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145 // Is There Gluten Hiding in Your Thyroid Medication? · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Is your thyroid medication making you feel worse? Nobody wants that.
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  When you start on a medication or a supplement or anything, you're doing it
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  in an attempt to feel better.
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  You're doing it in an attempt to make symptoms go away, to address the root cause of your problems.
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  Nobody goes on a supplement or a medication trying to feel worse.
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  But some thyroid medications can sabotage your health.
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  And that's what we're going to talk about today on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Welcome to this week's podcast. I am Esther. I am the host of Health with Hashimoto's.
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  Every single week, I want to help you improve your health.
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  I want to help you know that you are in charge of your health.
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  You are the CEO of your own health.
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  And that means you are the ultimate decision maker.
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  You might have people on your, like, quote, board of directors.
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  People who are advising you, people who are telling you their best suggestions
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  for your overall health.
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  And they are speaking to their specialty.
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  So your doctor is looking at your health with the doctor's lens.
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  Your chiropractor is looking with the chiropractor lens.
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  Your therapist is looking with mental health lens. Your pastor is looking with
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  the spiritual health lens.
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  Everybody is advising you with their specialty in mind because that's what they're good at, right?
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  Your job as the CEO of your health is to put all of the pieces together and
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  to make an informed decision about what is going to be best for your overall health.
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  That is your body, your mind, your spirit, your diet, your environment.
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  Putting it all together, putting all of the pieces together, factoring in
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  What does this season of life look like? You know, are you really busy with
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  the kids or with your parents or with your job?
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  Like what kind of stressors and what kind of load are you carrying right now?
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  What can you incorporate into your life? What can you change?
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  How can you improve your health? Only you know the actual answers to that.
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  Everybody else makes their best guess and their best suggestion based on what they know.
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  And now you get to put the pieces together. And every single week,
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  I am here to talk to you about that, to help you make the best decisions possible
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  for you and for your health.
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  And recently, I was reading in one of the Facebook groups I'm on,
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  and somebody asked a question about, I think she was actually asking about energy
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  levels, and somebody mentioned levothyroxine.
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  And the conversation went from there. I am going to read to you one of the comments
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  that immediately caught my attention because I had no idea.
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  This is what the comment was. It says, did you know that levothyroxine contains
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  gluten and a ton of other awful fillers and dyes?
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  I literally just discovered that a few months ago, and I am currently working
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  on getting off of it. I was shocked.
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  Apparently, it is not common knowledge. I've been gluten-free for 10 years.
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  It's on all of my charts, and not one doctor had connected the dots until I brought it up.
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  Okay, end of comment, end of quote.
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  I didn't know that. I have been a nurse for over 20 years, coming up 25 years
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  that I have been a nurse. I've been in healthcare longer than that.
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  I have written levothyroxine and Synthroid on so many charts,
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  but there's nothing in the literature.
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  Like when you open a drug book, they make drug books for nurses and it tells you what the drug is for.
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  It tells you the timeline, like how soon it's going to take effect,
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  how long it's going to be there.
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  It tells you the drug interactions. Can you take this drug with another drug?
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  It tells you sometimes the food interactions. It tells you the side effects.
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  It tells you what to tell your patient if they missed a dose,
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  like should they take it right now or should they wait until their next dose?
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  It tells you so much information, but never have I read that levothyroxine contains
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  gluten because in the drug book.
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  And in the databases, when you're entering drugs and medications,
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  it does not contain the fillers.
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  There's no way for your nurse or your doctor to know what fillers are in your specific medication.
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  And now I'm wondering if that is one reason that a lot of people throughout
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  the years have told me I can only do brand name Synthroid.
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  Out of all of the medications that I've ever typed in into somebody's chart.
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  That is the most common one that people will say, I can't do the generic.
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  I have to do the brand name. And one of the biggest differences is the fillers.
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  In Synthroid, the brand name Synthroid, there is no gluten.
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  It is gluten-free. It is also sucrose-free.
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  It has lactose and corn, possibly corn starch is the corn, and some dyes.
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  That is what is in the fillers of Synthroid.
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  But levothyroxine, just the generic, that could have gluten depending on which
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  company is making it and what they put in for their fillers.
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  It could have gluten, it could have lactose, corn, sucrose, it could have dyes.
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  You have to do a bit of research on your own.
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  Your doctor, your nurse, they are not going to know. Your chiropractor is not going to know.
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  The only person who is going to know this is the pharmacist.
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  When you get your medications filled, whatever medications you get filled at
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  your pharmacy, ask them to look it up.
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  So after reading this comment, I called my pharmacy. You can do the same thing.
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  Call your pharmacy. Now, I live in a very small town and I actually went to
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  high school with one of the pharmacy.
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  I don't No, she's the pharmacist or pharmacy tech. She answered the phone.
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  I only told her my first name because that's the size of town I live in.
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  And she was able to look it up.
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  My entire phone call from getting to the menu, to being able to connect to the
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  pharmacy, to having her answer my question, it was a total of three minutes.
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  You have time for this. I called.
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  I said, this is the medication.
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  Can you look it up and find out if there's any gluten in it? And she did.
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  And she's like, okay, hey, I know there's some place I can check.
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  And she read all of the fillers off to me, just right over the phone.
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  And then I just love her. She said, I'm going to make a note on this one that says gluten-free.
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  And she's also like flagging my charts to let me know that if the brand changes,
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  if the pharmacist or the pharmacy changes which levothyroxine they get in the
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  future, that they'll let me know.
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  It was so simple. And now instead of
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  worrying about it and you know stressing out
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  like I'm doing all these things to avoid gluten in my
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  diet to avoid gluten and wheat in my shampoo
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  and conditioner because they put wheat germ in there
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  and they put other gluten things in so many different products I do have an
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  episode on that it's the hidden sources of gluten episode episode 135 it's different
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  places that you can look for your gluten but at that time when I recorded episode
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  135 I did not know that it could be in your medication and not just any medication,
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  but medication specifically for thyroid.
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  When so many people with Hashimoto's are trying to avoid gluten and it has it
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  right in the medication, it does not make any sense. I cannot make it make sense.
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  All I can do is tell you, hey, if you're avoiding gluten, this is something
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  you might want to look into.
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  Like I said, it did not take me very long to check it out.
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  I quick did a Google to make sure that the person who was just commenting on
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  Facebook actually knew their stuff.
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  And I did find a chart that said levothyroxine can have gluten in it.
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  Now, Synthroid does not have gluten.
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  Unithroid does not have gluten. Lavoxyl does not have gluten.
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  In fact, that one is free of gluten, lactose, corn, and sucrose,
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  according to the Paloma Health chart.
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  And then Tyrosin doesn't have anything. And Euthyrox has corn, but that's it.
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  So I did a Google search to find out, you know, what's the truth of this comment.
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  Now let me let you know about fillers in T3. Okay, so you remember levothyroxine
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  or synthroid, all of those that I just read off, those are all T4.
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  That is the hormone that your thyroid makes. It produces T4.
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  Your body, primarily your liver, converts that T4 to T3. It happens at the cellular
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  level all throughout your body, but the majority of it happens in your liver.
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  And when it's converted to T3.
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  Then that's the active form of thyroid that your body can actually use.
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  That's the ignition switch for your cells.
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  Turning your cells on, allowing your mitochondria to work, allowing your cells
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  to have the energy that they need.
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  And of course, you need energy. You need energy at the cellular level.
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  You need every single cell to be doing its job. If we're not all doing our jobs,
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  then we don't work, right?
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  So you need every single cell to be doing its job. When your cells are doing
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  their job, then your organs and your tissues can do their job and then you can do your job.
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  So let's get our T4 to convert to T3. But sometimes it's not working.
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  And if it's not working, first of all, enroll in the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  It is my program so that you can figure out the shortcuts to getting your root causes resolved.
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  I walk you through what are your root causes. Now that is a mini course.
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  It's also included in the Holistic Hashimoto's program.
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  And in less than an hour, you're going to be able to figure out what your root
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  causes are without any labs, without any expensive stuff.
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  It's just like you watch this video, I've got a workbook, and you get to figure
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  out most of your root causes right there.
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  But if your T4 is not converting to T3, you'd have energy problems because your
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  cells don't have that ignition switch.
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  So some people need a combination medication. They don't need just the levothyroxine
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  or synthroid, they need a T4 and T3. And so that is armor thyroid.
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  Armor thyroid does not have any gluten.
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  Liothyronine, that one is just corn, again, no gluten, and some of them don't even have corn.
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  NP thyroid, no gluten. It has lactose in it. So if you're staying away from
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  lactose or dairy, you need to know that.
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  And then Cytomel does have gluten.
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  Cytomel is a combo T4, T3. So these things you do need to know,
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  but the only way you can know again is by calling your pharmacist.
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  That's the only way because there's so many different companies that make these
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  medications and they each have their different blend of fillers.
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  And so as long as we're talking about this, we have to talk about counterfeits.
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  We have to talk about Amazon. I'm sorry.
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  I know we all love Amazon. At least I love Amazon. I don't know about you.
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  I love Amazon. I love the convenience.
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  I love to be able to know, oh, I need this. Like the other day I needed command hooks.
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  So instead of putting it on my shopping list and then waiting until I went into
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  the nearest city, which for me, I don't go very often, I just put it in my Amazon cart.
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  And then once a week or so, I just check out. Or if I need it quicker than that,
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  I just check out right away.
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  I know I would love to shop local, but I guess, you know, my convenience outweighs
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  my going into town and shopping local.
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  So anyway, let's talk about Amazon. Amazon has a lot of counterfeits.
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  And there's no way for you to know when you order, if it's a counterfeit or if it's real.
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  There have been some companies who buy, quote, their products off of Amazon,
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  knowing that it's not actually theirs, and they get the product,
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  and of course it's not theirs, it's a counterfeit, and they have done analyses,
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  and they have found that what looks like their product is filled with nasty stuff.
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  Chalk, sawdust, wheat.
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  Stuff that we wouldn't want to consume. Counterfeits are rampant, unfortunately.
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  So my policy, my personal policy is I do not buy any supplement off of Amazon.
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  None. I do not buy supplements off of Amazon. I use Fullscript,
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  which is kind of like the Amazon of good quality supplements.
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  You do need a provider link in order to create an account with Fullscript.
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  And I have that down in the show notes or on my link page.
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  Every single email I send out, pretty much every single email has in the PS,
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  I have a section of helpful links and my Fullscript is in all of those because
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  I want good quality supplements.
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  Now Fullscript does have thousands of different supplements.
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  It has so many different things that you can look up and they have made a commitment
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  to good quality supplements.
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  They have hundreds of brands.
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  Every kind of supplement that you could think of, it's on there.
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  And so when I need some supplements, I go to Fullscript.
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  That is where I get most of my stuff. It's also where I get,
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  you know, protein powder and things like that, because I can trust them.
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  I don't trust Amazon for supplements.
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  Now, that was just something that I thought of because we were talking about
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  fillers and medications. And I just want you to know that.
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  I want you to know, please don't buy supplements off of Amazon.
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  Another thing that can happen on Amazon is, you know, people can sell their
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  own things on Amazon, especially if they have a lot of it.
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  There have been some people who, this happens especially with network marketing
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  companies, they buy it for themselves and they get a backlog.
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  Some network marketing companies require you to order a minimum every month. Some don't, some do.
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  And so some people will build up this stockpile of stuff that they're never
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  going to use. And then they're like, oh, what am I going to do with all this?
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  I'm going to sell it on Amazon.
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  So they do, and it's a real deal, but it's expired because it sat in their closet
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  for a long time until they're like, oh my goodness, what am I going to do with all this stuff?
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  If you buy a product off of Amazon, always check the expiration date because this has happened.
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  Again, it's from companies buying quote their own thing off of Amazon.
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  And doing an analysis on it, but they actually just get the bottle and they're
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  like, oh yeah, this is expired.
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  So another reason, don't get your stuff off Amazon.
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  There are things that you can get off of Amazon, but supplements are not one of them.
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  If you're going to get the activators that I talk about on this podcast a lot.
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  Get them directly from the company.
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  Now I use Protandim Nrf2, Nrf1, and NAD.
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  I use those every single day I take them because they activate my own body to
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  do what my own body is designed to do.
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  That protandem Nrf2, it tells my body to activate the Nrf2 pathway,
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  which is in charge of creating antioxidants, in charge of lowering oxidative stress.
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  When your oxidative stress is lower, your inflammation goes down.
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  Super, super important. I take the protandem NRF1 to activate my NRF1 pathway.
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  And what does that one do? It's in charge of your mitochondria,
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  the energy production of the cell.
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  If I want my cells to have enough energy, I need to make sure that my mitochondria are working.
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  So I want to activate that pathway because both of those two that are NRF2 and
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  NRF1, they slow down as you age.
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  And I want to get them back up to the levels like when I was a teenager safely.
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  So I take both of those every day. I also take something that activates my NAD+.
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  Now, your NAD is like the CEO of the cell. It's the thing that makes the decisions.
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  It tells your cells what to do.
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  Clean up, destroy, produce energy, mobilize and utilize fats.
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  Your NAD is so powerful. But I'm going to tell you something that I tell all of my new customers.
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  Start with the dual synergizer, the Protandem NRF2 and NRF1,
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  and do that for six months.
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  Get your body creating more antioxidants and more mitochondria and then add in the NAD.
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  You can do it all together. But what I have found for a lot of women is the
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  NAD is too powerful right at first and they feel really gross.
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  I accidentally took it for a while when I first started. I was filling up little
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  supplement containers for myself and my husband and for some reason I added the NAD to mine.
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  I don't remember if I was just thinking it was going to be an experiment or
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  whatever. And a couple of days in, I felt like nauseous. I felt morning sickness.
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  And yet I knew that wasn't a problem.
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  It was the NAD. I just felt really kind of gross.
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  But after being on the dual synergizer, the protandum NRF2 and NRF1 for six
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  months, then my body was ready to add the NAD.
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  I went off NAD for a while because of budgetary reasons and my thyroid antibodies spiked.
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  So I know personally that mobilizing my NAD, strengthening it,
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  helping the CEO of my cells do his job is very important for me.
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  And as far as those go, the protandum line, it's proven in all mammals, and you're a mammal.
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  So those are what I recommend for everybody.
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  Now, LifeVantage is a direct sales company. You can only get it from the company,
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  or ironically, for this episode, they do sell on Amazon, and they sell direct from the company.
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  So you'd have to order, make sure that it's LifeVantage selling it to you on
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  Amazon, but quite honestly, just get it through me.
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  Use my affiliate link or get it directly from the company.
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  Again, don't use Amazon. I have heard, I've never verified,
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  but I have heard that if Amazon is running low or runs out in one bin and they
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  have a counterfeit, obviously it doesn't say counterfeit, next to it,
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  they'll just pull from that bin and fill your order because you wanted, you know.
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  XYZ and in this other bin is XYZ.
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  I've not verified that, but just another reason that I would not order any supplements
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  from Amazon. So I order from Fullscript.
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  Life Vantage stuff, the activators, I order directly from Life Vantage.
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  And I get Seed. That is my favorite pre and probiotic.
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  You can get those on Fullscript or you can get them direct from the company.
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  If you get them from Seed directly, they will give you a friends and family
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  link that you can share with others so that in the future you can get a discount on your own order.
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  So that is one reason, well, actually I order from Seed because they weren't
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  available on Fullscript when I started using them.
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  But I keep using their website because I get to share that coupon link with my friends.
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  So if you want a coupon link, let me know. I only get one at a time.
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  I do not have an affiliate link for Seed, but I do get one coupon at a time.
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  So if you want a little coupon link, let me know.
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  And again, I have the affiliate link for all the LifeVantage products,
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  and I have the full script down below in the show notes. All of those will be there.
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  So know where you're getting your medications and your supplements from.
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  Make sure you're getting it from a quality source, direct from the company or from Fullscript.
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  If you're getting a medication, talk to your pharmacist and ask what fillers are in it.
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  Is there gluten in my medication? Because if you're avoiding gluten,
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  you don't want your medication to be giving you gluten while you're doing your
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  best to avoid it in all other areas of your life.
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  Your ratings and reviews just help so much. I appreciate you and I'll see you
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  next week on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Music.