Thyroid Videos
Below you’ll find a library of helpful videos filled with insights and strategies to support your thyroid health.
When it comes to managing Hashimoto's (or any other autoimmune condition), minimizing inflammation is essential. In this video I describe how your gut can be a significant source of inflammation and some fundamental strategies to improve your gut health.
In this video I cover some of the nuts and bolts of autoimmunity and why it's critical to avoid gluten and dairy if you've got Hashimoto's. When it comes to managing Hashimoto's the name of the game is minimizing inflammation and avoiding triggers that flare up your immune system. Unfortunately some of the biggest triggers in Hashimoto's are gluten and dairy.
In order to treat the nuances of thyroid conditions, comprehensive testing is essential. In this video I cover the lab testing that is needed for a complete view of thyroid function and how that's different than the routine thyroid tests that most doctors run.
I've been really surprised how many of my patient have told me they have hypothyroidism and when I ask "Do you know if you have Hashimoto'" they say "I don't know, nobody ever tested me for that". In this video I cover what lab testing needs to be done to diagnose Hashimoto's and how that's different than routine testing for thyroid function.
In this video I talk about what Hashimoto's is and why it's largely ignored by conventional medicine. Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid gland. It is the most common autoimmune disease worldwide and it's responsible for 90% of hypothyroidism here in the U.S. Despite these facts, Hashimoto's isn't routinely tested for or treated in conventional medicine.
Low thyroid function is a super common cause of fatigue. In addition to fatigue there a number of telltale symptoms of low thyroid function. These include weight gain, thinning hair, feeling cold, and brain fog. If these symptoms sound familiar there is a good chance that low thyroid function is causing your fatigue.
Did you know that 90% of hypothyroidism is caused by an autoimmune condition called Hashimoto's? The conventional treatment for hypothyroidism is to manage thyroid hormone levels with medication but completely ignores the underlying autoimmune condition.