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in this video we’re going to talk about

how to get your thyroid to work better

there’s a lot of people that have

thyroid problems and a lot of people are

taking medication for it but what about

the actual underlying cause and what

could we do to correct the function of

that thyroid and hopefully down the road

you’ll need less medication and maybe

you won’t need any medication at all so

here’s the thing you need to know you

have the pituitary which is in the brain

it releases a hormone called thyroid

stimulating hormone the purpose of this

hormone is to tell the thyroid to

release t4 and t3 okay t4 is the

inactive thyroid hormone t3 is the

active thyroid hormone so t4 actually

converts to t3 we have like 23 times

more t4 than we do t3 so this is kind of

like the the pre hormone it’s like the

reserve then this actually does the work

in all of the cells and it controls the

speed of your metabolism the digestion

your mood so if you’re cold if you’re

losing your hair if you’re sluggish

mentally and physically and you have

muscle weakness those are all real

common symptoms of a slow thyroid now

check this out this isn’t a feedback

loop so as soon as the thyroid

stimulating hormone tells the thyroid to

release t4 there’s a negative feedback

that comes up there and tells the

pituitary I have enough so if you have

low thyroid stimulating hormone that

means you have enough I mean you might

have too much but you have enough you

don’t need more on the other hand if

it’s high if this hormone is high that

means your body needs more of these

hormones so it’s then going to increase

to produce more of these hormones now

there’s really two main problems with a

hypo thyroid condition either you’re not

making enough thyroid hormone usually t4

or you’re not converting t4 to t3 so

let’s first talk about the converge

in order to convert t4 to t3 you need Co

factors you need Helper vitamins &

Minerals all these nutrients help

contribute to this conversion selenium

is on the top of list this is the most

important okay and you have iodine then

you have vitamin D vitamin a zinc b2 b6

b12 and iron now if you’re doing a

healthy ketogenic diet and you’re doing

intermittent fasting like I recommend in

my book you’re eating foods that would

give you these right here also when

you’re doing healthy keto in a minute

fasting the need for t3 goes way down so

it’s going to overall help the thyroid

but these are the key nutrients that

help this conversion now as far as the

production of more thyroid hormones

what’s usually happening is something is

suppressing the function of the thyroid

and it’s usually high cortisol that

comes from stress it could also be from

medications like prednisone cortisone

shots things like that also estrogen is

a big factor this is why you see women

right after pregnancy for example end up

with a hypothyroid case because the

spike in estrogen now if you’re taking

birth control pills or you’re on HRT

that can inhibit the production also

high levels of insulin if you’re doing a

high carb diet if you have PCOS for

example plasticity co-variants syndrome

that can inhibit t4 now I should have

put this one over here because this has

to do with more conversions 80% of the

conversion from t4 to t3 happens in the

liver 20% happens in the kidney and if

there’s a problem with the liver if

there’s a problem with the gallbladder

if you had your gallbladder removed what

will happen is you’re not going to get

the conversion so a real simple solution

is to take purify bile salts that will

instantly improve the conversion now on

the flip side if you have a hyper

thyroid condition hyper too much thyroid

you don’t want to take bile salts

because that’s gonna give you more and

it’s going to worsen the situation only

if you have a hypo thyroid condition and

for those of you that are new if you’re

on the keto plan the healthy keto plan

and in the fasting the need for t3 will

go down and this alone will greatly

improve a thyroid function and you may

even find that you need to make some

adjustments to your medication because

it’s going to start improving other

things that can interfere with thyroid

function and acids high blood pressure

medications statins diuretics

antibiotics excessive iron so an iron

deficiency will create a problem in the

conversion but too much iron can also

create a problem with the conversion

from t4 to t3 then you have phytic acid

which is in grains it’s in the brand of

grains that will deplete your zinc and

that will throw off your conversions

coffee and tea will deplete you of

certain nutrients like the B vitamins

and so I just want to bring that to your

attention if you have a lot of iced tea

for example or a lot of coffee

you better be taking nutrients at the

same time because it could affect the

thyroid and of course the reason why

keto works is because it’s a little carb

so that means too much sugar or refined

carbs are definitely going to mess up

your thyroid soy will act as an estrogen

and inhibit the thyroid as well and also

because dairy has so many different

types of hormones that can influence the

thyroid now if you have an autoimmune

condition Hashimoto’s then I’m going to

put a link down below because I did a

video on this specifically but you need

vitamin D okay like at least 20,000 IU’s

per day you need to be doing a bit of

fasting and you need to be taking

selenium to improve the function of the

thyroid and this is mainly going to be

for Hashimoto’s but Hashimoto’s is the

majority of hypothyroid cases alright

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