Nutritional Testing in Woodstock
Depending on what body type you are and what your testing shows us, we will recommend specific whole food supplements, herbs etc. It is very difficult to get everything we need from our food and most American’s diets are deficient in certain nutrients. Let’s look at the thyroid and nutrition. In Asia, they eat a diet that is naturally high in iodine which is a big reason that they tend to be on the thin side.
You can get your blood work done and it will look like your thyroid is perfect but the test results are only showing hormone levels in the blood. You can have all of the symptoms of low thyroid and still have perfect blood work. We see it all of the time. The blood work isn’t showing the whole picture on how well the thyroid gland is functioning.
Here are some of the symptoms of low thyroid:
- Fatigue in the morning
- Wide awake at night
- Coarse and thinning hair
- Constipation
- Brittle Nails
- Yellowish tint to the skin
- Cold Skin
- Inability to tolerate Cold
- Sluggish
- Weak
- Depression
- Memory Problems
- Slow Body Movements
- Feeling Tired in General
- Weight Gain
By doing a combination of therapies and nutrition you can help alleviate low thyroid symptoms. Our goal is to get to the cause and help fix the problem. If you have hypothyroidism (low thyroid), it is very difficult to lose weight.