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155 // A $5 brush supercharges your energy in minutes [Hashimoto's Health Lab] · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. Our summer series is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  This series is going to be 10-minute episodes.
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  Every week, we'll talk about a specific tool or practice. We're going to cover
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  everything from environmental detox to stress reduction, energy boosters,
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  biohacks, and all of it is going to be designed to give you tools for better
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  health with Hashimoto's.
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  I'm your host, Esther Yunkin. I'm a registered nurse helping women uncover their
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  root causes and regain energy.
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  So these episodes are going to be short. If you are ready for a deeper transformation,
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  check out the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  It will help you identify your unique triggers and root causes so that you can
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  focus your own energy on what really matters for your health.
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  Are you ready to explore a new strategy for thriving with Hashimoto's?
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  Let's dive in. This is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  Two weeks ago, I introduced you to the newish word expososome or exposome.
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  And it's the accumulation of different environmental toxins and things that we're exposed to.
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  We talked about lowering that cumulative burden by filtering your water.
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  And then last week, we talked about far infrared sauna as a way to get things
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  out of your body to reduce that exposome and, you know,
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  sweat out different chemicals and heavy metals and different things like that.
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  And this week, we're going to do another episode kind of on the same theme,
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  and this one is dry brushing.
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  So last week, far infrared sauna, like I said last week, biggest investment
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  of these tools that we're going to be talking about over the summer.
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  This week, a dry brush is like $5 to $15.
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  Super cheap, especially compared to a far infrared sauna. But what is it?
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  Why does it work? And why should we be talking about it in this Hath Shimoto's Health Lab series?
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  Well, dry brushing is just what it sounds like.
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  It is typically a boar bristle brush or something with kind of hard and scratchy
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  natural fibers, natural bristles, and you brush your skin while dry.
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  Sounds exactly like it sounds. The thing it does is it helps your lymphatic system move.
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  Now your lymphatic system is like the garbage disposal system of your body.
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  You have your arteries and your veins and your nerves.
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  We can picture that, right? Your heart is the pump.
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  It moves your blood through your arteries and your veins. Your nerves kind of
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  go right along those arteries and veins. there's another little tube next to
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  the arteries and veins, and that's your lymphatic tube.
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  And that's where the garbage is going.
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  And then the garbage is shuttled to your lymph nodes, and then it's either recycled,
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  it's repaired, or it's taken out of commission, and you end up like pooping it out.
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  So your lymphatic system is very important for getting rid of junk, getting rid of garbage.
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  And dry skin brushing helps you move it through.
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  See, your lymphatic system doesn't have a pump of its own. It relies on muscle movement and gravity.
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  If you go back and listen to episode 34, it's all about lymph and why it matters and what you can do.
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  I also have a section in the Holistic Hashimoto's program all about your lymph
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  and how to move it. your skin is your largest organ and it absorbs up to 60%
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  of things that are applied to it.
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  That's why we have patches for medications because we know that if we put a
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  patch on your skin, you're going to absorb it.
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  Well, you know, the same thing is true for makeup and lotions and perfumes.
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  So many different things, so many different chemicals that we put on every single
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  day. And a lot of those are linked to thyroid disruption.
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  So we want to reduce that.
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  We also want to get things out and we get it out by mobilizing the garbage disposal
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  system, right? The lymphatic flow.
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  When you have poor lymphatic flow, it can increase how much you're retaining for those toxins.
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  It can worsen your Hashimoto's symptoms. It can worsen things like fatigue and
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  swelling. We don't want those.
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  So dry brushing supports this detox pathway. It supports lymphatic drainage,
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  it reduces your exposome impact on your autoimmune health.
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  And of course, exposome, like we've been talking about the last couple episodes,
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  that's the cumulative burden of different environmental toxins that you have been exposed to.
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  So when you use this dry brushing technique, you're going to stimulate your
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  lymphatic system to move, which is going to remove the toxins and the waste.
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  When you regularly use dry skin brushing, your lymphatic drainage improves by 20 to 30 percent.
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  That was in, do you know that they have a journal? Of course they have a journal.
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  They have a journal on everything. It's a journal specifically for the lymphatic system.
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  It is Lymphatic Research and Biology Journal, right? I did not know that.
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  So they said lymphatic drainage improves by 20 to 30 percent with regular stimulation,
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  which dry brushing does.
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  It also can exfoliate your skin, so who doesn't want that, which reduces the
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  absorption of environmental toxins.
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  And then it can also improve circulation, it can support energy levels,
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  and it can reduce inflammation and swelling.
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  And those are things that can be common with Hashimoto's. And like I already
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  mentioned, dry skin brushing is affordable and it's super accessible.
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  It takes just a couple of minutes. So how do you do it? You're going to use
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  the natural bristle brush.
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  I got mine on Amazon. There were a lot of different options.
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  It's just make sure you have natural bristles.
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  We don't want to be exposing us to more plastics while you're trying to get rid of toxins, right?
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  You're going to start at your feet. You're going to start at your fingers.
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  So you're starting away from the pump. You're starting away from your heart
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  and you're going towards your heart and you're going to lightly brush. Think of the ocean.
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  Think of the speed of an ocean wave.
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  That's how quickly you're going to go. It's just low and slow and gentle.
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  When you are moving your lymphatic system, think about lightly skimming your
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  fingers over the foam of a, oh, I'm not a coffee drinker.
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  Is it a cappuccino that has the foam? I think so. That foamy stuff.
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  You're just going to like lightly skim it.
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  That's the amount of pressure you want. You don't need a lot.
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  So you're just going to go slowly and gently brushing up from,
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  like I said, from your feet or your fingers towards your heart
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  and then when you get to your abdomen you're still
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  going towards your heart but you always want to go
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  from left to right because that's the
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  direction that on the bottom sorry left to right on the bottom part of your
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  abdomen and then up and then as you get like right underneath your rib cage
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  then you would go from right to left that's just the direction that your gut
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  goes and so you want to go with your body and not against it same thing on your arms.
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  You're going to go gently from your fingers all the way up and then you can go down your neck.
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  I would not recommend doing dry skin brushing on your face, but there's a thing
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  called gua sha and it's just a flat stone and that's basically dry skin brushing
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  except for your face and you do it with a stone.
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  Again, you're going slowly, you're going gently, and you're going out from the center.
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  You're going out towards your hairline and then you go down your neck towards
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  your collarbone because that's where it's going to dump into your bigger blood vessels.
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  So this whole process is going to take you maybe five to ten minutes,
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  maybe 15, and you want to do it about three to five times a week for best results.
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  And of course, anytime you're moving things in your body, you want to make sure
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  that you're drinking enough water to support the detox pathways and to support moving the lymph.
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  In that longer episode that I mentioned, I also discussed sugar.
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  And when you eat something that's high in sugar, and you have stress,
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  it kind of turns into hot lava in your lymphatic system. Like think of hot lava.
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  It's sticky. It's destructive. It's thick.
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  Well, that's what can happen in your lymphatic system when you combine sugar and stress.
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  And so moving your lymphatic system one way through dry skin brushing can be
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  really beneficial if you're trying to move different toxins out.
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  If you're trying to get your garbage disposal system of your body moving and getting rid of toxins.
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  If you know your root causes and you know that
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  environmental toxins are impacting your health
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  this is one simple easy way to get
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  things moving and start to feel better because of
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  course we want to figure out what our root causes are we want to figure out
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  what our triggers are and we want to start addressing them we have you have
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  to do it in a way that fits your life right now it fits the time that you have
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  the budget that you have your mental bandwidth and we want it to make a difference.
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  We want things to be simple and sustainable because if it's not going to work
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  long term, you're not going to keep it up.
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  Dry skin brushing is something that is simple and if it works for you,
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  it is a great way to move your lymph.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any changes with your trusted healthcare provider.
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  To take your next step, join our school community and explore the courses available there.
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  You do not have to figure your health out alone.
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  So that is school, S-K-O-O-L.com, and it is the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health with Hashimoto's.