So, You Want to Talk About Weight loss?

Often patients come to see me looking for help with weight loss.

They've tried various diets and exercise regimes without much success.

They are frustrated.

They are obsessing.

They think they must be doing something wrong. Can I help them? What's the latest and greatest in diets? They are surprised when instead of talking about diets I dive deep into an analysis of their hormones. Because here's the thing, if your hormones are not where they should be, weight loss, or weight management for that matter, is going to be more of a struggle than it needs to be.

Hormones that are always top of mind when it comes to weight loss/management are the thyroid hormones. The thyroid is a butterfly shaped gland (see what I did there with the picture?!) that sits low on the front of your neck. Thyroid hormones are important for maintaining our metabolism. An under-active thyroid can make losing weight challenging.

Thyroid hormone production and metabolism is complex and is influenced by many factors, including nutritional deficiencies, stress, autoimmunity, and fluctuations or imbalances in other hormones.

You might be interested to know that in conventional medicine, the normal reference range for thyroid hormones is quite wide, meaning that you can experience symptoms of low thyroid function yet not meet the criteria for treatment because you fall within range. BUT - optimal thyroid function falls within a MUCH tighter range. From a naturopathic medical perspective, if you fall out of that tighter range in which optimal thyroid function occurs and you're experiencing symptoms of low thyroid function, well then, we've got some work to do to support your thyroid and ensure that it's getting the building blocks that it needs.

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