Hashimoto’s Program
Thyroids on fire
Autoimmune thyroid disease is one of the fastest-growing diagnoses out there, and every day I hear from women who are struggling to get the answers and help that they need.
Over the years, I cannot tell you how many times I have sat with a woman who had a situation that went along something like this:
For a long time, she has been telling her doctor that she is exhausted, having trouble thinking, having body aches and pains and noticing skin and hair changes – the skin is dry and doesn’t look as fresh, the hair is dull and falling out.
She’s feeling a bit on the apathetic side.
The doctor runs a typical lab study – TSH – and it comes back normal. Her doctor comes back to her and tells her she is fine, stop stressing out and would she like an anti-depressant?
The next year, same situation. Symptoms are getting worse. Now she is having a hard time in the bathroom.
Her husband wonders why she never wants to be romantic.
For the “lucky” ones, eventually that TSH might come back abnormal and she is put on thyroid medication.
For a couple weeks, she feels like she has a new lease on life. Then symptoms creep back. She doesn’t feel right, she can’t lose weight even though she hardly eats anything and her energy is plummeting.
Her doctor offered her no guidance on how to live, eat and be with thyroid disease, just to take her medication. Her labs are fine again and the doctor is thinking their job is done. It’s her with the problem now.
I am glad when these women show up at my clinic. It means we can get something done. When it comes to Hashimoto’s disease, the most common form of hypothyroidism, there is a tried and true approach that I use with all of my clients with this autoimmune disease.
Much disease begins relates to the gut
It begins, like so much other disease, in the gut.
Most of the immune system – whose dysfunctional response promotes autoimmune activity – resides in your gut, and is influenced through conditions in the gut.
Your gut flora help convert your thyroid hormones into their active form.
The lining of your gut controls not just absorption of nutrition but immune response and inflammation.
Your ability to break down proteins directly impacts the activity of your immune system and the levels of irritation in the immune system AND in your gut flora.
The food you eat can be provocative or soothing to the immune system. Irritating or not to the lining of the digestive system. An irritated lining, over time, will induce immune changes that culminate in an attack on the self – on you, on your thyroid.
Not only the food you eat but the ability to break down your food into easy to absorb particles is key for the health and happiness of digestive and immune function.
The bottom line is this: When the gastrointestinal system is inflamed and irritated, so is the immune system, and left unchecked, this creates the perfect storm for autoimmunity to develop and rage.
By tailoring nutrition, eliminating problematic foods, increasing your ability to break down your food, promoting the health of your microbiome and the integrity of your gastrointestinal lining, you are striking at the very root of why Hashimoto?s develops in the first place.
Not only do you want to eliminate symptoms, you want to get to the root of the issue.
Not only that, there is a wide variety of supplemental, exercise and lifestyle strategies that help optimize thyroid function by targeting the key areas of why symptoms continue to persist despite taking medication. Issues of conversion of inactive to active thyroid hormone, receptor sensitivity, improper binding of hormone and autoimmune activity all contribute to ongoing symptoms and can continue to make you miserable.
What Is the Hashimoto’s Program?
The Hashimoto’s program is a do-it-yourself program that takes you through a complete gut restoration program with targeted thyroid support. It teaches you to find your appropriate dose of medication (if you use medication) and how to monitor your symptoms, dosages and labs. It takes you through a comprehensive elimination diet specifically for those with autoimmune disease and runs through the entire gut restoration program that I have used with thousands of clients.
It outlines the best evidence-based and empirical complementary and integrative approaches that we’ve got for Hashimoto’s born from research and clinical experience.
All of this is delivered directly to your inbox upon enrollment, so that you can get started right away with symptom elimination and healing.
Why I Created the Hashimoto’s Program
The conventional approach to the diagnosis and treatment of Hashimoto’s disease is myopic and one-dimensional. It relies too heavily on insensitive single-measure laboratory analysis and drugs that many cannot tolerate and do not benefit from, leaving far, far too many women slipping through the cracks.
I have witnessed first hand the devastation of the improper handling of these women and their crude and cruel dismissal by the conventional medical community.
I created this program because fundamentally I am a gut girl, and understand the intimate connection that the thyroid and digestive system share, and how by improving one, the other benefits.
YOU have taught me this, as I have sat and worked with countless like you over the last almost-decade. So many of you have come to me for your constipation or IBS, and walked away from me with better thyroid function.
I created this program because I am but one person. I can only sit across the from one other person at a time. Thus, I have consolidated all of my clinical knowledge, experience and tools into this program for you, so I can reach you as if we were sitting across from one another. You can take this knowledge and help someone else – a sister, a friend, a partner, perhaps even your own doctor.
Who Is the Hashimoto’s Program For?
- This program was designed specifically for any and all people with Hashimoto’s. Hashimoto’s is autoimmune in nature and the most common type of hypothyroidism (low thyroid function).
- This program can be used by people who are taking conventional thyroid medication, and those who are not.
- This program can be used by people who have had their thyroids removed or ablated – an intentional induction of hypothyroidism.
- This program is for those interested in a long term solution, and who are sick of feeling overwhelmed, trying to pull all of the information together themselves and not being effective at any of it.
What the Hashimoto’s Program is Not
- This program is not a substitute for medical care.
- This program is not for someone who desires one-on-one coaching or who is not comfortable with a do-it-yourself program.
- This program is not for someone who is looking for a meal plan. Although nutrition is discussed at length and I take you through an elimination-challenge diet, it is not a meal plan.
Curriculum/Benefits to Expect
The Hashimoto’s Program is delivered in a PDF that you will receive upon purchase. Included in the Hashimoto’s Program is the entire 5-Day Thyroid School, formatted into a book-style layout for easy reference and convenience. It is yours to keep forever, outside of your inbox.
The Hashimoto’s Program will teach you how to manage medication appropriately, how to best eat for your condition, identify food sensitivities if appropriate and live your life in such a way as to alleviate the crushing fatigue, inability to lose fat and oh-so-common gastrointestinal symptoms associated with Hashimoto’s.
This program fills in all of the holes conventional medical care leaves and overlooks, including nutrition, concomitant health conditions, supplementation with nutrients and herbs, environmental pollutants and factors, movement and digestive dysfunction.
The overall effect will leave you feeling more empowered and educated not just about your condition but your body and feeling much clearer. I have worked with many on this protocol who were able to reduce their medication, but that is not necessarily the goal. The goal is to support thyroid function by cleaning up the digestive tract and supporting active hormone conversion, decreasing autoimmune activity and abnormal hormone binding that would prevent your body from using it.
You will enjoy an all-encompassing approach that targets the many facets of digestive and thyroid health both.
I never want to sell you anything that is not helpful to you. If you are not satisfied with the program, I will give you a full refund within 90 days of purchase.