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let’s talk about how to shrink thyroid

nodules

naturally now before i get into it i

want to make a disclaimer this is not

meant to replace your medical care check

with your doctor before taking any of

this advice this information is just to

give you more data so when you do your

evaluation of what to do you have both

sides you have the medical side and you

have the alternative side unfortunately

a lot of the alternative advice is

buried on google and it’s very difficult

to find so that being said let’s first

talk about how to do a self thyroid

examination now for this little exam

you’re going to need a mirror

and a glass of water okay so the first

thing you want to do is identify where

the thyroid is so if i take my finger

and come down my neck right here this

little bump right here

that’s the atom’s apple it’s actually

called the thyroid cartilage even though

the thyroid is not in that area it’s

lower okay now if i take my finger and

keep coming down a little bit more

i’ll go right into a little indentation

right here

okay now from this point down through

here

i’m going to be feeling these little

rings

of the trachea they’re little pieces of

cartilage

and you can feel them as little bumps

right here now if we go downward we’re

gonna feel two little bumps okay that’s

two of the little rings we’re gonna get

to the thyroid so if you go down two

and just put your finger right there and

then also right through here at the

bottom of where your

collarbone joins

that’s where the thyroid is it’s right

here and it’s like a butterfly you have

these little wings with a little center

piece that right in the center okay so

the thyroid is right through here and if

you put your fingers on it okay and you

swallow

you drink water and look into the mirror

it’ll raise up a little bit as you drink

water what you’re looking for when

you’re swallowing

is you’re looking for

a little bump or a little lump or

protrusion

that sticks out

you’re also feeling the symmetry between

the left side and the right side okay if

there’s an enlargement on one side

versus the other that is abnormal what

you should feel is an equal amount on

both sides and you should not feel any

lump

bump or protrusion

if you do you could have either a nodule

or some type of an enlargement now the

first thing you need to know is that

these nodules are very very common

extremely common in young adults and

children and 50

of people over the age of 40 have them

and they can come and go

and 95 of them are benign so

only a very small percent are cancer

related if you went to a doctor they

would probably do a blood test

and an ultrasound test and they would

look at the thyroid hormones they would

also look at antibodies because

90 percent

of hypothyroid

conditions are hashimoto’s that’s an

autoimmune condition where there’s

inflammation and in the condition

hashimoto’s thyroiditis

there’s this little itis which means

inflammation and so you can see more

nodules in hashimoto’s now i’ve done a

lot of videos on hypothyroid conditions

and the symptoms and what to do

when we discuss hashimoto’s we’re really

talking about an autoimmune condition

more than a thyroid condition itself and

what triggers hashimoto’s is your immune

system going out of whack more than

anything else that can come from

severe stress or trauma where stress or

shock like for example let’s say you

lost a loved one can literally put your

immune system into a state where you’re

susceptible to getting all sorts of

problems especially autoimmune but let’s

go through the six things that can

contribute to thyroid nodules the first

thing

that i would do is i would eliminate all

dairy to see if your thyroid nodule

disappears because dairy has a lot of

different hormones and it can stimulate

the growth of your thyroid i mean if you

think about milk in general

milk is created to grow

animals okay like like in calves like in

sheep babies humans and animals so milk

has a lot of different growth hormones

and so if you’re consuming milk that can

be a contributing factor so just by

avoiding dairy you may find these

nodules disappear the second thing is

gluten now if you’ve been watching my

channel you’re probably not consuming

gluten but for those of you that are new

gluten is in grains it’s a protein in

grains and it is majorly associated with

hashimoto’s without getting into the

details there’s actually a similarity or

a crossover

with the genetics of gluten and your

thyroid in other words if you consume

gluten

your body is going to identify that

dietary gluten

as an external invader a pathogen and

start developing antibodies and it can

actually then cross over and now you

have antibodies to not just attack

gluten but your own thyroid but at this

point i don’t want to get into too many

details on that i’ll put that link down

in the description but you may find that

these nodules completely disappear just

by avoiding gluten now i’m going to

recommend going on the ketogenic diet

because there’s some additional data

that insulin resistance okay which

occurs when you consume a lot of carbs

predisposes you to developing nodules on

the thyroid gland and the combination of

both keto and intermittent fasting can

greatly help you in reducing these

nodules simply because of the

anti-inflammatory effect now as a side

note vitamin d is really beneficial for

hashimoto’s especially when you’re

taking about 30 or 40 000 international

units of vitamin d but i have not found

any type of causation between low

vitamin d and thyroid nodules but i will

say if you have autoimmune diseases

you’re going to be deficient in vitamin

d so vitamin d can help you all right

number three selenium deficiencies

low selenium is associated with thyroid

nodules so that’s definitely a mineral

that i would recommend taking you can

get selenium in brazil nuts

just one brazil nut can give you a whole

day

requirement of selenium selenium is also

in fish like tuna sardines salmon and

other types of fish selenium is actually

really good to counter mercury in the

fish as well selenium is also in organ

meats

as well as in meats in general and eggs

now a lot of people think that

you should take iodine if you have a

nodule and they may or may not be

correct with that because

if you take excessive amounts of iodine

you can actually create nodules so

iodine may help you

if you have a deficiency but if you’re

already taking a lot of sea kelp for

example i wouldn’t recommend taking more

c-califor iodine because that could be

causing it so here’s my viewpoint with

iodine

if you’re already taking a lot of c-cap

or iodine and you have these nodules

then you need to reduce that if you

haven’t been taking c-calp or iodine i

think a little bit of sea kelp might

help you in reducing the size of the

nodules and the cool thing about sea

calp is it has selenium as well as

iodine and the next mineral i’m going to

talk about which is zinc

a zinc deficiency can increase your

susceptibility to getting these nodules

now where do you get zinc well it’s in

red meat it’s in shellfish and oysters

and it’s in a lot of other foods as well

if you decide to take a supplement for

selenium or zinc i’ll put the values

down below of what i recommend all right

number five estrogen dominance if you

have too much estrogen because the

thyroid has receptors for estrogen

that can cause nodules this is why women

who are estrogen dominant many times

will be more susceptible to getting

these nodules especially when they get

pregnant or they’re taking birth control

pills or when they’re taking some type

of estrogen as in hormone replacement

therapy so if that’s your situation

get with your doctor uh maybe you could

come up with some other form of birth

control pill or

some other natural

hormone replacement therapy because

estrogen does affect the thyroid very

greatly and there’s also a lot of

natural remedies to help lower estrogen

i will put that link down below too all

right number six there’s an interesting

study which i’ll include

that talks about a combination of using

turmeric which is very anti-inflammatory

spirulinum as well as boswella so a

combination of these three things showed

significant reduction in thyroid nodules

you can read the research down below but

i wanted to give you

some strategies in some simple things

that you can do

using natural remedies now if you have

not seen my other thyroid videos i put a

good one up right here check it out