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177 // Why Good Energy Matters for Hashimoto’s and Autoimmune Health · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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Most of the chronic symptoms and diseases we battle today are simply different
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expressions of the same disaster happening in other parts of the body.
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The mitochondria are hurt by the way that we're living. A poorly powered cell
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becomes dysfunctional.
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The immune system tries to help but can't. And in trying, the immune system makes the issue worse.
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That is a quote from the book Good Energy written by Casey Means,
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which we're talking about today
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because it was one of the most impactful books that I read this year.
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The wisdom and the insights and just the common sense stuff she talks about
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in this book applies to every single person listening. That includes you.
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Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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This is where you will find clarity and simple, sustainable strategies to feel better.
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I want to help you figure out your root causes.
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My name is Esther Yunkin. I am a registered nurse.
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I spent about 17 years in the emergency department and then got sick and tired
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of putting band-aids on chronic things.
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I went back to school and now I have been in holistic health education for about 10 years.
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I know how exhausting it is to live with fatigue, brain fog,
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and the ups and downs of Hashimoto's and that is why I'm here.
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I'm here to cut through the confusion and to give you practical steps that support
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your body, calm your immune system, so that you can regain your energy and feel like yourself again.
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I read a lot. I know that reading fiction, you know, stories, reduces stress.
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And specifically, I stay away
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from the suspense and the murder and all of that, which I actually love.
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But it increases my stress level. I have learned that. So I read a lot of fiction.
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And I read a lot of nonfiction. I have my goal, I think I set my goal around 100 books this year.
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But my real goal, the thing I actually have to work at is 25% of my books, I want to be nonfiction.
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So learning about life, reading memoirs, biographies, educational things,
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and things that will help you through this podcast.
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So this week and next week, we're going to talk about the two most impactful books that I read.
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The first one is Good Energy by Casey Means.
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She is an MD. She's a doctor. She was like top of her class.
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Super, super smart. And then she got disillusioned with the broken medical system,
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just like so many of us. That is also my story.
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Got disillusioned, got fed up with how broken it was, and turned to holistic
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health, turned to whole health education, because I want to help people make
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a difference in their lives.
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She encountered the same thing. She was an ear, nose, and throat surgeon,
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and she was doing this same surgery over and over.
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And finally, she has started wondering like, why are all of my patients dealing with this?
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She went digging into figuring out why people are getting sick in the first
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place. Why do they need all of these ear, nose, and throat surgeries?
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Why are they having the problems? And she discovered what we've talked about
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a lot on the podcast, because it's so prevalent among everybody.
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She learned that chronic inflammation is a crucial instigator of all types of
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diseases and conditions.
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Not just inside the ear, nose, and throat, but everything from cancer to cardiovascular
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disease to autoimmune disease and neurological disorders.
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Her book, Good Energy, explores the root causes of all diseases,
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including autoimmune diseases.
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So you are here listening to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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If you have listened to any number of my episodes, you have probably heard me
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talk about the three root causes, the three things that everybody has if you
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have an autoimmune condition.
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Number one is a genetic component.
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Number two is a gut component. And number three is one or more triggers.
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Well, this book, Good Energy, goes down to the cellular level.
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And we're really talking about that genetic component because no,
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you can't change who you came from.
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You can't change your parents, your grandparents, your lineage,
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but you can change how those jeans express on a day-to-day basis.
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The jean is there. Whether it turns off or on is really up to you and your lifestyle
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and then how you take care of yourself.
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My boys, I have four boys, and they absolutely love Legos.
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They have an entire room that is the Lego closet. It is.
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Packed with Legos. And so when I think of the cell, I think in terms of Legos.
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Every single creation that my boys build with Legos is made up of tiny individual bricks.
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Same thing with your body. It is made up of teeny tiny individual cells.
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Well, if my boys Legos are, if they're generic, they don't work as well.
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My boys do not want to buy generic Legos.
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It has to be Lego brand. Because the generic Legos, even though they say that
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they're going to work and that they're, you know, easily swappable for real
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Legos, my boys know the difference and they don't work as well.
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And when you have the generics mixed in, or when you have broken Legos,
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then the entire build can suffer.
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Same thing happens for you. When your cells are not functioning well,
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when they are tired, when they don't have as enough energy within the cell,
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that ATP, which is their energy currency, when they don't have enough, they can't do their job.
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And when your cell cannot do its job, then it's going to affect everything that it impacts.
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So, you know, your cells make up tissues, organs, everything,
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all of your health systems. It is all reliant on the teeny tiny individual cells.
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And you have trillions of them. And it is our job to take care of them.
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So I'm going to read a couple quotes from the book. And in talking about inflammation.
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Inflammation is one of the things we deal with with Hashimoto's because the
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full name of Hashimoto's is Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
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When you hear itis at the end of anything, it means inflammation.
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Hashimoto's thyroiditis means your thyroid is inflamed because of the autoimmune
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condition called Hashimoto's.
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Hashimoto's is attacking your thyroid. Your thyroid is inflamed.
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Therefore, the full name is Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
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So she's talking about inflammation here.
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It says inflammation leads to disease, pain, and suffering.
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Inflammation takes root because core dysfunctions occur inside our cells,
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impacting how the cells function, signal, and replicate themselves.
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If we truly want to restore general health in the body and mind,
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we must look one layer deeper than the mechanism of inflammation alone and into
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the very center of the cell itself.
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And then she introduces this concept of good energy.
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Your cell is powered by, do you know it?
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By the mitochondria. The mitochondria power the cell and the mitochondria make
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ATP, which I already alluded to.
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ATP is like the energy is the currency of your cell.
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Every single day, I did not know this until I read this book.
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Your body is constantly making ATP.
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Every single cell needs to make the ATP to run the cell. It is like making the batteries, right?
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Well, every single day, your body makes 88 pounds of ATP.
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It makes it and uses it so quickly that we never notice it.
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You're not gaining 88 pounds every day. It just, your cells make it and use
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it. So it never impacts your weight.
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But that's how much your cells are making every single day. We have to make
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sure that our cells have enough energy to power their function so they can work so that you can work.
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And throughout the book, she goes into 10 different things that cause mitochondria
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to not work as well or to be damaged or to just not function well.
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And those 10 things are chronic overnutrition, not undernutrition,
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but overnutrition, nutrient deficiencies.
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Microbiome issue, that's the gut, a sedentary lifestyle, chronic stress,
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medications and drugs, sleep deprivation, environmental toxins and pollutants,
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artificial light and circadian disruption, and thermoneutrality.
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And she goes into each one of those in the book. And she doesn't just tell you
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about it. She gives you simple ways to fix it.
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The back, like third maybe, of the book is her four-week protocol to start fixing things.
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And she also has a lot of recipes in it.
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So this book is very, very practical.
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Yes, it's scientific. It tells you what's going on. It tells you about the cells.
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It tells you about the energy of your cell and everything that goes into disease
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and how to fix it, but she's also giving you very simple practical ways for
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solutions that you can apply to your life today.
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Because she understands that, yes, we absolutely need to make sure that our
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cells are healthy and that our cells have the energy that they need in order to function.
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But she also understands that your cells can't stop you or change your lifestyle.
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In fact, she puts it this way. She said, an immune cell cannot stop you from
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drinking a soda, make you filter
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your water, turn off the stress-inducing notifications on your phone,
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prevent you from eating hormone-disrupting pesticides and microplastics,
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or get you to go to sleep earlier.
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So the immune cell will use the tools at its disposal. It will recruit more
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immune cells. It will send out more inflammatory signals, and it will just keep
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fighting until things resolve.
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But the problems don't resolve because the damaging environmental inputs never resolve.
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This is the root of chronic inflammation.
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End quote. So we know that with all autoimmune diseases, our immune system has
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gone a little overzealous and started attacking things that it shouldn't attack.
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And a lot of that is due to that inflammation. Your immune system is trying
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to respond to all of this inflammation. It gets confused, starts attacking things
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that it shouldn't, and it actually then causes more inflammation,
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which can exacerbate the problem.
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Later in the book, she goes on to talk about this. She said that metabolic and
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autoimmune issues are tightly linked because a cell that can't make energy properly
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sends out danger signals, which can trigger the immune system to invade.
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So she's tying here the inflammation and the poor energy of the cell,
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the mitochondrial problems of the cell, to autoimmune conditions.
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She's also tying it back to metabolic issues.
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She says that there's a strong tie between people who have autoimmune problems
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and people who become diabetic or have other metabolic problems.
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There are so many things that are related, and I love how she ties things together in this book.
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But like I said, she doesn't just tie it together. She gives you hope,
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and she gives you practical solutions, and that is so good.
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Another spot, she says, so at the beginning of the four weeks to good energy, which is her protocol.
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She says, which I don't know, it's so convicting.
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All right, listen to this. She said, if simple habits like eating whole foods,
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getting enough sleep, practicing regular movement, and managing stress are so
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transformational, why do so few people consistently perform them?
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It's a great question, right?
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We know what we should do, but we have a hard time putting it into practice.
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And that is one of the things we work on in the Holistic Hashimoto's course,
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because I can teach you the basics and I can teach you what's going on.
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I can help you discover what's going on in your body and what is going to work
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for you as far as healing and figuring out what next step that you need to take.
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And a lot of it is going back to these basics, figuring out how can you sleep
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better? How can you lower your stress?
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I'm going to give you simple tips inside the program because sometimes we're
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just too overwhelmed or the brain fog is too high and you just can't think through
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how can I implement this?
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You know you need to, you just can't figure it out.
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So that's what we work on in the Holistic Hashimoto's program.
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Another thing I like about this book is she gives you specific labs that you
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need to check. She wants these checked at least annually.
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She wants a fasting glucose, your triglycerides, your HDL, she wants your waist
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circumference measured, and your blood pressure taken.
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There are specific criteria for each one of those tests.
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And if all five of those things are within the optimal range,
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then you would be considered to have good energy at a cellular level.
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I'm not talking about like new age energy, like the energy, I don't know, aura.
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We're talking about cellular energy, the batteries, the energy,
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the motors of your cells so that they can work.
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And so if you score well on these five different, the labs and the blood pressure
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and the waist circumference, you have good energy.
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But guess how many people have good energy according into those,
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just those simple five tests.
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It is 93.2%. Do not score that.
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Only 6.8% of our population is going to have good numbers for all five of those.
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Let me tell you what those good numbers are.
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Your fasting glucose is less than 100 milligrams per deciliter.
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Triglycerides are less than 150 milligrams per deciliter. HDL above 40 milligrams
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per deciliter for men or among or sorry or 50 milligrams per deciliter for women.
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Your waist circumference is less than or equal to 102 centimeters which is 40
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inches for men and less than or equal to 88 centimeters or 35 inches for women.
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Blood pressure should be less than 120 over 80. Those are the ideal criteria.
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And if you check each one of those
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five boxes, you are in the 6.8% of the population who has good energy.
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Now you have heard me talk on the podcast before about activators.
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These are natural products that you take to tell your body to make something.
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So the Protandim NRF2 is the one that I talk about the most.
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You take this combination of five herbs and it tells your body to make antioxidants.
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These antioxidants clean up oxidative stress.
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She also talks a lot about oxidative stress in this book because oxidative stress
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is like the rusting of a car or the browning of a banana, but on a cellular level.
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So you think of, you know, the knights back in the ancient times, medieval times.
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If they had a whole body suit of armor and it was all rusty,
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they would not be able to do their job, right?
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Well, same thing with your cells. If they are all rusty, they can't move.
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They can't take care of what they need to take care of. They can't do their
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job. We need to clean up the cell.
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Not just focus on the energy, but also cleaning up the rust, the oxidative stress.
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So that is what Protandim NRF2 does. It helps clean up the oxidative stress on your cell.
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Then we add in the Protandim NRF1, which impacts the mitochondria.
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It helps your body produce, number one, more mitochondria, and it helps the
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mitochondria produce more energy, more ATP.
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It helps it function option optimally. So if you are looking for a simple way
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that you can say, oh, well, I know that I don't have good energy.
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I know that I'm exhausted all the time. I know that I have a lot of these symptoms.
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And of course, every single symptom is your body whispering,
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crying, or yelling and screaming for help, depending on the severity of the symptom.
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So we know that when you're dealing with low energy or low cellular energy or
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symptoms, we need to focus on oxidative stress and mitochondrial energy.
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And that is why every single day ever since I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's
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and even before, I think like maybe six months before,
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I started taking for tandem NRF2 and NRF1 every single day because I wanted
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to focus on helping my cells clean up and have enough energy to do what they were supposed to do.
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Because of course, even before I got my diagnosis, I was still dealing with
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Hashimoto's and that overwhelming fatigue.
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And I was already trying to look for ways to address it.
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And if you are also looking for ways to help your cells clean up and have more
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energy, I highly recommend those two products.
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Together, they are called the Dual Synergizer.
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You'll find the link down in the show notes. And it's
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I'm going to warn you, if you are going to start that, don't just take it for a couple days.
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It's not like an ibuprofen where you're going to feel it kick in in an hour or so.
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These are happening at a cellular level and it takes about three to four months
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before you're feeling enough changes in your cells.
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Now we could do lab tests and we know from clinical studies that you will have
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an average of 40% reduction in oxidative stress within just the first 30 days.
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So it is, there's significant things happening on the inside,
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but you have like 37 to 40 trillion cells inside your body.
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So it does take a while for you to feel things.
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And also you don't feel oxidative stress. You don't feel the mitochondria slow down.
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Those happen over time as your body is like, okay, now I'm like really suffering.
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It takes a while for the symptoms to really crank up so that you can hear them, you can recognize them.
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The same thing happens in reverse. You're not going to feel a difference overnight.
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Most people. Some people do. I've had a couple people tell me within a week
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they felt a transformation.
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They felt significantly different.
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But most people, you're going to want to stay on these for three to four months.
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So just have that in the back of your mind when you order. go on subscription
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and take these faithfully every single day for three to four months and then
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let's see how you're doing.
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So I highly recommend the book Good Energy by Casey Means.
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I also highly recommend that Dual Synergizer to help your cells clean up and
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to focus on their energy while you are putting all of those lifestyle and things in place.
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All right, next week I'm going to tell you about the other book that made my top two.
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I am not going to do a podcast of the third best book, but let me tell you what it was.
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I've mentioned it before. It is Rethinking Hypothyroidism by Antonio Bianco.
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He's also a doctor, and this one is really science-heavy. It has a lot of really
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good information about hypothyroidism, about medications, about natural thyroid
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medications, about Synthroid and pharmaceutical shenanigans.
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It's a good book. I'm not going to do a podcast about that one,
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but that is my third most impactful nonfiction book.
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If you want to know what fiction books I read this year. You can follow me on Storygraph.
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I love Storygraph.
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I love so many features about it. I think it's so much better than Goodreads.
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I'll put a link down in the show notes to my Storygraph.
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I'll also put links to the two things that I want you to do.
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And I know at the end of a podcast, I'm supposed to leave you with one thing.
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Well, that one thing is focusing on your cellular health to clean them up and to provide more energy.
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You can do that with a protocol in the book by Dr. Casey Means, and that is Good Energy.
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I'll have a link to buying the book down in the show notes, and I'll also have
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a link to the Dual Synergizer, which is something just so simple.
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It's going to take you just a couple seconds in the morning to swallow those
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tablets and those little capsules,
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and then you're helping your body make better energy. So, so simple.
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