A woman diagnosed with Hashimoto's in her early 30s tracked her labs weekly and found that thyroid improvements matched improvements in skin, digestion, and fatigue. She now checks thyroid levels quarterly as an early warning system for her whole body's health.
How thyroid impacts long-term health. And I would love to know in your thoughts how you see thyroid dysfunction fitting into the larger conversation of chronic disease.
When I was early 30s and I was rediagnosed with Hashimoto's, I said I found this endocrinologist who was really on board with helping me find root cause. She actually measured my labs once a week. And this was a time too when I was having all sorts of symptoms that seemed like all sorts of different body parts, like Skin rashes, acne, digestion, tired, thyroids off, congestion. And what I came to learn from documenting all of it and reading a lot of research is that it was all connected. As I was making these changes in my life, like not only were my thyroid numbers improving, but like everything else systemically was improving. I felt like my thyroid is my barometer for my whole body, and it's usually one of the first things to let me know that I need to slow down. I check my thyroid labs. Quarterly, essentially. And I can tell when I'm feeling more tired and slower, a little more, and I think it's going to give me the warning signs. And I think symbolically, especially if I think of hypothyroid Hashimoto's, it's like slow. It's like, to me, it's my body telling me like, let's slow down.
And that's part of even the built-in biochemistry will stop the activation of your hormones so that you're tired so that you lay down, that you rest, you recover, right? Our body has these built-in safety mechanisms. We don't always listen.
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