Doctor’s Blog
What to know about birth control pills and Hashimoto’s
If you take birth control pills and have Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, it’s important to understand how oral contraceptives can affect your hormone balancing, your liver, your thyroid, and your brain. This functional medicine viewpoint can help you make an informed...
LED streetlights: Should you wear sunglasses at night if you have Hashimoto’s?
Have you noticed how shockingly bright streetlights are these days? Although they’re great for night time visibility, the newer LED streetlights tamper with the body’s internal clock, skewing metabolic function and raising disease risk. This is bad news for people...
Hangry” and Hashimoto’s? You’re aging your brain
Do you have Hashimoto’s and crash when you go too long without eating, losing energy and becoming “hangry?” Hanger—hunger plus anger—is that explosive combination of low blood sugar and irrepressible irritability that turns a normally nice person into a multi-headed...
Gluten sensitivity is a real thing when you have Hashimoto’s
Research has confirmed what many people with Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism have long known: Gluten sensitivity is a real thing. A Columbia University Medical Center study found gluten sensitivity is not an imagined condition, as many seem to think these days, and that...
How to prep for a Cyrex Labs test with Hashimoto’s
It’s a frustrating but not uncommon scenario: You struggle with Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, food or chemical sensitivities, suspected other autoimmunities, and leaky gut symptoms. You plunk down hundreds of dollars (or more) for state-of-the-art testing from Cyrex...
Star Trek’s Zoe Saldano needs better Hashimoto’s info
Star Trek’s Zoe Saldano recently revealed she has Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, a thyroid disease affecting millions of women that causes weight gain, fatigue, depression, cold hands and feet, brain fog, constipation, and many other symptoms. Hashimoto’s is an...