Feeling Fat, Fuzzy and Frazzled?

Can't seem to stop the weight creeping on?
Plagued by a fuzzy head?
Overly sensitive to cold?

Perhaps your thyroid function is to blame. For something weighing just one gram, this gland at the base of your neck is immensely important to your metabolism. It is supersensitive to pollutants and nutrient deficiencies. As the throttle to your body's energy hormones, the thyroid is key to mental and physical wellbeing.

"When it's in balance, immunity is better and digestion of nutrients is improved" says Dr Richard Shames, author of Feeling Fat, Fuzzy or Frazzled?. "You also stop that seemingly endless tendency to gain weight, you look your best and have a glow of health"

About 2% of the population are diagnosed with a slowing thyroid ( hypothyroidism )but medical experts including Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, author of " Your Thyroid and How To Keep It Healthy" believe the undiagnosed figure is actually much higher.
Major problems can be diagnosed via a simple blood test, but, normal ranges are established using a sample of the adult population that includes borderline undiagnosed unbalanced thyroid sufferers.

Thyroid health is the difference between being dragged through life kicking and screaming, flat and fatigued or great and happy.

Once your thyroid is rebalanced, maintain it using zinc and gamma-linolenic acid GLA supplements

5 Ways to Boost Your Thyroid:
1. Stress makes problems worse. Ensure you are not low on magnesium ( nuts, leafy greens and bananas) or Vitamin B5 ( meat , grains and pulses ). These renew nerve function and counter stress.

2. Iodine deficiency, poor diet, smoking and even shock may produce an underperforming thyroid. Foods that inhibit Iodine are peanuts, cabbage, soya beans, pine nuts and mustard.

3. Ensuring your diet has enough selenium is crucial, as your body needs it to enable your thyroid to work at maximum capacity. Take a supplement of up to 200 micrograms a day.

4 Your body needs a substance called thyroid peroxidase for optimum thyroid function. But broccoli,cabbage and cauliflower contain substance that BLOCK peroxidase production, unless they are cooked well.

5. The thyroid need iodine, so overexposure to chlorine ( swimming pools, heavily chlorinated drinking water ) means that the chlorine is taken up by the thyroid better than the iodine. It blocks the iodine receptors and is not quickly released.

DO THE THYROID DIY TEST :- Do You ..
Have unusual fatigue unrelated to exertion?
Feel chillier than most people, often wearing socks to bed?
Need to adjust clothing to uneven body temperature throughout the day?
Have trouble with weight eating slightly or normally but still never lose any weight?
Experience aches and pains in your muscles and joints unrelated to trauma or exercise?
Have increasing problems with digestion?
Feel mentally sluggish, unfocussed or unusually forgetful?
Have a family member with a thyroid problem?
Suffer dry skin, adult acne or eczema? Have diabetes, anaemia, rheumatoid arthritis,or early greying of hair?
Have a history of whiplash or neck injury ( that can damage the innervation to your thyroid)?
Have significant exposure to chlorine , bromine or flouride ( that would inhibit Iodine )
Feel exhausted by evening, yet can't seem to sleep easily?

Time to see you GP !

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