Chewing sends signals to your stomach, intestines, and pancreas that the digestion process has begun, helping to maximize the absorption of nutrients from our food. Conversely, if food is not properly broken down, it can remain undigested and cause gas, bloating, bacteria overgrowth, and other digestive problems.
A substantive breakfast helps set your mood, energy level, and metabolic rate for the day. And can help you lose weight. For real.
Maintaining stable blood sugar is a key component to thyroid and adrenal health.
Being healthy is more than just eating well. Be mindful of how you treat yourself. Embrace your imperfections. You may be the only one who notices or cares about your so-called shortcomings.
“When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens – and when it happens, it lasts.”
Here are 20 suggestions for what NOT to do when you have (or think you have) Hashimoto’s.
Vitamin A and its carotenoid precursors play a critical role in immunity and become increasingly important for those with Hashimoto’s. Yummy recipe included!
Tending to your immune system is like tending to a child – tuning in to what she needs to grow and continue to be strong.
The more you focus on those you’re with and the meaning of the day, the less you’ll be freaking out about putting on the weight that you probably won’t gain anyway.
If we’re not cooking, we’re not only losing our physical health, but we’re losing our center – that primal need to give and receive love, to connect, to feel rooted in something so fundamental that without it we are never really whole.
