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125 // What are the Best Supplements for Hashimoto's? · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Hey, welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. This is the podcast where
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  you are going to learn simple and sustainable things that you can do to impact
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  your overall health, and specifically,
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  your immune health for your Hashimoto's, your thyroid health,
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  everything that is impacted by Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
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  My name is Esther. I'm a registered nurse, and it is my honor to bring this
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  podcast to you every single week.
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  Now, in December, I'm doing something I don't think I've ever done on the podcast,
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  and we are doing some replays.
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  I looked at 2024 and the most popular three episodes. We're going to do those
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  again in December for everybody who hasn't listened to all of them,
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  or because they are so popular, maybe you want a refresher.
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  And one thing you should know is that towards the very end of the year,
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  I switched us from an app, a standalone app to the school communities.
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  So now you can join the Health with Hashimoto's community on school,
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  S-K-O-O-L.com, and you will find the Health with Hashimoto's community there.
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  You can also find it down in the show notes.
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  All right, the second most popular episode of 2024 was episode 83, all about supplements.
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  What are the best supplements for Hashimoto's? So in this replay,
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  I'm going to introduce you to Fullscript, which is kind of like the Amazon of
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  good quality supplements.
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  And I'm going to tell you why I take supplements. And that's for two reasons.
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  The first one is to get my body to do what my body is designed to do.
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  Those are called activators.
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  You do not find those on Fullscript. And then the other reason I take supplements
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  is to fill gaps like vitamin D, minerals, adaptogens, fish oil, things like that.
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  Enjoy this replay of episode number 83.
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  Out of the over 20,000 supplements that are on the market, how do you know which
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  ones to take if you have Hashimoto's?
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  It's a great question, and it might be one that you have asked because it's
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  been asked of me many times.
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  And that's what we're going to talk about today on the Health of Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Thank you for joining me. I am Esther. I'm a registered nurse.
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  I'm a holistic health educator. I'm the mom of four boys and I have Hashimoto's.
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  And so you better believe that I have dug into this topic a lot.
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  So I first started learning about supplements in nursing school,
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  probably, you know, before that, but when I was in high school,
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  I didn't pay any attention.
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  And then in nursing school, I discovered that, or I was taught,
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  that nobody really needs supplements. You can get everything that you need from your food.
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  Well, I graduated from college, and then I was introduced to scientists and
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  doctors who were like, well, no, actually, our food is more depleted than it used to be.
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  Our environment is more toxic and more stressful physically and emotionally.
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  Like all of the ways, it's more stressful, which causes more nutrients to be needed by our body.
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  And so yes, you actually do need supplements. And so I learned that, you know, early out of.
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  I research. That is my, like, that is my go-to. When I have a question,
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  I dig into the research and I do not want hype.
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  If somebody sends me an ad or, you know, a reel or any type of marketing,
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  I am immediately like, no, nope.
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  Do not send me marketing. Send me science.
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  So I dug into the science and I realized, you know what?
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  The scientists and the doctors who are telling us that there's actually less
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  nutrients in our food and more of a need for nutrients, they are the ones that are correct.
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  And I will give you this quote by a famous doctor.
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  His name is Dr. Mark Hyman, and he is one of the leading doctors in the functional medicine world.
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  And he says this, if you eat only wild food that you hunt and gather.
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  Drink pure clean water, breathe clean air, have no chronic stress,
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  and are exposed to no environmental toxins, and you sleep nine hours a night,
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  then you don't need vitamins.
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  But the rest of us do. So I don't know about you, but I fall into the rest of us category there.
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  I do not eat only wild food that I hunt and gather.
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  I drink my own water and I think it's clean.
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  I breathe the air in the country, we have less pollution than in the cities.
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  But still, we've got stuff in the air because airplanes fly overhead and tractors
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  and stuff spray the crops around my house.
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  So I don't always breathe clean air. I do have chronic stress.
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  I am exposed to environmental toxins, and I do not sleep nine hours a night.
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  So like you, I need vitamins.
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  And what we're going to talk about today is like all of the supplements.
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  We're going to talk about what is helpful and I'm going to lead you through
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  my flow sheet of or flow chart of what do you need when.
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  Now of course at the end of every episode I give you the disclaimer because
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  that's what we're required to do in the United States. We have to give you a
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  disclaimer if I am educating you about stuff.
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  So here's the disclaimer at the front today. It'll also be at the end.
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  This education that I'm providing has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
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  Any product that I talk about today is not intended to diagnose,
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  treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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  I am providing education to you as how your body works, what impacts Hashimoto's,
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  and what impacts a healthy thyroid, and what tools can be used.
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  I'm not prescribing or recommending treatment.
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  You, as my listener, you will be
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  making your own decisions based on the information that you have learned.
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  My job here as your holistic health educator is to educate you,
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  to give you the information that you need and that you want in order that you
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  could take the next step.
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  So let's go through my flowchart.
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  It is already on a blog post for this episode.
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  So on the website, healthwithhashimoto's.com, you can go to the podcast and
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  you can see a blog post for pretty much every single episode.
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  Today's blog is already up. The transcript is not up there yet because obviously
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  I do the transcript after I speak it, but the flow chart is already there.
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  So you can go to healthwithhashimoto's.com.
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  You can head down to the show notes.
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  There's a clickable link and you can look at this flow chart.
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  Also after the flow chart, there's a little printable picture so that you can
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  fill it in and write down what you want after you learn the information.
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  All right. So at the very top of my chart that I've created,
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  I created this first for my clients, my private clients.
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  I want you to know that you are the CEO of your own health. You've heard me say that before.
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  You make the decisions. I am here to help educate you. Your doctor is on your
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  team to help educate you.
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  Obviously, if you have any questions, consult with your doctor.
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  We are all here to support you as the CEO of your own health.
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  Now, the foundation of any supplement plan that you do, the foundation is actually
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  sleep, stress, and hydration.
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  That is how I see it. Because at the root of your health are those three things.
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  How much and how well you sleep, your stress level, and then how hydrated you are.
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  When we're dehydrated, things don't work well. So those are the three things
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  that you always want to be focusing on.
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  And those three things can change daily.
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  Make sure that you're working on them.
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  When you go to the website and you look at that second page of this flow chart,
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  there's a spot that says, how are you or one way that I will work on these foundations
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  of health over the next two weeks?
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  I always want to encourage you to pick one thing to work on.
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  If you pick too many things, then nothing gets done.
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  So how are you going to work on sleep, stress, and hydration?
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  Okay, and then after that foundation of health, now we go through the different
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  things to look at for like products.
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  So number one is activation.
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  Activating your own body's pathways is so important.
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  We have different pathways within our body that slow down as we age,
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  and we can activate them to speed back up, to do what they're supposed to do.
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  You've heard me talk about some of the pathways before.
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  The NRF2 pathway is my favorite because it controls the oxidative stress.
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  It controls how much damage is being done.
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  It controls your body's creation of antioxidants. It is so powerful.
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  And you have a different pathway called the NRF1 pathway.
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  The NRF is a really long word and it's just, you know, chemical or chemist speak
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  because they discovered it.
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  And so the NRF1 pathway, it controls your mitochondrial health.
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  So that's the little energy production of your cell. Those are obviously very
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  important too. almost every single disease comes down to or has some mitochondrial
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  component because you need healthy energetic cells to work well.
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  And then also you can activate other things like your own collagen production.
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  Now, about a year and a half ago, the first activator of collagen came onto
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  the market, at least the first one that I know of.
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  Now there have been additional ones. The collagen market, the collagen industry
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  is growing by billions of dollars.
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  So maybe by the time you listen to this, there will be even more products on
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  the market that help you activate your own collagen production.
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  The one that I choose, I just shop at the activation company.
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  It's called LifeVantage.
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  A lot of their products promote the activation of your body to do what it's designed to do.
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  And then other products come alongside and give like the needed ingredients.
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  Because obviously, if you're going to create a whole bunch of antioxidants,
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  you need the raw ingredients to do that.
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  So I shop at LifeVantage. You will see the affiliate link down below in the
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  show notes. It's also on the blog so that you can go there.
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  The activating collagen that
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  I use is from LifeVantage. It has 10 different types of collagen in it.
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  Most collagens on the market have one type or two types, but you have so many
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  different types of collagen in your body.
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  And why is this important if you have Hashimoto's? It's because your gut is
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  so important for immune health.
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  And you have probably heard me say on the podcast that everybody with an autoimmune
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  problem has a genetic component, a gut component, and one or more triggers.
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  Well, activating the different pathways addresses that genetic component and
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  addresses the gut. When you are helping your gut by providing it with better
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  collagen, well, then the lining can be a little healthier.
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  So collagen, while we think of like hair, skin, and nails, which we obviously
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  want to improve, especially as somebody with Hashimoto's, we also want to work on our gut.
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  So activating your body to do what it is supposed to do, that is number one.
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  After that, we move into supplements. So activation, I don't see as a supplement
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  because it's different.
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  It's activating your body to do what it's supposed to do. Whereas supplementing
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  is filling in the gaps, filling in the diet, supplementing to where you don't get enough.
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  And the first thing that we supplement is omegas.
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  Providing your body with the building blocks that it needs is so important.
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  Most Western diets are deficient in omega-3s and you need omega-3s for healthy
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  skin, healthy nerves, mental function, and so much more.
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  And depression and anxiety, well, they run rampant in today's society,
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  but also when you have hypothyroid, you are at a really big risk for depression.
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  So we want to make sure that our brain has the ingredients that it needs to be healthy.
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  We always want to support our body in doing what it wants to do,
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  and your body wants to be well. So the first thing we do is activate.
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  Second thing is we work, we supplement with the healthy omegas,
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  and then we supplement with minerals.
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  Most people are deficient in not one, but many minerals.
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  And minerals are required for every single enzyme reaction in every single cell.
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  And you have trillions of cells in your body, and they all need minerals for the enzyme reactions.
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  Every time you move your muscles and relax your muscles, those need minerals
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  too. So a multi-mineral can be helpful.
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  I talked, was it last week about magnesium at bedtime?
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  So a multi-mineral is going to be different than just like a big mineral like
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  magnesium or calcium. I do a multi-mineral every single day and you can do that in different ways.
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  I'll talk about the what different brands and things in a minute.
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  So you're going to supplement in the holes, so omegas and then minerals,
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  and then I look at other supplements. Because when you're activating your pathways,
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  you are creating antioxidants.
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  But you still need some in your diet, and you still need the healthy foods to
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  provide things like phytonutrients.
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  Those are basically colorful nutrients.
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  There's also carotenoids. If you hear carotenoids. What do you think of?
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  Do you think of carrots? I do.
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  Carotenoids are the orange ones. They're really good for your eyes.
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  They're good for your skin. They're good for other things.
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  Did I say skins? Skin. You only have one skin.
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  Flavonoids, resveratrol. Maybe you've heard of that one because it's in red wine and grapes.
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  There's a lot of different micronutrients that we need that you might not be getting in your food.
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  So if you're not getting them, then what do we call the things we're plugging
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  the holes? Supplements.
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  So there's three things that we supplement. The omegas, the minerals, and the others.
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  Now some of these things that we supplement are related to the root causes.
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  I have done a couple episodes on vitamin D because it has been linked to Hashimoto's
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  and it is one of the root causes.
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  So obviously vitamin D would be something that you supplement if you're not getting enough of it.
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  And if you live north of Chicago and it's past the fall period
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  is it fall solstice? You know, past fall, you can be outside all day naked and
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  you can still not get enough vitamin D from the sun exposure.
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  So we supplement in the winter. And if you're outside enough in the summer,
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  then maybe you don't need to test your vitamin D.
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  It's really cheap. It's like 40 bucks and you can do it from home.
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  There are other nutrients that you also need in order to have a healthy thyroid.
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  Iodine is one that there's really good research for and really good research
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  against supplementing with iodine.
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  So what I have read that kind of comes down in the middle is have less than
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  200 milligrams a day, and that seems to provide enough iodine for your thyroid
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  to produce thyroid hormone,
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  which is for molecules of iodine.
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  But it's not too much that pushes you over into problems.
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  I honestly don't know if I will ever do an episode on iodine because there are
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  such good research on both sides.
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  And there are really, really smart people talking about supplementing with iodine
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  and talking about restricting iodine.
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  Personally, I have looked at it all and decided to experiment on myself.
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  And I found that when I did extra iodine, I had more Hashimoto's symptoms.
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  So I do not supplement other than what is in my multi-nutrient.
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  And I take, you know, just a regular multi-nutrient, a really good one.
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  I take one that is divided morning and night so that the nutrients in it don't
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  compete with each other because a lot of nutrients, like if you take a one-a-day
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  or a generic one-a-day tablet, not the brand.
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  You know, anything that's once a day, there are nutrients in it that compete
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  with each other in your body.
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  And so you're not getting the full effect of what you're taking.
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  So I take one is called Rise and Reset. Again, I get it from LifeVantage because
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  it is designed to go in synergy with the other things like the NRF2 activator
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  and the NRF1 activator and the collagen.
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  It's all designed to work together to support everything.
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  So that's the one I take. I take the Rise in the morning, obviously,
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  and the reset in the evening to get my nutrients and my minerals.
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  It does have a small amount of iodine, which I have found that for myself,
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  it supports me and it does not send me into having any symptoms of Hashimoto's.
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  Instead, it supports me.
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  Obviously, for everything that you do, you have to look at how things are working for you.
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  And here's another thing about anything, supplements, activation,
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  anything like that, you have to give your body time.
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  Most people are not going to take anything like this and notice a difference within a day.
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  Most people, you don't notice the bad stuff gradually happening until it's been
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  going on for a while and it's been getting worse and worse. It's the same thing in reverse.
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  To really give something like supplements and activation a good try,
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  you want to give it a full month for every decade of life because it took you
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  a long time to get to this point.
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  And it's going to take your body a long time, not as long, but a long time to
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  do what it's supposed to, to repair.
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  You're supporting your body as it's doing what it is supposed to do.
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  And so you want to give it time to fix the things that it wants to, right?
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  So then the next question would be like how to combine things and where to find
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  them. Well, I already told you I do the bulk of my shopping at LifeVantage because
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  everything is designed to work together.
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  Anytime that you buy something, not anytime, really good companies,
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  they are going to design their products to all work together so that you are fully supported.
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  And LifeVantage does that. So I get my activators from them.
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  I get the multi-nutrient from them.
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  The omegas, I actually don't. They have fantastic omegas. But this is what I do.
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  I have a family of six and I look at what am I actually going to give everybody?
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  I'm going to give them one tablet or one capsule a day.
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  The LifeVantage Omega is really small and you take three a day,
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  which is fantastic if you don't like to swallow big capsules or if you have
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  kids and they're just learning to swallow.
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  It's great. But I know that for my family, everybody is really good at swallowing
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  things and they're only going to take one a day. So to get the best dose in
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  them, I do a different one.
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  Now I shop at Fullscript and that is kind of like, kind of like Amazon.
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  It's this huge online store with over 20,000 different products.
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  When I was preparing for this episode, I was like, I can't send you to Fullscript
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  because you have to have a link from provider.
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  And then I was like, wait a minute, I have a provider number.
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  So I went to Fullscript and I have a link for you.
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  So now you can drop down to the show notes and you can get to Fullscript and
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  you can shop at this store that's got 20,000 products in it,
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  every single one, according to what they say, has been checked to make sure
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  that they are good, their quality, that they have what they say they have in it.
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  When you go to Fullscript, when you click on my link, then click at the top,
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  there's a little catalog tab, click that, and under that you will see.
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  It'll say Health with Hashimoto's and it'll say Esther's favorites.
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  The things that I have put in that favorite are the things that I actually take
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  daily or the things that I have used in the past.
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  Like there's a thyroid support and I took that in the past.
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  I do not take it now because I take that rise and reset and it has the nutrients that I need.
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  So I don't take the thyroid support, but it has in that favorites thing,
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  it has the fish oil that I decided to take. It has the vitamin D with K2.
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  It has that in there and it has the pre and probiotic.
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  So everything is right there for you. Fullscript has a subscription plan with LifeVantage.
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  When you go on subscription, you save extra money.
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  With Fullscript, you don't save extra money. But when you use my link,
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  you go directly and you get the baseline prices.
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  I have the option to like add a commission in there and I decided not to.
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  So you will get the base price and then you can use subscription so that you don't run out.
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  So those are the two places that I shop the most. And another thing that I look
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  at when I am, you know, shopping is how can I combine things so that they work really well,
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  but also so that it's simple because, you know, the less is more.
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  If I only have to do one product, then it's probably going to happen more than if I have to do like 10.
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  And then I look for the cost. There is a product on the market is called Black
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  MP and it has fulvic and humic acid.
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  Now fulvic and humic acid, they're kind of like a college parent.
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  They go to the dorms and they see what's missing and they bring in what's missing.
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  And then they also look at the dorms and they're like, okay,
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  this is the trash. And they take the trash out.
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  That's kind of what fulvic acid and humic acid do for your cells.
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  They bring in the good stuff and they take out the trash.
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  They are really good if you are exposed to a lot of environmental toxins.
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  Black MP has fulvic and humic acid and also in their product,
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  you can get it in a powder or you can get it in a liquid. There's minerals.
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  There's 77 different trace minerals, and there's electrolytes,
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  and there's probiotics.
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  So again, you're combining a lot of the different things that you naturally need in one product.
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  So in the show notes and in the blog, I have links to those things.
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  I have a link to the activation store, the LifeVantage.
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  I have a link to Fullscript, and then I have a link to that Black MP.
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  Your body wants to do what it is
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  designed to do, and it is your job to support it so that it can do that.
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  I hope this episode has been helpful for you to learn how you can best support your body.
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  If it has been helpful and you haven't left a review yet, would you do me a
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  favor and do that really quick?
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  It doesn't take very much time, less than a couple minutes, and it really supports
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  this podcast to get out to more people.
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  Also, you can send the episode to somebody if you've heard them say,
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  like, I wonder if this thing is good. I wonder what I should be taking.
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  This is my flow chart for everybody who I talk to because it's pertinent for everybody.
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  Whether you have Hashimoto's or you don't, you need to activate,
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  you need to supplement with the things that are missing like omegas,
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  minerals, and other things.
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  And then you give a targeted approach based on what you specifically are dealing
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  with and are trying to support in your own body and your health.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only,
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  please be sure to discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  Music.