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105 // 5 Quick Energy Boosters to Beat Hashimoto's Fatigue · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Today we're going to talk about what you can do to boost your energy and to
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  feel more energetic, to feel more like yourself again, to feel less run down and fatigued.
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  So this is all coming from my background as 20 plus years as a nurse in both
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  Western medicine and holistic medicine, really looking at all of the different things.
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  I do have several different episodes, full length episodes about this,
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  and I will give you those as we talk about them.
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  I'm going to give you five different reasons why your energy might be low that
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  are unrelated to your labs, they're unrelated to your actual thyroid,
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  but things that you can focus on to improve your energy.
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  Number one is to prioritize sleep. And of course, that sounds like a no-brainer,
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  but sometimes it's hard to do.
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  I know that as an introvert, when the house is quiet at night after all of the
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  kids are in bed, that is my time and as exhausted as I could be,
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  sometimes that's when I want to savor that time and I want to be awake and I
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  want to just be by myself.
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  I don't know if that rings true for you as well.
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  Maybe there's other reasons why
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  you're staying up late. Maybe you're like caught in the endless scroll.
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  Maybe you've got that dopamine addiction where you're like, oh,
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  just one more reel, one more YouTube short, one more post. I'm just going to keep reading.
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  Or maybe it's a book, Like, whatever it is, there's always one more.
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  We live in a world where there's always more.
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  There's always something to look at. And sometimes it takes a lot of self-control
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  and discipline to turn off those distractions and to prioritize sleep.
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  So number one hack, not really a hack, to increase your energy is to focus on sleep.
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  And I have several different episodes about improving your sleep because sometimes
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  with an autoimmune condition like Hashimoto's, you can be completely exhausted
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  and still struggle to sleep when you're trying.
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  So the full length of episodes about sleep is number 23.
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  It is how your sleep can be a trigger
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  for Hashimoto's or other autoimmune problems and how to sleep better.
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  Episode 31 is improving sleep one simple step at a time.
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  Episode 81 is talking about the root causes of Hashimoto's, specifically the sleep root cause.
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  And then episode 45 is helping you to take a power nap when you are so tired
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  and you just need to crash in the middle of the day.
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  What is the best way to re-energize midday with a power nap? So that was episode 45.
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  So those are all things about sleep. The next little tip I'm going to give you
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  for improving your energy is gentle movement.
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  We know that one of the laws of physics is an object in motion stays in motion.
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  The same thing happens to us when we are like sedentary on the couch or sedentary
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  in bed or sedentary wherever we tend to stay that way.
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  And if we get up and move, sometimes that boosts our energy.
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  I'm not saying to go do a HIIT workout. out. I'm not saying to go like exercise to exhaustion.
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  That would also backfire. What I am saying is sometimes you just have to get
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  up and move and that will help you feel more energized.
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  I do not have a related podcast about that. If you do have questions about exercise,
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  I've thought about doing an episode about that.
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  Let me know your specific questions so I can do a better episode.
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  The third tip I have for you to increase your energy is to manage your stress.
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  Stress stress drains your energy because
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  you are a whole person you're not just a body you're
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  not just a mind you're not just a soul you are
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  a whole person so i have a
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  whole bunch of stress episodes but the two i'm going to direct you to is episode
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  92 which talks about the five different types of stress and how to deal with
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  that because as you lower your stress you can improve your energy And then the
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  other episode about stress I'll point you to is number seven,
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  where I talk about stress and your thyroid and Hashimoto's directly.
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  So lowering your stress can help improve your energy.
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  I don't know if you have had a day where you just feel so incredibly stressed
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  out and you realize you're exhausted after you've been focusing on that stress.
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  Or you've been thinking about something and all of a sudden you realize that
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  it's making you more tired throughout the day. Sometimes that's a mental load.
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  Sometimes it has a physical consequence of increased fatigue,
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  just feeling more and more tired because of the stress.
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  And also as you're processing stress, your body physically is,
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  you know, dealing with it.
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  It zaps your enzymes and the minerals.
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  If you have ever heard that people nowadays tend to have a magnesium deficiency,
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  one of the reasons is because we use magnesium when we are combating stress.
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  And so as we encounter more and more stress, whether that's a physical stressor
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  or emotional stressor or spiritual stressor, whatever, we use more magnesium.
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  We use other minerals and we use other vitamins as well as your body is dealing with stress.
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  So sometimes stress actually pulls nutrients out of your body just because they're
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  being used, and you get physically tired because of that.
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  You are a whole person. You can't separate the different parts of you. You are whole.
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  And that leads me straight into tip number four, which is nourish your body.
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  You need to have the ingredients that your body needs in order to function.
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  You need to have healthy proteins. Did you know that enough protein is key for mental health?
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  Like we think about mental health as just this like cloud-based cyst up in our brain, but it's not.
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  Our mental health is related to our physical health.
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  Our mental health is related to what and how we eat.
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  And making sure you get enough protein in nourishing your body can boost your
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  energy and it can help your mental health. It can help your stress.
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  You see how everything is related.
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  In addition to getting enough protein, obviously getting enough vegetables is
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  also key. People talk about it all the time. Why?
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  Well, because vegetables carry a lot of those micronutrients that we need,
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  they also help our liver.
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  And when you have Hashimoto's, you need to be supporting your liver so that
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  your liver can get rid of all of the stuff that it's supposed to get rid of.
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  Your liver is your primary detoxifier and it's taking care of so many things
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  that can act as triggers for your Hashimoto's.
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  So lots and lots of veggies is key when you are trying to increase your energy.
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  I have a couple diet-related episodes for you. The most popular one is episode
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  44, where I'm walking you through how to navigate the diet maze and figure out
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  what would be best for you for right now.
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  There's a lot of information out there about autoimmune and diet.
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  There's a lot about thyroid and diet and Hashimoto's and diet.
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  Episode 44 is a great spot to start in figuring out what's going to work for you.
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  And that leads me to tip number five to increase your energy,
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  and that is to activate your mitochondria.
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  Your mitochondria act as, or they are like your battery inside your cells.
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  They are the energy powerhouse of the cell.
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  If you don't have functioning mitochondria, you're not going to have enough energy in each cell.
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  And of course, you are made up of trillions of cells.
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  So if your trillions of cells are tired, then you're obviously going to be tired.
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  Now I'm going to give you a caveat on your mitochondria. The more your mitochondria
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  works, the more exhaust they're going to put out or this side effect of them
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  working, which is a free radical damage or oxidative stress.
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  So you always, if you're going to focus on your mitochondria and increasing
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  their health, you also want to increase your antioxidants because what combats the oxidative stress?
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  Antioxidants. Antioxidants are directly fighting oxidative stress.
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  So I love boosting my NRF1 pathway.
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  It's a pathway inside your body that tells your mitochondria to be healthy,
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  tells your mitochondria to increase, and it gives them what they need.
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  That NRF1 pathway is so crucial for my energy levels and for yours.
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  The NRF1 pathway is something that we don't learn about in biology class,
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  but it's there and it slows down as you age.
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  After about age 20, I think it is, it starts to slow down and we want to improve that NRF1 pathway.
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  I do that every single day along with boosting my own body's antioxidant production.
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  If you want to learn more about that, episode number 37 is where to go.
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  The name of that episode is I Need More Energy, One Quick Solution for Women
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  with Hypothyroid or Hashimoto's. And next week, we'll talk more about supplements
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  and Hashimoto's, but check out that episode.
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  Music.