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Energize Your Holidays: Healthy Tips for a Vibrant Season
As the holiday season approaches, it's easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle, which may lead to neglecting your health and well-being. This year, let's shift the focus to energizing ourselves with simple and effective tips that will keep you feeling vibrant...
read moreBreaking Free from Quick Fixes
Picture a morning where you wake up to a symphony of alarms within your body. Persistent, relentless, and impossible to ignore. What used to be subtle whispers have now transformed into a chorus of low energy, unwelcome weight gain, stubborn brain fog, insistent food...
read moreFrom Fatigue to Vitality: A Story of Understanding the Energy, Mood and Weight Connection
In the bustling heart of the city, where time races and deadlines loom like impending storms, there lived a woman named Sarah. Sarah was a dedicated professional, a loving parent, and an avid fitness enthusiast. Her life was a whirlwind of responsibilities and...
read moreHow to overcome fatigue? Take care of your mitochondria!
Fatigue is a debilitating Graves’ disease symptom. Getting your thyroid hormones within range or getting more sleep may not be enough. Supporting the function of your mitochondria can help overcome fatigue. Here’s how.
read moreHealing of Graves’ disease through lifestyle changes: a case report
Roger Bannister. Does this name ring a bell for you? On May 6, 1954, he ran 1 mile in under 4 minutes. What was so special about that, you may ask? Well, up until that day, it had long been thought that running this fast was far from achievable and perhaps even deadly...
read moreGoing gluten free? Avoid 5 common mistakes
Have you tried gluten free? If you’re still struggling with the symptoms of an (autoimmune) thyroid condition such as Graves’ disease or Hashimoto’s, you may have gotten this suggestion. And I think it’s a great suggestion. There’s a lot of literature out there on the...
read moreHow Food Tracking Can Help Reverse Your Symptoms
What to eat if you'd like to ease or reverse your thyroid symptoms? Unfortunately, I don’t have a straightforward answer to that question. If there was a simple answer, I’m sure you’d know this already. The thing is, diet is highly individual. Even though we may have...
read more5 reasons to work with a functional health coach if you have Graves’ disease
A health coach? For Graves’ disease? Why would you want to work with a health coach if you have a serious condition such as Graves’ disease? Don’t you need to see a doctor? Good question. And you’re absolutely right! You should see a doctor. First and foremost....
read more5 easy tricks to improve your digestion (and kick your digestive symptoms to the curb)
You are not what you eat. You are what you can do with what you eat. In other words, you are what you can digest, absorb and utilize. The truth is that you can eat the most impeccable diet in the world and still be unable to extract all the valuable nutrients from it....
read more7 simple tips for a thyroid friendlier environment
Did you know that the products you use on a daily basis may hurt your thyroid? I certainly didn’t. I used to be under the impression that I led a pretty clean life. True, I wasn’t living and working in the cleanest of cities (New York City). But I worked in an office...
read moreGraves’ disease: 12 easy ways to reduce stress
3 weeks vacation. Not bad. That’s the advice talk show host Wendy Williams got from her doctor when she was just diagnosed with Graves’ disease. She shared this yesterday. My first thought was “great advice”. That gives her time for thorough research of her condition....
read moreGraves’ disease and your diet: how to reduce inflammation and symptoms
It's a good thing. Acute inflammation. Imagine that you step barefoot in a piece of glass. Immediately, your foot hurts. And then it may turn a little red, swell some and get warmer. The Roman scholar Celsus in the first century AD defined these as the four classic...
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