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WEIGHT & THYROID SAGA

Organic: Is It Better For My Thyroid?

January 3, 2010
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I‘m not one who goes gaga over everything “natural”.
In fact, I enjoy pointing out to all-natural obsessed friends that E-coli is a natural substance, but not at all a healthy thing to consume. Ergo, natural isn’t necessarily healthy. And, look around a hospital OR where manufactured plastic tubing and bags of blood save lives. Ergo, [...]

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De-sick-en-ing My Thyroid

October 20, 2009
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I felt amazingly victorious after getting my hard won prescription for Nature Thyroid  — until I attempted to fill said prescription.
The shortly enjoyed victory turned to dismay when I ran around to every pharmacy in town.  No one had Nature Thyroid.  Some even looked at me like I was asking for Martian milk. In the [...]

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Just Stop Eating, Beotch

September 20, 2009
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Stop eating, beotch is essentially the message I got when I presented information that I’d been diligently spending massive amounts of time gathering on hypo-thyroid treatment to my doctor.
Let me back up a bit here.  It was the information I’d been reading about Nature-Throid that really got me excited — crying excited.
Other hypo-thyroid (HT) patients [...]

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Pesticides, Fat Cells and Weight Loss

August 18, 2009
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Did you know that your fat cells store certain kinds of toxins that you’ve consumed over your life time?
And that when you lose weight, those toxins are released and roam through your blood stream?  That those roaming toxins kill thyroid function? And actually promote weight re-gain?  Oh, that’s not all. To add insult to injury [...]

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How I Broke My Thyroid

August 11, 2009
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This is going to be an extremely personal post. It’s something I loathe to talk about. My struggle the past ten years has been excruciating and I’ve kept the pain inside and private — I can’t even talk about it with my husband.
From heel spurs to backaches, weight issues obviously manifest themselves physically. [...]

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