Dr. Josh Axe

Like eating a lot of salads and superfood smoothies are terrible for people with hypothyroidism.

One of the things that we know in these ancient forms of medicine, but even medical research today generally is that people with hypothyroidism, their body temperature is low, okay?

Mm-hmm.

smoothies are cooling, salads are cooling, vitamin C is cooling, like doing a lot of those things, we wanna raise the body temperature.

We wanna really support the adrenals because most people that have a thyroid issue, it's never coming from the thyroid.

The thyroid is always sort of like the innocent bystander, your hormones being off.

Really?

Yeah, it's always, if it's autoimmune, there's typically, there's a microbiome component

And generally, thyroid issues are always started with adrenal issues and cortisol.

Or let's say somebody has normal TSH levels in T4 and their T3 is off.

Well, that's a liver issue or, again, a gut microbiome issue to where it's not converting properly.

And then I'll say this, too.

There's a study that came out that said women who take contraceptive drugs long-term, birth control, have a nearly 300% increase in hypothyroidism.

Wow.

And the reason is, is birth control depletes the body of numerous B vitamins, selenium, zinc.

These are nutrients your body needs for what's called methylation.

Yeah.

And so if you're depleted in those, you can't produce the right amount of thyroid hormones.

And also it's going to harm conversion and a number of other things.

The study I'm referencing is birth control pills.