tea is bad nutmeg is a stimulant can make it crazy cinnamon is a stimulant vanilla is an opiate plants do all this kind of stuff well you can have an inflamed thyroid and not know it many people take Kirkman and Chim oh my God Dr Elizabeth brigh is an osteopath and naturopath and the bestselling author of good fat is good for women she has helped thousands of people fix their health and it starts with a high fat carnivore diet bipolar disorders associated with hypothyroidism schizophrenia is associated with hypothyroidism your heart function your liver function it's very odd I have people coming to me with the strangest diagnosis that they were told somebody with my grains was told that she was born with a malformed koted artery I know she wasn't you throw a dart everything you hit is going to be thyroid what are you thoughts about broccoli it will prevent the absorption of iodine but so are flax seeds soy so are yams so is oatmeals but don't ever delude yourself into thinking that that's nutrition meat doesn't do it animal products don't do it but so many plants do it why your thyroid not functioning properly it needs iodine it needs zinc it needs iron it needs all these nutrients that we get on a carnivore diet so I I'd start there if you're eating so much protein that it doesn't turn into muscle tissue and enzymes it's going to turn into glucose fat will never turn into glucose I want to talk about the fat what is the ratio that you would recommend macros well I don't love the question cuz everybody's different so women need more fat than men should every single person take iodine yes and how much should people take I take six every day this episode features Dr Elizabeth bride and she'll teach you the number one way to fix your thyroid with what you eat now by the end of the episode if you still have a question or you need help you can meet Dr brigh live on our go Carnival Community you can ask any of your questions to her as well as our other Carnival doctors just head to go carnival.com now if you're learning from and enjoying these free episodes please hit the Subscribe button because we know that food is medicine and by the simple Act of subscribing you can help share this message to Millions more people that need to hear it and now for the episode with Dr Elizabeth bright Dr brigh welcome hi Reena nice to see you again now you are an osteopath and a naturopath and you have thousands of patients that come to you from all across the world with a wide variety of problems it could be things like brain fog inability to lose weight hair loss or extreme fatigue and all of these issues come from one big problem in the body that problem is your thyroid so in this episode Dr briy is going to share her Decades of research and experience and talk about the thyroid the 10 common symptoms that you need to know and most importantly why some things like tea cheese and dairy are destroying your thyroid so Dr brigh my first question if someone has just clicked on this video and they're thinking do I have a thyroid issue How likely is it that somebody has an an issue with a thyroid well it's very likely these days for a couple of reasons um which is why I wrote my second book good fat is good for for girls uh puberty and Adolescence um 150 years ago gerer was usually in mountainous areas like Bolivia or Switzerland and that was because there was very little iodine in those places unfortunately in our modern world we have so many substances that interfere with the absorption of iodine T being one of them that it is now uh epidemic so the reason why you could say that thyroid is the conductor of the hormone Orchestra you know what people you read and people often say is because after an egg is fertilized in a woman's body if she's she becomes pregnant the first thing that develops is the thyroid gland so as you know the fetus you know there's the endoderm and ectm tissue and all these tissues form after the formation of the thyroid so the thyroid is connected to all these organs and tissues function so you said it's highly likely so I'm thinking if someone's watching this men or women How likely is it for example for a woman that they have a thyroid problem traditionally it's been more likely in women more and more men are coming to me with hypothyroidism and more and more younger uh even children are coming to me with inflamed thyroids so the thing about um people assume the and many doctors assume they tick off these boxes that they're taught overweight as you said hair loss cold hands uh but not you can be you can those symptoms don't necessarily have to present themselves now the reason why women have traditionally been more so 80% of all hypothyroid cases were women right so you could just look that up and statistically is because which is why I wrote the book good fat is good for girls um sexual characteristics need a lot of thyroid hormone and iodine for their formation so women girls form more sexual characteristic there's more tissue involved the uterus gets bigger the the breasts get bigger the ovaries get bigger there's less tissue that needs so much thyroid hormone during puberty so that is really what I've seen over the years what I've come to and that's where I wrote the book that's when it's happening okay I want um to also talk about male issues as well and thyroid issues pertaining to men when you when patients come to you cuz as I said they fly from all around the world and you're doing virtual consultations as well now um how many how many of your patients are men and how many of your patients are women I don't count because people get better and I don't see them anymore so I would say 5 to 10% so not a lot of the percentage so majority are going to be in women but it could also affect men as well right absolutely absolutely because we are all our we're all in the same environment and as I said Bolivia Switzerland the mountain of there Tennessee where my family's from uh there were goer belts you know you could you go on Google and you look up goer belts the goer belts have expand expanded iodine insufficiency is in is everywhere because of pollution because of foods we're now eating because of pfas because of those all our garbage is flying is you know like being sent to Indonesia and they're burning you know all this stuff is happening that our air people who did you know the world is much smaller and it's very interconnected so all the crap from the modern world is being pushed over to everywhere and um that's unfortunately why it's become so common place absolutely I want to talk more about iDine a bit later because that is people are so fascinated about iine and then you have people saying it's not good for you it's great for you what should I do and how much I should have so we're going to talk about that a bit later but I want to talk more about thyroid conditions because there are conditions that we hear of like low thyroid so hypothyroidism or an overactive thyroid hyper thyroidism is that such a thing well uh yes in the sense that the the thyroid is overproducing but why is it overproducing instead of giving somebody the what they figured out they actually isolated methol uh from uh farmer who saw that all his rabbits had goiter because they were eating cabbage leaves so they isolated this chemical from Brasa which is why broccoli is bad and cabbage bad and qu kale is bad and because those things those those substance that substance that are in these vegetables uh interfere with the absorption of iodine so the thyroid gr gets bigger goer is basically an inflamed thyroid so it can either in young people they'll overproduce it'll make it'll try really it'll it's like trying really hard to make hormone because it's essential to life so this poor thyroid is being beaten on by inflammation and it's like you know like a hamster and a treadmill going really really fast and then usually it just crashes but unfortunately you can have symptoms like a palpitations High resting heart rate you can have the eyes go forward because of the liquid that accumulates behind the eyes in both hyper and hypo liquid accumulates everywhere you know know like the the hyaluronic acid that people are injecting in themselves the fillers and stuff made out of the same stuff um so that's why I don't I it's all uh inflamed thyroid function it's all low thyroid function due to the absence of iodine the absence of certain nutrients um which is why I always recommend high fat Carn for diet so that's you know really why I don't you know the condition hypo and Hyper you can't separate them just like you can't separate adrenal function from thyroid function let's talk more about that a bit later adrenal function and thyroid function okay and there are articles of all this stuff on my website it's all connected that's why it's so important like your hormones your thyroid adrenals everything is all connected so if somebody has a problem it's not just coming from one issue um and also quite interestingly a lot of thyroid issues it's not pertaining to the thyroid itself it's outside issues or outside things affecting the thyroid is that correct yeah so so people can think like for example my thyroid it is there's a problem with my thyroid it's the thyroid but it's other things causing that which we're going to talk about I want to talk about something else which is a huge epidemic Hashimoto I feel like every single person that we see in the carnival communities and in my private Community they're like I have Hashim Motors that's why when you're a guest speaker there is so many people on there saying I have a thyroid issue I have Hashim Motors can you explain what is Hashimoto and why that would happen in the first place all right Hashimoto is the name of a a guy a surgeon in the 1920s I think who took out or no 1914 I don't remember exactly it's in my book um who was cutting out surgeons th in those days like to cut out goers all women um and they would they didn't know how to fix it remember they didn't surgeons were as I said in my book the Cowboys of medicine right so I remember that show the Nick where you know they were like trying to to so many people di during surgery so many women died during surgery um it wasn't always the best solution but he recognized in the goiters that he removed from these women four so only four um that the lymph tissue in the thyroid was engorged it was swollen as opposed to the other the more documented ERS that the that they thyroids that they had removed where the whole gland was swollen or it was uh you know the folicular tissue because the follicles are what make the thyroid hormone he didn't they know they didn't even name it after him until the 40s and he didn't isolate the antibodies so then they in the 40s they isolated two antibodies antithyroid peroxidase and antithyroglobulin which are components enzymes that the thyroid needs to have in place to form hormones the problem is that they stop looking for antibodies so I can have somebody who has the same symptoms of Hashimoto but doesn't have positive antibodies the other problem is that they're usually only looking for antithyroid peroxidase because statistically that is the one that they is more often positive and they don't even look at for antithyroid globulin although I've had have so many lab reports come in I can't remember remember which country which state in the US right because this is all over the world some of them say at the bottom you must test both antibodies to come to a correct conclusion but not everybody so there are people who even ask their doctors please test both of these and they say yeah yeah yeah and they just they just test one so so that and why are there more because there's more inflammation Reena okay so the Hashimoto it's an alter immune condition where your immune system is attacking the thyroid is that right exactly and your immune system is part of the stress repump so the stress response is your immune system so you can have inflammation you can have all of this happen to you your immune system as I I often say go goes Rogue because it's trying too hard asthma is autoimmune diabetes is autoimmune they're all these things that are autoimmune because they're not functioning properly because you're immune system is attacking those tissues and usually it's because the immune system is overactive it's it's um it's hyperactive it's overprotective okay just a question around is anything like Hashimoto an autoimmune condition something that we cannot control or something that is genetic of any means or any Source no okay I think that's so important for people to hear absolutely because everybody's in the genetics my next article going on my site is going to be thyroid in genetics because thyroid has huge huge influence on your DNA sorry the thyroid has a huge influence on your DNA how because first of all the mother's thyroid the mother's thyroid hormone is turning on all those um you know ticks all those genetic boxes while the fetus is in the womb there's hardly any so the baby's basically built on the mother's thyroid hormone and that's when all these um conditions sort of become predisposed your genes are dependent upon thyroid function your thyroid function decides which genes Prevail let's talk about another autoimmune condition Graves disease do you see a lot of patients with Graves disease yes but that is simply another antibody that they discovered which usually is in uh symptomatic of of the over production of of thyroid hormone and why would that happen in somebody is again the overactive stimulation of the immune system yes they're antibodies that will start attacking thyroid tissue so uh inflammation will make your immune system start attacking thyroid tissue what bothers me is that they're all coming from the same place as you said the immune system so usually people with Graves or given Athol or given or they thyroid or they many of my patients have had their thyroid nuked they radiate it and zap it and then they are definitely hypothyroid because they kill the thyroid um so yeah that's a it's a hyper thyroid Associated but still comes back to the same thing it is actually an inflamed thyroid causing both the autoimmune response and the symptoms if it comes to hypothyroidism hyperthyroidism autoimmune conditions do they all have the same solution to fix it yeah okay we're going to talk about that solution but before I do that I want to ask you about you Dr Bri because you are quite unconventional in your approach to this solution to fix all thyroid disorders uh guess so many different doctors they try to prescribe a drug or different things and patients don't get better as we've seen so many people coming onto our community and then they say my doctor gave me this medication synthroid etc etc and then they don't get better how did you get so interested in the thyroid cuz you are an expert in the thyroid and then with hormones and also the adrenals because I went back to school and I made a connection between my mom who was diagnosed late and my mom when I was a kid was often depressed and my mom had periods of being overweight had periods of uh yo-yo dieting and then she was just emaciated and right around the time they diagnosed her in her 50s I was like I don't know 18 and I remember this little white pill she took she took levoxine but before that when I went back to school I learned that the thyroid that low thyroid function causes carpal tunnel syndrome and tarsal tunnel syndrome and I remember when my mom I was 11 had tarsel tunnel surgery and it was the most horrible and painful experience she'd ever had and this really affected me and I was just putting all this stuff and she's from Tennessee so I was putting all this stuff together and all these lights were going off and I said wow my aunt my aunt didn't get out of bed for a year she WR a book and my grandmother was always you know kind of mean to my aunt because she would say oh she doesn't clean the house she doesn't take care of the kids because she was just she had no energy and so all these things kind of congealed in my head wow and so I just followed that path and did a lot of research and blew my it blew my mind absolutely and we we're going to talk about some things that people say to fix your thyroid but you're totally against it but prior to that I want to ask you about the thyroid uh because I think people might not understand first of all where is the thyroid here and what does it do in the everything and it's very it's you know youer the Vegas nerve right which starts a C2 and goes into the Vegas nerve is called The Wanderer the wandering nerve right because it goes so far it goes into the heart it goes into the stomach goes into the intestines and so many things oh I have vagal nerve issues and if the thyroid is inflamed it basically touches the Vagas nerve so as an osteopath like wow you know you can because as osteopaths were taught vagal nerve you know do certain manipulations to you know certain things in the cervical spine to adjust you know issues that could be caused by V the vagus nerve being inflamed and boom yeah the thyroid is going to inflame the vagus nerve if it's enlarged or inflamed and then why is a Vegas nerve important for the whole body because it crosses so many tissues heart intestines the heart stomach intestines it's so neck you know people have migraines it's just travels and is uh impacts so many tissues it's just one little part of this big story but we're talking about the placement of the organ Arena so it's so close to the Vegas nerve that it's just an an example of how it can affect so many tissues just by its location and you mentioned that the thyroid is affects everything so this is why when patients come to you with so many different problems that can be the reason why it comes down to the thyroid so can you explain what the thyroid controls like very high level very basic things so that people can understand the brain how energy metabolism so how much T3 your brain has uh will affect your mood uh bipolar disorders associated with hypothyroidism schizophrenia is associated with hypothyroidism um your heart function your liver function high liver enzymes enzymes is associated with fatty liver is associated with hypothyroidism so it's you know you throw a dart and everything you hit is going to be thyroid it's very odd I have people coming to me with the strangest diagnosis that they were told somebody with Myer grains was told that she was born with a malformed kateed artery no she wasn't you know and I have all these strange things CU basically doctor's like I don't know I don't I don't know why you have migraines and here this here's this medication why why do I have migraines why have I had migraines since I was a teenager because your cored arteries malformed so so people stop looking they feel miserable and they have to go on these medications I have a very systematic and in-depth way of looking at people's history of you know Pictures history medical history certain things that are so common that I've seen in so many different people uh if you come to me and you have endometriosis you're basically it's an iodine and thyroid issue if you've had miscarriages it's an iodine and thyroid issue so that's why I say it affects everything as Dr brigh mentions the thyroid affects so many different aspects of our health and later in the episode Dr bright will talk about her protocol to fix the thyroid and it starts with a high fat diet but I want to highlight that what you eat is just one part to fix your thyroid and your overall health red light therapy is also really really important now what red light therapy does is that it penetrates several millimeters into the tissues and it helps with enhancing energy production it's going to help with increasing blood flow it reduces oxidative stress and inflammation and it also helps your body's repair processes so what does this mean for you that means better recovery improv sleep even improv skin Health now now you can do this very naturally you can go out into the sunlight especially between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. but many people don't have access to natural sunlight maybe because of your work schedules or maybe where you live so that's why investing in a red light therapy device might be beneficial and that's why I have bonch charge as a sponsor of today's video bonch charge produces high quality red light therapy devices with bioactive frequencies of red and near infrared light at 660 NM to 850 nanometers now bonch charge has so many different red light therapy devices to suit your budget but I like this mini red light therapy device from bonch charge because it's quite Compact and portable and if you're super keen on optimizing your health you also need to think about blue light now I'm sure many of you spend a decent amount of time in front of your TV and especially in front of your phone well these devices emit what's called blue light and over time blue light can actually suppress your melatonin production which can affect your sleep so you might want to try some blue blocking glasses I like these ones from bonch charge these are the Morris blue blocking glasses that block 100% of blue and green light I just pop these on a few hours before sleep and I find I have a better night's sleep so if you'd like to try Bon charges red light therapy devices all their blue blocking glasses just head to bonch charge.com Primal podcast and use code Primal 15 to get 15% off I want to talk about common symptoms cuz people might think well do I have a thyroid issue most likely you actually do but if you know these common symptoms you will know that oh I need to fix my thyroid and I'm experiencing this because perhaps it's a thyroid issue can we go through some common symptoms I have the first one here unexplained weight changes many people will say I am gaining weight so can you explain how a thyroid imbalance can make people gain weight metabolism you are you're not metabolizing anything if if you have a th issue what does that mean well you're not uh for instance your triglycerides will be high and your cholesterol levels will be abnormally High because what you eat is just sitting there it's not turning into energy it's not turning into tissue it's just sitting there it's not being metabolized it's not being synthesized okay and then the opposite problem if somebody um is losing too much weight is that also a thyroid issue it could be a thyroid issue if your thyroid is overproducing it could also be an adrenal issue though because we know that uh you can have an addisonian presentation you can have reactive hypoglycemia if you have an adrenal issue which means you you your insulin response to food usually carbohydrates and only protein um if you're only eating protein and not fat your insulin response will be too strong and poof everything you ate just goes away and you have hypoglycemia so you can have that and not be able to to uh get weight that's why you're an advocate for high fat Carnival emphasis on the high fat let's talk about the high cholesterol levels so you mentioned that that's a reason why somebody can have high triglycerides I have a lot of people that say I have high triglycerides doing Carnival why is that happening could be their thyroid yes absolutely one of the older ways of diagnosing hypothyroidism before they isolated the hormones themselves was just cholesterol person had high cholesterol the thyroidologist which you can't even nobody even go doesn't even have that word anymore the thyroidologist would say well you know you have a thyroid issue putting together obviously the high cholesterol with with all the symptoms so high cholesterol high triglycerides high LDL as well absolutely that's what they I mean high cholesterol was the stupid LDL HDL crap which I don't go for but yeah I just look at the total and yeah that's why and then they oh my God take a stat and you've got high LDL because it's just sitting there HDL when it comes back to the liver when it's been used and synthesized and turned into brain tissue and hormones and all this good stuff so okay we're going to talk more about cholesterol and thyroid function what about heart rate so if somebody's experiencing a slower heart rate or really fast heart rate why is that a sign of a thyroid issue bradicardia and Tachi cardia so you have um in the artical thyroid and heart function um you have the heart is given a rhythm it's not the organ that has an issue in most cases although people really put on hypertension medication beta blockers Etc uh some even have surgery um the adrenergic stimulation comes from the adrenals but it's T3 thyroid hormone the active thyroid hormone it regulates this stimulation so the heart's rhythm is given to it by thyroid hormone so you can have both which is why it's very confusing to people you can have both the low heart rate that is you have low blood pressure low pulse with hypothyroidism right because you're really but you you can actually lie down though and hear your heart beating hard but slow but then you can have the fast because usually that's associated with the inflamed thyroid let's get to the next one memory issues or brain fog I think brain fog is a big one it is it is yeah remember the brain doesn't get the energy it needs if you're hypothyroid and why is that because um T3 is what makes the brain go and what is T3 thyroid hormone three M iodine molecules it's the active thyroid hormone unfortunately you can't measure brain levels of thyroid hormone and TSH does not talk to the brain so when you're measuring TSH article EXP explaining that on my website when you measure TSH you're not measuring the mental the function of your brain that is affected by low thyroid function it won't be part it does only certain tissues in the body use TSH to communicate which is a pituitary hormone it's not even a thyroid hormone use TSH to communicate with a thyroid and say I want more only a few tissues does that mean that if somebody has low thyroid that that can cause dementia or Al is because it affects the brain and Parkinson yes and yes and mental health issues and children born with Autism and learning disabilities and yeah so do you think the number one thing that people can do to fix their all health conditions is to fix their thyroid well first they should take iodine right and eat the way eat a high fat carnivore diet because it's not just the you know why is your thyroid not functioning properly it needs iodine it needs zinc it needs iron and it needs all these nutrients that we get on a carnivore diet so I'd start there you know because very simply it could just be you're eating oatmeal drinking oat milk in your you know Starbuck whatever and you're preventing or you're drinking tea and you're preventing uh the absorption of iodine absolutely okay next one is hair and eyebrow thinning creating thyroid issues yes that is uh basically the nutrition doesn't get to your the top of your head because in a thyroid low thyroid State you'll have you know things that keep you alive your hair doesn't keep you alive your nails don't keep you alive your eyebrows don't keep you alive um but these organs keep you alive so the small amount of thyroid hormone is just going there oh I understand you don't have enough thyroid hormone and so then it's not going to your hair and your nails and your skin because that's not what what's keeping you alive what's keeping you alive is your essential organs got it that makes sense okay feeling cold or hot all the time yeah metabolism so hot all the time would be geez you know adrenal hot flashes are always adrenal but you can have this weird situation of uh the thyroid is over and under producing so you can be hot one day cold the next um I mean it regulates body temperature so your temperature is very important and you can also just be hot because you have stress so your stress response which is why what hot flashes are will cause a Vaso re reaction and you'll be hot so the problem is that thyroid function hypothyroidism is is um it's like they knew a lot 50 years ago and then they threw it all out and all they kept was overweight cold eyes popping out and that's all they kept they kept a few because when you're going through you know you're seeing 50 patients whatever health insurance you're seeing that's how it is in Italy uh gpc's all these patients and doesn't even take their blood pressure look at their M you know look at their tongue do anything to them and they just they just basically have crib notes on on everything and they um come to a very quick conclusion which is usually here take this pill mhm okay so the next one is dry flaky itchy skin yeah again with nutrition not getting to your skin cares about your skin you want to keep your heart going and your liver going so that is very very similar to the hair and the eyebrow thinning is that the um thyroid hormone is trying to keep you alive and not trying to help you with other things like skin hair and nails is that the same as puffy face and eyes well Reena so you can have the problem is with this you can have somebody who has none of those symptoms flaky skin uh hair falling out uh bra fog but they'll have 10 other symptoms that nobody Associates with thyroid function because basically your thyroid uses a sympathetic nervous system besides the nutrition part of not getting to your top of your head to communicate so it could be anything and you can have I've had people that I've treated who didn't have their hair falling out and then all of a sudden we start treating them them but they had depression they had you know suicidal ideation they had but their hair was fine and then we started treating it and boom their hair that all got better but then their hair started to fall out temporarily because there's so much work the healing takes a long time but also you have a body that is a physiology that is downregulated so basically all these lights are switched off it's like you have a all with 100 stores and only two have the have the lights on if you turn all those lights on at once there'll be a fuse blown right so you have to go very slowly to sort of walk backwards and turn everything on and in a gentle way okay let's talk about some other signs and symptoms which you already mentioned the bulging eyes dry eyes or double vision that is a sign of thyroid impairment well I mean you could also just have Vision issues because you have H IC acid goopy crap behind your eyes just like people go deaf if they're hypothyroid because their inner ear gets the goopy hyaluronic acid stuck in it I keep saying hyaluronic acid because it I don't like it that people are injecting it that's so funny okay um changes in bowel movement so diarrhea constipation yes absolutely hyper and hypo functioning thyroid okay uh last one which is a common symptom obviously the goer so you mentioned that earlier can you explain what that is and what that looks like on the body well you can have an inflamed thyroid and not know it you can have a small and large thyroid and not know I mean you can have a thyroid that is a bit enlarged and not know it but goer obviously is associated with this big lump but usually it's caught by that time usually they are they're they they oh you the doctor will say you've got a big bump on your thyroid the problem is you can I mean they're taught to palpate we're taught to palpate the thyroid right but the thyroid can have nodules on it which you often can't uh palpate so you can have the thyroid grow extra pieces when it's looking for more iodine so it either gets big the whole thyroid gets big the follicular tissue that's two lobes right that you know that will infl that just become inflated with blood and gorged um but you can also have you know this and that extra pieces grow because it's trying to get bigger to trap more iodine from the bloodstream so you can have G the thyroid and I call uh fibr cystic brass uh fibroids and cysts and the ovaries and um uterus I call those goers of those tissue because for the same reason getting bigger anomalous growth in order to get more iodine those tissues need a ton of iodine okay okay I want to talk about the connection between cuz that's interesting that you said that let's first talk about the connection between cholesterol and the thyroid so so many people they're trying to do lowfat diets or they're trying to lower their cholesterol why is that bad for thyroid it's well it's bad because you're not eating any fat which means your adrenals aren't getting any way to make hormones remember the thyroid works very closely with the adrenals so no fat no cholesterol no stress response no way to address inflammation uh that's basically why and every single hormone is related to is produced by cholesterol no only steroid hormones are produced thyroid is a pep is a peptide so it's a protein-based uh hormone but you know everything works together in the body so as I said the adrenals work closely with thyroid function so if you don't have any fat there isn't going to be any adrenal participation and thyroid function okay and when it comes to young adults or adolescents is that why so many women are having reproductive issues absolutely because of their cholesterol lowering cholesterol not getting enough iodine and eating crap yeah lowering cholesterol you can't make estrogen and pro progesterone and any any of these supposed sex hormones or sex steroids they're not even that they do a whole bunch of other stuff that's not involved with uh reproductive uh function and so they will have a an irregular production of those hormones so if you look at the hormone Cascade you have cholesterol at the top and you all this this cholesterol is supposed to be every molecule is supposed to be altered and will turn into all the way at the end of the Cascade estrogen but along the way it has to jump through all these hoops and every hoop is regulated by thyroid hor hormone that's why you need cholesterol and you need enough um LDL and everything in the body and you need fat to regulate thyroid I want to talk about things that affect the thyroid because these are common things that I think people eat every single day the first one broccoli what are your thoughts about broccoli well it's Brasa so it's like the farmer with his rabbits with goiter um it will prevent the absorption of iodine hence CA ises so broccoli um and cauliflower and cabbage and kale they're part of theogenic family of foods can you explain what does that mean goitrogenic Foods prevents the absorption of iodine causing goiter but so are flax seeds so are you know soy so is yam so are yam so is oatmeal so is it's unending no meat meat doesn't do it fat animal products don't do it but so many plants do it you mentioned that animal products don't do it well Dairy is an animal product and you mentioned the dairy the devil in milk or the devil in Dairy there's a book called The Devil in milk that's why I say that by an Australian researcher so why is it that an animal product like cheese or milk can affect the thyroid because it's inflammatory just like gluten can affect the thyroid so the point is that the thyroid is is is this big ball of blood it's the the adrenals are basically tough as the bottom of your shoes but the thyroid is this very delicate you know spongy thing which is very very much affected by inflammation way before your adrenal tissue per se so uh these foods prevent the absorption of iodine but and that can be inflammatory in so many ways so would you like not ever eat cheese and not have dairy well cheese we the only animal that eats another animal's milk right so if you can get cheese made out of breast milk go ahead um but you can't so if you're if you have an issue usually I say my my my program is let's see what's causing the issue you can get away I mean I as I said I say all the time I'll eat an ice ice cream once a month maybe um I'll have I don't know we're going to Paris I might have a piece of cheese uh probably not I'll have a qu more likely but um but they're both I don't have any issues I don't have any health issues I don't have uh thyroid inflammation I don't have so once in a while if if your if your immune system is not damaged if it is not producing if it's not attacking you once in a while it's okay but if you do it every day like our humankind has done since we started growing grain right that's when it becomes an issue absolutely I love the fact that you are a little bit flexible with your high fat Carnival lifestyle I think people think it's all or nothing I want to talk about the different types of Carnival because how funny Carnival is so simple but then it's like there's different types let's get back to the things that affect the thyroid tea what are your thoughts about tea did an article on that um tea is bad because it is grown in fluoride rich soil so tea uh I found this amazing paper can't remember his name but an Irish researcher who basically said plea to his countrymen please don't drink tea Irish soil is so full of fluoride already if you drink tea it's causing fosis so uh fractured bones forget hypothyroidism fractured bones uh learning to disabilities um all these things that are caused by fluoride preventing the absorption of iodine I mean it takes years to get fluoride out of your bones they just suck up the fluoride and chloride is a is a halide and iodine is a halide so tea prevents the absorption of iodine which we all need is that all types of tea black tea matcha tea green tea all types of tea they're all grown in the same soil they're all growing in the same soil and the research that I did I mean I lived in China love I used still love tea um but you have you can actually document I documented congenital hyperthyroidism is highest in teag growing areas of India and China is that the same as coffee no coffee does not prevent the absorption of iodine but for your th thid does coffee affect the thyroid stimulant stimulants affect the thyroid absolutely coffee is a stimulant my God everybody has tea and coffee that's going to be very controversial okay let's move on to nuts because you don't like Brazil nuts no because they're poisonous um so all nuts I mean you have a scale of of nuts that are they're all evil the least evil I guess would be Macadamia because they have more cholesterol more sorry wrong word plant sterols more steriles Everybody Eats them on a keto diet because they think oh um and just the plant stero is not an antinutrient in this case right you could say that plant sterols are antinutrients because they are estrogenic they are estrogen disruptors I'm sorry but you know peanuts peanuts are legumes they're not even nuts all these things are so full of antinutrients which will cause inflammation which will cause eventually a thyroid issue including almonds cashews nut Butters almonds are award at the bottom of the list the top is macadamian peans and the bottom of the list is almond what everybody keto makes their cookies and cakes out of hilarious okay um fake sugars artificial sugars but I also want to ask you about monk fruit and Stevia not a fan but does it affect your thyroid fake sugars will make your sympathetic nervous system think ah sugar it will remember I remember sugar let's do this boom let's get stimulated so it can be a stimulant and sorry monk fruit and Stevia come from plants and they are somewhat inflammatory to the gut how are they inflammatory to the gut they're CU they're plants last few here soy and oats that's just rubbish so don't have those but many people take kirkin and chimeric same thing oh my God yeah all those you know it has oh flavonols and phyto chemicals that are supposedly anti-inflammatory no fat is anti-inflammatory animal fat is anti-inflammatory not spices not spices spices are come from plants obviously right so nutmeg is a stimulant can make you crazy cinnamon is a stimulant vanilla is an opiate uh plants do all this kind of stuff so uh pepper is in raises you know sympathetic nervous system because it's a stimulant that's why Carnival is so great let's talk about the solutions okay first question for you can a low thyroid function be reversed or cured absolutely unless you have this um okay you can have or if you if your thyroid has been nuked no if they've cut out half of it or a big piece of it no you're going to have to supplement me with natural desicated thyroid not Libra thorx and you're going to have to give yourself adequate hormone so I had a patient came to me with half a thyroid and nobody said anything nobody's like you need thyroid hormone to function okay let's talk more about the hormones and why you shouldn't use l thyroxin a bit later let's talk about iodine because I think people want to know about iodine should every single person take iodine yes it's the haly and fluoride and PF are so pervasive today and what they eat yes they are preventing the absorption of iodine as I said 15 years ago not everybody needed iine well they needed it but the sources were more I mean all cheese used to have one one plus for cheese they used to you know use iodine to clean the to cow's teeths so iodine would be go into the cheese but then they started they figured out that you know bleach was cleaner was cheaper not cleaner cheaper and bleach is a halide so no more cheese is no longer a source of iodine can we talk about the type of iodine glucal solution is made out of both it's made out of potassium iodide and the potassium iodide makes the elemental iodine which is what we need soluble so we can absorb it so a lot of people are told not to take iodine you're going to grow three heads if you take iodine but take potassium iodide which is not going to it might give the thyroid a little bit of help but it certainly won't help your breast tissue help your uterine tissue help your prostate tissue help your uh ovarian tissue so which which part of the Lugal iDine helps with the tissues both you need both you need Lugal invented you know two 200 years ago and pretty damn cheap and effective okay I think a lot of people are going to have that question because I don't know like what to take they just take something that is just iodine and they don't know what's in it Lugal has to say Lugal it's a recipe it's like a solution that was invented by Jean Lugal so you can't go wrong if it says Lugal and how much should people take it depends I would say you know in the 80s to reach sufficiency in a state that was already sufficient you needed two drops in the 80s today with all this um increased pollution and uh I'm thinking it Italian inquinamento um possibility of getting substances consuming substances that prevent the absorption of iodine I would say a minimum of four drops of 5% if you already sufficient if you're sufficient we have to see you know but I would say I mean I take six I take six every day is that safe like it's totally safe to take like four drops six drops absolutely it's safe it depends if your thyroid has three extra pieces attached to if it grew more it'll it can overreact to the iodine because you know there's so much fluoride parked in the iodine parking places and you might have hypers symptoms so you need to get that you need to detox that stuff the fluoride and what if somebody has active thyroid problems so if they have like hypothyroid um Hashimoto Graves well Graves disease is overactive um how much iine should they take in that sense I don't know there's no magic number because it's not just the irid it's not just you know it's it's there's also uh iine is hugely necessary for the stress response so the adrenals use it too so you can't I there's no magic number so should they consult with you if they want to know how much probably probably okay well I'm Gonna Leave a link for Dr brigh in the Primal Labs which is spelling out everything from this episode so there'll be a link for you if they want to book with you but you're probably overwhelmed with so many patients coming to see you that's why I'm right that's why I I I keep kept saying I was going to write a book about thyroid function and I just seeing too many people uh thyroid function I mean hypothyroidism causes uh gallbladder issues people come to me with 80% of all gallblader issues that caused by hypothyroidism um they come to me with hysterctomy so I basically decided that I can't write the book fast enough because it takes a long time to write a book um because you have to make it nice so and it has to be edited and it has to be formatted so I just put all my research on my website so people can access it because it's just terrible that people are suffering so much absolutely and again um the link for all that is going to be in the Primal Labs so everyone can see your articles well it's I'm am sub it's a subscription service I want people to be able to go to the doctor with the references and say this is why TSH is not a good a reliable measure for thyroid function so I want them to have that information so they can advocate for themselves absolutely so going back to iodine why is salt loading important because it's detox it's a great detox uh um for the halides because the iodine combined with the salt will push those halides out of the push those Hales out of the uh thyroid receptor parking places so if people want to do salt loading how do you do that if you want to start iodine you have a half a teaspoon of salt and a glass of water follow it with with a regular glass of water and you do that till you have to pee for a week is that while taking iodine or before you start taking iodine um I usually have people on a teeny tiny dose of iodine yeah you need the iodine because you have to push it's the iodine combined with the salt that creates detox okay I think a lot of people don't know that and that's why maybe they might take iodine and not feel so great in a small proportion of people let's talk about fat to fix the thyroid why is fat so important because it's an anti-inflammatory and it gives you adrenal function so when we talk about foods to eat you like the carnival diet and um you say that it depends on what type of Carnival diet you're doing what is the type of Carnival diet that you do to heal hormones and and fix the thyroid high fat carnivore diet so if you're eating so much protein that it doesn't turn into muscle tissue and enzymes you're G it's going to turn into glucose fat will never turn into glucose and how much protein is too much it really depends I mean I would say if you're ripping your muscle tissue by going to the going to the gym and lifting heavy you're going to need more protein uh than most people but it depends on what you're trying to do so if somebody comes to me on fire I will give them more fat uh for a certain amount of time and then they can add more protein I mean I just went paddle boarding this morning for an hour something and I just had my decaf with butter and an egg yolk and I did 6K and wind was you know and and I have felt great so I mean it if I probably I had a big bite of fat but before this interview so I can be all cool Calon collected have you had lunch though like you've had your riye sure it's four it was 4 4 when we started yeah I had my steak with a big hunk of butter on it for lunch okay so it sounds like you eat a lot of butter and it sounds like you have a lot of riy which I know because I ate with you in Italy so I know this stuff but just in case people there don't know so I want to talk about the fat um you know in terms of ratios I know that you don't love that question but if somebody is healing what is the ratio that you would recommend macros love the question because everybody's different so women need more fat than men I would say a an inflamed female would need 820 I would say an inflamed male could get away with 75 25 703 okay so that is um 80% of calories coming from fat 20% of calories coming from protein so let's talk about what that might look like if somebody wants to visualize that on a plate you love this question don't you Dr Bri but I'm going to get this in the comments um so I just want to ITP what might that look like so people can visualize oh okay this much meat this much fat okay somebody who's 5657 170 cm something like that it would look like a pound of beef and 4 ounces of butter or 125 grams 100 grams of butter stick of butter I this whole stick of butter thing got associate it's like so I said a pound of meat and a pound pound of um I mean a stick of butter because pretty much a stick of butter is 4 ounces if I remember correctly in the US I haven't been there in a while so uh all butter in in Italy is 125 grams things right so um there's fat in the meat so you can't be eating sirine well you shouldn't be I wouldn't recommend eating only sirine steak uh because you're not going to get up to you're going to need more fat because your meat doesn't have enough fat I always say fatty meat do you get annoyed with this stick of butter thing no it's okay it's just that it's just that um no no I don't no absolutely not it's just that everybody's different everybody's tall everybody you know somebody needs I need more fat because I go paddle boarding and I see you know several many patients during the day and my brain needs the fat and I have three kids and that's that's important because if you have a higher stress lifestyle you're more active uh you have issues like whether that be thyroid or hormones you need more fat but it's good to to spell out for people so they have a Baseline and again if they want more information read your books but a six tall person Reena will need completely different numbers let's talk about hormone replacement therapy so lever thyroxin so many people are on that which is also called Synthroid why does that make things worse because it's T4 only and it's synthetic so your body all those receptors that are needing thyroid hormone they need T3 your own thyroid the human thyroid makes mostly T4 T3 T2 T1 and calcitonin those poor people with no thyroids nobody's addressing that because calcitonin along with the parathyroid glands which have also been cut out if they take out your thyroid or the nuke your thyroid regulate calcium levels so bone tissue is very much affected by the all these hormones but there's four thyroid hormones so T Le aoxin and Sy is one and it's synthetic what's the in a high stress world what's the possibility that it's actually going to get into those parking spaces that the body has for something that is of an animal nature that is homemade that is not synthetic usually not likely it will make the TSH go up and down which is why they came up with it anyway I mean that's why they came up with TSH that's why TSH became the Beall and endol of thyroid measures because a hypothyroid person with high TSH the TSH would go down but that doesn't mean they're not hypothyroid because TSH is an unreliable measure we're want to talk more about testing thyroid okay so if they don't use lixin they need a natural desiccated thyroid what does that mean and what is that made from it's very importantly not made from cow thyroid which you can get very easily cow thyroid is as bad as lexine because it's a ton of T4 so they started in the 1800s they would say okay ma'am you need a half of sheep thyroid okay you you have these symptoms you need a quarter a sheep thyroid they didn't but they eventually isolated the actual by freeze you know freeze drying it the quantity of hormone that was in first they started with sheep and then they figured out the pig uh production was almost exactly like human so that's why we ended up with pig thyroid and it boom immediately came a medication whereas cow thyroid is not a medication is that the armor yes armor so is that okay to take the armor desiccated okay so that's good that's good so that mimics the human thyroid it is yes it is it is yes absolutely The receptors say wow this is homemade got it now why is it not a good idea to take your thyroid meds on the day of testing your thyroid because you'll be measuring the meds you won't be measuring what your thyroids able to produce so they should not take the mids on the day or before or well the centroid doesn't matter because that's T4 it's inactive T3 is active T2 is active T1 is active T4 is inactive it's like a Proto hormone it's waiting to be turned into T3 T2 T1 which is done in peripheral tissues as needed throughout the day how do blood pressure medications affect the thyroid they prevent the conversion of T4 to T3 well they they just interfere with it they so many things interfere with the conversion cannabis interferes with the conversion of T4 to T3 uh let's talk about testing the thyroid now you mentioned many times TSH is not the entire story why not because it's not a thyroid hormone because it's only there are three ways well the there are selenocysteines which are uh enzymes which convert the T4 to T3 T2 T1 and there's three kinds there's D1 D2 and D3 certain tissues uh the kidneys the liver are D2 tissues and they will use TSH to say I need more the D1 tissues won't D1 is brain so hope I'm getting that right but anyway um that is why you need to measure fre T3 and fre T4 because the TSH is not a reliable measure it's not a thyroid hormone it's a pituitary hormone so you mentioned that only half the tissues use TSH to communicate with the whole body is that correct few tissues yeah I said half but you know I we don't know exactly but we know that not all tissues use TSH to tell the thyroid we need more specifically the brain so if somebody wants to go to the doctor and asks for tests what would be just the basic ones to test your thyroid 3 T3 fre P4 if you have inflammation I you definitely want to do the antibodies and that is the thyroid peroxidase antibodies and antiglobulin antithyroglobulin last question for you fasting people don't like they like fasting because they want to lose weight they like fting because they're high on cortisol just like they love marathons and they love CrossFit they're high on cortisol so cortisol is inflammatory but it also makes produces endorphins which makes you feel good for a little bit of for a certain amount of time so you can be anunas and Ice baths um these things will exagger will um affect your stress response so fasting will cause your cortisol levels to be high for a certain amount of time over time the body doesn't like high cortisol because it's inflammatory just like cortisone shots are inflammatory because they raise cortisol levels we were when I was in school we were taught to barely touch people who had taken have a history of taking cortisone shots because their brones would just fracture so if somebody has pain or inflammation and they have a cortisone shot that's not a good idea no go on a high fat carnivore diet remove stimulants absolutely not cortison shots are horrible so anyway fasting raises cortisol eventually the brain will say oh my God this person's on fire I'm just going to turn off the production of cortisol and then you have low cortisol which causes autoimmune issues so then if people I think people might be thinking well how should I eat what is a pattern of eating that for example you would eat or you would tell your patients to eat a high fat in the morning some protein uh I just have protein a steak for lunch with butter on it and a steak for dinner I see I have I make my own beef jerky with a lot of fat on it and I but just doesn't trim it so it has this wonderful Globs of dehydrated fat Talib bars I mean I you know it's pretty simple my husband eats chicken and pork I don't really like it um not because I just don't I feel more I've heard my patients say they feel more nourished on steak I feel more nourished on steak it doesn't have to be grassfed I use beef ribs because they're really fatty um so that's how and as you said before it doesn't have to be 100% all the time it's while you're healing and then you can you will be strong enough to eat some crap but don't ever delude yourself into thinking that that's nutrition that the other as humans the animal fat the animal protein is our nutrition that's why how we evolved our brains and well Dr Bri thank you so much for this absolutely comprehensive solution to fix our thyroid sounds like it's fat fat and more fat plus some iodine um you wrote two books good fat is good for women good fat is good for girls can you explain what people will get from Reading those two books well the first book is about what um what propaganda menopause is menopause menopause is not propaganda menopause is a wonderful thing uh women live longer and are vibrant because of menopause so they stop having children at 50 52 because unlike chimps who don't have menopause they die because they basically have kids until they die so menopause is a good thing and IT addresses every single um symptom associated with menopause and the other fictitious um par menopause and it gives you a solution it explains why you might be having the hot flashes etc etc it basically addresses adrenal function more the second book good fat is good for girls addresses iodine and thid and how important both of those are for puberty and the rest of your life because how your puberty turns out basically sets you up for the rest of your life wonderful well Dr Bri thank you so much all the links for everything is going to be in the Primal lab so people can just pick and choose and see everything that you have available thank you so much again and I'm sure we're going to see you very very soon okay nice to see you thank you for joining me today on this episode with Dr Elizabeth bright if you would like to learn more about the thyroid how to fix the thyroid foods to avoid as Dr brigh mentions and exactly what to eat you can go to the Primal Labs basically there is a link in the description of this video you click on that and open it and all the information is going to be there now if you're learning from an enjoying these free episodes please hit the Subscribe button because that's an excellent zeroc cost way to support this free health podcast now you can also find me on other social media accounts I'm on Instagram and on Twitter as I generally share different information to what you'll see here on YouTube the name for all the social medias is the Primal podcast and if you love this episode you'll also love another episode I did with Dr Annette Bosworth she talks about the number one way to fix insulin resistance and 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