T2 thyroid hormone is being promoted for weight loss, metabolism, and energy. But does the science support the claims? And is T2 something women with Hashimoto's should consider?

You've heard of T4 and T3. Maybe even reverse T3. But T2?

After seeing two ads promoting T2 supplements, I started digging into the research.

In this episode, I'm talking about what T2 actually does, what the research says, and how to evaluate T2 creams and pills before spending your money.

Because you're the CEO of your own health. You need more than an exciting sales pitch to make a good decision.

• Read the full T2 thyroid hormone blog post

• Episode 22: Evaluating supplement claims

• Episode 83: How to Choose Supplements for Hashimoto's

• Research on T2 and metabolism

• Research on potential heart effects

• Research on T2 and TSH suppression

• RestartMed shop: Save $10 on your first order with code esther-yunkin-434010.

• Research on Nrf2 activation and glutathione

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ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER:

The Health with Hashimoto’s podcast will help you explore the root causes of your autoimmune condition and discover holistic solutions to address your Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. It is hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse, holistic health educator, and Hashimoto's warrior.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Is this the winter you finally stay well?

Cold, flu, and COVID season is here, and the news is already full of rumors, including talk of a Russian plague. No one knows what's coming, but every winter brings sniffles, GI bugs, and lost days. If you have Hashimoto's, staying well matters even more, because infections of any kind can be one of the triggers for your immune system.

Winter wellness with Hashimoto's does not have to be complicated. This episode is a replay of Esther's free Winter Wellness masterclass. It gives you three simple layers to stack, so sick season is not for you.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Simple ways to reduce the threats, from sugar to stress to what you scroll
• How sleep, laughter, movement, and your gut support your immune system every day
• What to add to strengthen your defenses, plus your rapid response plan for the day you feel something coming on

Get the free PDF guide here: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/winter-immunity/ The video is also on this page if you'd rather watch.

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Unlock your wellness journey with the free Health with Hashimoto's community! Join a supportive community that's here for you every step of the way: https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all links on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER: The Health with Hashimoto's podcast will help you explore the root causes of your autoimmune condition and discover holistic solutions to address your Hashimoto's thyroiditis. It is hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse, holistic health educator, and Hashimoto's warrior.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Do you feel worse every fall and can't figure out why? It may be the "October slide."

The October slide is not a diagnosis, but it's common enough in autoimmune groups to have a name. If you feel worse every fall, you're not imagining it, and you get to look at why.

In episode 220, Esther recaps episode 120 and goes back through the research on seasons and autoimmune conditions.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What SLIDE stands for
• What a 2021 study found about TSH and the seasons
• Which parts of the October slide you can control

Hit play and build your fall game plan.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Blog post: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/220-october-slide/
• Episode 14, winter wellness: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/14-winter-wellness-with-hashimotos/
• Episode 9, low vitamin D and Hashimoto's: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/low-vitamin-d-and-hashimotos/
• Episode 62, how to pick a vitamin D supplement: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/choosing-a-vitamin-d/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO’S COMMUNITY

Unlock your wellness journey with the free Health with Hashimoto's community! Join a supportive community that's here for you every step of the way.

The Health with Hashimoto’s community is on Skool: https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all links on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER:

The Health with Hashimoto’s podcast will help you explore the root causes of your autoimmune condition and discover holistic solutions to address your Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. It is hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse, holistic health educator, and Hashimoto's warrior.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

You grind your teeth at night. You bloat after a glass of water. You crave sugar and salt, you are wide awake at 2am, and your labs still come back fine.

What if some of that is not your thyroid?

Hashimoto's is two things and not one. Medication helps the thyroid side. The immune side is the part that is yours to work on, and part of that work is looking at what else your body is carrying.

In episode 219, Kim Rogers (the Worm Queen) teaches you all about parasites and Hashimoto's. If you’re curious but nervous (or grossed out,) this episode breaks down symptoms to watch for, how the kit works, and easy steps to get started.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Rogers Hood (the Parify cleanse kit and the lymph kit) I'm an affiliate for Rogers Hood, which means I earn a commission if you buy through my link. My listeners get 10% off with the code below. Code: HWH https://rogershood.com/ref/3790/

Beautifully Balanced Wellness castor oil The organic, cold pressed castor oil Kim uses, including her thyroid castor oil pack. https://beautifullybalancedwellness.store/collections/all

Thyro Light red light device Kim mentioned using red light with castor oil. The red light I use and recommend has four wavelengths. Use my affiliate code to save $10: esther-yunkin-434010 https://www.restartmed.com/shop-thyroid-devices/?sld=hwh

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Practices to drive to. A full workday. A to-do list that keeps growing. When your week fills up, are your healthy habits the first thing to go?

"I'll start that when things calm down." But a busy week doesn't pause the stress on your body. It adds to the load. Your thyroid and your immune system still need daily, consistent action, even when your plate is full.

You don't need a whole life overhaul. In episode 218, you'll find out how to manage Hashimoto's when life is busy, so your habits keep going in your hardest weeks.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why skipping today's walk or water can't be made up tomorrow
• Three simple moves to keep your habits going on hard weeks (shrink it, hold it, and come back without restarting)
• How to get back on track after a missed week, without starting over or feeling like you failed

Hit play and find the version of your habits that fits the week you're in right now.

Resources mentioned

• Simple Habits Program: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/simple-habits-program/
• Spoon theory and Hashimoto's fatigue: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/spoon-theory/
• Episode 217, what to focus on first with Hashimoto's: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/217-what-to-focus-on-first-hashimotos/

Find all links on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER:

The Health with Hashimoto’s podcast will help you explore the root causes of your autoimmune condition and discover holistic solutions to address your Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. It is hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse, holistic health educator, and Hashimoto's warrior.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Someone asks how you are doing. You say fine. You both move on.

Fine is not an emotion. And most of the time, it is not the truth either.

This bonus episode is a little different. Instead of a book review, I am sharing a sermon from my church, because this message applies to everyone. It is the full meaning of "how are you doing?"

Pastor Jason Lang walks through the five questions hiding inside that one simple question. If you have gotten good at saying fine while you are running on empty, this one is worth your time.

How are you doing? (five questions in one)

• Physically: eating, sleeping, moving, fighting off illness
• Mentally: healthy thoughts about yourself, godly thoughts, kind thoughts about others
• Emotionally: stuffing or exploding, using feeling words
• Spiritually: how God sees you in Christ, and living in Christ
• Relationally: relationship with God first, then others (anger, strife, kindness, openness)

This will be an ongoing series at Word of Life Church in southern Minnesota. Get the rest of the series on YouTube or Podcast or join us live in person.

You finished the list. You sorted everything into thyroid or immune. And somehow that made it worse, because now you are looking at two full buckets and every single thing in them looks like it should be the thing you do today.

So you did nothing. Or you picked five things, went hard, and lasted about eleven days.

That is not a discipline problem.

Sorting is triage, not treatment. It tells you what to work on first. But nobody ever explains the "first" part, and that gap is where most women get stuck. In this episode I walk through the three rules I use to decide what actually comes next, why the most important thing is almost never the right place to start, and what six winters of working on one single trigger taught me about doing less at a time.

• Why "address everything at once" sounds responsible and still falls apart in eleven days
• Why the thyroid bucket comes first (fatigue, brain fog, cold, and weight resistance show up in both buckets, and you cannot tell them apart through the static)
• How to pick your first immune bucket step by choosing the cheapest repeatable thing instead of the most dramatic one
• Why changing five things at once teaches you nothing, even when you feel better
• The question that replaces "which one is most important" and actually gets you moving

10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor (free guide) https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

Episode 214, Sorting Hashimoto's labs into thyroid or immune buckets https://healthwithhashimotos.com/214-sorting-hashimotos-labs/

The Simple Habits Program. Twelve weeks of structure, not intensity. One small habit each week. This is a text message based program. Enrollment opens Sunday, September 13 and closes Saturday, September 26 at 10pm Central. The cohort runs September 27 through December 19. This is the last time it runs as a cohort. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/simple-habits-program/

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

How serious is Hashimoto's disease? Nobody answered that at your appointment.

You got a prescription and a follow-up in six weeks. Or you got told your numbers are fine for now and we are just going to keep an eye on things. Either way, you walked out not knowing whether to brush this off or worry about it every day.

The answer sits in between those two. Hashimoto's is two things and not one. It is a thyroid that cannot keep up, and it is an immune system attacking that thyroid. Medication can help handle the first one. The second one is all yours to work on.

In episode 216, Esther gives you the facts without the fear, including what she reads in her own thyroid books about what happens when hypothyroidism goes unwatched, and why she gets most serious about this with women who are pregnant or trying to be.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the immune attack is not the life-threatening part, and what actually is
• How long your antibodies can be elevated before symptoms or your TSH ever reflect it
• The five labs to look at so you know which side is asking for your attention right now

Hit play and get the answer you did not get at your appointment.

Resources mentioned:

Esther's first episode, where she shares her own diagnosis story: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/my-journey/

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.