WellBeing

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A young 39-year-old woman staggered into the clinic late in the day. She presented with very low energy and a nodule in the right breast and had gained 20kg in weight over five years. She wanted to lose this weight but had had little success despite

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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When I was in my early 20s, I went to India on an intensive yoga retreat. I gave up smoking, stopped drinking alcohol and became a vegan. After that, I went to Thailand for a few months, working as a divemaster. There, I ate a plant-based diet, very

Your Family

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Micronutrients are vitamins and minerals which aren’t naturally produced in the body, but are essential for healthy development and disease prevention. Consumed in the right amounts, these nutrients are absorbed from our diet; however, if we aren’t g

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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If you’re anything like me, the pandemic of 2020 has had a few lingering effects. You’ll have been steadily loosening your waistband thanks to lockdown snacking, suffering from mood swings and generally feeling fatigued. However, as spring turns into

Clean Eating

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Is your thyroid making you fat, sad and tired? It’s possible. It is estimated that as many as 27 million people suffer from a thyroid condition – mostly from an underactive thyroid condition called hypothyroidism. And some studies show that even mild

Better Nutrition

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Is your thyroid gland making you fat, sad, and tired? It’s possible. An estimated 10 million to 25 million people sufier from underactive thyroid—a condition called hypothyroidism. And some studies show even mild thyroid impairment can result in cogn

Diabetes Self-Management

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The underappreciated but very important endocrine system is critical to regulating a number of vital organs, such as the pancreas and thyroid gland. When a person’s endocrine system malfunctions and the pancreas fails to produce adequate (or any) ins

Woman's Weekly

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A There are several uncertainties around the management of subclinical hypothyroidism, including whether or not treatment confers long-term health benefits, and which patients may benefit from treatment. Of those with subclinical, asymptomatic diseas

Clean Eating

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BY LISA TURNER Is your thyroid making you fat, sad and tired? It’s possible. It is estimated that as many as 27 million people suffer from a thyroid condition – mostly from an underactive thyroid condition called hypothyroidism. And some studies show

The Australian Women's Weekly

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If you’re anything like me, the pandemic of 2020 has had a few lingering effects. You’ll have been steadily loosening your waistband thanks to lockdown snacking, suffering from mood swings and generally feeling fatigued. However, as spring turns into

Better Nutrition

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Most of us never pay much attention to thyroid health until we begin to experience symptoms of its malfunction—your metabolism slows down, energy levels plunge, you lose muscle mass even while gaining weight, your hair begins to break and thin out, p

You South Africa

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If you’re struggling to lose weight, it’s not necessarily because of hypothyroidism. And even if it is the case, hormone therapy won’t necessarily help you lose the weight, says Dr Jacomien de Villiers, an internist from Pretoria. “When people get to

What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

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Some 20 million Americans—or one in every 16—and one in 20 British people suffer from some form of thyroid disease. That’s a medical tragedy, no doubt, but the bigger tragedy is that almost two-thirds have no idea they are affected—and in the majorit

You South Africa

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IT SITS low in your neck, across your windpipe, and is shaped a like a butterfly. Most of us don’t give this humble little gland a second thought. Because when it’s working, you have no reason to think about it. But when your thyroid isn’t functionin

Cycling Weekly

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About a week after my last Fitness Project update (14 May), I began to feel extremely fatigued, like my energy levels had fallen off a cliff. I ended up at my GP having some blood tests, and the results came back showing I have a severely underactive

Clean Eating

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GUGGUL.This Ayurvedic herb has been used in traditional medicine for hundreds of years. Now, studies are finding that guggul can support the thyroid by promoting the body’s conversion of T4 thyroid hormone to T3 thyroid hormone, a more potent form. Y

Fête

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Yet this age-old advice often fails us and we can be left wondering whether there is something wrong with us or if we should just put it down to a slowing metabolism. So what’s really going on here? Essentially, the calorie equation (calories in vers

LOSE IT The Low Carb & Paleo Way

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Research has shown that eating very low-carb (such as the ketogenic approach) slows thyroid function – in both children and adults. The findings indicated that the lower in carbs the diet was, the lower the levels of T3 hormone (that’s the active thy

Business Today

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If you are a woman in your 40s, you may have experienced these symptoms. You feel more tired than usual; you feel puffy when you get up in the morning; you seem to be gaining weight (your finger rings do not fit any more or shoes feel too tight); you

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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Around one in 20 people in the UK have a thyroid problem, and women are 10 times more likely to be affected than men – although no one really knows why. But what exactly does the thyroid do and what happens when it stops working properly? Anna Woollv

Fairlady

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The butterfly-shaped thyroid gland sits at the front of the neck, wrapped around the trachea. It produces essential hormones that control a number of extremely important bodily functions, including the all-powerful metabolic process, which converts f

Fête

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The key sex hormones for women are estrogen and progesterone. For men it is testosterone, although women make some testosterone too. Estrogen plays numerous roles, including those associated with reproduction, promoting bone density, and supporting c

Fairlady

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Food is the best way to ensure sufficient intake of the essential vitamins and minerals needed for a healthy, functioning thyroid. The following are all excellent: • FISH AND SEAFOOD, especially tuna and lean white fish • EGG YOLKS (a good source o

Top Sante

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SUMMER IS PRIME energising season – blue skies, lots of natural light, and that urge to just get out and enjoy the days – but what if you’re feeling a bit sluggish and blah? It could just be tiredness and the effects of the recent lockdown, but it co

WellBeing

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The endocrine system consists of glands that produce and secrete hormones. Hormones function as the body’s chemical messengers, relaying vital information to cells and tissues, and are responsible for growth and development, metabolism, sexual functi

Your Pregnancy

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Every heard of post-partum thyroiditis? That’s because it doesn’t receive much attention and many pregnant women are unaware that this should be something to look out for too. Dr. Justus Apffelstaedt, specialist surgeon with an interest in breast, th

Clean Eating

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GUGGUL.This Ayurvedic herb has been used in traditional medicine for hundreds of years. Now, studies are finding that guggul can support the thyroid by promoting the body’s conversion of T4 thyroid hormone to T3 thyroid hormone, a more potent form. Y

Better Nutrition

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Is your thyroid gland making you fat, sad, and tired? It’s possible. An estimated 10–25 million people suffer from underactive thyroid—a condition called hypothyroidism. And some studies show even mild thyroid impairment can result in cognitive impai

People

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KELLY CLARKSON HAS always been comfortable in her own skin—whatever dress size she wears. But in recent months the multi-platinum-selling music star, 36, has looked decidedly trimmer than she has since, well, winning the maiden season of American Ido

Liz Earle Wellbeing

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The thyroid is a teeny butterflyshaped gland that can be found at the front of the neck, just behind the windpipe. It’s small but mighty, producing and distributing two essential hormones known as triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4), which are c