It's been 2 years since the last Youtube episode. Here's why I put the podcast on pause, what I've been up to the last 2 years (hint: its expanding beyond just Thyroid Strong workouts) and a client's success story of taking 2 hours naps every single day to forgetting she even needed to nap. I'm excited to have Thyroid Strong Podcast back in action.

I'll be share more information on how to heal Hashimoto's with a root cause approach, and some deep beliefs I have inside Thyroid Strong to lose weight and get your body back.

What's up.

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Beautiful ladies.

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It's Dr.

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Emily Kiberd here.

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I am a chiropractor of 18 years,

a mama of two, a nine-year-old and

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a five-year-old and the founder

and creator of thyroid strong.

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The only doctor designed

workout program for the ladies.

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With Hashimoto's and.

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A little over two years ago.

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I paused this podcast

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And I'm going to fill you in on

what's been going on since then,

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I took the time over the last

couple of years to be with my kids.

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I didn't feel like I wanted

to take time away from them.

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I wanted to kind of simmer in

that fun age And now I feel like

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they're at a place where they're

not like mommy, mommy, mommy.

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And have a lot of thoughts simmering

in my head over the last couple of

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years that I wanted to now bring

back to thyroid strong podcast.

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So over the last two years, even though

I've been a chiropractor for 18 years,

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I really wanted to dive deeper into.

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The functional medicine

component of Hashimoto's.

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Obviously.

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Hashimoto's is a thyroid disease.

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It is also a condition

of the immune system.

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And of inflammation.

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And so I really wanted to dive into that.

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And for so long, I had

told myself, no, no, no.

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I'm the chiropractor.

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I know rehab.

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I know strength training.

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I leave the functional

medicine up to everyone else.

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And I thought, wow, that's

such a disservice because how

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many people look at the body?

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Through the lens.

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Have a chiropractor, knowing

that someone has an autoimmune

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disease and can see patterns.

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And know.

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What's going on internally, like, oh,

do they have an H pylori infection?

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Parasites mold exposure, because so

many of those things now having done

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my functional medicine training.

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Can affect joint pain and muscle aches.

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over the last few years, I did

Institute functional medicine.

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Kalish Institute and RUPA

university, which are three different

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function, medicine trainings.

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They approach functional

medicine in different ways.

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Some prioritize.

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Food as medicine and, taste the rainbow.

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That's more of a Institute

for functional medicine.

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Some focus on organic acid testing.

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Gut testing.

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And know nothing about.

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environmental root causes like mold,

that will be more Kalish Institute.

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And then there's RUPA university, which

has like micro trainings and everything.

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I've also trained with, Dr.

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Jill Krista.

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She's a natural path who has a holistic.

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Course for providers around mold.

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So really went deep.

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On gut health.

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As it relates to Hashimoto's.

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Mold as it relates to Hashimoto's and

different root causes, adrenal health.

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parasites and.

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That's what I've been up to over the

last two years is it's taking all that

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time that I would spend podcasting.

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And put it into.

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Really learning.

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What is the hierarchy of.

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What you treat first and then

what you addressed second, and

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then what you addressed third.

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And I'll tell you a little secret.

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And I've seen this a lot.

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If you ever go to practitioner

and they were like, we're going to

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address CBO first and candida first.

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Or we're going to address

her Epstein-Barr first.

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I would find a new practitioner

because those are not the

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first things you look at.

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And really functional

medicine looks at the body.

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And sees.

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Where are the gaps and how can we

address it from a root cause approach?

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I've also been business

coaching, other functional

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medicine docs and chiropractors.

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On how to get online if

they're not online already.

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And then if they already have a practice.

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How to take it to the next level.

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So.

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That is something also I've been doing.

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That's been really fun and You know, I

have so much experience in that having

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had a chiropractic practice for 14 years

and growing it to a seven figure business.

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And then COVID happening.

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Closing my clinic.

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And having to pivot with a nine

month old and a four year old.

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Into the online space and then

growing that to a multi six-figure.

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Business.

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I turned 44 on January 10th.

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I'm a Capricorn.

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Hey, all the Capricorns out there.

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And I was like, wow.

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Okay.

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It's been five years since COVID.

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What have I been doing?

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when you work from home, everything

kind of blurs I'm like some days I'm

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like, what day of the week is it?

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And so the last five years.

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And having turned 44 this year.

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It felt like.

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A different year.

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It felt like,

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A little more presence of my

own mortality and no more of

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I'll wait when it will happen.

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When I kind of feel like maybe what

people feel at 40, the big four O is

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what I've been feeling at 44 years old.

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And so this year, Really sat down.

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And ask myself, what is

it that I want to do?

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Versus what should I do?

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What do I want to do

versus what should I do?

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Because I think for many years I've

been shoulding all over myself.

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And.

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You know, what I really want to do

is grow thyroid strong and help women

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through every phase of the journey.

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And the phases are the six week.

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Thyroid strong program.

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That gives you all the cues on how

to lift safely and with confidence.

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The next phase is stay strong, which

is a membership that's just kind of

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continues the right strong it's workouts.

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And then the next phase

is Thyroid Strong elite.

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Which is food calories, macros dialing in.

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The dial movers.

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Around weight loss.

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And the next phase is one-on-one

functional medicine, health

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coaching, which I've been doing.

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For the last,

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18 months.

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Using gut testing.

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Urine mold testing.

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parasite testing.

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Very comprehensive blood work to see.

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Okay.

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What are the dial movers?

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What are the missing pieces?

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That.

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Is missed for the Hashi ladies in

conventional medicine, because oftentimes

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you see your function, your conventional

medicine doctor, and they're like,

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Here's your levothyroxin, go gluten free.

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I'll see you in a year.

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so many of the women that

have come to me are like, but

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what else, what else can I do?

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Like the real go getters.

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They really want to make a change.

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And so then they come to me and

they're like, Hey, what else?

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And I was like, well, let's test.

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Not guess.

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Let's get the data let's

get under the hood of every

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single aspect of your health.

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From how you're working out, how you're

moving your body, how you're sleeping.

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Your nervous system regulation.

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Your thyroid health, your adrenal health.

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Gut health and then

environmental root causes.

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Think of a pyramid.

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Bottom of the pyramid.

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Is your foundational health.

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You can do all the testing and

all the supplements in the world.

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But if you don't work on your foundational

health, All that shit doesn't matter.

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So foundational health, how

you're moving your body.

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Your steps.

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Your workouts, how you're eating.

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How you're sleeping and how you're

regulating your nervous system.

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What'd you kind of think of

as like stress management.

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I don't really believe

in stress management.

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I believe in leaning into your stress to.

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use stress to your advantage?

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But I also believe, and I've

only found this out as a mother.

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That motherhood and aspects of

life can be really dysregulated.

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And so sometimes women, when

they're like my 2:00 PM crash.

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It was really just a

moment of dysregulation.

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And if they took 15 minutes to

themselves, That 2:00 PM crash went away.

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they didn't need that two hour nap.

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That is the journey.

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And one of my visions for 2025 is to

really help women on every step of the

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way because women are in different places.

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a lot of women went through thyroid strong

and they're like, I didn't lose weight.

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And I'm like, well, I love that feedback.

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Thank you.

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But what else are you doing

other than just working out?

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Are you working out and then eating more?

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That's great for putting on muscle.

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It's not going to get you to lose weight.

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You also have to dial

in what you're eating.

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I'll give you an example.

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Someone came to me.

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And she is amazing.

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She's in Nevada and she was

like, I take a two hour nap every

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single day in the afternoon.

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I'm so fatigued.

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And so we started with her bloodwork.

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CyWrite look good.

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She's on medication.

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We looked at her workouts.

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We got her lifting.

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And her number one goal was.

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I want my energy back.

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Number two goal was I want my brain back.

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I, my brain fog is like

insane in the afternoon.

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And then number three was

I want to lose weight.

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Which I was like, okay,

let's work on the first two.

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So you can get the energy

to lose the weight.

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The fourth thing was, I

want to be spontaneous.

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If my daughter asks me to go for a hike.

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I want to be able to go for a hike.

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With her.

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No inhibitions, no worries about being

like, am I going to crash this afternoon?

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And so we worked on our energy.

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The first thing we did

was look at a sleep study.

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She's like, em, I know you

want us to see a sleep study.

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You don't need it.

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I sleep great.

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It's just that I sleep eight

to 10 hours a night and I'm

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still exhausted when I wake up.

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And then I'm exhausted all day.

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And I'm like, girl, we're

getting a sleep study.

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sure enough.

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It showed that she was waking up 24 times

an hour, not waking up like wide open,

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awake, but her body was pulling herself.

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Out of deep sleep.

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She was only getting 30

minutes of deep sleep at night.

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If you work with me, we shoot

for an hour and a half to two

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hours of deep sleep at night.

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So she was massively under

recovering and under resting.

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Because she had sleep apnea

because she had a narrow palate

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because she had a tongue tie.

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So we address that.

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The next thing we looked at was.

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are you eating?

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How are you working out?

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nervous system regulation, right?

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That's the foundation.

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That's the base of the pyramid.

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She's like, oh, I

homeschool my two teenagers.

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And I need an Abbott too.

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And I was like, it sounds like.

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Potentially there's a

little bit of dysregulation.

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Go check out this app.

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When you feel tired at two, you're

going to tap into that app too.

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Sending yourself get some

like 20 minutes to yourself.

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and sure enough.

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Starting to work on her sleep.

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Getting her lifting weights, cutting

out the sugar and the processed foods.

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Regulated her nervous system,

her energy came back like 50%.

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I was like, wow.

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Okay.

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She's like, I'm only taking a nap.

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Instead of seven days a week.

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Only three days a week.

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I was like this.

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Let's keep going.

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Then we got her a GI map and it

showed that she had H pylori.

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And Giardia.

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And so we address that and her

and her partner and her kids.

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And then our energy came back.

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20% more.

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She's like now I'm only taking it now.

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Like once a week, I was like, oh man.

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Let's keep going.

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Because I wanted her to be able

to do the things she wanted to do.

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She wanted to have energy.

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She wanted to get rid of her brain fog.

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She wanted to lose the weight.

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And if you have the energy, once you

have it, you can do anything with it.

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You can put all that

energy to losing weight.

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And she wanted the spontaneity

to live her life and not sit

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on the sidelines of her life.

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She didn't want to be like,

oh my kids, or go hiking.

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And I'm worried about crashing after.

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So I'm not going to go.

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She's like I went on a hike.

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I didn't crash.

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And I didn't think twice.

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And I was like, oh my God, that's amazing.

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Let's keep going.

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So then.

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We tested her for molt.

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Anytime someone comes to me with an

autoimmune condition, like Hashimoto's.

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And has brain fog and has fatigue.

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I'm like, we need to rule out bold.

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And sure enough, her mold

test came back positive.

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She was an action taker.

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She brought in a great multi-inspector.

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They found mold in her kitchen.

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she brought in a remediater, she just

remediated and they were like, Well, it's

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way more extensive than what I thought.

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And, uh, I was like, wow.

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So we put her on a mold detox.

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Very specific order of how we do things.

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And she took the step.

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She remediated.

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And now she's in the process

of rebuilding her kitchen.

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And She's like I haven't

taken a nap in three weeks.

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So she went from taking a two hour

nap, seven days a week to taking

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one nap over the holidays when

she had a big influx of people.

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Once over the last three weeks.

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So that is a major, major shift.

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And we went at it from a root cause level.

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Looking at her sleep, looking at her

thyroid, looking at her gut health,

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looking at environmental load.

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That's what it means to look

at your Hashimoto's, not from a

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conventional medicine perspective,

but from a functional medicine

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perspective, getting underneath

the hood of every single aspect.

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Of your Hashimoto's what's

driving up inflammation.

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Over this process, her thyroid

antibodies have come down.

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Her.

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TSH has come down.

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She has needed to adjust her meds.

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She has lost 14 pounds.

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And weight lost was

number three on her list.

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So that has been, what has been

up the last two years was working.

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And studying and really focusing

on one-on-one functional medicine.

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Not only from a workout perspective.

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Cause I have to tell you.

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How many functional medicine docs know.

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How to work out with Hashimoto's and

how to build your workout program

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and optimize your body composition.

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And know injuries.

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And know how to do the

functional medicine piece.

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there's like two and I'm one of them.

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So that's what I've been

up the last two years.

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This January, I really was thinking

of like, okay, what are things.

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That are uniquely thyroid strong.

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things that are my intellectual property.

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And so I wanted to

share some of them here.

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And if you've been inside the Irish

strong, you're like, oh girl, I've

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heard these, but if you haven't

been inside Thyroid Strong or any of

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my programs, These will feel like.

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This is different than the conventional

norm, even different from like what I've

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heard from my natural path or my health

coach or my functional medicine doc.

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And so the first one is.

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We do the hard things.

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We just do them in small doses.

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So conventional medicine will

tell you to move more, eat less.

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Functional medicine will

tell you to take it easy.

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Don't overdo it.

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Protect your adrenals.

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And I think both of these messages

are a disservice to the hace leaders

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because neither focus on this one.

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Very, very important thing.

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Building and maintaining

your muscle tissue.

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Muscle gives you energy.

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It soaks up extra glucose.

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It helps you burn calories.

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And with Hashimoto's FYI is harder

to maintain our muscle tissue.

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it's really easy to lose our muscle.

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Maybe even like little skinny, fat.

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So number one, we do the hard things.

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We lift the weights, we eat the protein.

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But we do them in small doses so

that we don't burn our energy out.

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Number two.

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strength training is a non-negotiable.

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We lose muscle mass.

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Starting at like two to 5% a year.

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By the age of 30.

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Then you layer on perimenopause and

muscle loss accelerates, then you layer on

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Hashimoto's and a low functioning thyroid.

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And it's like, whoa, how can the

muscle mass even stay on the bone?

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This is extra challenging.

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And to keep the muscle on the bone,

two things, strength training.

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Non-negotiable even if

you've been told you're.

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Adrenal glands are tanked.

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You can still string train.

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You just do it in a way.

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That builds your muscle tissue.

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You take plenty of rest breaks and

you do it to support your adrenals.

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So if anyone's ever told you.

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Don't lift weights, just walk.

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Take it easy.

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Protect your adrenals.

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I would say that is bunk.

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I've seen plenty of people with a

flatlined adrenal cortisol curve.

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He's salivary cortisol curve.

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Lift weights.

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And get their energy back.

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Okay.

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Number three.

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Kettle bells are the most forgiving when

you are first learning, lifting form.

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Way better than dumbbells in my

opinion, way better than a barbell.

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Think about a barbell deadlift, you got to

like navigate the barbell over the shins.

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You got to have form really

dialed in versus kettlebells.

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You can just have them below you.

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And your forum as you're learning,

it can be like a little off.

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And you can dial it in so that.

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can move from kettlebells to barbells,

but kettlebells are most forgiving

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when you're first learning form, or

if you're a newbie to lifting weights.

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Hashimoto's is more than

a thyroid condition.

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It is more than a hormone issue.

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It is an immune system issue.

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And when you get to the root cause of the

inflammation, just like I talked about.

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Sleep apnea.

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Mold.

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underlying gut infections, like H pylori.

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When you get to the root cause of the

inflammation, you will feel better.

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And your thyroid labs will look better.

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Number five.

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Nothing on your healing

journey is a waste of time.

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Every step gets you closer to

feeling like your best self.

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Everything is a piece of data.

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So a lot of people are like,

oh, I worked with his coach.

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it was such a waste of time.

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All they did was help me dial in my food.

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Uh, hello, you can literally go

gluten free and lose 20 pounds.

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That is not a waste of time.

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Uh, all I did was work with this

functional medicine dog and they

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underlined some root causes of my

gut, like underlying gut infections.

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And.

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I took a bunch of supplements.

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Uh, that's not a waste of time.

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It's.

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Getting into a root cause I

might not be all the root causes.

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And getting you to feel 10% better.

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So.

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I think it's really important to

remember where we've come from.

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What's the dream.

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And every step along the way.

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Is filling the gap and

helping us walk ourselves.

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To our goal and every single step.

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Is data like, Ooh, I don't do

well on charcoal binders, but

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I do better on this binder.

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Right?

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That's a piece of data to work with.

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So nothing on your healing

journey is a waste of time.

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the last one.

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And if you've been in thyroid

strong, You have heard me say

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this momentum over motivation.

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Momentum over motivation.

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Motivation is fleeting.

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You cannot rely on it every single day

because every single person on the planet.

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He wakes up.

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On a certain morning and is like,

I don't want to do the workout.

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I want to eat whatever the F I

want and motivation is fleeting.

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So I encourage you baby steps.

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Who do I want to become?

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I wrote this on my calendar.

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For January, 2025.

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I am a morning person.

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I am someone who lifts weights.

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I am a mama.

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I'm a business mentor and consultant.

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And if we just break these

down, I'm a morning person.

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Okay.

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I want to be a morning person.

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I'm not a morning person.

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By nature, but I want to be one.

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So to be, yeah.

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A morning person.

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I'm not going to rely on motivation.

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I'm going to rely on momentum.

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So in order to be.

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A morning person.

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What do I have to do?

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I have to put myself to bed.

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I have to not binge Netflix.

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I have to put my kids down.

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and then put myself down

and not go back to work.

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I need to shower before my kids, because

if I fall asleep, putting it on my

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kids and then jump in the shower, I

am like a wide awake until midnight.

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The have, so when I am a morning

person, I can get my workout in.

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I never miss it.

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I can get more work done and

enjoy the quiet of the morning

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before the CAS happens and ensues.

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And so to do that, we have to rely

on momentum, baby steps every day.

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Waking up 15 minutes

earlier than the day before.

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Making a game plan the night before.

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To be successful in the morning.

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I don't rely on motivation.

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So.

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Um, I'll say this is the last one, because

this was kind of what I was talking about.

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And referral to momentum

over motivation is.

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B.

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Do I have.

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So many of us.

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Want to have our dream.

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We want to lose the

weight, get the energy.

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Be uninhibited and how we.

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Do whatever we do.

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And we're like, why isn't it working?

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Why isn't it working?

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Why don't I have the body I want,

why don't I have the energy I

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want, why is it not working?

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And oftentimes, and I do this with

my business coaching clients too.

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It's how are you?

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Doing.

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Like, what are you doing?

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To get the, have.

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And even before that, Who are you being.

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Did you the do.

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To get and have what you want.

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if it's not working.

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I take two steps back it's like,

who are you being in the process?

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What are you doing?

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You are not going to lose weight.

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If you are in a caloric surplus.

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Like, I don't care what you

do, what hormones or nervous

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system reset you do and work on.

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If you're eating too many calories,

you're not going to lose weight.

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So B do you have.

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All right.

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Ladies thyroid strong podcast is back.

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I was gonna be a lot more solo

episodes, a lot more episodes

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around functional medicine.

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Uh, interviews with some guest experts.

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Interviews with some women who've

gone through that red strong

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cause they are so inspiring.

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There are so inspired.

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I think about them every day and every

morning I write, I am grateful for.

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Blank.

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And so many times it's like the women who.

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Loved theorists strong and kept going

and trusted me on their healing journey.

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all right, ladies.

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I will see you next episode.

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If you enjoyed this episode.

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Drop a comment, in a five star review.

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Into iTunes or Spotify.

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It just gets more people and

more reach and more women with

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Hashimoto's listening to this podcast.

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And thank you so much for being here.

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I am so grateful.