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Full Audio TranscriptWelcome back to the thriving thyroid podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more.
After that, I founded the revolutionary thyroid program, the Hansen method as a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive vibrate so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once. And for all each week, I will be here for you. Along with my guest experts, we will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Welcome to the thriving thyroid podcast.
People are familiar with food allergies and more and more people are becoming aware of food, sensitivities and food intolerances. Well food allergies can cause potentially life-threatening reactions. Food sensitivity symptoms can be less obvious for some people, but can still have significant impact on the quality of life for others. There's a quote on the mericola.com and it says food and chemical sensitivities are estimated to affect up to 50% of Americans at times, more subtle and difficult to spot than true allergies.
Sensitivities can cause a range of very individualized symptoms from, from the foggy brain to unexplained diarrhea that can significantly decrease your quality of life. If you have a food allergy, chances are you have an immediate reaction because the allergy involves the immune system response. You eat it, you come in contact with it and right away, your immune system is putting up red flags and causing reactions with food sensitivities.
These can be much more difficult to pinpoint because the reactions don't happen right away. They can take up to three days for symptoms to pop up. So one thing you want to note with that is that we need to be keeping track, or we need to have journals mapping. So we could start to draw some of our own connections to what we have going on.
Now, something that's really important to note here is you can have a negative result from a food allergy test, but you can still have the sensitivity that is causing some other symptoms, symptoms like IBS or headaches, skin rashes, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and fatigue. There is a lot of evidence that is starting to pop up that is showing us that food sensitivities are much more common than what we thought previously, and that it's having a wide impact on our health.
More than we've ever realized. Although often equated with food allergies, food sensitivities can also include food intolerances, which unlike allergies are toxic reactions to food, but they don't involve the immune system. And that's why there's so much more difficult to diagnose many of the symptoms from food sensitivities, such as vomiting, diarrhea, blood in your stool, mucus in your stool, eczema, hives, skin rashes, wheezing, runny noses are all associated with allergic reactions to specific food.
However, food sensitivities may also cause fatigue, bloating, gas, mood swings, nervousness, migraines, eating disorders, these symptoms, which are more commonly related to food intolerances are less often associated with the consumption of food. Clinical research is accumulating so much evidence right now that the sensitivities to food can also increase the severity of symptoms related to arthritis, asthma and other diseases. Normally not considered food related. If want to check out more information on that, you can visit the world's healthiest foods.com.
So I'm going to read you a list here of symptoms. These symptoms are going to be related to food sensitivities, and we're going to start drawing some connections here. Studies have linked food sensitivities to conditions such as nutrition, malabsorption, leaky, gut acne, IBS, joint pain, add ADHD, anxiety, depression, brain fog, dizziness, and autoimmune conditions. And this list keeps growing. How do you know if you may or may not have one or more food sensitivities?
So thinking about the list that I had just read, you may be dealing with symptoms that are not on that list. Journaling tracking, mapping, what you're eating, your diet, your lifestyle, your bowel movements, how frequently what's going on with them can give you greater insight as to what is happening inside the body and can help you draw some of your own connections. For example, if you're eating a protein bar every day for your morning snack, and then by the time you get to lunch, two, three hours later, you are noticing that you are gassy and bloated.
That could be a strong connection that that protein bar may not be the best fit for you. The big thing here is learning to keep a journal. Now, this isn't something that you have to do all the time. What I recommend here is doing five to seven days, and then having a break, looking at that information critically, and then start it up in a week or two, because then you can start gathering data from time to time and start to look at what you have going on.
Are there patterns, are there things that you're seeing that are happening over and over and over again, maybe certain days you're noticing more symptoms. Maybe you're starting to eat the same foods and you're noticing certain symptoms. So by keeping a journal, this is giving you what you need to pay particular attention to how you feel within that next hour within that next week.
And those symptoms can take longer for food allergies or excuse me for food sensitivities to manifest. And so this is really a good place to start because you will begin to become more aware and more in tune of how you feel and see if you can really discover some of those patterns of what you're eating and how they're affecting you. You may notice things like heart palpitations.
This is where being able to properly assess what you have going on can be very to yourself. So the two most common sensitivities that we see are gluten, which is a protein that is found in wheat, barley, right? And spelt casein, which is a protein from dairy. But you can also be sensitive to any food, any fruit, any vegetable, any nut, any seed, it could be meat or seafood. You name it. It could be a sensitivity for you.
So just because a food is supposed to be healthy, doesn't mean that it is healthy. And it's a right choice for you. Do your best to tune in to the clues that your body is giving you and start avoiding the foods that you determined could be an issue. Okay. In addition to gluten and casein, there are three other top offenders that we see, especially related to thyroid corn, soy, and eggs. Where should you begin? That is a really good question. Number one, always start with the food journal.
That is always going to be my answer for there. Now there are a few new blood tests that are reported to be very accurate in determining food sensitivities. So check with your doctor to see if they can do this type of testing for you. And if not look for a doctor that does, we offer them inside the Hansen method.
So work with a functional doctor. You can also use other methods at home like the pulse test, Google it. You can look up some basic instructions there. There's a really good book to learn more about this subject. It is called the Virgin diet cookbook by fitness and nutrition expert, JJ Virgin in her book. She explains the signs and the implications of food sensitivities and lays out a really great eating plan to make an elimination diet easier for you. Now, one of the big things that I tell my clients is if you're eating, let's say gluten three times a day for that first week, all you're going to do is eat it one time a day, which may seem overwhelming. It may seem like a lot of work. It may seem confusing and it will force you to get a little creative. Then the second week you'll go to something like eating gluten every other day, so on and so forth.
So eventually what's happening here is you're crowding out the gluten and the dairy. If it seems too overwhelming to just cut them out immediately. If you think that you have one or more food sensitivities, it is best to find a practitioner that can guide you through testing and making the appropriate dietary changes so that you're, you're feeling better and you can eliminate those symptoms.
Soy products are also compromising foods, they contain high amounts of naturally occurring phyto estrogens. These are plant-based estrogens that can mimic the body's natural ability to manufacture estrogen in the body. And that will affect how the thyroid is working and how it's producing. Um, thyroid hormones also be affecting the liver and things like that. So soy is really hidden in so many processed foods and it's often used as quote vegetable oils. So look for some hidden sources of soy gluten.
I always hesitate to talk about this one because there are so many of you who have gone gluten free, and maybe you saw results and other people who have gone gluten-free and they had massive results. However, this is not a new word for many of us. Now, if you have an autoimmune disease, Hashimoto's, graves going gluten-free is a mess. The molecule structure of thyroid tissue is very similar to that of gluten and can wreak havoc on your immune system.
Gluten is known to be an inflammatory in the small intestines and can impede the absorption of thyroid medication. Researchers have also found that hypothyroid patients that follow a gluten-free diet are often able to decrease their medication over time. And this is why I also recommend going gluten-free for my non Hashimoto patients who just have hypothyroidism. I am sure you aren't completely naive to the dangers of sugar, the bad bacteria in your gut feeds on sugar.
So it makes complete sense that if you need to repair your gut for better thyroid health, then skipping a sugar is a mess. So for example, here, this is table sugar, Brown sugar, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, dextrose, and so many other forms of hidden sugars. Artificial sweeteners should also be avoided because these are chemical concoctions that contain different excitotoxins that can be dangerous to our health in general.
And it is recommended to use only natural sugars in moderation, things like Stevia, raw honey, maple syrup, and black strap molasses. The last two compromising foods that you should consider staying away from our coffee and alcohol. If you aren't currently taking thyroid medication, you need to be sure to wait 30 to 60 minutes after taking your medication to have coffee, because the acids and the coffee have been known to block the absorption of thyroid medication.
And that includes decaf coffee too. So if you put milk or cream in your coffee, this is really a double whammy. As dairy also binds to thyroid medication makes it less absorbable. Take note. Coffee can sometimes imitate gluten and it confuses the immune system. So consider substituting for something like dandy blend in the morning. If you aren't quite ready to go cold Turkey on the coffee, alcohol can impede and lesson.
As many of us know, alcohol can disrupt the body. It affects the liver. It affects hormones. And this is why many of us, women who have hormone imbalances. If you drink the next day, you have a massive hangover and it's much worse for you than your husband or your friends because your liver is overworked and it's over loaded. Reducing alcohol can be one of the best things that you can do for your body, because alcohol is really detrimental to the thyroid gland.
Let's go ahead and wrap up today's episode with the tips and the things that you can start doing today to impact your thyroid health positively. So number one, keeping a food and lifestyle journal for five days, minimum, this will help you draw the connections that you need to your health, to your thyroid, and start to see how your body is reacting or responding to the foods that you're putting inside your body. Or maybe your exercise is over the top and causing additional fatigue and other imbalances with your thyroid as well. So keeping these journals is very, very important.
The second thing is, make sure you're including your bowel movements. This can help you get a greater idea and understanding of what is happening inside your gut and giving you once again clues as to what is happening. So to take it quick second here, and hopefully you guys don't turn me off because maybe talking poop.
It's an important topic. When we start to look at our poop and look at our stool in a functional stint sense, we can start making some more connection. If we see undigested food in the stool, we know to look towards the stomach, the stomach acid, the quality of the stomach acid, the, the muscles in the stomach. Do you have strong AB muscles because part of the breakdown of food, not only in your stomach, but also in your mouth, there's two things that have to happen there.
The right chemicals, AKA enzymes need to be present in both the mouth and in the stomach. And number two, they have a mechanical breakdown. Meaning when we're tuning our food, that is a mechanical breakdown. When the food enters the gut and the stomach that the muscles in the stomach are able to contract and turn the food and break it down properly.
If we see stool floating or a lighter color gray stool, we know to look towards the liver. If we see mucus or blood in the stool, we can start looking towards the intestines. All of these things help us draw connections and know where to go. And what is the most important place to start now?
I don't want to ruin the surprise, but in a couple of weeks, we are going to be starting a gut health series that is related to all things that you need to know, poop and stomach and digestive system and connections between your liver, health and connections between acne and all of these different things so that you can start looking at your health anymore. Critical sense, which is so exciting for me, because I obviously love talking poop more than the average person. I'm sure. All right. So food journaling is number one.
Number two, no pun intended there. You guys, her action items is starting to crowd out the unhealthy foods, gluten dairy, soy, processed foods, unhealthy sugars, refined sugars starts small. I know many of you say, well, I'm an all or nothing person, but the truth is if I came into your home and I threw out everything, gluten and sugar and processed and unhealthy, you would be turned on your head and you would be overwhelmed. And you would say, I have no idea what to eat. So I'm going to go ahead and start, which is not a great idea because what I'm finding more and more with thyroid clients is that you are already under eating and your body thinks that it is starving and therefore your body and your metabolism is slowing down. And so that can be another detrimental thing that you guys are doing.
So instead of going all in and throwing out everything, start with one thing, maybe if you're eating a lot of dairy or maybe if you're not eating a lot of dairy and that's an easy change, start there. I feel like that's the Dave Ramsey kind of answer here where he's like, start with the, you know, your smallest debt and pay it off. Maybe that's the best option for you. If you're eating very little dairy, maybe cutting that out and feeling like, Oh my gosh, I did it. That's amazing. And that can keep you motivated to continue cutting out and eliminating them. And I want to be very clear here. You need to cut these out for a minimum of 30 days, meaning 100% perfect for a minimum of 30 days. This doesn't mean adding in additional process foods to cover up the gluten and the dairy that you've eliminated.
No, this means clean whole nutritious food in its most real and most raw form, because that's going to start to give you ideas and clues as to what is happening and where you need to go and what that next step and what that next level for you is. I know the holidays are here. I know some of you in your States are allowed to have activities and family functions while other of you are still in lockdown, whatever the case is, give yourself a little bit of grace around this time.
But my recommendation is always to start. Now, don't put it off until Monday. Don't put it off until the new year, because you're always going to find an excuse. You're always going to find a reason not to do it because it's always going to be somebody's birthday. Christmas is going to be coming up. Easter is going to be coming up. Oh, Valentine's is coming up. Oh my my anniversary. There's always going to be an excuse. Start today to make small and simple changes because those have the compounding effect that add up over time that make massive changes and massive results.
Take just a quick second here to talk to you about the Hansen method. Well, we are currently not open for enrollment. We will be opening enrollment, starting in January. The Hansen method for thriving thyroid is a three month long program where we work intimately with you to do the functional testing, to go over what you should be eating, what you shouldn't be eating and helping you use these food journals and these lifestyle journals to get to the root cause of what is happening and help you get laser focused on the specific areas that you need in order to restore thyroid function.
The Hansen method really works the best for women who have a diagnosis who are already on thyroid medication and still having all of the thyroid symptoms, having a hard time, losing weight, being tired, being fatigue, hair loss, brittle nails, heavy menstrual cycles, and so much more.
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