Dear Thyroid™ � How To Kick Your Thyroid's Ass

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Heard of ‘Meatless Monday’? How about ‘Wheatless Wednesday’ or ‘Soy-less Sunday’?

Dear Thyroid — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:00:05 +0000

Meatless Monday is a nationwide (American) initiative brought to us by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which encourages consumers to make meat-free choices each Monday, in order to lessen our incidences of meat-related disease. The USDA’s recommended daily allowance (RDA) of animal protein for people aged 9 – 70 years old is only [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: The Calcium Myth

Liz Schau — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:32:09 +0000

There’s good reason for many chronically-ill (and also, chronically healthy) people to avoid cow’s milk and dairy. We know that the artificial growth hormone given to dairy cows is directly linked to cancer. We know that dairy can cause yeast (candida) infections like nobody’s business. We know that autoimmunity can result as a byproduct of our [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: More Thyroid Hormone, Please!: How To Get More Iodine Into Your Diet

Liz Schau — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:30:03 +0000

Depending on your disease and condition — whether hypo or hyper; autoimmune, cancer, nodules, goiter; active or in remission — you may be interested in getting more iodine in your diet. Iodine is especially hard for us modern peoples to come by, mainly because our soil has been demineralized and is often void of the [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Finding Local Organic (Affordable) Produce

Liz Schau — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:00:57 +0000

Stopping by my local farmer’s market is now a weekly ritual for me. This isn’t just because I want to support my local economy and farmers (people who care about healthy food and are invested in the health of the community); I shop my farmer’s market (FM) mostly for selfish reasons, which includes cheap [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Is Good Health Free? And, The Chemical-Free-Life Challenge!

Liz Schau — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:05:12 +0000

For me, an important part of gaining more wellness has been examining my health and medicine paradigm and dissecting it for what it is. I have come face to face with the reality that many of the things I accept(ed) as truth and many of the things I never before consciously recognized were actually contributing [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Some Light Holiday Health Reading

Liz Schau — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:38:48 +0000

Happy holidays to those who have been celebrating them lately!, Because we’re all busy with friends and family lately, this week, I’ve collected some “light” reading for us all (note the italicized sarcasm) — articles and information I came across and found highly interesting, or helpful, or revolutionary. I thought maybe you would too. [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Redefining Breakfast

Liz Schau — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:17:25 +0000

I’ve never been interested in counting calories or paying attention to fat content, and I especially find portion control rather oppressive. I’d much rather eat foods that I can eat alot of, without having to worry about weight gain. For me, this means low-glycemic, real, whole foods that are free of endocrine-disrupting chemicals [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Two Hidden Sources of Soy at Your Breakfast Table

Liz Schau — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:01:04 +0000

I was so inspired by a live-streaming speech given by Sally Fallon Morrell, the president of the Weston A. Price foundation, this week at the Wise Traditions Conference on how and what to eat (that is, real, whole, traditionally-prepared foods). This woman is truly a food science and food history genius and her lecture [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Nine Sources of Fluoride Exposure You Might Not Recognize

Liz Schau — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:20:51 +0000

This week, we have a guest post from a special lady with a special website: Melissa from The Cellulite Investigation. Trust me, you’ll love the site — it’s a report on our modern cellulite epidemic, which resonates with the Cellulite Analyst (as she’s referred to) because of her own struggles with cellulite. Today [...]

How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Food Is Science Too!, OR, A Little HTKYTA Background

Liz Schau — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:41:01 +0000

For those who haven’t been following this column and my health journey from the beginning, I’d like to ask you to head on over to The Nourished Life blog and read a piece I wrote for the site this week. But before you do that, let me give you a little background. I based [...]