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100 // Top 10 Most Popular Episodes from the First 100 · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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Welcome to episode 100 of the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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Oh my goodness, 100. When I first started out almost two years ago,
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I was excited to get episode one out and then episode 10 felt so big.
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And now we're at 100, over 50,000 downloads of the different episodes.
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This is just blowing my mind and I want to thank you so very much for listening,
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for for downloading these episodes,
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putting in your earbuds or putting on your Bluetooth speaker or whatever,
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and listening and improving your health, growing in your journey and your health
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journey so that you can have better health with Hashimoto's.
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Thank you for trusting me. Thank you for listening.
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Thank you for every single review and rating.
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Every single one matters a lot. Thank you for sharing this podcast with your
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friends, telling people about it.
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I've had people tell me that their spouse founded the podcast and gave it to them.
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I've heard had people tell me that their mom or their, it's usually their mom,
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I was gonna say their mom or dad, it's usually their mom that finds it and gives it to them.
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Thank you for sharing my words and helping other people improve their health
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through my voice and through the education that I provide.
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So today, I'm going going to give you the top 10 most popular episodes of all
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time, and a little bit of each one so that if you've missed one, you can go back.
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Because obviously, if they're the top 10 out of 100, they're the things that
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people want to hear the most.
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So if you've missed any of these, now you know what to go and listen to.
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Alright, so from backwards order, so number 10, all the way up to the top.
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Popular one. Number 10, it's actually like 10 and 11, is 60 and 61.
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Now, 60 and 61 are the episodes where I went through all of the root causes
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and helped you figure out your own root causes. So they are popular episodes.
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The action step, I'm going to try to give you an action step for each one.
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But before I say that, I want to say, please don't get overwhelmed.
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Do not do all 10 action steps.
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Just figure out which episode that you need to listen to or that like speaks
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to you the most or you need to go review or you didn't listen to the first time.
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Pick an episode and go to that one.
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The action steps for episodes 60 and 61 is to figure out your own root cause.
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If you do not figure out your own root causes of Hashimoto's,
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you can't make effective progress.
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You cannot know exactly what to do going forward to improve your health.
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If you don't know your root causes, and take action on them,
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then you're just going to be floundering
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around waiting for your doctor to increase your medication dose.
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And then eventually, you know, your thyroid is going to be dead.
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I've heard from people and that's exactly what our doctor says.
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Well, we're going to give you this medication.
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And after a couple of years, your thyroid will not be around anymore.
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It'll be dead. And then you'll just be on medication for life.
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Easy peasy. I'm like, like, wait, what?
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What? No, no.
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Let's support your body. Let's help your body, like figure out what's going
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on so that your immune system isn't going haywire.
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So episode 60 and 61, figuring out your root causes, and then your action step
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is to take action on your root causes.
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Episode or most popular episode, top episode, how am I going to say that?
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Top episode, number nine.
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What is a flare. It is episode number 27. A flare or a flare up is when your
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Hashimoto's gets worse and it can, it maybe get worse and stays worse,
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or maybe it flares up and then it flares back down.
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The action step for that, again, it's look for the root causes.
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Specifically, when you are in a flare, you want to evaluate what changed, what brought this on.
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Was there a simple or a single action?
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Was it stress? Was it a season change? Was it, you know, a diet change?
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What was it for you that brought on the flair? And it's always addressing the
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root action or the root cause so you can take action.
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Okay, top episode number eight is number 44. And that is the diet maze.
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In that episode, I helped you figure out what diet is right for you because
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there's so many different diets and every single person or every single diet
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has somebody telling you, if you have an autoimmune condition,
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you need to try this. This is going to work for you.
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Well, will it? In episode 44, I help you figure out what will work for you because
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you are unique. You're a bio-individual.
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There's nobody else on earth exactly like you with your circumstances,
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with your environment, with your everything.
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You are unique. And so in episode 44, I walk you through how to evaluate what
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type of diet to implement for yourself, and then how to evaluate how it's going. That is episode 44.
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Number seven is episode 21, which is all about metabolism and your weight.
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One of the very top complaints with Hashimoto's and hypothyroid is my metabolism
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slowed down and my weight increased.
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What can I do? So episode 21 is all about that.
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It's what you can do to increase your metabolism naturally and how you can lose weight. So episode 21.
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And And in the action step, I talked about what's called the metabolism essentials stack.
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I'm going to talk about a couple of products in several of these top 10 episodes.
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And the metabolism essentials stack has a few of those in it.
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Protandim NRF2 is my number one recommended product.
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It's five herbs. It's very natural and it activates your body to do what your
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body is supposed to do. That's always the goal, right?
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Well, your body creates antioxidants, and we need those to fight all of the bad stuff.
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Your immune system needs to have the ingredients, needs the weapons, right?
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Antioxidants are some of the most powerful weapons that your immune system has,
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and we want to help your immune system do the right thing with them.
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So protandum NRF2 is my number one recommended thing. Five.
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It has been proven to lower oxidative stress by an average of 40% in just 30
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days, which is phenomenal.
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In older people who have more oxidative stress, it actually lowers it even more
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because it gets you down to a baseline to producing your own antioxidants so
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that you can reduce the oxidative stress.
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That's kind of like, I'd look at oxidative stress like the browning of a banana
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or the rusting of a cow, of a cow, no, the rusting of a car.
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It's happening at a cellular level on you, every single cell.
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And we do not want that because that causes disease and aging.
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So we want to get rid of it.
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Protandim NRF2 is part of the metabolism essential stack that I talk about in episode 21.
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And also there is Protandim NRF1, which activates your mitochondria.
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What are the mitochondria?
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They're the powerhouse or the energy producer of the cell. And it activates
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that because if you want more energy, well, you have to energize every single
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little cell in your body, right?
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So that is what we talked about in episode 21.
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So I want to give you the overview now so that when, you know,
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the other episodes mention it, then you already have an idea.
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So all links, of course, will be down in the show notes.
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Episode or the top most popular episode number six is episode number five.
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And that is all about medications.
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And of course, this one's popular because when you go to the doctor and you
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get a diagnosis of hypothyroid or Hashimoto's, they just give you medications.
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So you want to know about your medications.
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And in episode five, I teach you about T4 medications and T3 medications, what's the difference.
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And I hope that I can't remember exactly what I said in episode five,
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but I hope that I released you of any shame.
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A lot of people tell me they want to get off their medications,
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like that is their number one goal.
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But just know this, if your thyroid is not producing the little ignition switch
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for every single cell in your body, it's okay. It's
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to take that as a medication. If you're not getting something in your diet, then we supplement.
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If your body is not creating what it's supposed to create, like insulin for
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somebody who's diabetic, if it's not creating insulin, then you need to have that as a medication.
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It's the same thing if your thyroid is not producing enough thyroid hormone.
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It's okay to take it as a medication. I want you to be able to release any shame
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or guilt that you might carry in needing a medication.
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It's okay if your body isn't producing it or if it's not converting the T4 to T3.
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It's okay to take a medication.
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Obviously, we want your body to do what your body is supposed to do.
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Creating your own T4 and enough of it and converting that to T3 and enough of
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it is obviously the ideal. deal.
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But if you're not there right now, it's okay to take the medication.
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So that is episode five, which was the top number six.
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So confusing because it's five and six, and that's going to happen again.
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Okay, the most popular episode number five was my story.
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It's episode number one, where I share my story of what I went through in finding
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my diagnosis and how much I really, really, really, really did not want a thyroid diagnosis.
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And I especially did not want an autoimmune story. Your action step for that,
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well, I did not tell you at the time because I didn't know that I would have an app someday.
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I have an app. So your action step after listening to my story is to come to
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the app and share in the community. If you're comfortable with it, share your story.
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The community right now, it is still teeny tiny.
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Come over to the community, introduce yourself, share your story,
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and let's support each other.
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So number one is my top five episode of all time.
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Number four is number 11, podcast episode number 11, and that is four foods to avoid.
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And like I said, back in the diet one, which was 44, figuring out what you can
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eat and what is going to help you combat any inflammation and any disease process
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in your body, that's a huge topic.
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So it is, it is the fourth most, most popular episode, and that is four foods to avoid.
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Those four foods are gluten, dairy, soy, and sugar.
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And I explain why in each one, about each one, how to know if it,
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if you should take it out of your diet, if you should try that and how to evaluate.
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So the four foods to avoid that is episode number 11 and each one reducing it.
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The goal is to get your body working like your body is supposed to work, right?
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And since you are a unique person, what works for somebody might not work for you.
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It's all figuring out what is going to be the right choice and the right step for you.
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Episode number four is the third most popular of all time.
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And episode four is about natural remedies for Hashimoto's.
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And this one did not surprise me at all that it was number three,
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because people want natural remedies with COVID especially, but I feel like throughout time.
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But with COVID especially, people have been looking for ways to help their bodies
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do what their bodies are supposed to do without pharmaceuticals.
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There has been a giant schism between people and the pharmaceutical industry.
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People are less and less trustworthy of what drugs are going to do for them.
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And I am really sorry for everything that happened during COVID.
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And you know, it's not just COVID though. I feel like we've been leading up to this.
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COVID just sped up this distrust and exposing the problems within the pharmaceutical
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world and within Western medicine, because there are significant problems.
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But people want to feel better and people are wanting to do things naturally.
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So in episode number four, I talk Talk about those natural remedies.
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And again, it's going to the root causes. It's figuring out,
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you know, what is causing your immune system to go haywire.
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When you address that cause, you're going to be able to fix or to help what's downstream from that.
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You know, if you're on the stream and all of a sudden you see a whole lot of
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little yellow rubber duckies floating towards you, you can scoop them out and that's great.
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You're going to clean up the stream. but unless you go
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and find who's dumping the rubber duckies into the
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stream you're not going to really make a difference right it's
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the same thing with your health you can address the symptoms as they are and
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you can try to feel better and every time something pops up you can address
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that but unless you get to the root of it unless you attack and address what's
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causing it you're not going to make an effective change.
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We have to address the root causes. And so a lot of those natural remedies.
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Are addressing the root causes. Vitamin D is one of them that I mentioned in
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that episode, because vitamin D is one of the things that has a direct correlation with antibody levels.
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Vitamin D, we call it a vitamin, it's actually a hormone, and I have dedicated
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several different episodes to vitamin D. You can check those out.
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Vitamin D is huge in your immune system, and we want to make sure that you get enough of it.
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You can make some from sun exposure, especially if you are in the summer.
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But if you're always wearing sunscreen, or if you're always wearing protective clothing,
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or if you live north of a certain latitude or longitude line,
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whichever way it goes across the globe, not up and down, if you live north of
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that, you can't make enough from the sun exposure,
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even if you're outside naked, like all day long in the wintertime,
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you literally cannot make enough.
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So vitamin D supplementation is one thing I talked about.
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And then I believe I also talked about selenium and the importance of making
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sure you're taking a multi-nutrient, you know, you can call them multivitamin.
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I like multi-nutrient because I want vitamins and I want minerals and I want
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adaptogens, which are the things that help your body adapt to stress and respond to stress better.
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So again, what I take is the Protandim NRF2 and NRF1.
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I talked about that a little bit ago. And then I also take a vitamin D all winter long.
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I take a little bit more. And then in the summer, I take a smaller dose of the
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vitamin D and I do get outside.
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And then I also take a multi-nutrient, which provides the building blocks that
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my body needs, the selenium that it needs, because you need a specific amount
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of selenium to have a well functioning thyroid.
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And there's a lot of things that you need a specific amount of.
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So I take a multi-nutrient every single day.
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And I talk about those natural remedies in episode four.
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I do have a couple other episodes that I talk about, you know,
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supplements and herbs and things like that.
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There is also a bit about that in the Holistic Hashimoto's course,
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because I am talking about that genetic component when you're in the course.
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We talk about each and every single aspect of the autoimmune condition,
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you know, gut aspect or a gut root cause, a genetic root cause, and then triggers.
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And so in the course, I am talking to you about nutrigenomics,
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which is taking nutrition and targeting your genetics, turning on and off genes.
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And that's what protandum NRF2 and NRF1 do.
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I want my protective genes to be turned back on.
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And I want those mitochondria genes, the ones that tell my body,
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hey, let's, you know, increase the mitochondria, let's have healthier mitochondria in the cells.
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I want that to happen too, because I need cellular energy.
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So that was episode three, or it was episode four, top episode three.
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It's a little confusing.
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The second most popular episode of all time is also a little confusing.
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Second most popular of all time is episode number three. And that one is all about thyroid labs.
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Because that one was so popular, I did a small series recently where I talked
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about T4, specifically all the different types of T4.
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And I did the same thing about T3. So those are more recent episodes.
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Episode number three is all about all of the thyroid labs, what's important
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and what you need to know.
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And I also did an episode, it was number 39 of how to get your own labs.
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Because sometimes your doctor can't or won't order the labs that you want or need.
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And you can order your own labs, at least in the United States.
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And I teach you how to do that in episode 39.
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Hopefully your doctor can order exactly what you need.
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But sometimes the insurance companies handcuff them and tell them they cannot
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order what you actually need.
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They can only do what the insurance companies say.
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And like I said, Western healthcare is broken.
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So the second most popular episode of all time is episode number three,
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and that is all about your thyroid labs.
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And then episode, top episode number one is episode number two.
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And that is, were you just diagnosed?
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Here are three things to do today. And I want to leave you with these three
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things. Do them every single day.
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And they're very simple, but they're things that we don't always do.
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And the first one is feel your emotions.
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Allow yourself to feel whatever you're feeling. It's not, you know, it's not bad.
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If you get your diagnosis and you're feeling relieved that finally you know
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a name for it, great, feel relieved.
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If you get your diagnosis and you're feeling overwhelmed and you're feeling
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confused, feel the emotions, don't just stuff them.
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I have heard it said by experts that an emotion, it takes you about 90 seconds to feel and process.
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And if you don't allow yourself to feel it, if you just stuff it,
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then it will come back later.
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It is like pushing a beach ball down under the water and it will pop back up.
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So just feel your emotions.
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Your emotions are not right or wrong. Taking action, like taking action when
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you're feeling angry and lashing out, well, that can be wrong.
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Talk about that with my kids. But actually feeling the emotion,
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like feeling anger, feeling sadness, feeling happiness, feeling relief,
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feeling confusion, the emotions are not wrong.
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Feel your feelings and then breathe.
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Take some deep breaths with your belly and breathe through it.
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It's okay. And then have compassion on yourself.
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You didn't cause this. You didn't bring it upon yourself.
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You might have taken some actions which did like hasten this or triggered it,
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but it was not on purpose.
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And I don't want you to carry any guilt or shame.
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So the last thing in episode number two of Actions to Do Today is have compassion on yourself.
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You did not cause this. You're going to be okay.
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Come over to the app, share your story, and enroll in the Holistic Hashimoto's
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course, because that's going to shortcut your time.
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You can go back and you can listen to all 100 episodes. I am so grateful for everybody who listens.
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But if you want to shortcut your time, if you are new to this episode or to
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this podcast, and to me, if you want to to shortcut your time,
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join the holistic Hashimoto's course.
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