Dear Thyroid™ � thyroid nutrition

Nourishing Life: are you getting enough?

JenniferSaunders — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:25:56 +0000

Water that is. Geesh – get your mind out of the gutter. Water is essential to human life – without we cannot survive. With adequate amounts of water we thrive. Water is the most plentiful and important substance – anywhere. Our bodies. Earth. Water is IT. Within our bodies, water is miss thang in all [...]

Thyme For Literary Healing: Thyroid Friendly Foods And How We Feel About Them

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:14:57 +0000

Food = passion = love = desire = crazy ass relationships = dysfunction = health = whatever you want it to. Regardless of your relationship with food prior to acquiring thyroid disease or thyroid cancer, what we want to talk about today is how your relationship with food has changed. Let’s share thyroid friendly recipes [...]

Dietary Supplements: Fact or Fiction

Dear Thyroid — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:55:47 +0000

By August J. McLaughlin, CN I’ll never forget watching The Jetsons as a youngster. Two factors from the future-rendition Clevers’ world mesmerized me–the remote control closet that configured high-fashion looks with the simple push of a button (I still haven’t gotten mine) and foods in pill-form (I still don’t want them). My heart ached each [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: More Thyroid Hormone, Please!: How To Get More Iodine Into Your Diet

Liz Schau — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:30:03 +0000

Depending on your disease and condition — whether hypo or hyper; autoimmune, cancer, nodules, goiter; active or in remission — you may be interested in getting more iodine in your diet. Iodine is especially hard for us modern peoples to come by, mainly because our soil has been demineralized and is often void of the [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Finding Local Organic (Affordable) Produce

Liz Schau — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:00:57 +0000

Stopping by my local farmer’s market is now a weekly ritual for me. This isn’t just because I want to support my local economy and farmers (people who care about healthy food and are invested in the health of the community); I shop my farmer’s market (FM) mostly for selfish reasons, which includes cheap [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Food Is Science Too!, OR, A Little HTKYTA Background

Liz Schau — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:41:01 +0000

For those who haven’t been following this column and my health journey from the beginning, I’d like to ask you to head on over to The Nourished Life blog and read a piece I wrote for the site this week. But before you do that, let me give you a little background. I based [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Delicious Fermented Foods?

Liz Schau — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:28:08 +0000

I was speaking to another Dear Thyroid lady this week about candida (that is, my immune system that is slowly recovering from being over-run by the stuff), and the most effective treatments in combating it. I do take several probiotics every day to help with this (I will be posting a resource list for HTKYTA [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: My Health Is Not My Own, OR, My Story Of Unnecessary Uterine Bleeding

Liz Schau — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:17:09 +0000

There are alot of things I want to say this week and I want to make sure they’re expressed with the kind of urgency and importance with which I experienced them. It’s poignant stuff, so maybe I should start at the beginning. The beginning in this case is the Tampa airport at 6:00 [...]

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: Thylicious Resources And A Winner!

Liz Schau — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:20:53 +0000

This week, I’d like to give you all a little glimpse into my weekly routine. A most logical place to start is with the information I find, read, and learn from (whether I agree with it or not). I have found that the best way to be more well is to read and [...]