))
109 / What To Treat First When Diagnosed with Hashimoto's
Manage episode 337027415 series 3377674
Content provided by Emily Kiberd. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Emily Kiberd or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Welcome to this week’s episode of Thyroid Strong where Sophie Shepard, founder of SHE Talks Health and women’s hormone and gut health coach, takes a deep dive into how to start your journey of living with Hashimoto’s. Instead of the age-old story of being sick in your body, Sophie teaches us how to turn our hormones into our superpower. There is no reason for your diagnosis to inhibit your life; Sophie illustrates with a detailed framework how to isolate the root cause of your symptoms and work your way back from there to regain control of your life.
Key Takeaways
Learn how to manage stress and overcome past trauma when healing on your Hashimoto’s journey. Stress is the number one thing no one wants to talk about with an autoimmune condition, and the number one thing causing all the issues. Nutrition, stress, and healing the gut are all equally important to the Hashimoto’s healing journey, but stress is the one that is hardly ever touched or changed. Sophie starts with stress and is giving us simple strategies to quickly get oneself out of a fight or flight sympathetic state using butterfly taps, box breathing, humming etc.
About Sophie Shepard
Sophie Shepard is a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner (FDNP) and founder of SHE Talks Health. She is a women’s hormone and gut health coach revolutionizing women claiming their hormones as a superpower and slaying the age-old stories of being sick in your body. She is helping women transform their hormones through gut health, uncovering root causes, diagnostic testing, nutrition, and lifestyle science.
How Stress Plays an Important Role in Healing with Hashimoto’s
Stress is one of the main, and often unspoken, root causes of an autoimmune condition. Mental health and gut health are also intertwined, it matters how we feel and what we eat. If stress is not managed, it shows itself as physical ailments. To start the healing process, we need to identify triggers of trauma and use simple strategies to calm the nervous system through box breathing, humming, butterfly taps, etc.
What To Address First When You Are First Diagnosed with Hashimoto’s
Thyroid health needs to be addressed first. We need to build up the thyroid with nutrient-dense food and then reduce sources of inflammation because the body needs to be able to digest and absorb superfoods to fully rebuild the thyroid and gut microbiomes.
In This Episode
Sophie Shepard describes her journey of being first diagnosed with Hashimoto’s [02:45]
Host of symptoms often categorized as something else and considered the norm by most [08:52]
Sophie’s framework of how she treats individuals first diagnosed with Hashimoto’s [11:07]
Absorbing nutrients, what to eat and what not to eat [14:11]
Sophie’s take on autoimmune Paleo approach [17:12]
How Sophie assesses gut health within her framework [19:46]
How gut health affects your thyroid [22:40]
The leaky gut analogy [23:35]
The role stress plays in Hashimoto’s [26:02]
Identify fight or flight and introduce stress managers [29:07]
Quotes
“We're going to run several labs, but it's going to be in a specific order. Once I get to know you a little bit better and understand what's going on and look at all your entire history and everything you've tried already, and then make a plan for you as an individual.” [11:07]
“So I think I like to combine the nutrition part with the gut health part at the beginning, because you'd be shocked how many people I work with who have been to all these practitioners and no one's looked at their gut.” [14:11]
“Stress, it's like the number one thing no one wants to talk about. And the number one thing causing all the issues.” [26:02]
DISCLAIMER THIS PODCAST/WEBSITE/COACHING SERVICE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE. The information, including but not limited to text, graphics, images, and other material contained, are for informational purposes only. NO material on this show/website/coaching practice/or special guests are intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of YOUR physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding medical treatment. Never delay seeking medical advice because of something you read/hear/see on our show/website/or coaching practice.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Topics Covered:
- Living with Hashimoto’s
- Symptoms of Hashimoto’s
- The framework in which to start treating Hashimoto’s
- Nutrient-dense superfoods to counteract symptoms of Hashimoto’s
- Stressors in life contributing to your auto-immune disease
Resources Mentioned:
- Freebies : Thyroid Health Guide
- Masterclass: Life After Hashimoto’s
Guest Info
Connect with Sophie Shepard on her podcast, SHE Talks Health, Instagram, and website.
Follow Dr Emily Kiberd:
Include links to where listeners can find you online:
180 episodes
Share
