Hashimoto’s is a thyroid condition whereby there are antibodies produced by your body that attack the thyroid. It is an auto-immune condition that originates in the gut. The gut modulates how our immune system responds. Our gut is affected by poor diet, alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs, toxins, inflammation and stress. When we modulate the gut, remove inflammatory foods (primarily gluten, and dairy) your gut starts to heal and your immune system starts to stop turning on itself.

I've had an influx of patients medicated for Hashimoto's thyroiditis. I have seen it in practice many times over - this is a curable condition despite what you may have been told.

A good place to start would be my cleanse program which will kick start your journey by removing inflammatory foods, that will have you feeling better and can dramatically improve symptoms.

Almost always there is some negative self-talk associated with Hashimoto's and this is an important piece that also needs addressing if you want to fully heal. We must always acknowledge the mind-body connection. Our mind turns on us, our body follows. Interesting hey?

The medical intervention for Hashimoto's is thyroxine, a medication that stabilises the TSH, but does nothing for the antibodies, so essentially it's a bandaid and not getting to the root cause. The body works in harmony with itself so my job as a Naturopath is to identify the causative factors and address those, then the thyroid modulates itself, naturally.

Like any pharmaceutical medications once you start to mess with the biochemistry of the body there are repercussions and other areas of the body that suffer due to the medication. If you are keen to learn more about healing yourself from Hashimoto's then please book a consultation. I would love to assist you.