Dear Thyroid™ � Liz Schau Writer

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: HealTHY Trends For The New Year

Liz Schau — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:56:05 +0000

I’ve been reading a bunch of 2010 top food trend predictions this past week and they got me thinking. I decided to make a list too. While everyone else may be predicting the most popular conventional and consumer-driven food choices for this upcoming year, I’d like to make some health and food predictions that I [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: A Little Heart To Heart

Dear Thyroid — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:17:43 +0000

I’m starting this installment with a dedication. I’m dedicating these words to our good friend and thyroid sister, Mrs. Anita Roberts. She wrote a little note, this week that, once read, prompted me to remember why it is I care about all this food stuff to begin with. I start getting that [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Think Fatty, Not Faddy Part II, OR, How To Be Nutritionally Deviant

Dear Thyroid — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:36:56 +0000

I still have the jar sitting in my cupboard. It hasn’t moved since I bought it, and it still hasn’t been opened. I’m a little intimidated. It’s a little exotic and I’m not sure what I would do with it, or how it’s going to taste anyway. Red palm oil,, it’s [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: The Two-Month Detox Challenge!

Dear Thyroid — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:59:19 +0000

I’m a little upset that my doctors have never mentioned it. I’m a little upset I had to happen upon this information on the internet. You’d think this sort of data would be pertinent enough to be conveyed immediately, from physician to thyroid patient. Unfortunately, things just don’t work like that. , And [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Speak When Spoken To?

Dear Thyroid — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:34:52 +0000

I’m really no good at setting up a scene. A scene as in, you know, literarily, on a page or screen to detail a certain time and space. Sure I went to school for this stuff, and have written enough 15-to-20-page personal essays that have been marked and inked-up with reminders to “show, not [...]

Oh, Dear Thyroid, Can’t We Please Gland Along?!

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:55:08 +0000

You’d think I would have started asking for rent already. You know, a monthly fee of some sort to justify the presence of this ugly thing that’s living with me; a most unwelcomed roommate. A funny thing happens after a diagnosis: your body keeps reminding you just how sick you are. Sure, [...]