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109 // Tech Meets Wellness: CalmiGo for Hashimoto's · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Hey, welcome back to another episode of Health with Hashimoto's.
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  We're still doing the summer short series where I attempt to give you episodes
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  that are 10 minutes or less.
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  How has your summer been? Mine has been a little unexpected.
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  One of my sons fell slash jumped off a rope swing and broke his leg,
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  both bones in his lower left leg.
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  So that was, you know, unexpected.
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  And now we are heading into the back to school season.
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  And there are a lot of emotions around back to school. I I don't know what your
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  emotions are or your kids.
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  If you have kids going back, everybody seems to have like mixed emotions,
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  excitement to see friends.
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  If you're the kids, not excitement to go back and do the work of school for parents.
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  A lot of times it's excitement of getting back into the routine as well as,
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  you know, the dread of the really busy schedule.
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  We seem to think that summer is less busy, but the routine and then all of the
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  school commitments, it's a lot.
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  And with big emotions, sometimes you need something to calm you down.
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  And today's episode is about a little device called the Call Me Go, C-A-L-M-I-G-O.
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  And it is designed to help you switch out of your stress mode and into your rest and digest mode.
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  So quick recap, when your body is stressed, it is in the sympathetic nervous
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  system. So you have two organs.
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  Under the surface nervous systems that are controlling your body and all the
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  functions all the time. You're either in one or the other.
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  So the sympathetic one is the fight and flight and freeze and fawn.
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  And that one is when you're feeling stressed.
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  The other one is what we refer to as rest and digest.
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  Officially, it is the parasympathetic nervous system. When you are in fight
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  and flight, your body is shutting down things that it doesn't need for immediate action.
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  So things like your immune system it's not going
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  to prioritize health and optimal functioning of
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  your immune system because it doesn't need to think long term also it doesn't
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  really care if you fully digest a meal because again your body is not focusing
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  on the long term it's focusing on do i have enough energy to run from a lion
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  right now and you of course need your digestive system to be working well,
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  we know that gut health is crucial and very influential in autoimmune conditions.
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  We also know that, of course, autoimmune conditions are linked to the immune system.
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  When your immune system goes all haywire, when your immune system gets stressed
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  and starts attacking things because, you know, like, have you ever done it?
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  When you're tired or stressed, you start lashing out at people,
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  you just get cranky and you don't want to be that way. but the stress.
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  Your tiredness or whatever is making you lash out at people that you wouldn't otherwise.
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  Same thing with your immune system. It lashes out or it attacks things that
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  it wouldn't normally attack like your thyroid.
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  Thus Hashimoto's thyroiditis. It is an autoimmune disease where your body is
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  attacking your thyroid.
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  So we want to stay out of fight and flight as much as possible.
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  We don't want our immune system to be stressed and mixed up.
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  We want to get in to rest and digest that parasympathetic nervous system.
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  And that was why when CallMeGo emailed me to see if I would look at this product
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  to talk to you about, I was like, yes, I looked at their research and I love
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  that they have research.
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  Their website has several different studies that they've done and you can read
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  all of their clinical studies right there on their site.
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  I love the research and I was like, yes, I will definitely look at this device
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  because I would love to share it with you.
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  You, you as a listener of my podcast, I know that you also want to do everything
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  you can to optimize your health, to move further on your path to healing,
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  to better health with Hashimoto's.
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  So let me tell you first some of the statistics about what the Call Me Go does.
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  And I'm going to tell you, it's super fast. Like when you use it,
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  it's just one to three minutes.
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  So super fast. Almost 90%, 88.9% of people felt less anxious,
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  decreased in anxiety, 100% decrease in chronic stress.
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  95% of people had an increase in their overall feeling of well-being.
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  People with PTSD, 89.5% had a decrease in those PTSD.
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  And I don't know if it was the symptoms or the overall, all,
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  I would have to look at the exact clinical study for that one.
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  But the quick stat is 89.5% decrease in PTSD.
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  90.9% of people felt less stressed at work.
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  And then sleep quality went up in 74% of people.
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  Those are significant numbers.
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  And you can see why I was like, yes, I definitely need to look at this.
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  So let me tell you what the little device is.
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  It is about the size of an inhaler. If you've seen your friend or maybe you
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  have your own inhaler, it's about that size and there's no medication with it whatsoever.
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  I think of it like when my third son, who is now 13,
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  when he was maybe in elementary school, early elementary school,
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  he used to love to hate to get scared.
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  So he would like stress himself out. He would think about things that would
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  scare him. He would get very anxious, especially at bedtime.
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  He would dwell on all of the what ifs and he would get very anxious and then
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  he wouldn't be able to sleep.
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  So we went through a routine that helped him focus on what he could see,
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  what he could smell, what he could touch, what he could taste,
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  which we didn't really do taste at bedtime, and then what he was grateful for.
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  We tried to do all the sensory experience so that it would ground him in the
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  here and now and it would decrease his anxiety and help him sleep.
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  That's kind of what the Call Me Go does.
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  It uses three proven techniques to decrease how much you are in that fight and flight stage.
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  It helps you to get into, to activate your parasympathetic nervous system, your rest and digest.
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  And that is where we want to be a lot of the time.
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  If we have an autoimmune condition, we want to be in our rest and digest.
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  We want to help our body heal. So when you use the call me go, you're breathing.
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  I talk a lot about diaphragmatic breathing on the podcast because I want you
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  to be able to shift into the parasympathetic mode as much as you can.
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  And deep breathing with your diaphragm is the fastest way that you can shift your body.
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  So I love that the Call Me Go helps you use your diaphragmatic breathing.
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  It also has little lights. So you're going to put it up to your mouth and you breathe out.
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  Through the device. And as you breathe out, there's a little tiny ball inside
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  that calculates how quickly you're breathing, how hard you're breathing and
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  how long you're breathing.
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  And as you continue your exhale, you get one light and then two lights and then
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  three lights and then a vibration if you have the vibration turned on.
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  And when you get the three lights and the vibration, you know that you're lengthening
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  the length of your exhale.
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  So you're calming your breath down, right? And you're then inhaling through
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  your nose and there's a scented plate on it.
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  Now, the scented plates are not artificial.
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  So I talked to you again a lot about environmental triggers and chemicals that
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  can trigger your immune system to go haywire.
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  And we don't want to do that. So this is natural, which I really appreciate.
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  And not natural, like chemical filled, like if you see, I don't know about you,
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  but I get immediately red flags if I'm reading something and it says naturally scented.
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  I'm like, yeah, that's just chemicals. This is not.
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  They use what they call aromatherapy oils that have used a technology to solidify
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  them so that there's no substances,
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  there's no drugs it's all good when you
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  get your call me go you get to pick which scent you want they
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  have lavender peppermint and citrus
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  which is is it bergamot is that how you say it I think that's how you say it
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  if you know and I'm wrong please let me know so you get to pick your scent I
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  love this and let me share with you how it worked in not only my life but my
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  son's remember Remember I said that the one who would get anxious, he is now 13.
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  He's the one who broke his leg and his fracture was pretty significant.
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  We did have to go in for a procedure.
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  He needed a full sedation and in doing so, of course, he needed an IV.
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  He was very, very, very anxious in getting the IV. So I pulled out the Calmigo.
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  And he was using it. And it really helped him focus on something other than the IV going in.
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  I was very thankful that I brought that. He got to focus on his breathing.
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  He got to try to breathe in through his nose, out through his mouth.
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  He got to wait and exhale until he got the vibration.
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  It was super beneficial.
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  I have also been using it. I especially like to use it after I get anxious at
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  work, like sitting behind my computer.
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  I started a new software and I was sending a text message to a whole bunch of
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  people and I could feel my heart rate going up.
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  It shouldn't have been a big deal, but I got anxious about it.
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  So I pulled out the CallMeGo to get my body out of fight and flight and into rest and digest.
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  And that's what it can do for you. Down in the show notes, you're going to find my affiliate link.
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  It will save you $30 if you choose to use that link. I got the 12-month package.
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  So you're going to get the device and then you also get a subscription so that
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  you get the gamification on your phone.
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  I really do like the app. You build a little village, I guess,
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  and you're decorating your safe places.
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  I like that they gamified it. I like that they include that and you get prizes
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  for checking in every day because we want to reinforce our healthy habits.
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  We want to make sure that we are doing the things that help our body move out
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  of the fight and flight and into rest and digest.
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  So I am a little bit over 10 minutes. I apologize. I was trying to keep these to 10 minutes or less.
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  But anyway, head down to the show notes, check out the Call Me Go,
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  and then let me know if you get it and how it's working for you.
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  My goal is to help you do what you can to improve your health so you have better
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  health with Hashimoto's and getting out of that sympathetic or the fight and flight nervous system.
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  And into your parasympathetic, your rest and digest is really,
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  really important for your overall health.
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  So if you feel like the Call Me Go is going to be useful for you,
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  I am so happy to provide that affiliate link so you can save $30 on it.
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  So when you get it, make sure to tag Call Me Go on Instagram when you post about it and also tag me.
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  I would love to see how what I say on this podcast is impacting your life.
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  All right, after the disclaimer plays, it'll probably be about 12 minutes.
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  So I did not get my goal of 10 minutes or less for this episode.
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  I have one more summer short for you next week. And then we'll be back to the
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  regular scheduled 20-ish minute episodes in the fall. Let me know what you want to hear about.
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  I want to give you the information that will help you and that you are interested in.
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  So let me know. Send me a message on Instagram or over at the website,
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  healthwithhashimotos.com.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  If you found this episode helpful, will you please share it with a friend?
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  I'll see you next week on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Music.