5 Foods for Thyroid Health

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by Lauren – Empowered Sustenance

The thyroid provides a convenient organ to blame for all our misfortunes. Weight gain? Sluggish? Can’t get out of bed in the morning? “Your thyroid is slow,” many practitioners will respond.

Very often, we drain our thyroid with a modern lifestyle and modern diet. Take a look at some of the many thyroid-abusing factors we face each day:

  • Emotional stress
  • Consumption of soy
  • Refined carbs
  • Over-exercising
  • Too much estrogen (my book explains all about this)
  • Chemicals in body care products
  • Too little sleep
  • Extreme diets, such as very low carb diets and vegan diets
  • Vegetable oils (canola oil, corn oil, safflower oil, …read more