's really good research for and really good research
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  against supplementing with iodine.
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  So what I have read that kind of comes down in the middle is have less than
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  200 milligrams a day, and that seems to provide enough iodine for your thyroid
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  to produce thyroid hormone,
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  which is four molecules of iodine, but it's not too much that pushes you over into problems.
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  I honestly don't know if I will ever do an episode on iodine because there are
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  such good research on both sides and there are really, really smart people talking about.
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  Supplementing with iodine and talking about restricting iodine.
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  Personally, I have looked at it all and decided to experiment on myself.
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  And I found that when I did extra iodine, I had more Hashimoto's symptoms.
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  So I do not supplement other than what is in my multi-nutrient.
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  And I take just a regular multi-nutrient, a really good one.
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  I take one that is divided morning and night so that the nutrients in it don't
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  compete with each other.
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  Because a lot of nutrients, like if you take a one a day or a generic one a
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  day tablet, not the brand, but anything that's once a day, there are nutrients
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  in it that compete with each other in your body.
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  And so you're not getting the full effect of what you're taking.
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  So I take one, it's called Rise and Reset. Again, I get it from LifeVantage
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  because it is designed to go in synergy with the other things like the the NRF2
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  activator and the NRF1 activator and the collagen,
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  it's all designed to work together to support everything.
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  So that's the one I take. I take the rise in the morning, obviously,
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  and the reset in the evening to get my nutrients and my minerals.
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  It does have a small amount of iodine, which I have found that for myself,
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  it supports me and it does not send me into having any symptoms of Hashimoto's.
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  Instead, it supports me.
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  Obviously, for everything that you do, you have to look at how things are working for you.
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  And here's another thing about anything, supplement, activation.
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  Anything like that. You have to give your body time.
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  Most people are not going to take anything like this and notice a difference within a day.
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  Most people, you don't notice the bad stuff gradually happening until it's been
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  going on for a while and it's been getting worse and worse. It's the same thing in reverse.
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  To really give something like supplements mints and activation a good try,
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  you want to give it a full month for every decade of life.
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  Because it took you a long time to get to this point. And it's going to take
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  your body a long time, not as long, but a long time to do what it's supposed to, to repair.
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  You're supporting your body as it's doing what it is supposed to do.
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  And so you want to give it time to fix the things that it wants to, right?
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  So then the next question would be like how to combine things and where to find them.
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  Well, I already told you, I do the bulk of my shopping at LifeVantage because
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  because everything is designed to work together.
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  Anytime that you buy something, not anytime, really good companies,
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  they are going to design their products to all work together so that you are fully supported.
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  And LifeVantage does that. So I get my activators from them.
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  I get the multi-nutrient from them.
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  The omegas, I actually don't. They have fantastic omegas.
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  But this is is what I do. I have a family of six and I look at what am I actually
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  going to give everybody?
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  I'm going to give them one tablet or one capsule a day. The LifeVantage Omega
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  is really small and you take three a day, which is fantastic if you don't like
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  to swallow big capsules or if you have kids and they're just learning to swallow, it's great.
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  But I know that for my family, everybody is really good at swallowing things
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  and they're only going to take one a day.
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  So to get the best best dose in them, I do a different one.
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  Now, I shop at Fullscript, and that is kind of like Amazon.
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  It's this huge online store with over 20,000 different products.
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  When I was preparing for this episode, I was like, I can't send you to Fullscript
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  because you have to have a link from provider.
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  And then I was like, wait a minute, I have a provider number.
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  So I went to Fullscript and I have a link for you.
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  So now you can drop down to the show notes and you can get to Fullscript and
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  you can shop at this store that's got 20,000 products in it.
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  Every single one, according to what they say, has been checked to make sure
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  that they are good, their quality, that they have what they say they have in it.
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  When you go to Fullscript, when you click on my link, then click at the top,
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  there's a little catalog tab.
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  Click that and under that you will see, it'll say Health with Hashimoto's and
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  it'll say esters favorites.
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  The things that I have put in that favorites are the things that I actually
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  take daily or the things that I have used in the past.
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  Like there's a thyroid support and I took that in the past.
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  I do not take it now because I take that rise and reset and it has the nutrients that I need.
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  So I don't take the thyroid support, but it has in that favorites thing,
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  it has the fish oil that I decided to take. It has the vitamin D with K2.
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  It has that in there and it has the pre and probiotic.
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  So everything is right there for you. Fullscript has a subscription plan with LifeVantage.
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  When you go on subscription, you save extra money. With Fullscript,
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  you don't save extra money.
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  But when you use my link, you go directly and you get the baseline prices.
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  I have the option to like add a commission in there and I decided not to.
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  So you will get the base price and then you can use subscription so that you don't run out.
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  So those are the two places that I shop the most. And And another thing that
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  I look at when I am, you know, shopping is how can I combine things so that they work really well,
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  but also so that it's simple because, you know, the less is more.
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  If I only have to do one product, then it's probably going to happen more than if I have to do like 10.
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  And then I look for the cost. There is a product on the market,
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  it's called Black MP, and it has fulvic and humic acid.
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  Now fulvic and humic acid, they're kind of like a college parent.
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  They go to the dorms and they see what's missing and they bring in what's missing.
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  And then they also look at the dorms and they're like, okay,
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  this is the trash and they take the trash out.
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  That's kind of what fulvic acid and humic acid do for yourselves.
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  They bring in the good stuff and they take out the trash. They are really good
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  if you are exposed to a lot of environmental toxins.
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  Black MP has fulvic and humic acid and also in their product,
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  you can get it in powder or you can get it in a liquid.
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  There's minerals, there's 77 different trace minerals, and there's electrolytes
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  and there's probiotics.
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  So again, you're combining a lot of the different things that you naturally need in one product.
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  So in the show notes and in the blog, I have links to those things.
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  I have a link to the activation store, the Life Vantage.
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  I have a link to Full Script, and then I have a link to that Black MP.
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  Your body wants to do what it is
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  designed to do, and it is your job to support it so that it can do that.
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  I hope this episode has been helpful for you to learn how you can best support your body.
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  If it has been helpful and you haven't left a review yet, would you do me a
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  favor and do that really quick?
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  Also, you can send the episode to somebody if you've heard them say,
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  like, I wonder if this this thing is good. I wonder what I should be taking.
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  This is my flow chart for everybody who I talk to because it's pertinent for everybody.
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  Whether you have Hashimoto's or you don't, you need to activate,
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  you need to supplement with the things that are missing like omegas,
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  minerals, and other things.
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  And then you give a targeted approach based on what you specifically are dealing
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  with and are trying to support in your own body and your health.
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  This podcast is is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please be sure to discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  Music.