Many people are surprised to discover that the human intestinal tract contains up to 100 trillion bacteria that represent more than 400 different species. However, not all bacteria are bad for you. There are 3 main types of bacteria: Pathogenic bacteria that causes disease Commensal bacteria that are micro organisms that have a neutral effect Intestinal flora, probiotics or eubiotics are all beneficial bacteria such as lactobacilli that is found mainly in the small intestines and bifido … [Read more...]
Why Your Immune System Doesn’t Need A Boost
April 11, 2012 By
Nowadays immune system boosters and supplements for thyroid have become widely available in the health and vitamin stores. Most of these formulas contain natural compounds and claim to help boost and strengthen the immune system. But is it true? Can they help if you have thyroid or Hashimoto's disease? People with autoimmune conditions including Hashimoto's thyroiditis have imbalanced immune system when one of the Th1 or Th2 sides of the immune system becomes dominant over the other and … [Read more...]
Are You Depressed? Here Is Why It Could Be Your Thyroid
March 22, 2012 By
Depression is the most common condition seen in general medical practice. About 10% of people experience depression over a lifetime. Studies show that up to 50% of patients with depression have a physical disorder that is either a direct cause of their depression or a major contributing factor. Successful treatment of the underlying medical condition can bring relief of depression most of the time. Despite this fact, if the medical history does not reveal any obvious cause of depression … [Read more...]
The Thyroid Adrenal Pancreas Connection
March 8, 2012 By
A guest post by Dr. Nikolas Hedberg, D.C., D.A.B.C.I. A Functional Medicine Practitioner and Author of the book The Thyroid Alternative: Renew Your Thyroid Naturally The Thyroid-Adrenal-Pancreas Axis In addition to gastrointestinal and blood sugar disorders, adrenal gland dysfunction is the most commonly seen imbalance in today's society. Adrenal gland imbalances are also one of the major factors that cause thyroid hormone imbalance. Stress from work, relationships, electronics, poor diet … [Read more...]
Why Thyroid Patients Should Care About Candida Overgrowth?
February 29, 2012 By
Candida is a natural organism that can be found in everyone's gastrointestinal tract. It becomes a problem when it overgrows and progresses to a systemic yeast infection that is also known as candidiasis and affects many organs at the same time. When candida cells excessively multiply it can cause a chronic or recurrent yeast infection. Candida Albicans is responsible for the majority of Candida infections. Symptoms of candida infection in women can be silent or evident and vary from … [Read more...]
Thyroid Disease And Other Causes Of Insomnia In Women
February 15, 2012 By
Sleep disturbance or insomnia is a common disorder when women have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or both. After headaches and colds it ranks third as the most common complaint in the doctor's office. One out of 8 people seeks professional assistance for chronic insomnia at least once in their life time. Between 49% and 69% of people reported to have occasional sleep disturbances. Insomnia occur more frequently in women than men. Insomnia is closely connected to thyroid disorders, … [Read more...]
9 Natural Ways to Improve Sleep and Get Back to Sleeping Like a Baby
February 7, 2012 By
Guest Post by Karen Brimeyer, Holistic Nutritionist and Functional Medicine Practitioner Are you surprised to learn that there are 84 classifications of sleep disorders? I sure am. In fact, there are over 42 million people suffer from a chronic sleep disorder. But you might be even more surprised to find that the majority of those people are also unknowingly suffering from Leaky Gut. If you want to learn how to improve sleep, read on. You may think that your lack of sleep is no big deal … [Read more...]
Thyroid And Liver Detoxification Connection
January 25, 2012 By
This is a guest post by Dr. Nikolas Hedberg, D.C., D.A.B.C.I. A Functional Medicine Practitioner and Author of the book The Thyroid Alternative: Renew Your Thyroid Naturally The Liver and Detoxification The liver is an extremely complex organ that is involved in multiple immune and metabolic processes. If the liver is not detoxifying optimally, it will be virtually impossible to have success with treatment of any disease including low thyroid and hormone imbalances. Unfortunately, … [Read more...]
How to Recover from Fibromyalgia by Overcoming Hidden Thyroid Hormone Resistance
January 16, 2012 By
This post is dedicated to a well-known expert in the field of thyroidology and fibromyalgia Dr. John C. Lowe who suddenly died on January 9, 2012 due to complications following a head injury Dr. John C. Lowe was a leading expert on the natural treatments for thyroid disease. He was first to introduce a simple but very effective treatment for fibromyalgia by using T3 thyroid hormone. Dr. Lowe got interested in the thyroid disease about 25 years ago when he was researching and using a … [Read more...]
Great Holiday Gifts For Thyroid Patients That Will Change Their Life
December 22, 2011 By
It is the most wonderful time of the year but it's also one of the busiest for us. We are all stressed shopping for the perfect gifts or we are frequently reminding loved ones what we want this holiday season. Get away from the crowds, leave the cold and the hectic parking lots. Let Outsmart Disease be your guide for a stress-free ONLINE holiday shopping spree this season. Here are some great holiday gift ideas that are on the wish list of any thyroid patient and can truly change their … [Read more...]
When Thyroid Drugs Don’t Work
December 1, 2011 By
Currently, synthetic T4 thyroid drugs are standard method of hormone replacement therapy for people with hypothyroidism. The goal of the treatment is to bring the patient into a stable condition where the TSH is in the normal range. Although the use of T4 thyroid medication has been accepted for many years in conventional medicine, many patients continue to experience symptoms of underactive thyroid even if their lab test results show normal. Beyond thyroid replacement therapy there are no … [Read more...]
Precision Nutrition System
November 21, 2011 By
People with Hashimoto’s disease require a special diet that supports healing of leaky gut syndrome and does not include foods that trigger autoimmune response, food allergies or any over stimulation of their immune system. Those who are just starting to adjust their diets to this new dietary requirements may feel overwhelmed and find that numerous restrictions are difficult to follow. A great thing is that you actually do not need to reinvent a completely new diet. There are currently … [Read more...]
Hashimoto’s disease and Thyroid Inflammation Treatment
November 7, 2011 By
Both iodine deficiency and high iodine levels can trigger thyroid inflammation and lead to Hashimoto's disease. If you are subscribed to the Nutritional guide for Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism you may already know that excess of iodine is the best established environmental factor which can cause autoimmune thyroiditis which is an inflammation of the thyroid gland. In the following guest article Dr. A. Haskell describes how low iodine levels can lead to Hashimoto's and what 6 … [Read more...]
How to stop autoimmune attack on your thyroid
November 1, 2011 By
Conventional medicine continues to treat Hashimoto’s disease without taking into consideration that it is an autoimmune condition. Shifting of the immune system is the underlying cause of the autoimmune disease when the body’s immune system becomes imbalanced. It is impossible to stop the autoimmune attack on the thyroid gland without understanding the fundamentals and rebalancing the immune system. Two levels of immune response The immune system is composed of white blood cells which … [Read more...]
Chronic inflammation and autoimmune disease
October 18, 2011 By
The incidence of autoimmune diseases is rising making it more common than it was several decades ago. All autoimmune diseases combined is the number two cause of chronic illness in America and the third leading cause of Social Security disability claims following heart disease and cancer. According to the National Institutes of Health, autoimmune disease affects far more patients than the 9 million Americans who have cancer and 16 million with coronary artery disease. Interestingly, … [Read more...]
