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I have always believed that there is a natural approach to sickness and health and if we don't keep our bodies in balance things begin to go awry.  It seems there can be a domino affect in our health related decisions whether it is thyroid or another health care issue.   Before we started a family we knew we wanted everything as natural as possible, so we made the decision to deliver our four daughters at home.  During the course of our births there was something different about each one that made it unique - preruptured membranes, meconium staining, blue coloring, nuchal umbilical cord and knotted...

Finding out that you have an auto-immune conditions makes you want to find the answers.  What caused this condition?  What is the best way to manage it?  Will it ever go away?  Most of these questions I am still working to answer.  We are still working to find out what caused my condition and to correct it.  It is obvious that gluten played a part in it but to what degree?  As for managing it - I feel I have made great progress.  It's a learning curve to see if what I am doing will continue to work and improve.  The...

  The symptoms of thyroid disease are very broad and vary with hypothyroid and hyperthyroid.  The following are symptoms of Hypothyroid (slow, underactive)  - Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the body lacks sufficient thyroid hormones. Since the main purpose of thyroid hormones is to "run the body's metabolism," it is logical that people with this condition will have symptoms associated with a slow metabolism.   Constant fatigue, tireness or sluggishness Cold feet and/or hands Requiring excessive amounts of sleep to function Weight gain or difficulty losing weight Difficult or infrequent bowel movements (constipation) Depression or lack of motivation Morning headaches (sometimes migraines)...