Dr. Mindy here and on this video I'm going to show you five foods to pair with a very specific fast
to be able to improve your thyroid function so those of you that are new to my channel i
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okay i'm going to keep this really simple because we have a tendency to overcomplicate health
and when i see some very specific foods that we compare with fasting to get your metabolism
sped up and to improve your thyroid function i get excited so let's talk about thyroid for a second
and i've done several videos on thyroid my team will put the links in the notes so that you can
go and find those other videos but let me give you big picture for a moment when we look at thyroid
function it's not just the thyroid we're looking at the thyroid has to work with other organs to be
able to function properly i have a whole podcast i did on labs on foods on fast a whole discussion so
go to the resetter podcast and you can listen to the hour-long interview that i did with Dr.
Rebecca warren where i talk specifically about the intricacies of thyroid for the sake of this video
i want to give you a complete picture of thyroid and then i want to dive into these five
foods and why they work so well so here's how the thyroid works your hypothalamus and your
pituitary are the ones that are going to send and control a message to the thyroid gland and tell
the thyroid gland to make t4 a thyroid hormone the hormone that they send to the thyroid gland is tsh
many of you are getting tsh red on your blood work when tsh hits the thyroid gland the thyroid will
mostly make t4 but t4 is not very helpful to you you have to convert t4 into t3 to be able to get
that hormone into the cell so after t4 is made it will go on to the liver and the gut to be
converted into t3 and then t3 will go into the cell and then once it's in the cell a feedback
loop goes back up into the brain and says okay we've got thyroid production working well here so
we've got a lot of different organs to look at now the second thing i want to point out about thyroid
function and this is like a pet peeve of mine every time i'm on a podcast interview
around thyroid i get asked doesn't fasting cause a problem to your thyroid and the answer to that
is no calorie restriction over time can be damaging to your t3 production what i am
advocating for here is not calorie restriction i am talking about time restricted eating
where we are compressing our eating window leaving a longer time for fasting eight hours of eating
16 hours of fasting if that's new to you go back and watch some of the videos that i did on why
that style of fasting works it's phenomenal for the thyroid now when you eat when you open up that
eating window we're not calorie restricting and i want you to add these five foods into your eating
window to improve thyroid product production first food iodine where you can find that is
in seaweed but i want to make sure that you are getting clean seaweed so it should be organic
the thing to know about iodine is your body does not make it so if your but you have to bring it
in from an exogenous source so when we have proper amounts of iodine your thyroid is going to be able
to make t4 now it will also make a little bit of t3 so it's not like the thyroid doesn't make t3
at all it just mostly makes t4 one interesting thing to note is that the four and the three
is tells you how much iodine your body needs to be able to make these hormones
so it's in the hormone name then it needs iodine so adding in clean seaweed when i say clean i mean
make sure it's organic make sure that it's been tested for heavy metals because seaweed can
hold on to heavy metals so you want to look into the products that you're using for seaweed
but if you're not eating seaweed it may be time to add that in second food selenium so this
comes from brazil nuts so six brazil nuts gives you these all the selenium you need in a day to
keep your thyroid healthy what selenium does is it also makes it so that you are able to make enough
t3 and t4 hormone and you primarily get selenium from brazil nuts they look like that again make
sure they're organic if you can get them raw even better all you need is about six of them
the other thing we know about selenium is that people who are low in selenium have a tendency
to have more of an autoimmune thyroid condition so if you've been given a diagnosis
of Hashimoto's here's like a really beautiful hack 16-8 fasting break your fast with brazil
nuts every single time at least six of them and let's make sure you're getting enough selenium
third thing to know is that there is the other category of food is pumpkin seeds now personally
i love pumpkin seeds because pumpkin seeds will raise progesterone and as a menopausal
women and to my menopausal women out there we need more progesterone but we also know that
pumpkin seeds add zinc into the picture you need zinc for estrogen production you need zinc for
progesterone production but you also need zinc to be able to get that thyroid to make t3 and t4
so you could create i'm just gonna i'm coming up with a recipe on the fly here
you could make a little seaweed salad and put sprinkles some pumpkin seeds on it with a handful
of brazil nuts and now you're breaking your fast in a way that is going to nourish the thyroid
fourth food this one shows up everywhere i'm starting to think this is like the best food
on the planet our berries all kinds raspberry blueberry, boysenberry, wallaberries, strawberries
you want to make sure they're organic but they're packed with antioxidants and the more antioxidants
you have in your system the more free radicals you are going to be able to protect yourself against
this is why it's so important for the thyroid the thyroid is the canary in the coal mine so it's
going to be the thing that that gets damaged first by an increasing toxic load so if you already know
you have a thyroid problem what i want you to realize is that you also have a toxicity issue
it's very difficult to be able to not have a if you have a thyroid problem i i've rarely
seen anybody who doesn't have a high toxic load again go watch the rece or listen to the reset or
podcast on itunes where i talk about this with dr warren about how important lowering our toxic load
can be but when it comes from a food perspective if we add in more berries especially i love
these foods for breaking your fast so that we can improve our thyroid overall thyroid production so
make sure that you're adding in more berries last one and this one is really interesting because
those of you that are trying to stay low glycemic this can become a little problematic and that is
grains whole grains complex carbohydrates that are high in fiber i do not have a piece of bread there
i want to point that out this is a bowl of rice i specifically want to point out brown rice
if it's clean and free of arsenic we go to a farmer's market where we have to kind of
chat with our our people and find out if they test for arsenic in the brown rice
if you don't have access to somebody that you can you know can get you brown rice that's clean
then i would encourage you to switch to quinoa quinoa is a great whole grain that has lots
of fiber in it but you're looking at your brown rice you're looking at your forbidden rice
and you're looking at quinoa those are great sources of complex carbohydrates
that have a lot of fiber in them and are going to support a healthy fiber thyroid production
so the reason that complex carbohydrates are important is because they really help with blood
sugar management and they also support healthy gut remember that once the thyroid has made
t4 it's got to go into the liver and gut to get converted into t3 so fibery foods that are complex
and not only supply the thyroid with what it needs to make the hormone but supplies the thyroid
the gut in the liver with what it needs to break that hormone down and convert it into the usable
form of a thyroid hormone is magic add that to these other foods add that to a 16 8 style
of fasting and you now have created a fasting lifestyle that is going to help you overturn your
thyroid condition and over time this isn't a one meal thing that you do over time you will
start to see a change so super simple gifts from nature compare it with fasting and if
you have gotten a great change using fasting as a tool using any of these foods as a tool
for to help your thyroid problem put it in the notes put it in the comments so we can see it
if you listen to that reset or podcast that i did we are getting so much feedback on that so please
tell people because i am super proud to give you guys information free information that you can
use to be able to point your health in the right direction health doesn't have to be complicated
thyroid conditions don't have to be complicated we over complicate them often it can be as simple as
a 16 8 fasting mixed with the right foods and boom overtime you bring the health of your thyroid
back so as always i hope this helps tell your thyroid story in the comments and together we can
move not only metabolic health but we can move thyroid health in a really positive direction