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Why you keep starting over with your Hashimoto's protocols ⎸ Root Cause Series Ep 209 · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Does this happen to you? You see something that looks promising.
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  You might have seen it on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube.
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  Your friend told you about it.
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  You try it. Maybe it helps a little. Maybe it doesn't. But then a new thing
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  shows up in your feed and you start over.
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  Today, I want to tell you why that keeps happening. And it is not the reason you think.
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  Hashimoto's is an autoimmune condition. That means your immune system is attacking
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  your thyroid. But knowing that is only the beginning.
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  This summer series is built in three phases. Phase one was understanding what's
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  happening in your body. Phase two is learning how to think about what you're learning.
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  And phase three is building your own personal discernment framework with support.
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  So most women with Hashimoto's have a lot of information.
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  What they're missing is a filter, a way to evaluate what applies to them specifically.
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  That is what this series is now designed to give you.
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  If you want to start with a foundation, check with the show notes for Hashimoto's
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  Decoded, new name, Hashimoto's Decoded, Thyroid or Immune.
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  In less than one hour, I will walk you through the most common root causes and
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  help you identify where to focus.
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  My name is Esther Yunkin. I'm a registered nurse, holistic health educator,
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  and the host of this podcast, Health with Hashimoto's.
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  I believe your health is a blend of five interconnected areas,
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  body, mind, spirit, diet, and environment. Let's work through this together.
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  There is no shortage of information available to us.
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  You have social media, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube,
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  whatever. You have podcasts, you have books, you have blogs.
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  You have so much information at the tip of your fingertips.
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  And a lot of the information is really good. I'm sure you follow some really helpful people.
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  And then the algorithms, whether it's on YouTube or Instagram or whatever,
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  the algorithms figure out that you are interested in autoimmune problems,
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  specifically Hashimoto's.
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  And then you start to get ads on top of everything else that you are voluntarily
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  consuming. Does that sound familiar?
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  Well, a lot of the things that you see and that you hear, the education, it's really good.
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  So you hear about this new protocol or a new supplement, or a new ad shows up
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  and you're like, oh, I really like this expert.
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  So you start to do something new. Maybe you start that new supplement and you
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  are putting in real effort.
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  You are genuinely trying your best to follow the protocol that this supplement
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  offers, whether it's a once a day or twice a day, whatever it is,
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  you are doing your best because you want the promised results.
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  And then the results, they're unclear or they're partial. You're not quite sure
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  if it worked, but maybe it did.
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  But then while you're considering that, a new thing appears.
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  Again, starting at the beginning, it looks more promising than what you're not sure is working.
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  So then you start over. The old thing gets left half finished and the cycle repeats.
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  This is not a discipline problem.
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  Yes, you might feel like it's a you problem, like it's a discipline problem,
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  like you just need to stick with it. But it's not a discipline problem.
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  The real problem is that you don't have a filter. You don't have a way to sort things.
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  Every new piece of information is landing with equal weight because you don't
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  have a way to evaluate it against what will work for you and what won't.
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  If you don't have a filter, a personal filter, figuring out what's going to
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  work for you, then a new, it's like a shiny penny.
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  It's always going to look more promising than unfinished. And that's just human nature.
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  New stuff always looks more promising. I mean, I love Mondays.
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  I love the beginning of the year. I love the beginning of the month.
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  All three of those things have dreams and hopes and ambitions all right in front of me.
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  And then, you know, get to Wednesday or you get to halfway through the month
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  or you get to June and like, oh, I can't wait till next week.
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  I can't wait till next month. Can't wait till next year.
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  It's the same thing with different Hashimoto's things.
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  The new always looks more appealing. And so you find yourself starting over
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  because starting over feels like making progress.
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  It feels like you're doing something, but it might not be doing something.
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  So like I said, the problem is not information. You are not under-informed.
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  You might be over-informed, but under-structured. That's just the reality of
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  today's information age.
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  You don't have an information problem, but you do have a sorting problem.
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  So your goal, at least my goal for you in this podcast episode is to give you a filter.
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  And that filter is thyroid or immune.
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  So I told you in the little intro that I retitled the name of Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  It used to be specifically about root causes. And then I realized that what
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  I've actually been teaching you for what 210 episodes now is the two parts of
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  Hashimoto's, the thyroid part and also the immune part.
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  So Hashimoto's Decoded is now re-recorded. I did all of the video today.
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  That is going up. It should be live by the time you hear this episode.
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  And I have explained explicitly.
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  This is a thyroid bucket. This is the immune bucket. This is how you sort.
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  So I'm teaching you the filter, this two bucket framework, thyroid or immune,
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  because everything you've ever
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  tried, everything that has come across your feed or that you have read,
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  it belongs in one of two buckets, thyroid function or immune function.
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  And once you know which bucket something belongs in, then you can evaluate way
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  more easily if it fits your situation instead of just reacting because it's new.
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  So let's say a supplement comes across your feed.
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  Oh, okay, this supplement, I see that it is a thyroid support supplement.
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  I see that it has selenium, it has zinc, it has a little bit of iodine.
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  It has something to support my liver so that I can convert T4 to T3.
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  This is a thyroid supplement. This is going into the thyroid bucket, not the immune bucket.
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  And then you ask, what is it claiming to fix? All ads will have a claim to them.
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  If it's medical, like if it's going to go in the thyroid bucket,
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  they have to be a bit more careful.
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  There's legal constraints around them. They can't claim to cure,
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  they can't claim to heal, but they can tell you that they're supporting your
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  bodily functions, which is really the goal.
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  Your thyroid is supposed to do what your thyroid is supposed to do.
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  It knows its job and your role is to support it so it can do the best job possible.
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  Support it, the thyroid bucket, and also support it via the immune bucket.
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  So you're evaluating everything. You know, which bucket does this address?
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  Thyroid or immune or both?
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  What is it claiming to fix? And does this replace something I'm already doing or does it add to it?
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  And then here's the crucial question, whether it's the thyroid support that
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  we're talking about or whether it's anything that comes across your feed.
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  Am I trying this because it fits my plan or because it's new and shiny?
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  That's the big question. Does this fit my plan or is this new and shiny?
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  And you know, things come across even my feed and I'm like, oh,
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  I haven't heard of this, but I can quickly sort because it might be new,
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  but new doesn't always mean better.
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  So I sort it. Is this thyroid or is this immune? Is this addressing something
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  that my two buckets need help with, you know, a little patch on the bucket.
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  And I'm always evaluating, does this fit what I need?
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  I'm never trying something just because it's new.
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  I'm always looking at, well, I'm always looking at the research behind it.
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  I'm looking at the data. I'm looking at physiologic processes.
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  I'm looking to see if it supports how my body is designed to work.
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  These are all things that I try to teach you in the podcast,
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  but the filter I want you to apply when anything new comes across your feed
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  is which bucket does this address, thyroid or immune or both?
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  What is it claiming to fix? And does it replace something I'm already doing or does it add to?
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  And most importantly, am I trying this because it fits my plan or because it's new?
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  Because the goal is not to stop trying new things.
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  The goal is to stop reacting to every new thing.
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  Start evaluating it first. Because as the CEO of your own health,
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  you get to make the decisions about what is going to work for you and what might not work.
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  Nothing comes with a crystal ball. You're not going to be able to see a product
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  or an ad, a protocol or expert or anything and see immediately how this will
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  impact your life down the road.
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  But you should be able to know enough about your two buckets,
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  thyroid and immune, and about your plan so you can figure out does this fit into what I need.
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  Because if you are tired of starting over again, then having that filter to be able to better.
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  To better select things to start with, things to try, things to do, that is most important.
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  I don't want you tired. I don't want you wasting money, time.
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  Most importantly, I don't want you wasting hope.
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  I've talked about that before on the podcast. I feel like a lot of women who
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  I talk to, yes, they've spent a lot of money trying to feel better.
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  Yes, they spent a lot of time, years in most cases, trying to learn and trying
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  to improve and trying to feel better.
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  But what they're really out of, they're like spent, is hope.
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  Because with each new thing, they have hope that it's going to work.
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  And then when each new thing doesn't pan out, they lose a bit of hope.
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  And by the time somebody comes to me, they're often at just the dangling edge
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  of hope. They don't have much left. They're just like hanging on by a thread.
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  Desperately hoping to hope, but scared to hope. Does that make sense?
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  Because we try new things. We try new things all the time. And it's human nature.
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  But I hope with these four questions that I've helped you so that you can evaluate new things.
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  If you're tired of starting over every time, Hashimoto's discernment coaching
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  gives you a framework. So you stop reacting to every new piece of advice and
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  start evaluating it instead.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any changes with your trusted healthcare provider.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.