Kat9hunter

I am down 8 lbs since the beginning of the year. Woohoo. Let's go. Bikini season is coming. Kat

I have found gluten free to be fairly easy. If you are gluten sensitive and you inflame your digestive track eating gluten you will have trouble absorbing nutrients, which leads to iron loss and without adequate iron your thyroid meds won't work. I have had itchy eyes my whole life that goes away when I don't have gluten.…

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Hashi and gluten sensitivity are connected. If someone is gluten sensitive and eating gluten it causes inflammation in the digestive tract. When inflamed, your digestive tract does not properly absorb nutrients like iron for instance. Thyroid meds will not work effectively without an iron saturation of 35%. So going gluten…

If you iron or cortisol are too low, your body won't be able to handle the armour. Taking it in the middle of your cortisol window which is 4-8 am will help make cortisol. I take pure T3 somewhere around 3:30 for the purpose of boosting my cortisol production. There is a book by Paul Robinson explaining this protocol. Lots…

Going low carb will build reverse T3 and you don't want that.

See stopthethyroidmadness website. Very helpful. There are also yahoo groups with lots of info on obtaining meds and finding docs. TSH is meaningless. I was told for years that I was in the normal range. No one ever looked at Free T3 or Free T4, let alone my RT3. I thought a basal temp of 96.3 was just how I was. I am now…

Just started with MFP today. Looking forward to summer. I have a personal goal for early April as we are going to Disneyworld and a wedding. Hoping I am not too late to join. I am doing overall inches. Looking forward to getting to know everyone. Kat