Whole Body Support Blog » hypothyroid

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...

  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)...

A journey through a Thyroid Condition, by Shirley Aboudib. In the Spring of 2011 I began to experience symptoms that I had never had before.  I was having heart palpitations - rapid, irregular, sometimes really scary heart beats.  Sometimes I seemed really nervous and anxious for no reason.  My knees and ankles were swelling to the point that it was difficult to bend down, climb stairs, get in the car.  At my daughter's graduation in Nashville, my ankles were so swollen that my shoes were tight and uncomfortable.  For a while I had seen an upward spiral with my weight...